 | I Understand. I'm a forty-four yr. old Mother of adult children and found this site looking at searches for "nervous stomach", a term I heard two Doctors use talking to my Mother about me in the late sixties / early 1970's. Before I tell you more about that I will say knowing what I know now, if this were one of my children I would get her to a Child Psychiatrist, the sooner the better for her. I'm not a Doctor, I'm a Nurse. I see a Psychiatrist for medication support only as I learned the problem and got the tools needed to help myself with the part I can as an adult. The other part of my anxiety / panic disorder (with phobias) is a chemical imbalance. As a child about four yrs. old is a far as I remember, I got in the floorboard of the car everytime my Daddy would drive over the Dam taking us to the lake to swim, at seven yrs. on vacation I refused (cried) to go up Pikes Peak and the train ride there. Around that age I started having frequent upset stomach, usually in the morning before school. My Mom had a routine set of questions; are you getting a paddling at school today ? are one of the kids mad at you ? did you not do your homework ? None of these were the case. I didn't know what was wrong and was too young to understand her line of questions (she worked full time). So she would say I was a hypochondriac and lazy. She did not ask the family Doc. or Dermatologist what to do for their diagnosis (my hair fell out in spots & a skin condition, also bit my nails sore). Continued....symptoms changed with age, always felt insecure, abusive first husband (laziness). The morrow to this story is, I have since learned if I had gotten the needed help sooner my condition may not have gotten as severe as it did in my late twenties. Still with me, but under control. Please educate yourself, I still have problems with Mom when I'm ill and she can't SEE it. That's how I found you. Still trying to get my Mom to understand me even though now my Sister, Daughter,Nieces,etc. deal with this also. ktvette@texoma.net Toni |
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