Profile Information
Location
Mesa, AZ
Country
United States
Postal Code
85206
What is it you do for a living? (Parenting, volunteering, CEO of social service organization, etc.)
I don’t know quite how to respond. I am unemployed - over 13 years now. Separated but living with and completely financially dependent on my “husband”. I have a little dog named Rose. She’s 12.
What organization(s) do you volunteer or work for?
None
What is your interest in PACEs and resilience science?
I have CPTSD & suffer from the seemingly endless consequences of it not being realized or diagnosed. Even after over 33 years of consistent psychiatric care for a misdiagnosis of schizophrenia at the age of 19, by a psychiatrist at the LA County Mental Health Clinic. I could no longer work even after working since the age of 15, and being an Honors Student until I left high school after my 1st semester. I started drinking at 15. 33 years of my “life” I suffered & struggled in different ways. Now, a bit over a year sober, I struggle with the symptoms & newly diagnosed ADHD. My “husband” and “marriage” of 28 years, in sobriety and in therapy a bit longer, was not what I imagined it to be when I could not face the reality of all that had happened. The psychological trauma from this relationship compounded with the childhood trauma, is the reality of my “life” I could not face, or process, without professional help from someone actually capable of working with a patient through this - nightmare which began before I was 2 years old.
If you're part of a community-based PACEs initiative, which one?
No I am not.