Any one else with a history of mental health problems?

You are not alone! I am diagnosed bipolar and ADHD. I am medicated and do very well. Like you, I don't remember much of my childhood. Not sure why that is! Do you see a psychatrist? If not, I highly recommend it. Treatment is the best thing that happened to me!

I'm also bi-polar with a LONG history of depression. Feel free to read my blog for some of the things I have found that have helped (aside from medical treatment, which is definitely important, but there are things you can do for yourself that also help).
www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/CoryIda

Anyway, I hope that you get a lot of support and encouragement on here and that you grow stronger and healthier both physically and emotionally.

Hey! We can be crazy buddies!!!

I just got put on medication after over a decade of depression and anxiety. (self-mutilation, suicide attempts, etc.) I've been diagnosed with bulimia nervosa, and I'm also nearly 100% positive that I am ADD. A friend of mine, who is an apprentice therapist, said that I'm the poster child for it. I wish I had known years ago so I could have been diagnosed at a young age and had an easier time with school. Oh well. I think the only reason I got through school (I'm graduating university in the spring) was because I was kept so stimulated and busy - piano lessons, softball games, volleyball, basketball, writing courses, etc. My parents liked keeping us busy so that was my only saving grace. School was still a struggle, though. Even if I was interested in the material, I still zoned out. Sometimes I'll zone out while having conversations with people. Not intentional - it just happens.

My mother is an alcoholic who is refusing to come to my wedding, hates my fiance, left my dad, sister, and I for a new boyfriend when I was 16, and moved half a continent away from everyone. I think it was self-exile, but the kicker is that she hates me for not 'having a relationship anymore.' Whenever I'm there, I'm just her D.D. so that she doesn't drink and drive.

I find that my anxiety and my depression are my biggest obstacles for weight loss and for gaining a healthy lifestyle. My fiance is helping me work through my bulimia (I'm very open with him about it - I've gotten a lot better in just the year since I told him), but sometimes, I just get sad and lonely. OR I'll over think something and will have an all-out anxiety attack.

I feel better now letting all of that out, haha.

Severely depressed, OCD, high anxiety, probably ADHD and god knows what else. I tend to want to ignore my mental health and pretend everything is fine...mostly because I just don't have the energy to commit to getting treatment. I always tell myself -- maybe some day, but the years go by, I get worse, and nothing ever changes.

Here's hoping that therapy gets you to a good place.

Nope no one on this post is alone!! Crazy buddies...love it! I was diagnosed Bipolar 1 in 1999 and have been through the gamut with meds. Ups and downs, self mutilation but never a suicide attempt, thankfully. This past summer I was hospitalized twice 8 days then 6 for severe anxiety and paranoia. My anxiety is so bad that I was scared to post my first post on here. Like something bad would happen or people wouldn't like me or something. ehh, its all part of it I suppose.
I also have huge chunks of my past missing. Sometimes I remember if someone reminds me, sometimes I don't.
I have a great doc and great therapist both whom I meet with frequently. I feel better this winter than I have in years. (I always get severely depressed during the winters). I also get the zoning out part. Sometimes I just "go someplace else" or sometime my BP brain is thinking so fast that the conversation is to slow and I can't just sit and listen. Either way, I don't get half of what a lot of people say to me.
I've also noticed that since I've joined this website, it gives me something to concentrate on and the exercise is really making me feel great!! Of course I do tend to get obsessive over things, but getting healthy is a good obsession as long as I keep it in check.
Here's hoping that therapy works as well for you as it has for me!!

I don't know if this qualifies for mental health issues. Definite anxiety issues, special ed classes all of my life and was diagnosed as "neurologically impaired" as a kid. Eventually I figured it to be Asperger's. If there's a normal out there, I'm the opposite.

I also have a sympathetic ear to your special needs, as depression is no joke. It will also affect your weight loss, and any attempts at it. Feel free to friend me.

OK..so first off GOOD for you for acknowledging that you need help and going to get it. I know it's not easy. How do I know?? because I'm a psych nurse. No not the mean scary ones they depict on tv and in the movies either :-) As far as the missing parts of your past...from dealing with my patients and a very close loved one I have learned that sometimes when bad things happen in your life, your mind puts on its defense mechanisms and you just forget that time period. POOF Sometimes the memories and periods of time will come back, they tend to emerge in therapy with some intense digging into the past, and sometimes you never fully get them all back. I wish you all the luck in the world!! You are definitely not alone and there are honest and good people out there that truly want to help you on your journey!