PatientsLikeMe : lilybet's Mood Conditions Profile

lilybet

Female, 49 years
Natick, MA

lilybet: Sex: F; Data Quality: 2 stars; Emotional; Depression: 2; Emotional: 1; Compulsion: 0; Anxiety: 1; Mania: 0; Physical: 1; External Stress: Severe; Rx Therapy; 49 F; Function: High; Distress: Low; See profile

Member since: 03/08
Last updated: 01/08/09

Condition Summary
Emotional issues

About Me
I'm a freelance illustrator and single mother of a 17 year-old son. Usually vibrant and energetic, I've had health issues that brought my life & career to a halt for a while. I've learned to live with lupus (mild) and fibromyalgia (moderate), but breast cancer in 2005 was devastating. I'm cancer free now. It's been a life-shaking experience; now I'm rebuilding, with tough but great therapy, learning to handling challenges better and reducing stress so I don't feel so overwhelmed. It's not easy. The positive part is that this is a chance to make my life simpler and happier.