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Suggest Therapy For Depression

I am 17year-old female. 5'9'' and around 200 lbs. Lately I have experienced extreme dizziness, fatigue, a little nauseous, and have been experiencing what I call hot flashes. One minute I can be fine and the next I feel like I am on fire...then after a few minutes it will pass and I will be cold. I haven't had a fever either. I am what you call a WEIRD person. I have had strange sicknesses in my lifetime that aren't normal for my age. In 2nd grade I had these knots appear on my legs(no higher than my knee no lower than my ankle). They started out as what looked like bug bites..then got bigger and started turning to bruises.. and then into big red knots that were sore to the slightest touch. I saw every doc. under the sun. They got so bad I couldn't walk. They did several biopsies and nothing was found, except for one in which they did and puss came out. After a few years they went away. These knots do come back from time to time. I have had my tonsils and adenoids(2000) removed along with my appendix(2006) and my gallbladder(2010). My appendix(3-4wks) and my gallbladder(4-5months) took a long time to be diagnosed. I also have had ulcers in my stomach, a ovary covered in cysts and that is 3 times larger than the other. In the ninth grade I had a virus called microplasm which took a while to diagnose as well about 2 months. It seems as if though I get a simple cold it last 3-4 weeks whereas normal people get over it in about 1 week. Many doctors have told me that they think I will eventually wind up with Lupus. But through all the test and machines they have run on me everything comes back negative...everything but the microplasm thing. But I don't know. My mother thinks a over exaggerate things. I know I don't. She thinks I get depressed and I know I don't. She even told me I faked my gallbladder. But I know I didn't! And it hurts to know that she thinks that.
Thu, 23 Apr 2015
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Welcome to HCM
We understand your concerns

I went through your details. I can understand. You did go through some weird health problems in your life which a commonly 17 year old do not go through. I suggest, those health problems, must have made you anxious about yout health and due to that health anxiety you are becoming too obsessive. Another possibility is anxiety triggered depression. In either of the case, I request you to consult a psychologist and get yourself diagnosed.

If you still need my assistance in this regard, please use this link. http://goo.gl/aYW2pR. Please remember to describe the whole problem with full detail.

Hope this answers your query. Available for further clarifications.
Good luck.
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Suggest Therapy For Depression

Dear Welcome to HCM We understand your concerns I went through your details. I can understand. You did go through some weird health problems in your life which a commonly 17 year old do not go through. I suggest, those health problems, must have made you anxious about yout health and due to that health anxiety you are becoming too obsessive. Another possibility is anxiety triggered depression. In either of the case, I request you to consult a psychologist and get yourself diagnosed. If you still need my assistance in this regard, please use this link. http://goo.gl/aYW2pR. Please remember to describe the whole problem with full detail. Hope this answers your query. Available for further clarifications. Good luck.