Hi there;
Erm I'd better introduce myself
I'm 51, have suffered from depression for years and was finally diagnosed as having borderline personality disorder a few years back (although, apart from the very occasional bout of minor self-harm it manifests more like bipolar).
I also have fibromyalgia, and the brain-fog caused by that, possibly in connection with the various meds I'm on, leads to my getting easily confused, having episodes of short-term memory loss, and chronic fatigue. I'm also hypermobile and have started developing osteoarthritis.
I've recently started group therapy for the mental health stuff; it's early days but seems to be helping.
Just to add to the "tale of woe" I noticed last year that I was having problems with my eyesight, although the standard tests came out normal for me (my eyeglass prescription was OK). Eventually I had a visual field test which showed up a loss of vision in the upper left quadrant of both eyes: subsequent MRI revealed an unruptured aneurysm. I'm now waiting to see a neurosurgeon (hopefully in November) to "discuss treatment options".
Oh dear, I do sound like a miserable so-&-so, don't I? I'm not really; one advantage of the dissociative amnesia/short-term memory loss is that I can forget most of this for a good part of the time
Erm... oh yes, I live in the UK, have a dysfunctional husband (), a *cat1, and a much-loved daughter who leaves for university next week

Beth so sorry your having so many challenges. I hope you will just cruise around the board. We have a great group of folks from all walks of life. We have many forums that will address your prolbems. So I'm saying to the board.

Hi from one Beth to another and welcome to NeuroTalk.

Here are a couple of links that I thought you might have an interest in.

The first one is for depression and then theres one for fibromyalgia. Please feel free to jump in anywhere.

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum37.html

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum12.html

Hello Dear One,
I am very glad you found us- we have an excellent group of people who
gather here... welcome!

Hello Beth and Welcome to NeuroTalk. I'm really glad you found us, as you'll find a great group of people here, who are genuine and caring. I also suffer from Fibro, as well as a few other "fun" things, so can understand some of what you are experiencing.

Please take a look around and join in anywhere.

Beth my apologies for my delay in your welcome hope that makes up for my tardiness. Sorry also about all you are dealing with, personally I say set the book of woes down for a bit and explore this site and jump in anywhere and ask or answer, and enjoy some of our humor, you are going to find this site has some of the most helpful caring and kind hearted people!!! Again Beth welcome to NT

Hello and Welcome to Neurotalk - you will meet many great and supportive people here!!

I am so sorry for everything that you are going through

I am also in the UK (England).

If you need anything, please don't hesitate to ask - I am more than happy to help you in anyway I possibly can.

Take care and I look forward to seeing you around the forum soon!!

Alison