PICTURE:
NAME: May Taylor.
AGE: 15.
GENDER: Female.
ILLNESS: Depression, Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Anxiety, Insomnia And Extreme Social Anxiety.
HISTORY: In grade two May was diagnosed with normal Anxiety, she was little and never understood why sudden and drastic fears would effect her so strongly. She was confused and upset, for a few years she thought that everyone took medication and that everyone got scared like she did. But in about grade five she soon learned that she was different. May didn’t mind though because her Anxiety was mild until half way through grade six when everything started to fall apart. She started getting sick with flu like symptoms and She couldn’t wake up in the morning. At first May just thought it was a virus and that it would go away, but it didn’t. She loved school and had so much fun seeing her friends and she would push herself as hard as she could to get to school. In the mornings her mother would try to wake her up but May wouldn’t respond. She kept pushing myself to be at school but May pushed to hard and then she couldn’t go back. Her pain level was really bad and her joints were always aching. She had consent headaches and sore throats. Her glands in her neck would pound and she would always hold her neck and complain about how much it hurt. May’s mother took her to a bunch of doctors because she thought that maybe they could help. May started to worry because none of them knew what was wrong with her. After appointment after appointment her mother and her went to a specialist and she was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia. She had got it from her mother, because it was hereditary. With that on top of her Anxiety She wasn’t sure what to do. She also struggles with insomnia, so she can’t sleep at night and May was left laying in bed worrying and fearing for the next day. May could never get a good night’s rest. She got to go to her grade six graduation and she was happy about that but once middle school started it was the same, she couldn’t wake up and she was to tired to concentrate almost all the time. For both years of middle school (Grade seven and grade eight.) May couldn’t make it to school. She had lost all connection with her friends and she slept for most of the day, not able to do much. May felt isolated at home and she didn’t have any friends to hang out with or talk to. Grade nine was next, High school. she was really excited but the same thing happened, she couldn’t get to school and wasn’t able to make any friends. May wasn’t sure if she would ever finish high school or what would happen to her life. She became pretty depressed, spending day after day sitting in bed at home. When being told that May was being sent to stay at The Keep she didn’t mind, not believing that anyone could help her now.
KNOWN TRIGGERS: Crowds, People, Her father, Yelling, Being alone, Halloween, Valentine’s day, boys, being told to speak, being looked at, stairs, carnivals, doctors, school.
THE OTHER VOICE: I-Maya-I
[[This one is pretty much my actual life, it hurts but it's nice to be able to play my own -real- character.]]
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