Everything seemed to be fine, yet one day I couldn't seem to enjoy things, I started to talk slowly, walk slowly and live slowly. I started overeating, fake smiling and crying myself to sleep, but for no good reason, my life was pretty good. I say "was". This was February 2013, I was 12 years old and I lived in Cork, Ireland with my mom, my dad and my adorable little brother. But for no reason this was when a 2 year, on and off yet still ongoing depression started.
I had recently been out of school for 2 weeks because I had a horrible strep infection. Looking back its really scary, nobody realized that this, yes this strep infection was going to change my life forever.
I also started noticing that my fears were getting worse. There's a lot of things that people fear, but my fears had never been so extreme. I was scared of the dark, but not just a little scared, I slept with all my lights on, actually many times I didn't sleep.
Not to mention spiders, wow this was horrible, I couldn't even think about them without crying. Yes, you can say I cried a lot.
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A lot can happen in a year, but I never expected this.
No FicciónPANS stands for Pediatric Acute Autoimmune Syndrome, the disease i was diagnosed with in April 2014 after a year of not knowing what was wrong. Researchers are only beginning to study and understand this syndrome, and therefore there are a lot of un...
