PANS 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 unanswered questions about what it is . What they do know is that abnornal antibodies in your blood start attacking your brain after having a strep infection, causing mental ilnesses symptoms. This is my story. I used a normal kid, barely missed any school, straight A's, a lot of friends, and yes I can say I actually was happy. I say "I used" because all that changed.
2 years, Depression, Suicidal thoughts, Anxiety, OCD, Hallucinations, Surgery and several hospital visits later, here I am telling my story. Because I live with an invisible illness. But hang on till the end because it all ends well. Well kind of.
Is it normal for your parents to find you passed out in your bathroom from cuts on your wrist? Is it normal to spend a month in "remission"?
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One of Sophie's favorite things to do is forget. But that's exactly what she wants to do for the past couple of weeks. What she did, what happened. She wants to be normal again. Is that too much to ask? She's slowly gluing her life back together.
Then she meets Mason.
And he sets her life on fire.
But it feels so good to be alive again.
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Dark Horse
Noun
: a person (such as a politician), animal, or thing that competes in a race or other contest and is not expected to win
: a person who has interesting qualities or abilities that most people do not know about