14-year-old girl
My story
I’m 15 years old. I mostly had headaches. As my headaches started, I tried to get control of them first by drinking water and taking pills. But neither helped at all. After one to two weeks I went to the doctor with my headaches. But besides what I had already tried or putting my feet up, he had no further solution.
My family was naturally worried and cared for me a lot.
I spent many days at home due to my bad headaches instead of going to school. Of course my friends started to worry and missed me at school, but when I was in school everything was as usual, no one excluded me or spoke ill of me. Luckily I was good at school and the fact that I missed a lot of material didn’t worsen my marks much.
At some point I came to Datteln. At first I didn’t want to go to Datteln at all, but luckily my mother convinced me. In Datteln I found it better every day. I did a lot of therapy. In Datteln I already had my headaches only very seldom and when I did, I was able to distract myself and greatly alleviate them with certain exercises that I learned there. After the three weeks were up I could say that I’d had a very nice time there and that suddenly since then I haven’t ever had that kind of headache again. What really finally helped me, I don’t know, I just know that after the stay in Datteln they were gone. Since then I’ve been able to live my life as I want to and not as the headaches dictated. I started getting together with friends a lot again and joined a sports club. Of course my marks improved, also.