I was diagnosed in February 2017 with Late Stage Chronic Lyme Disease. I do not recall a tick bite and I did not have a rash. Originally there were other speculations of why I had a kidney infection however now we believe Lyme was shutting my kidneys down back in September, especially since it wasn’t responding to any antibiotics. We believe I was infected around 16 years old and that it took the kidney infection to put the Lyme in overdrive with my actual body, however I suffered since 16 with random pains, burning on the top of my feet, moments where it felt something was crawling on my arms, and random leg spasms mixed with anxiety and psychological issues. I tried to commit suicide for the first time on April 10, 2016 , twice within a week of each other. I didn’t understand why, and I chalked it up to life issues and “things getting unbearable” but I never believed it. I had been through far worse. In January 2017 I had a psychotic episode where I just became extremely erratic and uncontrollable. I was diagnosed in February. I have since been ruled no longer depressed and no longer have the anxiety I once had since treatment. My psychological symptoms of Lyme have been the first to ease up. They’re not gone, I get overly emotional and overwhelmed still. But they aren’t like before. But the ones that left me unpredictable and unable to function are now since gone. I still have pain, aches and many other symptoms still and I know I have a long way to go, but I have come so far.