Sorry no mt. pharmacuticles here in this labratory just a curious mind , caz im mental and have you ever wondered if the unexplained phenominon and giftedness or mentally different people have common reasons for the subjects of interest . its a brain thing , but curiously enough it would be interesting to see what stats in just a few here might show, if any, Einstien had dsylexia , some of the smartest gifted people in history were claimed to off centered. today i dont know who isnt . we are all individuals anyway.

Take the pll and only comment if you feel comphey.


medication time ....medication time,.
thats me gotta go get my daily regurements,.. vitamens too
Abecrombie

crazy abe .lol

I checked:

general anxeity
clinical depression{major}
schizophrenia
depression
phobias
obbessive compusive disorder

I answered "I can't" for the second part, I think the list comprehensively covers what I suffer from

It's taken a while for me to find a medication that I'm happy with, I'd just like to say to those who are new to the world of mental health to not give up. If a medication doesn't feel right for you don't be afraid to keep going back to whomever prescribed it and telling them. And be honest with them, if they don't know how you're feeling they won't know how to alter the medication.

Mental or not Abe,
I think you are funny, intelligent, quirky, sweet as sugar and a really considerate and caring person. Oh and a hottie!

Oopsie wrong thread but anyhoo, thought I'd let you know that.

Obbessive Compusive Disorder. Yeap, that would be me.

Honestly I might have a few of these but I really haven't been tested, so I can't say for sure.

I just want to say lottie your the sweetie and my appriciation and thought to everyone whom posted,.. we cant help that we are genisus' . hehehe

Abecrombie

I think most people have this some to some degree. Everyone always seems to have these little quirks where if they don't do something it feels odd.

Yea. I think its a natural human instinct. Certain things will always bother certain people.

I'm pretty sure I have clinical depression, but I have no insurance, so no diagnosis. I also have anxiety issues.

It seems weird to lump dyslexia in with the rest since it is the only learning disorder (of which there are many more) and the rest are.... psychological disorders. (that might be the wrong term) - emotional disorders?

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't clinical depression caused by chemical imbalance in the brain and dyslexia caused by the way the brain processes things? Doesn't that make them similar?

Least that's what i thought...

I'm getting tested for ADHD, 2 days after Christmas

I think I'm quite messed up...

I was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome at age 8. I 'suffer' from extreme social anxiety, and as such I don't really have any friends. I'm pretty weird, generally speaking though. >.< I do a lot of compulsive behaviour; I feel like I'll get punished if I don't do things in a particular way (don't ask me how I'd get punished, it makes no sense at all). I've been depressed on/off since I was about 10 or so... On medication for anxiety/depression since a year. I don't really notice much of a difference, other than being somewhat less scared of doing things like posting on forums. ;P

The psychiatrist didn't like when I called the medicaments drugs and "mind-altering substances"... She was such an old square.

Depression comes in two major forms.

1. Depression caused by an imbalance of chemicals in the brain.

2. Depression caused by a tramatic event.


Technically I have the first kind of depression...because the doctors say so. I don't take the medicine though. I don't get it though...I think my life is fine, I never tried to kill myself, I don't have mood swings, etc. My personality has never changed. But somehow the doctors still say "You suffer from a severe case of depression" and one doctor even said to my parents and i quote "This is one of the worst cases of depression Ive exsperienced".

I just must be insane then.

I have been diagnosed depressive. Not sure if it was clinical, never asked. I was given pills but they messed me up and I stopped taking them (with the psych's agreement). Still have episodes but have mainly got it under control without drugs.

Hi Nena, I too am social phobic. I hardly go out at all as I have panic attacks around people I don't know. My shrink actually told me that having a social life via the net is perfectly acceptable if you can't face real life situations (much to my husband's disgust LOL) and it does help to write things down and share them.

With my OCD I don't have any definitive feelings of what will happen, I just feel really angry and confused if something is out of the normal scheme of things, and this can bring on a panic attack. Something as mundane as the christmas tree going up can leave me feeling lost for days.

Psychiatrists can be a funny bunch. One once called me deluded as in my notes I classed myself as a non christian. I'd been asked what religion I was a couple of years back at a preliminary appointment at the local clinic, nothing was said til the shrink suddenly came out with it I just stared at him then asked for a change of doc for my next appointment.

I suffered from anxiety problems as a child. Other than that all my marbles are secure.

wow, its nice to see that there is no holding back the importance of the realaity , of mental health,as far as all that have shared it means allot not to be shunned by anyone and i didnt expect so many posts, thusfar, i re-reading my own thread and thoughts when i read everyone eleses its like looking at myself in the mirror,.. That is what is so cool about this particular website. it has a freedom to it and respectable members know how to interact on all issues most of the time,.. we cant all agree on the same phenomenom at the unexplained but the issue of mental health ,.. its real and its no joke , once diagnosed or soon to be ,.. its like a team instead of working a plan together with one goal, we know the plan is different for each one of us and some can help cheer us on along the way. I feel we are natural born fighters , for survial that is , there is a sense of an extra ability one has to learn to compinsate for the rejection and offset from peers that do not experience the mental thing.

I realy glad that some felt it safe enough to reply to my thread here. thank you


dslexia is a learning disorder and has many many variations and forms , just like autism does, add or adhd when a person has that, it is more likely there is a deficet in some learning disabiblty that is conected by aside from the add, or adhd.

when your a child born with that prepreposition to onset a hidden dissability , depression is the first sense of decline on the emotional awareness of loneliness, not belonging , being different , teased , daily seperated from peers at school to go attend two hours of special ed class. and so on after the age seven the brain has taken another patteren of development as it prepares itself for the hormonal changes in puberty. depression is mostly the case in as early as ten years of age physically to be alone in thought and feelings and starts the process of chemically changing the long term affect of major or clinical depression. that is ten yeats or more with this starting at a early age. and like i said and so did another poster, if tramatic experiences caused this or just being born different can cause it early and without recoginizing it until ten plus years later , the brain is now unable to natural get itself out of the chemical process it started years back. this will be a lifelong struggle and for me meds help this emensly. time age and stress on the body and brain can do permanent damage to us . thank goodness that the last post , the member mentioned they were able to get out of that stage , some of us arent that lucky . thats a good sign i doubt you have serious major deppressive ddisorder. manic is the stage after the onset of some major or clinical depressive disorders, thank goodness my doc told me that i dont have bi polar,....he did say i had a type of polarity in the brain, but it was not bi-polar.

and i have a whole bunch of luggage like that most because of my generation and babyboomers were looked passed and left behind.

I don't really have a social life online either. D: In due time I scare most people off. Not that it surprise me, I'm quite the annoying wreck once in a while... ;P

The punishment is like, my tummy gets ill. I have this obsession with my stomach because I have irritable bowel syndrome, and one thing leads to the other--; I have been outside once in the last three months. D: Haha, it's funny.

I'm thinking, maybe a psychologist is nicer than a psychiatrist. I kind of like talking... once I start I can't stop. They've never asked me about religion though, thankfully, as I'd classify myself as anti-religious and they might take that down as "satanistic psychotic lunatic". Woo~;; ^_^

Abe,

Many of the classic signs of depression were there, but I was fortunate that I had good friends who encouraged me to seek help. This meant I picked it up a little earlier and so have found it a bit easier to cope with. Also, I'm quite a pragmatic person. I know I have issues but I accept there is only so much I can do to control what happens to me in the world. I try to keep busy (posting a lot on UM helps ) and this keeps me from dwelling on things.

I know I'm fortunate I don't exhibit some of the more severe signs of depression (well, not often anyway) but I do believe there is a lot you can do to help yourself, and there is a lot others can do to help. Sometimes we are too ashamed of our conditions to let them though.

To everyone who has posted on here. I want to thank you all for sharing your stories and tell you it's wonderful you are all strong enough people to discuss what many hide away. I am not ashamed or embarrassed to discuss my psychological issues (I don't announce it on arrival at parties though ). It's part of life and I suspect many more people live with these issues than those who are willing to discuss.

i think i might be ydslexic, but i've never been diagnosed iwth naything mentally wrong with me. *(lol)
but really, that happens to me when im writing, ill start on the second or third letter and have to write in the missing letter after i realize why the word im trying to put down is different than the one im thinking. it doesnt happen quite as much when im typing though.

Bet you can't scare me off

Tell me about IBS... I've had it for years. Docs are dithering between stress and lactose intolerance (apparantly because I'm vegetarian I'm not really supposed to get IBS lol) I'm convinced myself that it's stress related.

I wish I could get to see a psychologist, I've been on the waiting list now for over 2 years. All my shrink does is ask about the meds, if I try to talk about much else he doesn't seem interested. I'm currently on the list for a Befriending Scheme which sounds great to me, I don't mind going out so much if there's someone with me (even so I've been to town once this month because I had to, and no further else than the corner shop 100 yards away) and they said that I wouldn't be under any pressure to go out, I could just sit and natter to this person at home.

Well, I didn't see ADD on the list, so I couldn't check that, but here's my own list:

ADD
Personality disorder
Major depression
Asperger's syndrome
PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
...and many others that I can't remember at the moment.

And at the moment, the pill of the doctor's choice is Zoloft.

If I might ask, why the curiosity, Abecrombie?

I have PTSD.. which means I'm kinda hypervigilant too. I'm not depressed though.. I'm actually always pretty high.. I self medicate with music and stuff.. thats all I need.

^^; I've had it for... six years or so... ;.;

I was down the city centre a few weeks ago to the social services, and they tried to talk me into joining one of those "befriending schemes". I said I was none to sure of it's value since it'd be sort of... "forced". They said the exact same thing to me, "You're under no pressure to go outside if you wouldn't want to, you can just sit home and whine would you feel like it." She asked me to email her back, so I wrote this 10,000 word piece to scare them off with weirdness, but it didn't have the result I hoped... Sigh.

That sounds very familiar....I thought mine was the only one who did that.
Fortunately, my therapist is a lot better, and is willing to help me find alternative treatments (but that's a whole other post) that might help.

I suffer from a great many things on your list, I have since I was a small child. Clinical depression, social phobia, anxiety attacks, posttraumatic stress disorder and premenstrual dysphoric disorder. And I also suffered postpartum psychosis after the birth of my first child and postpartum depression after each following birth (second and third child).
I am on three different medications and have tried the whole psychologist route many times (which is actually a waste of money in my opinion). The only thing that ever got me through hard times and keeps me going is my loving husband and family.

Nena, I'm actually quite afraid of starting this befriending scheme, I think it's more of the first visit I'm scared of. I'm willing to give it a go though, if only for the fact that it might help me to have someone removed from the situation I can pour all my problems out to. If it doesn't I can always say I don't want to do it any more, they've said I can do that. I've been offered group therapy (for social phobias and anxiety no less - how ironic is that!) but I don't feel I could cope with a room full of strangers even if they are all there for the same reason. Sounds mad doesn't it lol

I also worry that a therapist/psychologist won't help much. I've tried all the self help advice I can find and nothing seems to help much apart from a few tips I've come across. I suppose the actuality of having one will be completely different but while I'm stuck on a neverending waiting list the worry just keeps gnawing away. The waiting list seems to gain six months every six months. I was told three years ago that there was an 18 month waiting list, I'm still 18 month away from getting a first appointment...

One breathing exercise I find good for panic attacks is the following: On the inhale imagine you're breathing in pale blue calming light, and on the exhale imagine it's a deep red light taking all your tension with it. You can add to this as you wish, I've kept it pretty basic. I do this all the time, it's easy to do with a little practice and nobody around knows what you're doing.

Nah, it doesn't sound mad at all. Or maybe it is that I am mad too. I don't know. They said to me the waiting last wasn't more than two months, tops, though. Maybe they have less resources in the UK. I suppose it's hard for anyone who isn't scared of such things to understand how terrible it is... -.-

I suppose psychologists will do little more than what any Befriending scheme will, but I don't know. I feel a bit uncomfortable with having a "fake friend", I suppose? >.< Maybe that's just me being cynical again. Haha.

I also have what you might call... bathroom-phobia. Stomach being sicky and I get panic. What I do is, I always make sure I have towels around, and I like to wrap them around my head, haha. >.> That is quite the mad thing, don't you think? I feel it's to somehow create distance from myself... sort of. XD

I know what you mean about a "fake friend", but I'm willing to give it a try. I've thought a lot about this, and for a while I was so unsure I wouldn't answer any phone calls they made regarding setting it up. I finally decided last week to bite the bullet so to speak, and arranged an appointment for January. I might even postpone this appointment yet, I asked and they said it'd be no problem as long as I let them know in advance. I do think that it would be good for me, facing my fears head on, I just need to feel ready to do it. But anyways, that's enough about me LOL

Don't worry about the towel thing, if it makes you feel calmer then go ahead. I often sit in pyjamas and dressing gown all day, probably because it means I'll be less likely to be asked to go anywhere

I didn't use to pick up their calls either. Sometimes I'd pretend I wasn't home at all, or let my mom take it, so I'd be talking through my mom as a sort of "relay" between them and me. Haha. D; Don't like talking about yourself? ;p

Generally I don't wake up till way past noon so it's kind of hard for others to get me anywhere. ^.^

Hehe I'm a midday riser too, normally because I drop off to sleep around 4am...

Sometimes I can talk too much about myself once I get started

Suppose we derailed the topic a fair deal now, haha. D:

I suppose we shouldn't like... uh, make things more off-topic with discussion of personal matters. ;P

Okay, bringing things back on topic, I’m Bipolar type two ( II ) or type B.

After further analysis I find my self in 1% of 1% of the worlds population so to put into context, trying to find a mind like mine is like looking for the proverbial ‘ needle in the you know what ‘…….

Mood swings, you’d have mood swings if you had a mind like moi’s…..

Basically, I’m bullet proof, drugs don’t work, therapy is only as good as the therapist and I eat psychologist’s feet first so it’s a brick wall and lots of elastoplasts for me…..

Try having what they call an ‘open IQ ’ and then having to sit down in front of some average middle class do good’r rationalising this world, limited conversation trust me…….

See for me its not so much MENTAL HEALTH as more like MENTAL WEALTH. We who’s minds exist outside the box feed on inspiration and those who are inspired can actually inspire, GOD FORBID…..

Peace and goodwill, luvs-ya….

Ciao…….

I'm as sane as they come ...

I checked:

Bi Polar
OCD
General Anxiety
Phobias

I have been through great therapy for one phobia and the anxiety using relaxation that worked very well.

hmm...This is stuff I don't normally talk about...buuuut...

I've been treated in the past for depression as well as ASPD with my outlet being fire starting. I also went through extensive treatment for PTSD.

I've been fine for a while now except for the fact that I continue to hate the general public and have certain phobias.

Erm I couldnt answer any of those......does that make me sane or have the Doc's just not discovered me yet It seems you can only be insane if someone who "knows better" says you are.

The amount of mentally ill people really explains the behavior on this forum.. I guess now whenever someone is arguing with me I can just come here and copy their post saying they are mentally incapacitated.

LOL Rambo, having a mental illness doesn't make everything you say defunct, I'm sure you knew that

Coldethyl, I've been waiting for proper cognitive help for a couple of years now. I've tried various self help techniques with limited success, what techniques worked for you? You can PM me if you want to keep it private.

I have never been diagnosed with anything (never had enough money or guts to go to a doc) but I know of a few things that I can list that classify me a non normal. The main one being depression...
However thank goodness I have never followed though with any of my half brained schemes to end my misery. Also finally finishing school helped out alot. Now I take it one day at a time and hope for the best. I still have my good and bad days but after a bad day I alway pep myself up again. (I have learned to be an optimist even in the worst circumstances and also I have a stubborn streak a mile wide which helps)

It is scary how many different labels there are for when we don't act normal...
I hate being put in a group and labeled, I am my own person and with all my faults I am still me. They will never be able to tell me otherwise.

i have adhd and paranoia, but i dont take medication, i refuse. also im too paranoid to see a doc.

Social anxiety, depression, OCD, general anxieties , & eating disordered.
All since I was about 16.

Just a quick question, how many of us with social anxiety problems would class ourselves as empathic to a certain degree?