Mental Health - July 2006

For a while my life seemed to be going in the right direction. While in college, I thought I knew what I wanted to do with my life and I felt confident and motivated to get what I needed to get done. I had lost 75lbs and I had never felt better in my life.

Now that I've graduated college, I've decided against every path I'd chosen to follow. I have slowly but surely gained back a lot of weight, and I can't seem to get myself out of the mentality that nothing I do will ever work out in my favor. Thinking about how much weight I had lost and then gained back makes me frustrated, and lessens my motivation to lose any of the weight again.

I have a job now, but it isn't the kind of job that college graduates should have. My timid personality causes every interviewer I've ever met to give me a big "No Thanks!"
I really don't know what else to do. I don't have anyone to turn to for emotional help and I certainly can't afford any type of therapy. I'll take any suggestions you can give.

2006-07-24 09:29:17 · 8 answers · asked by AWalktoRemember 2

This is not a joke, as a lot of you assume my posts always are. This is really disturbing me.

I just had another one the other day. It all started on the first anniversary (9/11/02). I dreamt I was floating over NYC and saw terrorists in a hot air balloon shooting rockets at the Twin Towers. Then, I dreamt that I was tied up in an airplane, with terrorists in the cockpit taking the plane in a kamikaze dive toward a nuclear power plant.

Also, one time I was sleeping on a plane and dreamt that terrorists were killing a 14-year-old girl just for the fun of it, and telling us that we were all going to die. Finally, once I dreamt that I had a girlfriend, and I was planning to propose to her after her plane landed. Guess what flight.

What does this mean? It continues to haunt me, and some of the stories I read about the actual events just break my heart.

2006-07-24 09:21:49 · 5 answers · asked by I Know Nuttin 5

Having trouble sleeping so, on Sat night I took 2 "Simply Sleep" pills and yesterday, I couldn't get out of bed, I was so depressed and upset, could it be the pills?

2006-07-24 09:10:08 · 2 answers · asked by tamilynn 3

2006-07-24 09:08:34 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-24 08:57:47 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-24 08:41:07 · 3 answers · asked by kc 3

My sister is dating and madly in love with a guy who had bipolar. Im concerned because they are going to marry and she might have children with him. Shouldnt he be sterilized?

Please dont yell at me as Im entitled to my opinion. This is America. I believe that women should select genes if possible to assure the strongest, most successful baby. I have read 2 schools on this. One from scholarly studies says that the hereditary nature of bipolar has never been established or proven. The other from what I generally read on the net says it is or can be genetic. From what Ive seen there seems to be an 8% chance of having a bipolar baby if getting pregnant with one of these guys. (5-12% range) Isnt that enough reason for him to be sterilized so this tragedy wont occur?

Apparently this was widely done and approved of in over 44 universities by 1912, and only stopped because people went too far. How would they sterilize him and what is the best way to ensure he doesnt hurt anyone?

2006-07-24 08:39:04 · 22 answers · asked by kristin s 1

if you could turn back the hands of time to change some thing that you regret doing in the past what would it be?

2006-07-24 08:35:15 · 13 answers · asked by mizz_butta 1

I feel spaced out

2006-07-24 08:07:45 · 4 answers · asked by kc 3

Anyone have advice on how to stop worrying about others? Most of my life, I've tried to fix other peoples problems. If my husband is upset, I have to make him happy, if my son is sad, I have to take care of him. It's gotten to the point that my head is in a permanent spin. I take on everyones problems and can't calm down until I solve them. I'm beginning to not even want to be with anyone because if they mention anything negative, I'll try to help, even if they don't ask...How do I stop??

2006-07-24 08:01:45 · 14 answers · asked by Terry Ann 2

Well, I FINALLY got in to the psyciatrist today. They said the anxiety attacks were because I stopped the Klonopin. It was withdrawl. I tried asking them to change the med as even the Dr admitted that I was very senitive to it. I have been on it since Feb (except for the last 2 weeks or so). Every single dose has made me very sleepy. At one point I was doing 1/2 of a .5 @ bed & morn and I was so tired I couldn't walk straight! So today they INCREASED the dose to a FULL .5 @ bed & morn and they think I WON"T be so sleepy! I have not seen the Klonopin do anything at all for anxiety. It DOES help to control my appetite and better bladder control but otherwise nothing. When I StOPPED the Klonopin, I wasn't tired. Fri my primary Dr put be back on Klonopin the 1/2 of .5 @ bed & that is is fine. Also have Lexapro 20 mg that works wonders. I tried to get them to increase w/o luck! I don't know if I want to be fat or sleepy! Give the Dr one more chance or go somewhere else NOW! I don't know.

2006-07-24 07:48:36 · 8 answers · asked by helpme1 5

2006-07-24 07:36:09 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-24 07:30:18 · 21 answers · asked by laforterh 1

The resident doctor at my place of work has made it known that he wishes me tohave sessions with a psychiatrist. How do I respond to this?

2006-07-24 07:29:46 · 29 answers · asked by azteccamera 4

If you come across a movie, show, magazine or book with even the word murder in it it just disturbs you and disgusts you?

2006-07-24 07:19:07 · 2 answers · asked by Ima dufus 1

like when then are wronged by someone or after a breakup.

2006-07-24 07:14:48 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

I don't trust anyone and have no reason not to trust my BF. I need serious help trying to fight co-dependent behaviors and being needy. I fight this with every ounce of blood in my body but it doesn't stop me from feeling depressed, rejected, etc. How can I stop this before it ruins my relationship? I feel like I am so lonely and need to be with him all the time, problem is..he doesn't realize this and is very independent, unemotional (although nice & caring) He's just not like any other guys I've ever dated, I've always dated guys who were sooo in love with me or so they say..this guy is different..he's actually healthy and in turn..I'm insecure!! HELP!!

2006-07-24 07:11:44 · 16 answers · asked by beautifully broken 3

i wake up and still think theyre real, the dreams are like reality but really bizarre and it seems like the dream goes on for hours and hours and when i wake up or get woken up (during the dream) i can remember the whole thing for weeks sometimes months. they really tire me out as it seems like i havent slept all night as iv been busy in the dream. a few months ago i dreamt that mother slowly ran over a foal's head as it was sleeping along a road in the new forest, as i was watching out the window. and this was after looking out the back window to see a bmw run over another foal and it trying to run crippled up the road after the car we were in. this is just an example. they are always extrememly vivid and starting to do my head in.

2006-07-24 07:01:38 · 14 answers · asked by thespecialone 2

ive not had a job in 3 years,ive even been banned from the soacial for not turning up for a month,i need some sort of help,but who cures laziness? by the way its quite tiring doing nothing all day

2006-07-24 07:00:35 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

I wouldn't say that I'm depressed, but I'm definately in a "funk"; I'm just not happy with any aspect of my life right now. What's the best way to find the path back to happiness?

2006-07-24 06:54:15 · 6 answers · asked by Smoothie 5

I come from a good family,im always welcoming, i look like barbie, i have tons of friends and im always a sweet person. People always peg me as a goody goody. BUT ive always had an obsession with vampires and goths. I go to real haunted houses by myself, i read vampire novels and movies, i love halloween, i love dark things and people. I find it erotic. I even ordered vampire fangs online. (never wore them, though) My husband laughs at me. I cant help it. Its been going on since i was 10. Am i okay?

2006-07-24 06:54:04 · 16 answers · asked by Baby Jack born 4/5/09 4

Michelle Goldberg says progressives need to wake up and pay attention to the enormous — and growing — influence of the radical Christian right.



"I don't want to be alarmist, but this is actually quite alarming," Michelle Goldberg said. She was referring to the subject of her new book, "Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism," which chronicles the steady rise of the neocons of Christianity.

2006-07-24 06:45:37 · 21 answers · asked by brianna_the_angel777 4

I'm BP2, have BPD and have been off my meds since June 12th. I was taking Lamictal (400 mgs/day), Prozac (20mgs/day), Klonopin (1mg as needed), and Ambien CR (as needed).
I've been doing well off my meds, I am not in such a fog, but the last couple of days I've been getting REALLY pissed off at stupid stuff.
It could be PMS, but I've never felt like this with PMS.
I'm so high strung I feel like someone is taking a cheese grater to my insides!
Time to get back on the meds?

2006-07-24 06:34:51 · 15 answers · asked by batmantis1999 4

i heard that if we laugh about 5min,we almost had a physical education about 30 min!

2006-07-24 06:34:41 · 3 answers · asked by I'm so freakin' gay 1

Anyone have trouble with anafranil causing breast pain or enlargement? I'm new to the medication and wondering if this is a side effect that will go away or continue.

2006-07-24 06:18:59 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is it true that she punches herself without knowing it.Is mentally derailed.

2006-07-24 06:15:48 · 21 answers · asked by shaky shaky baby 1

In typing class, this is all I typed for the entire period. Page after page after page.

2006-07-24 06:13:49 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-24 06:10:58 · 13 answers · asked by ? 4

Has anyone here ever thought that they themselves might be a higher power? or some kind of magical being?

Do you just chalk it up to your mental disorder?

2006-07-24 06:09:59 · 5 answers · asked by batmantis1999 4

I have had an abortion, he continued to live wit his ex for 2 years for financial reasons, and I left him for another man because I couldnt handle him going home to her every night. He called me so many names for leaving him. We have been trying to work it out...but I just don NOT want to have sex anymore.....what do i do??? I am just so traumatized i dont want anyone to touch me, but he wants to be just as crazy as we were when we 1st met...

2006-07-24 05:58:44 · 5 answers · asked by gigerninfo 2