Mental Health - August 2006

My pre-motorcyle accident career of around 6 years ago was as a Graphic Designer. I have tackled & completed various work placements and I have most of my original skills intact, I am physically fit except now I suffer from fatigue and can only work for around 6 hours a day before fatigue really hits hard. I can drive again, but have to consider the 'fatigue', aspect within the whole equation. At interview, when I eventually have to mention about any limitations, the interviewer has a kind of disturbed look because he/she has taken time out to interview someone who is disabled. I know about the human rights act and the options that should be available to someone like me, but I'm sure an employer will always find some kind of way around that, if they want to.

2006-08-13 04:26:38 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-13 04:17:40 · 9 answers · asked by coldplayerboy 1

2006-08-13 04:14:49 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is it a self injury if when u get mad u pull on ur eye browns

2006-08-13 04:13:10 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

'cause she just HAD TO HAVE prada. she made the thirty thou, and more (presents, help with loans, therapy). another lad, seeing this, just asked everyone to send 'im some money. no reason. he, too, made bank. i want to see a neurologist. i can't, financially, or through my health care. i posted a plea for people to send me the cost of ONE starbucks coffe drink - roughly, between $2.50 and $5, though i'd've accepted $!, or free neurology... even affordable neurology (i live in berkeley, ca) - IF THEY COULD AFFORD IT. i posted it on my lj, myspace, friendster, okcupid, and craig's list. twice. two of my friends were furious. one kind stranger sympathised, but hadn't money to give. was i really so wrong? i didn't promise anyone anything. it wasn't a chain letter or ponzi scheme. i was polite, even witty, and, really, i need to get a neurological work-up. your thoughts?

2006-08-13 04:09:47 · 8 answers · asked by altgrave 4

My daughter overdosed last week, she just got out of the hospital. I'm sending her to a out of state rehab. I need financial donations for rehab & medical bills. Any ideas would be greatly appricated

2006-08-13 03:42:02 · 6 answers · asked by Tracy F 1

2006-08-13 03:31:27 · 19 answers · asked by PMji 1

is this normal?

2006-08-13 02:50:15 · 14 answers · asked by prevacidman 1

This last few weeks I have been getting really bad headaches in the front of my head like right on my forhead. I have also been really tired and I haven't been nearly as hungery as I normally am. My jaw has been hurting alot too. I have been going to bed at like 9pm and I get up at 5am I then go walk about 3 miles every weekday and lift weights. I then go home and I fall asleep from about 9am to noon! and then I am still tired when 9pm gets back around. I don't know what to do. I am always tired.I have never had headaches before this last month and now I have them It seems like all day everyday. I am a 15 yr old girl. I am 5ft 7inches and I weigh about 208lbs.(which I am not happy about.) I have been drinking alot of water. as I always do. But I haven't been eating nearly as much. I have a bowl of ceral in the morning, a sandwich in the afternoon with a hand full of chips(maybe 10 chips) And a peach about 3 for supper I might have pasta or whatever never alot and thats it. Help me plz!

2006-08-13 02:35:13 · 23 answers · asked by youngan'curious 2

I hurt myslf aswell

2006-08-13 02:29:55 · 35 answers · asked by Something 1

I have a friend that's bi-polar, she is off her meds, and has been in a manic phase for almost 3 months now. She has alienated most of her family and friends. She is draining the rest of us emotionally. She refuses to even talk about going to the hospital or doctor. Do I cut her off too? Is there anything I can do? I want my best friend back, this isn't her.

2006-08-13 02:21:25 · 12 answers · asked by mightymite1957 7

I suffered from severe depression for a year, but in the past 6 months, since a change in medication, I've been feeling a lot better. I just started a new job and it's very stressful at the minute and I can feel my "warning symptoms" of depression creeping back in. I'm irritable and tearful, and I want to just curl up in bed all the time. I know these are signs that my depression isn't well controlled right now, but I don't know what to do about it.

How can I fight this so that I don't end up really low again? I don't think I could go through it all again, but I'm really worried that if I don't do something NOW, I'll spiral back down into that dark pit again. What should I do to stop that happening?

2006-08-13 02:17:39 · 6 answers · asked by Jen 5

I am sad that I am limited. However hard I try to develop you will develop faster than me. Therefore I am looser.
Who will like me such except my mother?

2006-08-13 02:14:30 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

This last few weeks I have been getting really bad headaches in the front of my head like right on my forhead. I have also been really tired and I haven't been nearly as hungery as I normally am. My jaw has been hurting alot too. I have been going to bed at like 9pm and I get up at 5am I then go walk about 3 miles every weekday and lift weights. I then go home and I fall asleep from about 9am to noon! and then I am still tired when 9pm gets back around. I don't know what to do. I am always tired. Please tell me what is wrong. I have never had headaches before this last month and now I have them It seems like all day everyday. again if you know anything or have any suggestions. Please relpy.

2006-08-13 02:11:01 · 6 answers · asked by youngan'curious 2

http://www.lewrockwell.com/yates/yates30.html

Northerners Want Us Out?
By All Means Let’s Oblige Them!
by Steven Yates
Johnny Jay: Did you know that there are some folks in the North that are tired of us Southerners and think we should be tossed out on our fannies?

Billy Ray: You’re kidding me!

Johnny Jay: No, it’s right here, in this column "Let’s Ditch Dixie" by Mark Strauss.

Billy Ray: Never heard of him.

Johnny Jay: He’s a senior editor at Foreign Affairs. That’s Council on Foreign Relations.

Billy Ray: At least we know what to expect.

Johnny Jay: Well, what he does is make fun of the League of the South and their Declaration of Southern Cultural Independence – signed last year in Montgomery. He also ridicules the Southern associations of folks like John Ashcroft and Gale Norton, calling the latter the GOP’s "honorary Dixie chick," but then he makes an allegation that’s nothing short of astounding – coming from a Yankee.

Billy Ray: Which is?

Johnny Jay: That the North and the South "can no longer claim to be one nation."

Billy Ray: A Northerner said that?

Johnny Jay: Yes, and a lot more besides. He mentions last year’s electoral map, but it’s almost like he saw the infamous county-by-county map and actually figured out what it means. The one showing all the "red counties" that voted for George W. Bush and all the "blue counties" that went for Al Gore.

Billy Ray: They showed that counties full of our people, tending to be rural, Southern, or western – except for the heavy Hispanic regions way out west – tended to go for Bush. All the urban areas tended to go for Gore.

Johnny Jay: True, but they also show how Bush won the South hands down, and that without the South he wouldn’t have won. He doesn’t think much of our culture, that’s for sure. He uses references to NASCAR and WCW fans to ridicule it. But the guy’s at least noticed – there’s something different about the South that makes it not like the North – meaning by that the Northeast, mainly.

Billy Ray: And his conclusion is that instead of us having to fight our way free, like we tried to do just over 140 years ago, that we be kicked out instead?

Johnny Jay: Here’s what he says: "… North and South should simply follow the example of the Czech Republic and Slovakia: shake hands, says [sic.] its been real, and go their separate ways. And if the South isn’t inclined to leave anytime soon, then we should show them the door by seceding unilaterally."

Billy Ray: Northern secession?!

Johnny Jay: Yup. He says we’re dominating them, because of Southerners in the White House, Southerners picking up population, votes in the Electoral College… Gore won California, New York and Pennsylvania, and he still couldn’t win the election. He couldn’t even win his home state.

Billy Ray: Because of the Dixie mindset?

Johnny Jay: Yup. This guy even says that the Democrats are becoming "Dixiefied." Yankee liberal progressives no longer have their own party. That explains Ralph Nader. But here’s the really good part. Listen to this: [Reads]: "The South is a gangrenous limb that should have been lopped off decades ago. More people live below the poverty line in the old Confederacy than in the Northeast and Midwest combined – "

Billy Ray: Couldn’t their policies have something to do with that? Going all the way back to the War of Yankee Aggression that burned down our cities and towns and raped our land? We never really recovered.

Johnny Jay: Could be. Anyway: "You are three times more likely to be murdered in parts of Dixie than anywhere in New England – "

Billy Ray: Aw, c’mon, that’s horsehockey! Guess this guy’s never spent much time in New York City or downtown Washington, D.C.

Johnny Jay: Doesn’t say. Goes on with more benefits to having an independent Northern state, though, such as – hmmm – higher average test scores, more opportunities for women, less opposition to gay rights.

Billy Ray: More logical thought?

Johnny Ray: He doesn’t go that far.

Billy Ray: I hope not.

Johnny Jay: But he does say that without Dixie the Northerns will be able to pass tougher gun laws, legislation barring discrimination against homosexuals, and that won’t have to deal with those annoying commercials offering Dale Earnhardt memorabilia for sale.

Billy Ray: Ah. Why don’t we trade. We’ll keep our Dale Earnhardt memorabilia if they’ll keep their laws. If they want to disarm their own people and their own people don’t care, let ‘em. I rather like the idea, if the North is independent from us. Why don’t we give a good Rebel yell tell this guy, hell yeah, let’s go for it. We’ll leave you alone if you’ll leave us alone! I may not like their stupid laws, but I like this guy’s solution to his "Dixie problem."

Johnny Jay: Well…. There’s a catch.

Billy Ray: Oh? If it sounds too good to be true it usually is. What else does this joker say?

Johnny Jay: He thinks that an independent North will be able to "cure" us Dixie-ites of our bad habits. Listen to this: [reading again]: "With the South banished from the Union, we could begin to correct the most objectionable aspects of Southern behavior with the same tools we use to engage countries such as China: by making trade and continued foreign aid contingent upon sincere efforts to clean up the environment and improve human rights. We could implement "Plan South Carolina" to convince tobacco growers to develop alternative crops. Northern observers could ensure democracy in Florida polling places. Peace Corps volunteers could teach the necessary skills – "

Billy Ray: Whoa, wait just a cotton pickin’ minute! That’s not separation, that’s just more Yankee imperialism! Why should we want to trade with them, anyway?

Johnny Jay: I guess this guy thinks we’ll end up like China.

Billy Ray: Wonderful that he’s bothered to research the South and find out a little about us, isn’t it? Has he forgotten that a Southerner penned the Declaration of Independence? That our ancestors contributed massively to writing the U.S. Constitution – and then led to the adding of the Bill of Rights when it wasn’t clear that the Constitution didn’t centralize the new government too much?

Johnny Jay: Oh, this Strauss fellow is in love with centralization. He’s Council on Foreign Relations, after all. Remember?

Billy Ray: He hasn’t figured out yet that centralizing the government, the economy, you name it, doesn’t work? That it hasn’t worked anywhere it’s been tried? This guy talks out our test scores.

Johnny Jay: Limited to "public school" kids.

Billy Ray: Figures. They don’t teach about our ancestors there anymore, or so I hear. They’re more likely to teach tolerance and tree-hugging. I’ve heard they’re trying to introduce ethnic math, or something like that.

Johnny Jay: That’s the Yankee influence. Or maybe Left Coast. Hard to tell, when you get right down to it.

Billy Ray: Then that’s why the test scores are falling. And I hear theirs aren’t exactly setting the world on fire, either.

Johnny Jay: No. They’re falling everywhere. Or so I hear. Not that that’s what counts. It’s not enough just to be educated. It helps to know what is right, and do it. Lenin and Stalin were both smart cookies, after all.

Billy Ray: They’ll never get there by making homosexuals an affirmative action group.

Johnny Jay: You know that, and I know it. Anyway – and this is really sad! – this guy Strauss’s piece ends by comparing us to the Russians.

Billy Ray: He does what???

Johnny Jay: Just listen: "[T]he only obvious downside is that the South would almost certainly insist on keeping the 3,150 nuclear warheads that are scattered throughout Georgia, Texas, Louisiana and Virginia. Maybe we could strike a deal to get those nukes back, the same way Russia did with Ukraine after the Soviet Union broke up. If not, then perhaps national missile defense might not be such a bad idea after all."

Billy Ray: That is sad! Not to mention paranoid. Sounds like he’s afraid of us.

Johnny Jay: I rather agree. He’s right about the different cultures, though, and about how leftists keep running up against Dixie as the main factor keeping them from getting their way. So if it ever comes to pass that the powers that be up in Northern la-la land want us out, we ought to oblige them – so long as we close our borders afterwards! They won’t get our missiles, and they won’t be able to migrate down here in droves to escape their crime rate and their awful weather.

Billy Ray: They’ll regret letting us go so easily.

Johnny Jay: But it’ll be too late! [Smiles gleefully.]

Billy Ray: So how’d they get that way. Guys like this Strauss, that is.

Johnny Jay: Wasn’t from reading that other Strauss, that’s for sure. The one named Leo. Seriously, it goes back to what we were saying about centralization. We have these two basic philosophies, the one coming out of the Northeast that’s basically secular and materialist. The way it’s evolved, it favors expansionist government, high taxes to support it, welfare, dependency, gun control, multiculturalism, affirmative action, feminism, open homosexuality, bad food and bad music. The other comes from down here. We’re still basically Christian and want to depend only on God and our families, but otherwise on our own two feet in a free economy. We believe that independence is a good thing and that manliness is a good thing – that’s why so many of us are NASCAR fans, by the way. We like real men, not the silly flower children of Ivy League campuses and Left Coast beaches. And women who really are women, not Janet Renos and Donna Shalalas – or Hillary Clintons. We’re just daring the clowns running Washington to try and take away our guns. We think affirmative action is nothing more than quotas and preferences that discriminate against white men. We don’t think men and women are interchangeable. We’re still ‘backward’ and think homosexuality is a sin.

We’re loyal to something besides money and power. Our sense of place is reflected in our music. We prefer songs like "Sweet Home Alabama" to noise-set-to-a-beat about killing cops. Ever hear anybody call New York City or Washington, D.C., "sweet" anything? But anyway, it all comes down to this: accept the world view that’s taken over the North and you get one solution whether you realize it or not: in the last analysis, power gets the last word. That’s why they end up trying to centralize everything in sight. That’s why even after they’ve kicked us Dixie-ites out, they’ll conduct an economic war of imperialism designed to control us, to rid themselves of our "corrupting" influences. Behind all the power-obsession, though, is something they dare not face – not honestly, anyway. A sort of emptiness. The emptiness of the soul that comes from accepting that this life is all you have, that morality is just a man-made creation, and that you might as well grab for whatever goodies you can get because once it’s over, it’s over.

Billy Ray: Hmmm! Sad. But if they ever want us out and they mean it….

Johnny Jay: Then I guess we’ll have to oblige them.

Billy Ray: This is just one writer, though, for a Northern Internet site hardly anyone reads because it’s so liberal. The folks running the Washington Empire wouldn’t let us go so easily.

Johnny Jay: ‘Fraid not.

Billy Ray: They’d miss those vacation spots too much once we closed our borders.

Johnny Jay: And don’t forget that terrific mustard-based barbecue sauce we’ve got down here in South Carolina!

Billy Ray: That too!

Johnny Jay: Well, I’ve had some Boston clam chowder. It was pretty good.

Billy Ray: [Looks contrite.] Oh, I’m sorry. They’ve accomplished one thing up there….


March 24, 2001

Steven Yates has a Ph.D. in Philosophy and is the author of Civil Wrongs: What Went Wrong With Affirmative Action (ICS Press, 1994). He is presently compiling selected essays into a single volume tentatively entitled View From the Gallery and a work on a second book, The Paradox of Liberty. He also writes for the Edgefield Journal, and is available for lectures. He lives in Columbia, South Carolina.

Copyright © 2001 LewRockwell.com

2006-08-13 02:00:19 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

I believe that we are all addicts in our own way. We all have something in our life that we just have to have even though we know its destructive. For some its drugs, alcohol or sex. For others its shopping, gambling, or even video games. What is your personal addiction?

2006-08-13 01:59:38 · 35 answers · asked by captaincoolbeard 3

i have severe depression and have been cutting for 2 years. recently i've began to lose control and the cuts are getting worse. I want to stop but i just don't know how. (and dont tell me to go see a shrink, because i already am)

2006-08-13 01:48:27 · 18 answers · asked by secret_bleeder 1

Im not sure if the way I think is the way other people think or if I am mental or not?

2006-08-13 01:38:51 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am constantly irritable...i go from 1 to 10 lately in a matter of seconds and i really hate it..i feel like i want to crawl out of myskin lately and cry and yell. I don't know what to do.

2006-08-13 01:37:33 · 12 answers · asked by blondiebella 3

I broke up with my gf two months ago and it seems that now I really started to suffer,I would not whant her back and from you i would just want a kind word.

2006-08-13 01:23:27 · 18 answers · asked by in_urma 2

Its terrible it always leads to negative thinking

2006-08-13 01:13:16 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Count the "F's" in the following text and let me know how many you got then I'll reveal the answer to you:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-
IC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE
EXPERIENCE OF YEARS... (see below)

2006-08-13 00:23:55 · 50 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-13 00:20:56 · 5 answers · asked by thewidow 1

2006-08-12 23:51:57 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have a lifetime of guilt, despair, heartache, and memories I just don't want anymore. There is far, far to much to delve into details but nonetheless I want rid of it once and for all.
Any real answers?

2006-08-12 23:44:19 · 9 answers · asked by lackluster 2

On occasion I will get really pissed off and swear. Lately I have been having a lot of problems related to life and I actually had to take a weekend off and do hardly nothing at all. I am the type of person that needs to vent out frustration other wise I am like a walking time bomb. I would make a great terrorist except that I vowed to never take a life or inflict harm on another human unless it is self defense. Perhaps this is why I am attracted to the Internet. It is a method in which I can extract my problems for further observation. I am not out to be a born again christian or anything like that, what I would like is a sound way to deal with frustration quietly. I am talking about when you just want to go outside and scream. I am not alone I have seen others that get the same way in my work place.

2006-08-12 23:12:39 · 8 answers · asked by tadpoleslider 2

Around August 2001 3:00a.m. The sound was getting louder and louder as i tried to hear what was it...then the noise was clear to notify what was it and where was it coming from...i'm all like it can't be...then i felt a weird feeling... and yelled out loud and said what the **** you want??? and it was loud enough that my sister got up and ask me who was i talking with...as my sister kept talking to me the noise was getting lower and lower.. i asked my sister did you heard that noise... she said what noise... then she said let me go to sleep... as she closed her eyes the noise was coming back... then i yelled !SHUT Up! and my sister woke up immediately... i asked her did you hear that... ..............
Nobody believed me t's hard to believe that i was diagnosed as schizophrenic..Then Around Year 2003... My mom was taking care of our cousin.My sister wanted my cousin to sleepover... The next day they were mentioning that they herd horses getting wipped and running really fast...more...

2006-08-12 23:11:18 · 10 answers · asked by toolboxkeeper 1

every time i have my period, i have a recurring dream, that my daughter is being kidnapped, i always find her, but then i have to watch her being abused, last night however i dreamt that my son had also been kidnapped. when i was young my dad abused me, and i always felt that my mum should have known, and don't know if this is in any way connected to my dream, if this happens to anyone else, please let me know, feels like i am the only one in the world.

2006-08-12 23:00:18 · 19 answers · asked by tina t 2

Hi my niece only 15 yrs has a mental health problem she hears negative voices ,the doctors have her on anti phycosis pills ,an M.R.I revealed the part of the brain associated with epilepsy has unusual brain waves. She is not epileptic . she also suffers from an itch ,she feels like things are crawling on her,the doctors could find no physical cause for this . She feels like shes being tortured. does anyone know anything about this itchy feeling associated with mental illness. I want to try and help her its a sin she should be out enjoying herself at that age.

2006-08-12 22:34:27 · 5 answers · asked by Treat 3

My 3 daughers were born normal. At the age of 5 degenerative disease discovered and diagnosed as Metachromatic Leucodystrophy and now they are handicapped. Still I am trying to explore the possibility of treatment. If further details are needed I have complete summary and can be sent who wants to help us.
I will be greatful for any kind of help or guidance extended.

2006-08-12 22:29:13 · 3 answers · asked by mgumair 1