Mental Health - September 2006

i live alone and have no family or friends about, i get so lonely, i wake up in the nite, thats the worst time, when it's all quiet and i feel so lonely then and i have panic attacks, i hate it, my bdays and xmas are the worst, is anyone else in the same boat, i feel alone like its only me who has this prob, i'm 26 yrs old

2006-09-19 23:36:45 · 12 answers · asked by babygirl 1

I'm currently researching for my dissertation on the link between bi-polar illness and creativity. Could anyone give me a few examples of how they might be linked i've hit a wall and need a couple of ideas to get me activated again. Thankyou

2006-09-19 23:35:37 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

1) Is it normal to have lows after you've experienced a "high"?

2) What is the longest in between "highs" you've experienced?

3) Is it possible to never ever again achieve the next "high"? Just curious; I know achieving a "high" is not the purpose of meditation. :)

4) I'm finding it hard to make time for meditation (I usually do a 30-40 minute one), can anybody share their motivations or time management in handling this? I don't know too many practitioners and the few that I do have the same problems. One practioner cut his down to 15 minutes per day to manage his time, but I find that hard for a 'beginner' like me.

Am just frustrated with my meditation lately.

2006-09-19 23:19:56 · 5 answers · asked by Guppy Fish 2

I am 45 years old, I have been batteling severe depression for over 12 years. I have been in therapy and taking medications. But lately it has been much worse. And I am also having memory problems. I have had the same therapist for 10 years, she has helped a lot. But now she thinks she is to close to me to really help. And my doctor just keeps giving me more medications. I was doing realatively well until about a month ago. Now I have no energy. I don't want to get out of bed, talk to any one. And I have lost interest in just about every thing. Besides the resent memory problems, I am having trouble consentrating.And just taking a bath seems like a chore. My husband is great, always there for me. He works 12 hour night shifts, but calls me several times a night to see how I am. Has anyone else been in this situation and found something that helped. Or does anybody know of anything I can do to help myself. I do believe in God and I pray to him for help everyday. Can some one help?

2006-09-19 23:15:24 · 14 answers · asked by cissysblue 1

My hubby expects me to read his thoughts and to know in every moment what to do or say without asking him. He wants me to understand him but does not want to communicate with me openly. When I told him to tell me, what is wrong and what can I do, he just said that if I don’t understand, then I am stupid, that I have to take care what I will do in the future because he cannot stand it anymore.

However, he is never willing to tell me clearly, what the problem is, but rather just a half-truth, "throwing the hook" and wait for me to get the point.

For example, he promised to go for a walk, and I was ready, then he told me he was sleepy. I said OK, let's go, it will wake you up… After the walk, he went to bed and said that he didn't feel good. I thought that he was just sleepy and I insisted to go for a walk, but I didn’t have any idea that he is ill, because he didn't tell me so. He was expecting me to understand the word sleepy as ill, what I didn't.

Of course, I told him that I don't like it and that I expect him to communicate more concrete with me, but he usually started yelling and accusing me for everything. I simply have no right to say anything I don't like, because always it will be my fault. I am expected to pretend that I don't know anything and that everything is OK even when it is obvious that there is something wrong.

Furthermore, he said that he wanted to keep me out of his problems because it bothers me and I am not strong enough to know about it.
On the other side, he thinks that he is fair and good to me and that he is doing everything for me to be happy and that he is desperate because he knows that I am not. But he still doesn't want to se the things from my side.

I feel lost and helpless and I am afraid to make any step further to do something for us. I feel he just does not respect me, treats me as a child.

Please, don't tell me to talk with him, because I have tried so many times and it does not work. He also doesn't feel like going to some therapist – he thinks the problem is in me, not in him. He does not cooperate and he underestimates my side of the problem so I just need to do something only for myself.

All I want is to get back my self-respect and make him respect me.

2006-09-19 22:51:09 · 10 answers · asked by smiiile 2

In open changing rooms (at swimming pools, etc) British teenager boys usually perform contortions with a towel to avoid being seen naked. Teens elsewhere in Europe, on the other hand, have no such paranoia, and are happy just to change normally, as we were when I was a teen. (I'm British, 30s). I'm wondering where this unhealthy fear could have come from.

2006-09-19 21:59:09 · 8 answers · asked by Steven 2

2006-09-19 21:57:25 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-19 21:37:25 · 4 answers · asked by Gopalakrishnan 3

2006-09-19 21:13:10 · 5 answers · asked by anch 1

i dont think i have an ugly face, but i hate my body. i think this affects my life, i cant get any guys to approach me..please help

2006-09-19 21:11:47 · 18 answers · asked by Ultimate Diva 2

It's become quite obsessive compulsive. I know within my hear of hearts that this man loves me. When I first met him I was going through a painful miscarriage and he was have familial problems causing him to withdraw from. One of his freinds and her best friend tell me that he has been with this friends friend for three weeks. I ask all sorts of questions at this point and they can't answer any of them. They seem to be trying to hard to get me to leave him. I don't know either of these people but I do know him. I gave him the benefit of doubt and trusted that he did not sleep with this women. I beleive deep inside that he didn't but I often find myself obsessing over the situation. It has been a few months I just want to stop this before it ruins my relationship. How do I get rid of my obsession with droning on and on about somthing that has passed? I'm a little worried that this might be obsessive compulsive?

2006-09-19 21:06:58 · 9 answers · asked by Redhead with love 2

See some very helpful answers and some really mean one's here. To the mean and the inane, you are so 'sad' and go take up a martial art and learn some self-control. If you cannot be part of a solution, don't be the problem. - and now I've lost points making a point so back to trying to say useful and helpful things to others

2006-09-19 20:50:01 · 17 answers · asked by william john l 3

I hear voices that tell me to "remove the offending material". These are direct instructions to kill myself. I am absolutely certain of this.This condition is getting worse and worse. I go for days without sleep. I live in a rural area, 45 miles from the nearest hospital. I do not have medical insurance or my own doctor. I'm starting to get concerned because I do have several guns in the house (I live alone). I don't really have any friends. I don't really want to kill myself, but I am afraid I will be forced to. Forget calling the suicide hotline. They are complete idiots. Perhaps someone here has an idea?

2006-09-19 20:41:20 · 23 answers · asked by Ralph M 1

Do you think people who have ADHD or ADD have a below average IQ? Some call ADHD people "special" but what does that mean? Is it just a feel good word or does it have some truth to it?

Do you think people who suffer from ADHD or ADD have above or below average intelligence?

2006-09-19 20:41:01 · 7 answers · asked by Inquisit 2

I have kinda gone beyond what this site was supposed to be made for and I know that...I also know that each of you who have so patiently answered my questions have taken time out of your busy day to try and help me see some kind of sense in things. I really do appreciate the input and I want to thank each and every one of you who responded, even those of you who just gave a smart assed response because everything was valuable to me. I have to say that nothing has been resolved yet and I am still looking at getting on that plane and landing in LGW with tears in my eyes. But that you all so much for answering my questions and at least trying to show me the way to sanity in an insane situation. Nite, folks..I wish I could hug you all! ~still crying here~

2006-09-19 20:15:37 · 8 answers · asked by synchronicity915 6

The past couple nights I've been feeling really uneasy and kinda scared. I've been having trouble sleeping and when I do I've had odd somewhat scary dreams, and I wake up scared.
Every time I look out a window or door I picture someone standing there....so on and so on. Plus it seems like my dog has been acting weird, looking around and spooking me out even more.
This isn't like me....it takes alot to scare me.
Any suggestions as to what the heck is going on? I'm freaking out over here!
Thanks.

2006-09-19 19:58:35 · 13 answers · asked by Krn 4

I go to bed to try get some sleep but I'm trying to go to my usual sites and read and post - in my head - and wonder if anyone else has had this and how they got around it because it is killing me - so very tired

2006-09-19 19:46:48 · 4 answers · asked by william john l 3

ive been on meds for26yrs last august i was switched to klonopin. will i have withdrawls? i can handle this. im worried about seizures as i cant afford to go to the dr anymore. could a nurse or dr answer this question for me please?

2006-09-19 19:46:44 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-19 19:45:15 · 10 answers · asked by city_hero_2005 1

2006-09-19 19:10:55 · 10 answers · asked by Brown Eyed Susan 2

2006-09-19 19:07:26 · 9 answers · asked by Brown Eyed Susan 2

im thinking about creating a group on yahoo for people who is still grieving over there lost loved ones i would just like peoples input weather i should do it or not!

2006-09-19 18:52:01 · 7 answers · asked by getagrip_25301 2

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2006-09-19 18:48:40 · 10 answers · asked by couple4anothergirl 1

i'm currently on 10mg daily lexepro, but i am still having panic attacks in specific situations (being in a car). my dr. put me on lexepro after i was in an accident and started having panic attacks whenever i had to get back in a car. the lexepro has been great for day to day depression and pms, but it hasn't helped with the panic attacks. will adding xanax help? will there be side effects from mixing the two meds?

2006-09-19 18:46:34 · 7 answers · asked by kittykittykitty 2

recently for 2 years I didnt have sex because my girlfriend is verjin, but I feel so much stress on my mind, I want to know if it has bad effect on my body or my psychology, please help me

2006-09-19 18:45:35 · 2 answers · asked by fiddler 1

Like urine, foot fettishes etc. (Submissive roles) Does anyone have any proof or documents? Is this something to fear? Thanks for your opinions...

2006-09-19 18:33:40 · 10 answers · asked by Tell it like it is 2

I think I am just really Horney and need to lose my virginity but I want to run this by people to see what they say.

I have excessively many sexual thoughts and I have thought about every thing. You name it I have most likely though of it and masturbated to it. I mean every thing… straight sex, interracial, anal and those are the normal things. I have also though about under age sex (thought about the 16 year old girl I know and no I would not do any thing to hurt her) bestiality, incest, and other nasty things. worst of all out of ask the taboo things I have thought about gay sex makes me the hardest and I find that disturbing.(I think I may be bi) I almost thing so gay sex as much as I think of normal sex.

So what do you think, am I just really horney? Or do I need to see a doc?

I am 20 and if it matters have yet to get any.

2006-09-19 18:32:48 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am not talking about medicine or even natural remedies. I am talking about changing thought patterns, I guess. There is someone I know who can't seem to get up and get out of a funk sometimes. Nothing specific to pinpoint, just generally dragging and depressed for a week or two at a time. Serious answers only please. Especially appreciated are the ones from personal experience. Thanks!

2006-09-19 18:19:35 · 16 answers · asked by SuzieQ92 3

I always find myself laying down, thinking about everything I should be doing, and my mind is all over the place. I need a way to just focus on sleep.

2006-09-19 18:01:08 · 13 answers · asked by andy_pann 2

2006-09-19 17:31:14 · 6 answers · asked by kylebakesb 2