Mental Health - September 2006

My son has ADD and the meds are awful, they have tons of side effects and I would love to find something that would work naturally- any suggestions would be appreciated.

2006-09-15 05:41:41 · 15 answers · asked by messijessi 4

2006-09-15 05:39:09 · 11 answers · asked by price_ofa_memory 1

Neltrexone and Compro. Does anyone have experience with these?

2006-09-15 05:13:29 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I will be "celebrating" another year closer to death soon and want to know if I should do something out of the ordinary.

On my "birthday," I usually go solo beach SCUBA diving in the morning (when I make it back alive, I feel it sets the precedent for the next year), a bike ride or Jiu-Jitsu class afterwards and then get stinking drunk the rest of the day.

Any suggestions to change my routine?

2006-09-15 05:07:22 · 6 answers · asked by psychosolodiver 6

2006-09-15 05:05:57 · 10 answers · asked by fletch 1

2006-09-15 05:03:39 · 2 answers · asked by notorioustooth 1

2006-09-15 04:52:26 · 26 answers · asked by vr6_girl 1

2006-09-15 04:40:56 · 5 answers · asked by Freddy-da-Fool 1

When I'm up I'm confident, talkative, apt to get attracted to most girls I know and sometimes even flirt mildly. (I'm married by the way and have been for 40 years.) I'm apt to go off at a tangent, form wild plans, embarass my wife and perhaps others. I think I'm god's gift. When I'm down I've no energy, full of anxieties, have to nap in the afternoon, am shy. Should I get my doctor to put me on lithium or prozac? Leave my wife so she doesn't have to suffer the effects of all this?

2006-09-15 04:38:30 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I mean I am a busy person…I work and I go to school. I just find it hard for me to get up and go to work or school…. I just want to sit home and do nothing. I use to be very happy to go to work, how can I get my old self back? I also don't want to here that go see a Dr because i am. I just want to see if you guys have any helpful way of motivating yourselfs. Pls help and no ridiculous answers pls thanks!

2006-09-15 04:23:09 · 9 answers · asked by Lady-bug 2

Another dream i just remembered...

two bald, skeletal children spun around slowly in a dream speaking in unison and they said "you will die at the age of seventeen"

Now tell me i'm not plain nuts

2006-09-15 04:15:17 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Dear friends,
I have a habit. Am not able to change it. – When ever I see a well I fell pepping in. am stimulated by some thing .some thing drives me to see in. If there z water I fell good n if there z no water I stare at that. Some times I use to see that for a long time with out any thoughts. Z it wrong. From this can u say my character. Is this revel my character? Plz u r suggestion………..

2006-09-15 04:13:38 · 9 answers · asked by Falling_Into_U 1

Last night i dreamt i was executed by the electric chair.

The night before that i dreamt my family and myself, after being taken off a truck in Romania or somewhere similar, were placed against a wall and i was shot in the back of the head at point blank range, and yet i did not wake up when i died...i just wandered around and no-one could see or hear me, and yet the scene had changed completely after my body had slid down the wall...i think i was at school for about three seconds in my classics class room.

Some nights i even force myself to feel pain, but i can't wake up...i experience cramps that are so intense and yet i can't move.

why do i torture myself in my sleep?

2006-09-15 04:00:40 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

For years, even as far back as primary school I can remember being diabolical at maths, I just don't understand the subject at all, the most I can do in maths is add up, multiply/divide and subtract single numbers. Anything more difficult then this just baffles me I also have problems with left and right and feel I lack common sense in general. I have recently completed an access to university course to allow me to begin a primary teaching course at university which I am due to start in a couple of weeks, the access course involved maths at GCSE level and while I passed I only did so with the help of my partner whom I met on the course and the only thing I could do was to copy his work, in short I cheated my way through the maths part of the course which allowed me to pass overall.
I have tried learn direct courses which I found no help at all because I just can't seem to contain any new information on the methods of working things out, apart from working directly out of a text book during maths studies which has all the methods and answers I just don't have any clue about how to work things out.
I have filled in questionairres on dyslexia and discalculia and never tick enough boxes to prompt any further investigation. My abilities in English are fine and I always gain very high marks in this subject so I don't think I am dyslexic. My confidence is very low and I have flitted in and out of jobs since first leaving school because of emabarrassment at not being able to follow instructions or constantly having to ask people to repeat what they want me to do. In short I feel like an idiot although I seem to be intelligent in other ways, I am told I am a very capable writer, clever in my understanding of human behaviour and other things you would associate with a highly intelligent person but I am not I am just stupid and don't know how to change.
I am also quite a lazy person, I just can't seem to motivate myself, this has resulted in me calling in sick on a number of occasions because I just can't be bothered to go to work, numerous employers have let me go because of absence, I feel guilty for being so lazy but I must admit I would quite happily just not get out of bed if it wasn't for my toddler. I spend all day at home and yes my confidence is also low due to my weight which I have battled with unsuccesfully since the age of 19, I make plans to do things everyday but it seldom happens I just find it so difficult to get up get washed and dressed and leave the house before late afternoon. I keep telling myself I should just 'grow up' but I just don't know how.
I heard somewhere that people can suffer from a part of the brain being under developed and causing the things I have described, could this be the case for me? I am so desperate to finally be able to just get on with things normally without feeling like a clueless idiot with no common sense please help me? I am desperate after 14 years.

2006-09-15 03:58:52 · 5 answers · asked by Smoochy Poochy 6

For as long as I can remember, I've heard steps inside my head. Like footsteps walkng upstairs. It disappeared for a few years, but then it came back, louder than ever. Sometimes I hear voices too. The voices I've heard since I was about 10 or 11, so I'm used to them now. But sometimes the steps get so loud I can't sleep at night. I can't talk to anyone because I'm at school and the school psychiatrist is full of BS, I've already spoken to her, and she doesn't listen. What can I do?
This is not a joke or a game, I'm not saying this to make fun of anyone else, so please no rude comments.

2006-09-15 03:42:50 · 12 answers · asked by Agent Double EL 5

I want to understand the difference between Social Phobia and aspergers ... can anyone throw some light ?
thanks in advance

2006-09-15 03:39:57 · 7 answers · asked by WaterGuy 3

2006-09-15 03:30:20 · 7 answers · asked by ben z 1

2006-09-15 03:09:10 · 4 answers · asked by Maria O 1

I am painfully shy sort of person.I have this problem while meeting people,I just cant help feeling a repulsion when I need to converse with people.I use energy,control my breath to talk to another person .at home,I neednt have eye contact with people.Sometimes , in the morning I just feel difficult to get out of the bed coz of this problem . Moroever I avoid going out at time coz I wud stumble upon some aquaintance and if I might blush which might make both of US feel bad !! A typical situation is the Flat security , I feel "I might have to smile at him" else he wud feel I am a snob ...and smile doesnt come automaticaly if it does I shud make sure I aint blushing, I have to make it up...such trivial things like meeting people u know( not ur friends) and dealing with them gives me hiccups. I am a very ambitious person in general and have good academic pedigree, I wanna progress in life hopefully become a businessman which is my aspiration . Please advice me , thx a lot for ur supp

2006-09-15 02:57:04 · 7 answers · asked by WaterGuy 3

i have mpd, and my father recently told me in front of my family that i was sexualy abused as a child, it was humiliating and i ran away and cried, but thats not the point, i dotn have a very good relationship with my dad so im afriad to ask specifics i dont even want to know, but im wonderign if the mpd disorder is related to this?? i dont remeber being abused

2006-09-15 02:52:03 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

If I go to the doctor's, won't they say that I don't, as many people with mental health issues consider themselves to be mentally well? And if I say I need a rest from life, will they send me to a mental health hospital? I think I need to go to one, but I don't think I am a danger to myself or others. In the film "Girl, Interrupted" Susannah got sent to the institution for a 'rest' - I think I need this. How do I go about getting it?

Serious answers only please.

2006-09-15 02:25:43 · 26 answers · asked by Anon-y-mouse 3

I am currently living in the UK and I have finding it very difficult to cope. My expectations for what life in England would be like were not met. I cannot get used to the weather, and i miss the familiarity and friendliness of the people of country. Life moves too quickly here and i find many (not all) of the people here to be very rude and dismissive. I always wanted to come to England so when an opportunity to work here arose, i quickly took it. I have a good job but now i am stuck in a 2 year contract and i just dont know how much longer i can cope. I have been here for 1 year now and i have been home 4 times (it is costing me a fortune). I dont have any close friends or family here except work associates and this distance is putting a strain on my relationship with my boyfriend. I would really like to stay for the 2 years so that i dont feel like i have failed! But i am constantly unhappy and depressed. Do u think i should go back home?? I am from Jamaica.

2006-09-15 02:18:04 · 9 answers · asked by Sherona B 4

2006-09-15 02:15:59 · 8 answers · asked by Agent Double EL 5

Because I think I am :(

2006-09-15 02:11:33 · 10 answers · asked by Agent Double EL 5

I cant get work because i have no work experience. A lot to f the angencies around my area wont even put me into their lists due to me not having no previous employement experience. I have been trying my hardest each day applying for new jobs. Nobody wants me. Now my friend has got a job and she was in the same sitauion as me and i am even more depressed.

2006-09-15 02:02:15 · 23 answers · asked by lonely as a cloud 6

today i got told the truth by my sister… that i’m a slow and no-response person. I think its the truth and its not only bugging the people i love but also me! I feel so trapped in this slow mind… I need to find help.. is there something wrong with me, a bad habit i’ve developed or is my body lacking some vital nutrients for the brain and nervous system???!!

2006-09-15 01:56:15 · 8 answers · asked by Spidergurl 4

I do because I understand life more

2006-09-15 01:29:49 · 31 answers · asked by bwadsp 5

Yes or no and why? Do you think a person could turn from being pessimistic to optimistic and how?

2006-09-15 01:18:21 · 12 answers · asked by freemind ci 2

I feel like i am lost completely lost in life, I have a descent job, i have a beautiful caring wife and two wonderful children but i feel like i am missing a part of me. I feel like i am failure and that i should be more. I need something to fill my time but nothing interests me. I just want o know can someone make me feel better. If you can write something to make me feel better i will give you ten points. Please don't tell me i am depressed i need counceling or medication heard that all before be alittle more creative. I'm a vacant soul lost in a world of my own, No where really feels like home, I'm destroyed empty and cold inside, I would wish for death, But i'd prefer life.

Make me laugh or anything If you give an honest attempt you might get best answer.

2006-09-15 01:15:41 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

There are a lot of "light box" products out there. It looks like the best way to get one is online but some of the websites seem shady. I'd appreciate any recommendations or a heads up on one not to get.

2006-09-15 01:11:23 · 4 answers · asked by San Chez 2