Mental Health - October 2006

I have terrible social anxiety, public speaking always turns out to be a bust. Now being a higschool student i have teachers shoving presentations in my face left and right, any tips.

note: i am on medication and in behavioral tharapy.

2006-10-08 15:17:27 · 5 answers · asked by darlingDELIGHTxx 1

Ok, if there is a doctor or an expert on medicine and mental health here, could you please list all the forms od ADD/ADHD if here are any? Any input and or websites would be a help. Thanks in advance.

2006-10-08 15:11:10 · 3 answers · asked by The Dog 1

I have a problem with my hands. I feel like if I don't do something, like touch or have something done to me twice (that came out wrong, but you know what I mean), that i will get terrible luck, like my house will burn down, or my pets will die, and i have the genetics to get breast cancer, bcuz my mom died of it, and my mom's mom died of it, and i feel like if i don't do something twice, i will die when im forty of breast cancer, you know what i mean?

I try not to do it anymore, but i get this uncomfortable feeling when i do, and i end up just HAVING to do it, and when i finally relax, idk how it happens, but my hands twitch and i need to move my wrists around, & the twitching isn't against my will, I just sort of do it deliriously.

Is it something like terets syndrome (however you spell it), like when you get tiks and you can't control it, or is it something else like something wrong with my brain?
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I can sometimes control it. I don't know if its OCD or something. If it is, im really embarrased about it, and i don't know about treatments, or how much it would cost, bcuz my family can't exactly afford a lot of things right now. I can tap my keyboard once, and not feel like i need to do it again, and i can do other minor things like this, and do you think that if i keep practicing it, that i can overcome it myself? Please, i need serious answers. Im 13 years old, and i hear that terets syndrome affects people younger than 18.

Could I just try practicing minor things, like the keyboard thing, and gradually work on bigger things than that?

Please, serious answers...

2006-10-08 15:11:03 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I would put this in a general chat because Im open to hearing any solutions. I wanna force a meeting with my demons and my vices. But I dont know how to do it or where to begin? Im ready but I dont know where the door is?

2006-10-08 15:07:26 · 15 answers · asked by maguathehearteater 1

2006-10-08 15:04:32 · 7 answers · asked by Nadia M 1

I like to cut myself on my legs or burn myself when I feel something way too much. I dont want to be like this, I am way too addicted to drama. So any tips on how I can make my escape from my beasts without visiting a psych ward? It comes from my overly obsessive tendencies.

2006-10-08 14:57:30 · 6 answers · asked by maguathehearteater 1

what do u do when u get really really depressed

2006-10-08 14:48:39 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous

I got this free balloon from the movie store and next thing you know it escaped into the air. Should I call the police, fire department or national guard because i need to rescue that poor balloon it dont deserve this. it needs a home i have been crying all day worried about it what could happen to it.

2006-10-08 14:48:26 · 8 answers · asked by LANDEN W 1

Anyone who has this fear join my forum. It is brand new I just opened it today and would love to hear from anyone who has emetophobia. http://scaredtovomit.myfastforum.org/index.php

2006-10-08 14:46:38 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have a lot of friends and a majority of them have ADD/ADHD is this ormal or are kids being misdiagnosed?

2006-10-08 14:43:02 · 14 answers · asked by The Dog 1

I've recently been diagnosed with BP II yet I suspected I had it many years ago. I was treated for depression only. I'm close to 30 and I can see how this illness has taken its toll on my career, social, and personal life. I feel as though all is lost. But I am stable now, on Lithium and Effexor. I am having a hard time gettin my energy, ambition, and enthusiasm back, for life. What do you say?

2006-10-08 14:32:55 · 6 answers · asked by Aspurtaime Dog Sneeze 6

2006-10-08 14:29:47 · 2 answers · asked by peanutbutterguy2001 1

I have been on 20mg of Paxil and now 20mg of Prozac and they both make my anxiety worse. I have a slight anxiety reaction "fight or flight response" to the most minor of things like getting up off the couch. I know I should ask my doctor or pharmacist this question but was wondering if anyone else has some advice.

2006-10-08 14:29:34 · 4 answers · asked by Ken 2

So I am a cutter and am in a therapy called DBT for it. Part of being in DBT is my therapist has a pager that I can call 24/7 If I feel the urge to cut. I don't every want to pager her, especially if it is after 5pm when she gets out of work) because I feel like I am an inconvenience. I don't ever want to call her after busniess hours. How can I get over this?

2006-10-08 14:21:00 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have a problem with my hands. I feel like if I don't do something, like touch or have something done to me twice (that came out wrong, but you know what I mean), that i will get terrible luck, like my house will burn down, or my pets will die, and i have the genetics to get breast cancer, bcuz my mom died of it, and my mom's mom died of it, and i feel like if i don't do something twice, i will die when im forty of breast cancer, you know what i mean?

I try not to do it anymore, but i get this uncomfortable feeling when i do, and i end up just HAVING to do it, and when i finally relax, idk how it happens, but my hands twitch and i need to move my wrists around, & the twitching isn't against my will, I just sort of do it deliriously.

Is it something like terets syndrome (however you spell it), like when you get tiks and you can't control it, or is it something else like something wrong with my brain?

2006-10-08 14:13:21 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have passed up so many chances to go to concerts and see bands i really like, or moveis etc. Because i am afraid of being in crowds. I dont go to packed restaurants, movie theaters, and forget about staduims...its been almost 3 years now....since i got agoraphobia. what do i do to live a normal life again!!!!!!

2006-10-08 14:04:55 · 10 answers · asked by plainofexistance 2

I have been cutting for seven years now. It has gotten to the point that I am getting stitches all the time and am severing tendons from cutting too deep. I have tried many diffrent types of teatment. I have seen numerous therapists and shrinks, I have done group therapy, CBT, DBT, lived in a residential treatment facility for 2 years, been hospitalized many times, and tried to do some work on my own. I really want/need to stop, but when that urge hits I can only hold off so long before it get overwhelming and I give in. What is left for me to try?

2006-10-08 13:50:29 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

My 20 year old son has been diagnosed with tourette's and has been on numerous medications which don't work or have side effects worse than the tics.

2006-10-08 13:44:57 · 5 answers · asked by Penny76 1

especially would like to know about specific programs in broward county, florida aimed at teens

2006-10-08 13:27:08 · 4 answers · asked by bob 2

2006-10-08 12:59:14 · 2 answers · asked by error 1

my doctor prescribed this for me because of my anxiety...it sounds low to me..will this help?

2006-10-08 12:46:29 · 12 answers · asked by Liz S 3

Can this be done alone?

2006-10-08 12:37:20 · 17 answers · asked by code_blue_girl 2

I see a therapist that doest go deep, i have no phyciatrist (been to a few bad ones) I stay at home w three kids while husband is in iraq, I have no friends locally, nor family. I have NO motivation to deal with life.

2006-10-08 12:34:23 · 18 answers · asked by code_blue_girl 2

I just wanted to ask.. i just *just* started taking zoloft 25mg (took my first tablet about 2 hours ago).. and iam feeling extremely drowsy and extremely depressed.. is it because of zoloft or just my depression hitting me? when the hell will my depression go away?
I would prefer answers from people who have had experience with anti-depressants.

2006-10-08 12:30:11 · 12 answers · asked by Raheel A 1

like they don't know how to treat you so they become frustrated with you....This always happens to me...I've been depressed on and off for 15 years.I've been to 6 shrinks and 9 therapists...I've actually been kicked out of two shrink offices..they told me to go somewhere else or the hospital

2006-10-08 12:16:43 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-08 12:10:38 · 15 answers · asked by katakito051177 1

2006-10-08 11:57:55 · 4 answers · asked by GARETH L 1

I have been married for 32 years and happily married. I just don't understand why sooooo many marriages go to divorce court--I am born of the 50's not a generation where i feel i must stay in a marriage just because I must--I am not old fashion,as you would typically imagine--but when I look at my husband and my children and grand children I can't concieve why anyone would consider breaking up a marriage or family-- Are people so mindless when they get married? Am i so critical? if i imagine being with out my husband,children and grand children / it causes me pain just to imagine it. Anyhow--isn't keeping a marriage together / and sacrad the way GOD wants it? In for love and out without love

2006-10-08 11:55:45 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

i have recntly stoped cutting my self..
it was hard to do but im proud of it,,,,
but latley iv been spiraling down it to depression...
i have not eatin in over 24 howers and im not even hungery...
and thats not normal for me... i a lil "husky" a normaly dont miss a meal..
can any one give me an idea of what might be wrong?

2006-10-08 11:47:59 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-08 11:46:00 · 16 answers · asked by KU 4