Mental Health - October 2006

I was dx with Bipolar, PTSD, and a general mood disorder about 16 months ago. Since then I have taken Seroquel, Risperdal, Effexor, Xanax, Trazadone....The list goes on. I am currently taking 300 mg of Effexor XR, 100 mg Lamictal, 150 mg Trazadone, and 200 mg Celebrex for joint and muscle pain.. The past 3 or 4 days I have been so messed up. Maybe its a mixed episode...Up, down, up, down. I have the manic feelings...energy, feeling promiscuous, my mind is a whirl of activity and I cant finish a damn thing I start....Then my energy drops to zero and I just want to be left alone to sleep. I am driving myself crazy!!! I just want the roller coaster to come to a halt. I havent worked in 2 months due to my condition. I dont enjoy doing anything, and feel disconnected from my husband and friends. All this time I'm battling feelings of promuscuity....I tried to talk to my husband about it last night, and all he said was "its ok, everyone has fantasies".I dont think that he understands. Help!

2006-10-28 08:44:31 · 8 answers · asked by andieangel2003 2

I can no longer afford my prescription after my insurance decided not to cover it. Does anyone have any good ideas?

2006-10-28 08:40:09 · 19 answers · asked by Megdubs 2

I ask because I have never heard anyone else say.
I know I have anxiety. A major anxiety I know.
But I make mountians out of molehills.
I can take a small problem and blow it all out of proportion. It makes my duaghter mad. I can understand why too. If I were on the other end, it would drive me up the wall. But do other anxiety sufferers do this too?

2006-10-28 08:27:08 · 7 answers · asked by helpme1 5

2006-10-28 08:19:11 · 10 answers · asked by septembersunset1999 1

i have been in the military 4 about a month now. so far ive had a stress fracture that put me back for two months and i had to take basic again.well im out and its by luck. now im in ait and i cant pass my run on any of my test. my legs are even starting to hurt again....badly.ive been away from my wife and family and i cant seem to adjust at all.since ive been here ive been depressed and ive tried to open up to new things to make me happy but they all have the same results.i feel as though i dont belong here and ineed to know if there is anybody who knows how to cope with it...someone please help me find a solution.

2006-10-28 08:12:53 · 3 answers · asked by scarpo 1

2006-10-28 07:53:33 · 7 answers · asked by smartgyanmade4u 1

ive got some psychological problems but i just wana know if anybody has the same illusion or have heard of it or am i a unique freakk... i feel like things move inside,.. nd it could change my way of dealing with things.. dont gimme silly answers just if you know anything answer if u dont then dont answer okay.. thanx alot ^_~

2006-10-28 07:46:24 · 2 answers · asked by imygurl 1

Do you think that sometimes our thoughts can and will manifest into something real? Example: If you keep telling yourself "I'm not good at This or That" and keep telling yourself and then you end up not being good at that particular thing.

Was wondering if people out there believe in the role of positive thinking for everything around us.

2006-10-28 07:13:22 · 10 answers · asked by Jennifer L 6

all motivations given to me work only for 2 to 4 days & this all motivations went in ruin. What is the problem with me
HELP ME I NEED IT desperately

2006-10-28 07:00:27 · 12 answers · asked by Maha Indra 1

The other day when I was chatin wid another gal on net she just talked
2 me for a while and now she’s invisible 2 me…watever b the reason but I really think dat I m uninteresting. Even my frends think dat I m boring and always in a bad mood. I had a fight wid my sis 2day and when my probs were over I realized dat it was my entire mistake…May b it’s because I am sensitive, under-confident and always in tension….Can u people plzz suggest me som ways to become mentally strong and face such situations coz it doesn’t seem serious but it is.
Are there any solutions other than Meditation?

2006-10-28 05:53:56 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-28 05:45:00 · 11 answers · asked by Matthew D 1

I dont feel very good right now and think I may go back to bed.

2006-10-28 04:29:39 · 17 answers · asked by Jester 5

Came home two days ago to find my apartment burglarized and ransacked. They stole my 50" plasma TV which was only 5 months old and 2 speakers. Nothing else appears to be missing, which is good I guess. They could have stolen lots of other things that would have been hard to replace, or things that would have allowed someone to steal my identity, but they didn't.

Filed a police report, then the fingerprint team came out last night to dust (didn't find much), and called my insurance (still waiting for a claims adjuster). Today I will be cleaning the apartment (that fingerprint dust is everywhere).

Any advice on how to cope with being a victim of a burglary? Thanks in advance.

2006-10-28 04:10:31 · 6 answers · asked by LDB_Career 3

I want to help this friend. She is very depressed, but has alot of potential for growth. Can You offer me any advice as to how I can help pull her out of it??? Thank-You !!!

2006-10-28 03:40:31 · 11 answers · asked by Jenny 2

I suffer with Clinical Depression & apart from seeing my Consultant Psychiatrist once every 8 weeks i get no other support,even though i have asked for it.
I have no family who i can turn to.I live on my own & very rarely go out.
I feel badly let down by my local Health Trust & have made known to them my dissatisfaction with them,but to no avail.
I need to be put in touch with a service who will stick up for me as i feel there have been too many things gone wrong in relation to my treatment (or lack of).Please can someone help me,thank you.

2006-10-28 03:25:02 · 6 answers · asked by terry 2

I am really worried about the side effects of taking an SSRI, so I am considerng taking only 2.5mg of Lexapro. Has anyone had any problems at this dosage? I will be taking this medication for anxiety.

Thanks for the info!

2006-10-28 02:41:56 · 3 answers · asked by Sitting Right Here 2

Ok, I am very addicted to snack and the internet. And I heard that they are just choices. I re-think, and,....yeah, I guess it's true, like I can choose not to open the bag of chips, not to turn on the internet.

But it's really really HARD. I think I can control myself not to touch that bag of chips. However, the internet it's a hard one for me. I need to go on the internet everyday, to check emails, etc. The *problem* is once I get on the internet, I cannot get off. Or I cannot control how long I will surf the net.

I know I addicted to snack and internet, because I am bored, etc negative feelings. So I need to find something to replace snack and internet? how? I have very limit options, due to money, time and accessbility.

How addicted I am to the internet? I've been surfing on the net since last night, it's now 6:26am in the morning. I hate myself for doing this.

2006-10-28 02:27:34 · 19 answers · asked by asknanswer 3

can not decide if I should continue working from home or if I should get a job outside the house. This has been going on for a year now. I search the want ad's, go for the interview and change my mind. In addition to that, I will go to the grocery store fill up my cart and decide I have spent too much money and leave it. I make doctor appointments and decide that I don't need them. I can not get myself to call. I just don't show up. I have tried desperately to get out of family reunions and holiday occasions. I stopped answering the phone and I let everything go to voicemail. I have Generalized Anxiety Disorder and have been taking 100 mg of Zoloft for the past few years. I take this for panic attacks. Now that I have been working from home, I find that I feel very uncomfortable being around people and I am always looking for excuses to stay home. I am so confused and I am so depressed. And my memory is seems bad. What is wrong with me?

2006-10-28 02:21:33 · 18 answers · asked by Julia 2

2006-10-28 02:10:44 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-28 02:09:14 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

my depression is accompagned with head pain

2006-10-28 02:04:05 · 16 answers · asked by abdelkader r 1

I have just been diagnosed with depression and got medication and counselling, but i dont want to sit and talk with a total stranger of my problems. I dont even want to take the drugs really! does anyone else feel like this or has gone through this? I feel frightened and upset to even admit i am ill let alone have the confidence to speak about it. Can anyone help me?

2006-10-28 01:52:09 · 34 answers · asked by Tiamat 2

2006-10-28 01:19:48 · 22 answers · asked by martyn 1

I have a relative (girl) who gets abused mentally by her father everyday. He screams at her, badgers her and makes her repeat things over and over. He calls her names and swears at her. She is 18 years old and he is always telling her to go and run away. I know he is disappointed in her, but all this abuse is making her go crazy and hate him, instead of changing her for the good. He won't get counceling. Is abuse ever the answer?

2006-10-28 00:47:00 · 13 answers · asked by shirlandjerry@yahoo.com 2

If a 14 year old is on anti-depressants is he more likley to look to illegal drugs to self medicate later on in life?

2006-10-27 23:35:00 · 9 answers · asked by OrganizedConfusion 2

Hi, I would like to listen to an auido or watch a video that did not put me in a trance but actaully made me do something "odd". I know it can do nothing against my will but i will let my will do anything.

2006-10-27 23:15:54 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-27 22:26:25 · 37 answers · asked by A True Gentleman 5

I don't know why I have this stigma about being stupid, but so much of the time I am really uncomfortable because I feel I am lacking in the way of cognative abilities. I know intelligence does not exactly measure success or happiness, but for some reason I place intelligence above all other traits and really admire those I perceive as smart and then get really upset with myself because I am not a mathematical mastermind and cannot write florid prose with the utmost ease. I know that basically everyone has to deal with the fact that there are many, many people more intelligent than them but for some reason it just gets me so down! Gah, I'm such a mess and afraid to go to uni because then everyone will find out what an absolute fraud I am and how I was accepted with much lesser qualifications (I'm American and was accepted at University of St Andrews on the basis of my transcript alone and basically the fact that my teachers all really liked me because I was a tenacious worker).

2006-10-27 22:18:14 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Ok here it is. I think I suffered from social anxiety for a long time.I remember leaving choir,church or other social situatins right when its over so I dont have to talk to any one,as I was leaving those places I though everybody was watching my every single behavior,that was at age 14. At 16 it gone worse, in high school I had 3 last classes where I didnt know any one,so I was just sitting there being really tense and panicky,quiet ready to explode,so I started ditching those 3 classes every day cause I couldn't take it anymore,so I took home school. At 18 I went to college but I felt so tense and uncomfortable,inferior,worthless,hopeless that I dropped all my classes shortly. Now at age 21 it gone really bad. After being anxious and started having panic attacks about 2 years ago,I developed depression,because life is very limited to what I can do. I developed agorophobia. I can barely go to grocery store or drive in traffic.Where did it came from? How can I beat this terrible thing?

2006-10-27 22:14:17 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-27 22:09:08 · 11 answers · asked by fallingstar 4