Mental Health - October 2006

i get depression attacks about 2-4 times a day and they are pretty bad..i have seen people when they get depressed they lite up a cigratte or open up a beer bottle and start taking them and they are calmed down after drinking or somking so i was wondering do alcohol and smoking really helps in depression?what you do when you get a depression attack?

2006-10-29 22:04:38 · 2 answers · asked by cool k 2

my friend recently tried to commit sucide.
and she has been in hospital for 8 months.
she is now on red level.
could someone please explain what red level means.

please!!

thanks
xx

2006-10-29 21:26:54 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Heard a lot about passive-aggressive people. Online I found an article about the negativistic personality. Are these two the same and what are its traits?

2006-10-29 21:04:57 · 3 answers · asked by zadanliran 1

Just found out that there is another manual of mental health diagnoses in which many DSm diafnoses are missing - the ICD. What's the differences between them?

2006-10-29 21:02:30 · 2 answers · asked by zadanliran 1

I've been having some suicidal thoughts for some reasons. I don't know why! I sometimes even plan my death! I know it's weird. It's like if someone wants me dead. I've been thinking about it for 3 months now. What should I do?

2006-10-29 20:41:19 · 17 answers · asked by Joseph_G 2

I have a major problem i pretty much know i am an addict by that i mean i take pain killers daily and if i dont have that i get my hands on some kinda caffinated upper or liquor this has become very overwhelming for me lately i have admitted my problem to myself its just i have been married for 6 years and he has no clue what so ever that i have any kind of problem i'm really good at hiding things i need help cause i can't stop on my own i've tried this has been going on for 2 years now i'm only 23 i need help!!! How can i tell him? What should i do being on these altering things make me feel happy and able to deal with life like a normal person should

2006-10-29 20:39:02 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

how do you know if you are sufferring from depression?
or if somebody else is?

2006-10-29 20:32:44 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Hi,

Does anyone know a good Hypnotist or recommend a name that I could check out online/website etc? If you have any info please say whatever you know.

Thanks so much :o)

2006-10-29 20:05:09 · 10 answers · asked by ladyfurlan 1

My mother ha an untreated mental disorder for my whole life and me and my siblings suffered greatly. Now I am 31 and I have my own family she is always around but can not be told that she is interfering other wise she has really bad attacks of depression and even attempted suicide today.
She has hurt me and my siblings for 31 years and does not even know or understand it has become to hard to help someone who is so distant to my suffering.
I battle with a heart condition and anxiety myself.
She has started a new treatment today but I find it hard to help and also not to help

2006-10-29 19:32:08 · 12 answers · asked by gusgus 1

Best employment for people who are bipolar.

2006-10-29 19:17:48 · 13 answers · asked by Chris J 1

i am a student doing engineering 2nd year in a prestigeous college.
i worked a lot to enter here.but now i have lost all my determination and totally gave up studies.i became a loser.i lost my determination.how can i regain it?please help me.i dont want to be like this.but at the same time i am unable to get enough determination.please tell me what i should do to get determination?

2006-10-29 18:52:51 · 6 answers · asked by satyagrahi 2

2006-10-29 18:51:22 · 15 answers · asked by j t 1

2006-10-29 18:22:25 · 9 answers · asked by g_deck 1

i feel like i need to get away from here, i have thought about leaving this country (australia) and settling in another country, why do i feel loke i am so restricted here, why do i want to getaway from here, why do i feel like going around the world just to think and absorb more information about the world?
i am only 18, and doesnt have the funds to undergoe such a trip, help me plz!!

best reply gets 10 points, please only answer if ur serious, if u r going to poke fun there will be consiquences

2006-10-29 18:07:15 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-29 17:53:20 · 20 answers · asked by Shinta 1

A friend of mine has called me and told me that he wants to go into rehab. I now live hundreds of miles away and cannot drive him there. He has now changed his mind because he believes that if he goes into rehab that he'll get out and he'll be in the same situation he was until he found the job he now has. He is currently living with a friend of his who kicked him out the other day but told him to move back with him instead of going to rehab. This is the friend that I believe is paying for everything going up my friend's nose.

My question is this: When you are getting ready to leave rehab, do they have programs where they get you the help you need to find a job and a place to live? I assume they do, but I don't know how it works since I've never been. Also, what does this mean financially if he does go? How much can this cost?
If I can convince him that there is a place to go that can really help him not just be sober but have a life after rehab I think he'd go. (I'm an optimist)

2006-10-29 17:48:28 · 5 answers · asked by Court 2

i constantly feel like im in a dream, i get really dizzy and feel like im about to die or pass out. my body aches and and i dont seem like i sleep at all even if i sleep for 12 hours. i was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder but i cant get it through my head that there isnt something really wrong with me. please share your experiences/symptoms with me. thanks. :)

2006-10-29 17:37:42 · 8 answers · asked by ? 3

Ok, i suffer from clinical depression along with social anxiety and insomnia......I was prescribed Cymbalta by my doctor and i tried it 2 days ago and about 4 hours after taking it i started shaking very very VERY badly(i took the cymbalta at 5:00 P.M. and laid down to go to sleep at 9:00 PM) . I became VERY tense and started shaking very badly and it did not go away until the next day. I was very stressed at the moment also but i don't know if it was due to the depression or was a reaction from the medicine................ADVISE GREATLY APPRECIATED...

2006-10-29 17:33:30 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm scared of what I'll do, that I'll end up with more scars or worse. Only I can't call anyone, or a hotline or anything, cause my parents will hear, and I don't want them to know, and don't say I should tell them cause you don't know me or them, but I don't know what to do, and I don't even know why I feel like this anyway so I don't know what I could even say to anyone about it if I could talk to anyone. I'm scared and I need to talk to someone only I can't, not just cause I don't have anyone to talk to but also cause I wouldn't know what to say if I did, and what can I do?

2006-10-29 17:23:12 · 24 answers · asked by Sam 1

Ok, i suffer from clinical depression along with social anxiety and insomnia......I was prescribed Cymbalta by my doctor and i tried it 2 days ago and about 4 hours after taking it i started shaking very very VERY badly(i took the cymbalta at 5:00 P.M. and laid down to go to sleep at 9:00 PM) . I became VERY tense and started shaking very badly and it did not go away until the next day. I was very stressed at the moment also but i don't know if it was due to the depression or was a reaction from the medicine................ADVISE GREATLY APPRECIATED...

2006-10-29 17:18:07 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am 14 and have had this for about a couple years in the past year I have been completely homebound I had to drop public school and enter independant education. I am now also taking SSRI's(serotonin) because I have been diagnoised with Body Dysmorphic Disorder and Social Anxiety Disorder. When I am outside or around people I feel as if they are all laughing at the way I look and I am so unspeakibley hideous that I am unable to be sceen by other humans. If you don't know what Body Dysmorphic Disorder then read here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_dysmorphic_disorder
Not to mention this has effected my school work and overall functioning I am also un-able to get a haircut either it is so overwhelming. I know get haircuts from my dad(and he is not even good at it) Am also in counceling and going to be in Cognitive Behavourial Therapy soon but these anxietys are so over-whelming I can't do anything every morning I feel like suiciding because my parents fight all day and am bored ALOT.

2006-10-29 17:01:35 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I recently discovered that my boyfriend of 1 year is addicted to pornography. We're both 24. I knew he looked at it but, I didn't know it was this bad. He doesn't even tell me when he looks so I know he is ashamed. He was molested as a child so it might have something to do with it. I found out when I used his computer. The history window was open when I logged onto the internet and he had been to literally hundreds of different porn sites over the last few weeks. I don't think looking at porn is bad but, he is obviously out of control. We have watched porn a few times together before but when I suggested we should look at it together he thought that was weird. Tonight he told me he was too tired to have sex and sent me home. As soon as I left, he shut off all the lights and I saw the computer turn on. I didn't accuse him of it but he got mad when I called and asked him what he was doing. We love each other and I want to help. Any ideas how I can make him realize this isn't healthy?

2006-10-29 16:55:30 · 14 answers · asked by indigonipple 3

I always felt bitterness and hatered toward everything.I
always deep down inside wanted to kill people.And i have
a bad temnper.Alway felt thet some group of people were
always in my way. i wanted to hurt them even kill them. Because they gotten in my way.I always wanted to be
a dictored.I want to see people surfer.I think i have jealous
issues.whichled me to want power to feel better about my
self. I'm not as nice,kind,conderaste as i let on.deep down
inside i hate ever single one and ever single thing including
animals.

2006-10-29 16:33:03 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

i wake up like around an hour after im supposed to and i dont do my homework until midnight. i hold off a lot of stuff! how do you fix that?

2006-10-29 16:29:34 · 15 answers · asked by Just wonderin' 3

I second guess everything- no confidence!! I feel like I don't "belong" a lot of the time. I feel excluded from life sometimes. Any suggestions?

2006-10-29 16:26:35 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Ok my problem is that my life sucks and my life is going down hill and everything is going bad in my life. And I just don't know what to do or what to live for anymore (besides my family) and I just keep wishing that I was dead. And I am going to a point where I think the only right thing to do is commit suicide. And I know that people say that its "wrong" or say that I should think that "life is worth living" but I think that the world and everyone I know and love will be better off without me. And I'm also starting to think that my family is going to leave me soon and if they do I will have no one because I don't have a girlfriend or any friends of my own. And I'm also starting to think that there is no god. So my question is what should I live for? Who should I live for? And does anybody have proof that god is real? So thats what I'm thinking and asking myself but another reason I want to kill myself is because of a girl who I care about alot who wants nothing to do with me anymore.

2006-10-29 16:04:29 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Cranberry juice is said to be a big detox drink.

I haven't drunk it for years, but I'm wondering, does it affect a person's mindset/behavior if that personally normally takes anti-schizophrenic medication like risperidal?

2006-10-29 16:03:02 · 2 answers · asked by AxisofOddity 5

2006-10-29 15:21:57 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

please understand this is really hard for me to talk about....i know i am dealing with postpartum depression . my main problem is i feel like a bad mom. (i have a 18month and 2month old) but only somedays. somedays im fine, take the kids places, get out of the house as long as i continue to think positive i can do this but then...snap, something happens and i change like that. i wont get out of bed i wont wake up for feedings (the dad will, which makes me feel even more like a bad mom). it feels like a vicious cycle. there has been one time where i stayed up all night crying and when the baby woke up i couldnt handle it and got and the car and just drove. i didnt know where i was going and didnt care. i dont know what i should do. i feel like i am having a huge inner battle with my mind. like right now i feel good but im scared that tommorrow it could all change. will my homorones EVER balance out so i wont just "snap" again b/c i scare myself sometimes and dont know what ill do.

2006-10-29 15:18:38 · 7 answers · asked by ? 2

does anyone know what i can do??

2006-10-29 15:15:08 · 8 answers · asked by dana 1