Mental Health - October 2006

hi everyone. my name is jenn and im brand new here. nice to meet you all. i have a problem: i think im too sensitive. im very emotional and my feelings get hurt too easily. i'll give you a few examples:

a) if i go to visit my family at their house and my parents don't talk to me as much as my other siblings, i start to worry, why arent they interested in me.

b) if i talk with my friends or my family and when i say something they dont respond or i have to repeat myself, i feel like what i have to say isnt important and they are in their own world. it drives me nuts.

it seems like i let my mind and imagination go wild. i know im a little crazy right? i want to change. what can i do? thanks!

2006-10-10 15:02:29 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

We all have friends we love dearly, but some do tend to talk on & on & on and need to spend an hour or so getting it out. You know, the "just one more thing..." and... and... it's driving me crazy. I can't be rude but lying to get off the phone is really annoying as well. I even tried to let her know I just have so much "space" to listen to "stuff." How do you deal with these people yet not offend them?

2006-10-10 14:59:56 · 8 answers · asked by Lake Lover 6

2006-10-10 14:56:16 · 5 answers · asked by Mr. Basketnutz! 2

Ok well a couple of weeks ago I found out that a friend of mine was cutting, and and a couple of my other friends did everything to help her... We told her mom, we told both of the counclers in our school (one was told on accident when a teacher overheard us talking about getting her help), but when my life became overwelmingly stressful I began to cut. Does it make me a hypocrite if I do everything to help her but do nothing to help me, I mean no one knows that I cut. I just want to know.

2006-10-10 14:54:06 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Ya'll are dumb or you lack patience. If you lack patience that means you mega dumb. So either way, you're dumb and I hate you. And I hate you because you have smelly breath. You can't tell that you have smelly breath because you've lived with it for so long.

2006-10-10 14:45:56 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

lately, I have been getting angrier and angrier with outbursts. I feel my brain is spinning and getting tense when these episodes occur. I am in constant pain from a previous surgury and a newly diagnosed arthritic condition throughout my joints. I am still waiting to hear what type of Arthritis it is. I am only 40 and cannot take this severe irritability. I recently had a medication change increasing my Wellbutrin XL. what the heck do I do to calm these episodes....HELP I hate going to see the shrink

2006-10-10 14:41:02 · 8 answers · asked by ripley 1

I never go outside for some reason no im not sick i'm just afraid of alot of things.. I'm also afraid of driving long distances and going shopping... What can i do to stop being afraid???

2006-10-10 14:39:24 · 9 answers · asked by Drusilla 1

if so, any side effects?? did it work well?

2006-10-10 14:36:25 · 4 answers · asked by skipy 1

was with for 3 months.

2006-10-10 14:36:12 · 8 answers · asked by loca 1

2006-10-10 14:30:05 · 4 answers · asked by loca 1

2006-10-10 14:13:28 · 13 answers · asked by ♥heartbroken♥ 3

Unspoken words
Hang like phantoms in the thick silence
That fills the room whenever
I grudgingly share the room with you.

Spoken words
That dare escape your lips
Are hollow, meaningless, and unimportant
To my mind,
Overshadowed by everything you did
Or didn’t do in the years gone by.

Memories from the past,
From when I was kid,
From when you showed love, affection, emotion
Flood my mind with their sweet nothingness
And hinder my speech.

Words filled with hate, anger, and frustration
Spill from my lips uncontrollably.
As your voice raises and your eyes bulge from their sockets,
I stare at an object that isn’t your face
Because your face causes too much pain.

Even as tears sting my eyes,
I look away,
Keeping the stoic face that you always seem to wear.

Unspoken words, spoken words, memories from the past,
Words filled with hate, anger, and frustration
Overpower me
And I walk...
Walk away from you.
From what we didn’t have.
From what we could’ve had.
From what we should’ve had.
Had you not been who you are,
Had I not been who I am...

And I walk away.
In the back of my mind you persist
But never overtaking me
Unlike the few good memories
You gave to me.

2006-10-10 14:13:10 · 14 answers · asked by susannah 1

i am seeing a counselor but I still need help and I just don't know what to do anymore. I don't know if I'm killing myself slowly or what. I'm seeing my counselor for my childhood abuse which invoved molesting, verbal, mental, phyically, emotionally and I just torn up. It all started in 5th grade and I am now a mother of 1 child. I was not allowed to have friends or boyfriends. My mom finally divorce him when i had the gut to tell her what he did to me but I'm still haunted by these abusive. I have a best friend that were are unseparable as we help one another we were brought up the same way and we can only help each other. I have no life here and been here for 38 years. There is nothing here for me. I want to move to a new state and start my life over. See a new envirionment, new people, new places. I have never married and I am not happy. If I am not happy then my son isn't either. what should i do and how?

2006-10-10 14:09:38 · 15 answers · asked by Paula 2

Lately, I've been feeling and very awful. I don't have an energy and I'm tired all the time. I have a hard time doing simple things like keeping on top of my housecleaning and my finances. I feel like I'm a horrible mother and wife. I've completely lost interest in sex and I just don't feel like getting up in the morning. I'm always late and I'm very disorganized. My life isn't very stressful. What stresses me out is all the things that I'm not doing that I think I should be doing. I wasn't always like this. I used to have drive and ambition to do things, but it seems like the things that I used to love and were important to me just don't mean much anymore. I don't feel like hurting myself or commiting suicide, I just lost my mojo. I also must confess that I like to take painkillers. I haven't taken them that much but I do like them. I also used to smoke weed and it seems to me that even when I was stoning I was still accomplishing more than I am now. Somone help me.

2006-10-10 14:06:04 · 9 answers · asked by Curious 1

I was addmitted to the Pysch ward last night cause i was suicidal and they want me to go back to therapy and give meds a go im not sure what to do i was in therapy for five years but it didnt help and i have tried meds before but i dont want to have to depend on meds to make me feel happy

2006-10-10 14:03:02 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-10 14:00:14 · 14 answers · asked by lil_jordanboy88 1

Yes, unfortunately I have Social Anxiety Disorder. I get nervous alot in school. The more people, the more severe. and I was just wondering what I could do to keep it down. Any techniques that work for you? This is severly limiting who I am and its controlling my life. I'm 13 and I should be having more fun or at least NOT having this! Any tips and/or suggestions will help.

Best answer for the best answer! :-P

2006-10-10 13:52:31 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-10 13:45:07 · 13 answers · asked by lil_jordanboy88 1

I don't really know how to say this because I don't tell people this but I didn't really know what to do. I recently started becoming very nervous all the time around everyone.In the beginning... before I actually developed a problem, my main concern was "looking cross-eyed or lazy-eyed" because I had this weird thing where I always thought I looked cross-eyed even though I'm not. and eventually it got so bad that I hate looking into peoples eyes because I'm so scared that I look cross-eyed. My eyes aren't symmetrical, but I know that they aren't crossed. Its so irrational but I'm not sure what else to do. I think about it so much that its beginning to ruin my social life . I can't look in peoples eyes, and I make them feel uncomfortable and I feel uncomfortable. I don't know if I really do have a lazy eye, but it bothers me so much I had to write something. I have this intense anxiety for going out to dinner with my boyfriend, thats when I knew it became a big problem. thank you!

2006-10-10 13:37:56 · 4 answers · asked by Sarah Elizabeth 2

2006-10-10 13:32:31 · 15 answers · asked by radiancia 6

i have been taking effexor for about 8 months. i started off on 37.5 mg and am now on 225mg. i am feeling normal again although i notice if i forget to take it even one day that i go into very bad withdrawl and feel like i am losing control and feel like i now need it in order to survive. if my dr weens me off of it and i cant cope does that mean i will have to take it forever?

2006-10-10 13:28:53 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

i need to do most of my homework on the computer.
COMPTER=EVIL SOURCE OF MY PROCRATINATION
next is the tv.

like when i'm supposed to be researching, i go on aim. or myspace. check my email.

i'm procrastinating right now.
what can i do if i NEED the computer, but the computer is what keeps me from completing anything?

2006-10-10 13:26:46 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

i actually managed to give myself a headache. all the things i want to change about myself seem to really annoy me today. i can't figure out how to change stupid habits like how i can't seem to stick to a plan once i come up with it and i'm too indecisive to make things work (i choose not to put in as much effort and call it caution). plus i find it hard to figure out what i want and what i;m feeling. how can i trust that it won't change tomorrow. living one day at a time like AA meetings suggest doesn't work unless you can see the big picture and plan some of it.

2006-10-10 13:18:14 · 5 answers · asked by emeraldnoctis 2

2006-10-10 12:49:41 · 13 answers · asked by paula g 1

I am going thru a hard time, job loss, moved, financial problems.. and I keep eating so much, I feel like I cant get full. Has this ever happened to you?

2006-10-10 12:36:28 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

I cant think of the word, but it is someone who is constantly obsessing over their own problems.

Its a word that describes a person.. ahh i cant think of it. can someone help me think of it?

2006-10-10 12:32:11 · 30 answers · asked by tangerine9561 3

I need help locating free depression counseling and medication in Southern California for a woman that is not working (but wants to) and can't afford to pay for such services. She's been unable to locate any service provider that can diagnose and treat her long-term depression. She has been brushed off many times and really needs to find full treatment (counseling & medication) so she can get back on track and find a steady job. Any help/leads to service providers are GREATLY appreciated!!!

2006-10-10 12:31:23 · 4 answers · asked by lpreese 1

my nan has alzhiemer's and recently has been saying that she can hear her mothers voice, and when i explain that isnt possible, she interrupts and says that she knows it isn't possible bcos her mother is in Wales and that someone has phoned her to let her know that she is ok.
how do i explain to her that her mother is dead without upsetting her?

She gets upset when i tell her that she is at home and doesn't have to go out so how can i handle this latest problem?

please help any serious advice welcome...

2006-10-10 12:29:53 · 16 answers · asked by donna y 1

I just want to know what triggers other people have - I know how bad mine are.

2006-10-10 12:28:09 · 7 answers · asked by radiancia 6

2006-10-10 12:07:50 · 1 answers · asked by paintedaisys3 1