Mental Health - December 2006

I was searching through the internet to find the reason that makes me oversleep, especially after my meals. I read in this site(and many others) that i might have a problem with sugar blood, but this doesnt happen according to my latest medical exams(actually i dont have any problems like anemia or anything else). Another reason that makes you oversleep is the consumption of specific kinds of food that increases the level of serotonin-a substance in your brain.

I was suffering from depression and one of the most syptoms of depression is to oversleep. My doctor provided me with pills that increase the serotonin level because low levels of serotonin makes you feel depressed!

I havent got any pills for 5 years and i am fine. Though i am a bit confused! how can high level of serotonin makes you oversleep and on the other hand helps you to "win" depression and all of its syptoms like sleeping too much?!

thank you in advance and sorry for my english- I am from western europe

2006-12-09 10:35:41 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Im not sure, but I think i may have that depression stuff. I havent suffered any loses and not moarning over that or anything. I am constantly stressed, and I feel like I am always alone. I go to school, and after I get home I sit around the house doing nothing, even on the weekends. Just like this weekend, I havent done a single thing and just feel like I could bawl my eyes out. I feel mentally abused. So if it sounds like i am depressed, please tell me and let me know what i can do about it to get it to go away, its definitly not the greatest feeling.

2006-12-09 10:14:44 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

I also like playing chicken with semi tractor trailers, and running around in dog kennels with raw t bones in my boxers. Is this behavior normal?

2006-12-09 10:14:10 · 13 answers · asked by dirk diggler 1

I am 52 years old , I started out 30 ago in a HI tech printing job ( laser color seprations) I was a gifted !! I could do no wrong I Had job offers of 100K ( back in the 80's and I was in my 30's) I had the world in my Hands!!!!! House ( paid for), Wife 3 small Girls and a great job with a large company.
Well in the 90's printing went Postscript and I lost my job! So I started a small printing company of my own and did just ok But after 9/11 and the internet The printing industry was DOA.
Now I am 52 and started a small Handyman Business and it seemed like it would be ok . However now after two years it has slowed down and now I am at wits end. I have gone from 100k to cleaning out garages for 150.00 per day. I am so Dam Depressed that I feel like I cant move and More. I have bills coming in and dont even fell like working. My Wife leaves for work and I just sneek to the park and sit and think..... I

2006-12-09 09:33:25 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

my 2 best friends have started starving themselves, smoking, cutting themselves, and talking about suicide...i am losing them and i dont kno what to do...they r not the same ppl anymore...can someone please tell me how to help? i will do anything....plz help if u can thanks......

2006-12-09 09:22:53 · 3 answers · asked by abzofreakinlutly 1

2006-12-09 09:13:58 · 9 answers · asked by VernHead123 2

2006-12-09 09:07:14 · 16 answers · asked by Saheed K 1

I am doing a informative paper on SAD. I need help fingin staticsts and chats (visuals) that provide information on SAD. Any information is helpful or even a paper that you have written. Please, help me!

2006-12-09 08:59:41 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

i am a drinker, i must say sometimes i get completely wasted other times i have 3-4 a day or none at all. im 23 and i have never once had a problem drinking on the medicine. i hear though that its really bad to drink on it but i dont notice anything different. it says not to drink on it but doesnt every medicine? whats the harm since i dont notice a thing?

2006-12-09 08:59:29 · 12 answers · asked by surfcarolinagurl26 3

2006-12-09 08:39:43 · 3 answers · asked by patti r 2

Over the past 8 weeks i have had 5 deja vu experiences which have left me feeling dizzy and nauseus. I cannot remember the conversations or thoughts after the event but thought they were all related. The last experience i had i asked my friend to remember the conversation, and it bore no relevence to any previous thought or conversation. Anybody know what could cause this to happen.

2006-12-09 08:35:18 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-09 08:33:42 · 25 answers · asked by charliemanic 1

i have many sleep walking parodys around every month in happens the reason or question of this i mean is that in my sleep i
1. sleep walk
2sleep talk
3.respond to questions when asked
4.get agressive when touched during sleep walking







once while sleep walking i got up from my bed and yelled for my dad he cameto the door ansd ha aked what was wrong and i reponded by saying nothings wrong and ran back to bed
i thought it was weird when he told me because i just had a fight with him before i went to sleep







another time was when my freind was sleeping over and when we went to sleep i was sleep walking and standing over him he said whats wrong,stood up and touched my shoulders and i shoved him back he said whats the hell wrong with you and i puched him he tried to run for my room but i caught his shirt and threw him on the floor and went back to bed

2006-12-09 08:29:51 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-09 08:24:00 · 14 answers · asked by i_do_give_a_fuck 2

I am Eighteen and since about 13 I have always saw something exotic in alcohol...Hence i now drink a lot sometimes even 70 cl of Whtye and Mackay in 24 hours...I am Gay and really fancied someone at Sixth Form I never confessed to him i was Gay but over several teneuous months I realised he was not....I used to love the idea of money and am now becoming a pro poker player...I have lost my love of life and do no revision absolutely none and my exams are in january... I stress that I have gone beyone a lazy guy I am so warped and depressed that feeding myself is a struggle.. I am Eighteen and have almost stretchmarks on my back and am vastly underweight...Not because I think it looks good...just look at my hair but because it is such a chore to eat food

2006-12-09 08:07:49 · 21 answers · asked by Gael Garcia Bernal 1

I was just curious.

2006-12-09 08:04:44 · 16 answers · asked by roxylee11782 4

I am Eighteen years of age and am so demotivated you will find it difficult to believe. I have the opportunity to go on my first date with a girl but I am Gay and therefore am hesitant. I am so demotivated and therefore lazy...I care little about my Jan A level exams and am basically still at sixth form for the company....I love a great game of Poker and play often but other than that I am a drunken old or young fool when it comes to the world of school. I am not a chava and never have or will be one but lately I have become so distached from Sixth form...Part of it is I really fancy a boy at school and have had the whole is he gay or not thing and now I am not even bothered about him so much...I drink a lot but do not go out and therefore not only do I drink in excess I drink unsocially which I realise as a half educated guy I am taking more than a few steps to becoming an alcoholic or "heavy drinker"...I used to care about wealth and power but lately I am not bothered.This is wrong!

2006-12-09 07:36:23 · 15 answers · asked by Gael Garcia Bernal 1

There was a guy at work that attempted suicide. He was already down and depressed about his job. In addition, he had a couple of deaths in his family. I tried getting him to seek counseling, but he never went to see anyone. Right now, he is in the hospital under suicide watch and when he was found he kept saying he just want to die. I went to go see him, but he doesn't want to see anyone. Is there anything else I can do for him?

2006-12-09 07:33:10 · 12 answers · asked by kindred0269 1

I am enjoying this site and it was fairly easy to get to level 2, but gee fraking whiz how can anyone get to the higher levels and have a life?

2006-12-09 07:14:38 · 5 answers · asked by CincinnatiDon 2

I am free now after my tough bachelors and now I feel depressed almost everyday. Mostly bcoz of my family and how we have learned to live and make others live in depression. Its almost like a curse. My family and society doent consider that there are things like anxiety and depression in young adults im 23 and I cant live alone coz my culture is such. Plz dont tell me to move out I really cant not til August 2007 and maybe not even then.

In my country mental health problems = Mental Hospital . Period. There are almost no phsyciatrists and even if there are I cant visit them. No way.
I have a phobia of people and its so strong that I prefer being closed up in a room rather than go meet friends. If I do I always say something wrong come home and cry..for weeks sometimes.Dont tell me I shouldnt have it coz thats what I get for asking my parents and I have NO SINCERE freind I can talk to. When I tell my mom about my problems...if she is in a bad mood ever later, she calls me abnormal.

2006-12-09 06:58:26 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

Any solutions?

2006-12-09 06:56:43 · 11 answers · asked by 19 year old girl 2

In the last 6 months he has had non bizzare delusions. He is also 70 years of age. He is otherwise very lucid and is very active in the community. He has no history whatsoever of psychiatric symptoms or treamtment. Please, informed answers only. Thanks.

2006-12-09 06:56:09 · 2 answers · asked by Scott 1

I think my mom has depression, she's always in pain and sleeps a lot and she's never in a good mood, sometimes she snaps at me for no reason and is constantly looking for self pity and always saying she has nothing in life an no one helps her. I'm worried about her, could this be derpression or just a lot of stress?

2006-12-09 06:44:19 · 10 answers · asked by meatismurder90 3

I am a cook om a tug boat and dont rember food orders.This has never happened to me befor,what should I do

2006-12-09 06:31:11 · 10 answers · asked by phoeberose 1

So I've been taking Paxil for a week now. The doctor told me that after a week, I was supposed to increase from 10mg to 20mg. They also put me on xanax for panic attacks. The thing that sucks is this: the Paxil makes me all jumpy, and panicy, it makes my thoughts race, and I get all agitated. So I take a xanax to calm down----but I end up being a zombie all day. Then around 4 or 5 in the evening, the depression kicks in again, and I start to feel worse, which spins me into another panic attack, so I take another .5mg of xanax, which knocks me out. Has anyone gone through this? I was nervous to increase the paxil, so I'm still taking only 10mg until I see my doc next week. Can anyone help me????

2006-12-09 05:56:38 · 6 answers · asked by Genea_80 3

2006-12-09 05:49:47 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Hi, my name is Mike, and I am an Answers gets in the way of everything I do, even now I should be doing homework and applying for college. The only thing that limits me is my daily limit for answering questions - but what happens when I hit level three and the limit is raised ?! I have problems...

2006-12-09 05:49:30 · 7 answers · asked by this Mike guy 5

My neighbour works in a bank. He and his wife (homemaker) do argue some times. She wants her husbend to agree whatever she tells. She does not bother for anything. If he won't agree due to any valid reason then she will go for hunger strike. She will starve for two or three days and fourth day she would start eating. Slowly she becomes normal. He is really bothering with her behaviour. How he can make her normal? Does she need any theraphy? I have seen same kind of behaviour with some other women too.

2006-12-09 05:35:14 · 7 answers · asked by #//\\*/}_|-{+~)@ 2

ok.. today is now my 12th day on Lexapro 5mg... i will be starting 10mg today... i feel that it is starting to work on my panic and anxiety,, but im so sick of not sleeping at night... i have to take a xanax just to get a little sleep... only a couple of hours.. Will this insomnia stop soon? Anyone with experience please help!!

2006-12-09 05:27:20 · 12 answers · asked by MandiGurl M 2

2006-12-09 05:22:35 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous