Mental Health - January 2007

and is it a permanent thing? My mom broke her hip a month ago, andshe isnt doing rehab very well. she crys in pain and they give her oxycontin, flexeral, delarden, and she cant function. she was doing good, until she started asking for all these pain meds. today the doctor sugested she go to assisted living. She has a home, and i live with her, but have to wrk three of those days and i dont like her to be alone. but i cant see her in a small apartment., even though there are nurses on call there. this deosnt seem fair. i feel guilty, and i dont know what to do. is this just a temorary thing till she gets off some of the meds? She loves her meds, sorry to say. i dont know what to do. im a 57 year old female with some life in me yet, but i dont want my mom to be hurt or not inher own home. guilty

2007-01-09 13:24:24 · 5 answers · asked by ? 3

For the past month or so I have been very moody, I sleep until like 2-3 in the afternoon, I dont feel like doing anything, I feel crabby and angry, I dont like talking to anyone,everything annoys me. I am on 100 mg of zoloft a day, I dont know if I should get back in with her and let her know how I have been feeling, anyone else who feels like this what can I do to feel normal again?

2007-01-09 13:17:05 · 9 answers · asked by Michelle N 5

I feel sad...

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2007-01-09 13:04:18 · 13 answers · asked by haha 2

recently ive started self harming myself this is the first anyone knows, I want help on what i can do to stop, at the minute im stressed with exams and a whole bunch of other stuff like the fact I try my best with people I like both friends and ppl I like more than friends but I always end up getting hurt in the end, no one is ever going to like me back and i cant take it anymore. I cant sleep at all ive had about 4 hours sleep in the past few days and im from the UK and right now its the middle of the night, anyone got any advice?

2007-01-09 12:56:19 · 13 answers · asked by Nicola 1

What if your a teenager and are depressed. You taken tests and you told your parents that your depressed. But they don't really do anything but they do want to take you the doctor's. But the doctor tries to explain how you feel and thats not how you really feel. Or you get so mad that you hit someone in the face and you have to take something. How can you help with that?

2007-01-09 12:52:52 · 4 answers · asked by sillygirl3308 1

I have been seeing my current psychologist/counselor weekly for over a year. I saw her about a year and a half before that for about 6 months. She is having knee replacement surgery and I was wondering if it would be appropriate to send her flowers. She's been so good to me. Even letting me call her at home.

2007-01-09 12:51:18 · 17 answers · asked by Mom of Three 6

She was 16, molested at 5 year old, been a cutter/self-mutilator for a couple of years. My friend is an alcoholic with enough problems of his own. What can I do to help him? I'm worried he may try to kill himself, and I couldn't cope with that. I know I can't fix everything, but what can I do help?

2007-01-09 12:46:58 · 31 answers · asked by smashbott 1

I just really dont know who I am. I dont remember what its like to be balanced out. I dont even trust my own emotions. If I am happy I ask is that because Im getting manic or if I am sad is it a specific thing or am I crashing. Im tired. I just want to know if all this ever stops.

2007-01-09 12:03:33 · 9 answers · asked by b 4

2007-01-09 12:03:17 · 12 answers · asked by James H 1

I’ve been boasting that I’ve got the big one to this lady I work with and to my surprise, she’s taking me up on my offer - tonight! The problem is, I’m actually very tiny and I don’t want her to know that, what should I do?

2007-01-09 12:02:41 · 5 answers · asked by baby boo 1

i know you can't make people like you.i just want to know how i can deal with the fact that people don't like me.i try my best and nothing.i think about it all the time.i hate it when people talk behind my back.i just wish to be invisible sometimes.is there a quote somewhere i can read that can help me not care of what people think of me so i can go to work do what i have to do and forget about everyone else.i think my problem is compulsive.any advice??

2007-01-09 11:42:01 · 13 answers · asked by babywanted26 1

A very special person to me has been struggling with suicidal thoughts on and off throughout his life. He quit drinking about 3 months ago, recovering alcoholic. He just started working again doing what he loves, he has been sober and repairing relationships that were damaged by his alcoholism, including ours. I have loved him for a long time - the feelings are mutual. We had a beautiful relationship that was damaged by the alcoholism. We started talking daily again and have just recently started seeing each other, taking things one step at a time VERY slowly. I have been very encouraging, supportive, and so very proud of his progress... and now this. I can visit him Thursday evening in a mental health facility where he has been hospitalized, but I'm afraid I will say something that will cause more damage. Any suggestions? Any topics to avoid? This is not something people go through on a daily basis... any experienced or professional opinions would be greatly appreciated...

2007-01-09 11:39:06 · 16 answers · asked by greeneyedann 2

The problem is second hand smoke coming into my apartment from hallway and neighbouring apartments. Moved in Nov. 29, 2006. Live in a "supportive housing" building, for people with mental illness. Landload is condesending and dismissive. Second hand smoke is causing me physical illness as well as emotional distress. Have exhasted my avenues. Considering legal action. Really at the end of my rope. This has thrown me into a severe depression. Does anyone have any ideas? Have you experienced this problem? Thanks for your help.

2007-01-09 11:34:28 · 8 answers · asked by Cindy 2

i have tryed relly really hard to stop when my parents make me mad or sad i run into my room and grab the knife i cut on my arm and stomach
and dont call me emo!!!!!!!
and im already going to councling but not for it and i am not going to tell my parents

2007-01-09 11:02:59 · 18 answers · asked by Gina 2

HELP I'm completly out of my mind. I'v had these fellings of death and sadness inside me forever and now there putting me on the eage of a cliff. I fell like not being with anyone not even my girlfriend. Infact I'v even thought about bracking up with her after 2 years just so I can be alone with my self. My pain can only be said in a poem I wrote when I was trying to kill my self---->

The Difference Bettwen Life And Death

The evil and the angles are mixed in my head.
So many things left unsaid So many things to dred

I'v been confind to my soul ,My heart in as black as charcoal

Somone help me I cryed in my room, no one answered me

Then I herd him he said "TO LIFE THERE IS NO KEY THERE IS ONLY A LOCK. YOUR LIFE WILL END ON THE HANDS OF THE CLOCK. TO ME YOUR CALM, IT WILL GET MUCH WORSE. YOU WILL HAVE IT FOREVER. IT'S A CURSE.
iv tryed everything church, working out,telling someone, going to a doctor. maby i'm just not ment to have a good life. HELP ME PLEASE

2007-01-09 10:48:58 · 10 answers · asked by Kyle 1

Im interested to know,

Who here has gone through a period of heavy depression in their teenage lives?
Who here has attempted to commit suicide?
Who suffers from clinical depression or manic depression?

2007-01-09 10:47:21 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-09 10:44:54 · 2 answers · asked by weezie 1

I was speaking to a rather troubled friend over the holidays. After he had a few drinks in him he made an admission that I found very troubling. He said he wishes he had killed himself 10 years ago when he first thought of it. His reasoning was he has suffered so much crap over the last decade (money, family, relationships, job trouble, depression) that he wishes that he could have avoided it all by offing himself before it happened. I didn't know what to say, all I could do was assure him that things were behind him and the best was yet to come. But when I was alone later, I realized that I was just trying to make him feel better, and that things may well get worse for him as he gets older. What he said really saddens me. Has anyone else ever thought of this or heard anyone else say it?

2007-01-09 10:21:06 · 7 answers · asked by LanceMiller77 2

My symptons:
1. I can never fall asleep
2. I can't concentrate very well
3. I'm avoiding doing things
4. I'm extremely fidgety
5. I've been lacking confidence my whole life, but even more recently
6. I feel like blowing off homework all the time, even though school has always been important to me.
7. I'm pulling away, unitentionnally, from my friends.
8. I'm thirteen
9. I'm really stressed and everything seems like a big burden and too much to think about.
10. I cry, or feel like crying at least once everyday.

please help, what do you think?

2007-01-09 10:17:39 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am 17 years old in the past 5 monthes i have been throw alot of pressure real heavy pressure as a result for this pressure i have changed alont as example i started to blink lots with my eyes specially when am talking to some one and many people noticed that . 2- i have started to be shacked my hands shakes lost concentration ........ bad bad bad

i lost confidence .. i just feel down and nervous .

Mom told me to be calm and forget every thing . so what do you think i should do to get over this and be my self again ??

2007-01-09 10:06:17 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

We have been married for a little over a year and separated for almost a month. About a year into our marriage I found out my wife is bipolar. Will that be grounds for getting an annulment? I don't want to get a divorce or an annulment but it's been impossible to deal with her the last 9 months and she doesn't want to get help and I found out she was dating a guy while we were living so I asked her to move out and that has been the end of it.

2007-01-09 10:05:39 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

that he is still alive. He died after 5 hartattacks. It doesn't even seem as though he is gone. It hurts really bad. I am trying to keep up good spearits around family and am succeeding but it is hurting me real bad. I am trying not to cry around them and stay positive.

2007-01-09 09:55:11 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am a guy who loves guys but not for sex though. I like to watch them and talk to them. Sometimes I think maybe I need their support or I don't know. I just don't know how to get alongor control this feeling. Also I don't know how to act like a real man or what is a real man. could some one tell me how to find myself considering this fact that I'm not a gay but I can't react very masculine as well. Please help . I have to add that I really like to find male frinds but becasue of this feeling that I have I can't. First things comes to my mind is to picturing him naked.

2007-01-09 09:48:38 · 4 answers · asked by Peter P 1

I've very confused lately. Things have been pretty good in my life, but lately I find myself crying just out of the blue. The smallest stimulus seems to set me off (like reading a sad thing in a book or hearing about someone else's problems). I know I'm not pregnant and I just can't figure out how to tell what's causing this over-emotionality. I'm already on anti-depressants and have been doing quite well since I started taking them a year ago (I take them for ADD, but I have had mild depression in the past), been taking them on time etc...
I can't figure out what changed, but since last week I find myself crying all the time. Does anyone have any suggestions on how best to get to the root of the problem? (I will be seeing my doctor soon to check to see if it's phsyical and not just emotional)

2007-01-09 09:38:31 · 8 answers · asked by Jacqui 1

I am really afraid of ghosts though have never experienced anything but have heard a lot of stories. I really need to overcome my fear but dont know how!I feel so helpless. sometimes I kinda wait something to happen (or something spooky to appear!) or may be just imagine!
Pls help

2007-01-09 09:37:33 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-09 09:34:33 · 6 answers · asked by jay or 2

2007-01-09 09:34:30 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am terrified of heights and it has taken away from my travel experiences. Anything i can do to help the situation?

2007-01-09 09:28:22 · 6 answers · asked by bigpapijr2004 2

I notice I stress out alot and I am even told that I do.I stress about many things at work, school, and home. Even the smallest thing makes me stress out. I even get headaches and get moody because of it. Any advice is helpful, thanx.

2007-01-09 09:25:57 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

hey well i was at home watching a t.v show , and I started to get mad at first but the I was cring about nothing. But before that I about a week earlier I was all mad, and wonted to cry.What is wrong?

2007-01-09 09:22:03 · 2 answers · asked by honey.. 2