Mental Health - January 2007

it is for my friends, i cant say why she needs it( its secret)

2007-01-16 09:17:32 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Art, whether it is done via a mental health professional, or by simply engaging in the activity on ones own appears to have a very positive effect on sufferers of mental or emotional illnesses. BUT WHY.

2007-01-16 09:14:53 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is the same as a sugar pill "does nothing", and paxil would be better for me. That dosen't seem right at all because iv'e been suffering from an anxiety problem for so long, and Im hearing horror stores about Paxil but none about lexapro. All i want to do is get my life back without being worried about stupid bull ****. I never used to have panic attacks but now that I do I cant do anything anymore. I HATE ANXIETY!!!

2007-01-16 09:09:51 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Right now I am on 40 mg and was wondering if the symptoms of anxiety lessen with a decreased dosage. I am also taking 100mg of Lamictal, 0.5mg Klonopin, 900 mg of Lithium, and 10mg of Ambien.

2007-01-16 08:55:06 · 3 answers · asked by Jessica B 1

2007-01-16 08:53:53 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

I can not be near someone who is vomiting It is the sound that bothers me the most. I also have panic attacks when I vomit or around someone who is vomiting.

2007-01-16 08:53:30 · 3 answers · asked by yankeemama23 1

I have not slept for three nights (fifteen minutes every hour) without interuption. Elderly grandma WILL NOT stay in bed. I have tried Ambien, exercise, no naps, Rozerem, ativan, night tylenol, aleve, otc benedryl to no avail. She has gotten worse as her dementia has progressed and I am running out of ideas. Not interested in a good nursing home, she spent time in a rehab center and I had to bathe her if I did not like the ever seven days she got.

She is wearing me thin. I don't care about confusion as a side effect, she is already very confused and mean. I just want some sleep.

2007-01-16 08:40:16 · 5 answers · asked by Valerie 6

2007-01-16 08:33:26 · 1 answers · asked by Tracy V 1

I do not know what it is like to just feel normal-happy the majority of the time. I would like to know and am in therapy and have started medication about 6 weeks in. Though I have a wonderful life I often feel sad and anxious, and have for much of my adult life. My question is why am I still depressed? Is it that I have a physical propensity for it? I know my mother was depressed, is it hereditary? Or is it in part because when you are sad a good part of your life your body gets used to it and can't do anything else, even when things get better? Or a combination?

Thanks in advance.

2007-01-16 08:21:42 · 11 answers · asked by I'm Trying 3

I'm 24 years old, and a junior doctor. I've had problems with depression/anxiety/self harm over the past few years, and I'm currently on 150mg Venlafaxine daily which does help a lot. But I can't stand being by myself - I become very depressed and tearful and start thinking bad things. My flatmate is on call today, so I've been in the flat by myself for the past 3 hours, and I feel really tearful and low. I've tried to keep myself occupied, but it hasn't worked.

What can I do to be happier on my own? How can I learn to enjoy my own company instead of dreading being by myself and ending up turning to self harm?

2007-01-16 08:18:09 · 20 answers · asked by Jen 5

I was just wondering what, if any, remedies there are for curing or calming down palpitations when they arise. I am a 24 year old male who has had anxiety and panic attacks since 2001. Even when at home relaxing my mind is working over time and my heart races and palpitates. I am naturally more aware of my own heartbeat and every beat it makes due to my anxiety and general pre occupation with the way i feel.

If anyone knows, what can be done to limit palpitations and help you relax and concentrate on other things so that you constantly worry and hear every single beat.

Most people don't go through this and i would give anything not to also. It seriously affects my life this anxiety and i am trying to find ways to drastically decrease the impact the symptoms of it has on me.

Thanks for your help in advance guys !

2007-01-16 08:04:45 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am 15 years old and I don't feel very confident about myself. I get very nervous in public situations or in large crowds. I just sort of freeze and I don't know what to say. Like for example, at the start of Grade 9 there was a grade 9 day for all the new students before school started. I was walking into the gym where everyone was but I saw everyone talking, and I knew none of them (different district) so I started sweating and I turned around and walked home. Even in a store, I get nervous of the people around me. I take medication for depression and anxiety but it doesn't seem to help me, and when I look in the mirror I hate who I look at. Maybe some people will think this is weird because I am a guy and guys are supposed to be tough or whatever, but I just need some advice about what to do to help myself. I don't want to drag all this into my adult life once Im out of high school so I need to know what to do.

I will appreciate any advice you have for me.

2007-01-16 07:51:40 · 11 answers · asked by Dan 1

Lately I've been having these periods of depression and euphoria that phase in and out. I don't mind the euphoria (obviously), but when I'm in one of my depression "phases" I literally am about to kill myself. I never feel very neutral anymore. And then all of a sudden I'm instantly in tears of joy, and I thank God for how wonderful my life is. Is it bipolar? Or is it just teenage hormones going crazy, like my mom tells me. I'm a 14 year old male.

2007-01-16 07:50:12 · 6 answers · asked by dgmulf 2

Things from my husbands past bother me so badly that just the name of an ex makes my stomach upset and almost sends me into a panic attack. It only does this at certain times. Sometimes things are much easier to deal with. It is not a matter of being mature, I think it is not knowing how to deal with issues or things bothering me...can anyone help please. I constantly worry, and I am making myself miserble.

2007-01-16 07:47:57 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

A friend of mine has depression. We've been friend since grade school. I just realized even as kids, she get really down in the winter time, EVERY winter . She won't talk to any of her friends and won't leave her house. She has been doing this for 14 yrs. I'm like her only friend left. The DR findly said she had depression last year, she has been like this for 14 yrs.
She gets SSS for it and she still lives at home.
I thought bec. she is inside, she could handle, instant messages. She just all of a sudden won't reply and it happens to be winter (always winter when she starts acting like this). Any advice, I live 3,000 miles away from her. I just don't know how to get her attention! I know she starts to act more out going when it's warm outside. Any advice would be helpful

2007-01-16 07:41:39 · 11 answers · asked by Apple 4

I have some severe sleeping problems and don't know what to do. At night I cannot sleep, so I keep on watching movies. In the morning I'm getting more tired, but most of the time I decide to stay up. Sometimes I just fall asleep in the morning light and then sleep till late afternoon, just to wake up with a bad feeling. I have quite a lot of trouble getting my work done right now (freelancer) and feel like losing control over my life.

Sometimes I try to "get straight" and everything works out well, but after some days I just fall back into my "old chaotic life". It's messing me up.

Anyone knows something?

2007-01-16 07:41:00 · 3 answers · asked by aeiou11235 2

I've been feeling really down for a long time now

2007-01-16 07:34:03 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

how do you have it. because i have fail math with the same exact grade for about 8 TIMES IN A ROW. I dont get it. No matter how much I study or try, I dont make much progress. I dont try my hardest, but I do make a decent effort and I see no diiference. Just now I knew not one answer to the ENTIRE test. What the hell is going on?

2007-01-16 07:29:45 · 4 answers · asked by Koko Butta Kream 4

I'm about 5'6" and weigh 101 lbs. I'm 16 years old. I used to be very much anorexic. And my friends called it. Now I believe, or at least I want to believe, I'm better. I recently gained about 10 lbs by forcing myself to eat so much I got sick. My friends don't believe me. But I'm having issues believing myself. How can I prove to them...and to myself...that I'm healthy? NOTE: I did not recieve professional help before.

2007-01-16 07:27:10 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Let it all out!

Im doing pretty good. Bored at work. What about you? Anything good going on?

2007-01-16 07:19:11 · 15 answers · asked by ? 2

I've been kind of depressed and i'm only 12. My life is terrible and i can't stand it. Sometimes i think of suicide but i'm too scared to try anything like that and at times i almost do but i stop.......
I don't want to talk to anybody near me because they would think i'm crazy i just need help

2007-01-16 07:18:05 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm 27 and i just can't understand lots of vocabulary that other people my age usually know.

so what can i do? i study on my own but it doesn't seem to sink in my mind. In fact, throughout my school years i've been introduced to alot of vocabulary but much of it just got lost somewhere in my mind. Am i the only one with this problem? And if so, how can i quickly learn more vocabulary so that i can understand what normal adults talk about?

2007-01-16 07:06:06 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

She rocks, but it's kinda odd. What do you think ?

2007-01-16 07:03:05 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am 15 and I have been taking medication for depression. I don't want to but my parents are making me. I have been taking them since June of 2006. I take two a day. But I hear that these drugs can make people want to hurt themselves more, and I keep getting those thoughts. Like lately I have actually been considering killing myself and I have even been researching what I can do, like taking an over dose of medication.

Some days I will be thinking that and other days I will be normal, like right now I feel fine. But I need to know what I should do and how to stop thinking that stuff because I almost actually did something the other day and when I am having those thoughts, I can't stop and I need to stop?

2007-01-16 06:55:41 · 35 answers · asked by Dan 1

nearly everytime some one around me laughs i think they are laughin at me and lots of things like that. am i mad because they arnt laughin at me and stuff.Not to do with that but when i start the shower or somethin i lock the door, but i have to go back and check it several times even though i know it is locked i sort of dont feel safe if i dont check.

2007-01-16 06:44:43 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Sometimes I think that instead of dealing with the stress of life, and the problems of life it would be easier to just never know. The happiness and all is great. Like one guy said: It didn't bother me a 1000 years before I was born, it won't bother me 1000 years after I'm dead. If you don't know your dead, then why is dying so bad?

2007-01-16 06:43:38 · 28 answers · asked by Bob L 1

In what ways did you like your therapist, and in what ways did you feel something may have been missing from psycho-therapy (if any)?
Do you find that it indeed helped you develop into the person you are today/beneficial to your well-being and help you help yourself w/resolving some life challenges?

2007-01-16 06:37:47 · 2 answers · asked by Yvonne 4

Around this time of year, my b-friend goes into a funk, grieving for a dead fiance who died in a car crash 8 years ago. He misses her very much and is very, very sad. The problem is that I am in his life and he seems to be rejecting me since he is comparing how he felt when he was with her vs. how he feels with me. I'm very torn since I am certain I cannot possibly compete with the memory of a dead woman and should bail, but isn't it jerky of me to bail on someone who's hurting so badly? Shouldn't I wait until he's out of his funk? Otherwise, he's a healthy, happy person who has a wide variety of interests and energy. Should I wait until he's out of his funk to talk to him about really letting go? Is it possible to assess that he'll never let go and if I stick around, I'll face rejection every year about this time?

2007-01-16 06:30:25 · 9 answers · asked by BBD 2

2007-01-16 06:27:09 · 2 answers · asked by unknown u 3

2007-01-16 06:27:02 · 7 answers · asked by Msbaton 2