Mental Health - February 2007

Hey,I have a question. I have a long history of mild depression--I took 20mg of Paxil for 10 yrs (on and off). my father died almost a yr ago, & I have had huge bouts of anxiety. I couldn't go to sleep while taking Paxil (I previously had no problems)-& so, I'd go in this ridiculous cycle of NOT taking Paxil so I could sleep--then after like 2 wks getting SOOO low I thought I was going to die-so Id start the Paxil again--for like a wk -then get tired of not sleeping
I went to a psychiatrist-- she determined I was bipolar depressed (she said its different than bipolar disorder).she put me on depakote and lunesta-which worked fine.but I don't want to worry about liver all the time & have to do blood panels every 3 mo's (it doesn't seem healthy to take something that requires this)..so anyhow, I went to a new psych--she put me on seroquel 50mg, it made me NUTS!!! (btw, she said I just have depression w/anxiety). Anyone else have a bad exp. w/seroquel?im taking 12.5 mg tonight and scared!

2007-02-21 14:41:44 · 2 answers · asked by Amber ♥2000 3

Well I don't know how to fix this problem besides going to the doctor. I'm 14 years old and I can't spend the night at anyone's house without wanting to go home later that night. I call my mom and she picks me up. What should I do to fix this? I've tried just having fun but it didn't work. I can't even go to my dad's house but I also want to stay there but I keep getting panic attacks. HELP PLEASE?!

2007-02-21 14:34:36 · 4 answers · asked by brown eyed gurl 2

i was crying on my bf because of emotional pain and it was due to feeling cold and i want to feel normal andbe able to hug him and show him that i love him but i couldn't i felt so cold i've been like this for months i also feel depressive and i'm getting paranoid and scared when it turns cold, and there are a lot of rainy days coming it just killls my heart it prevents me from enjoying time with my bf at school i feel like i'm loooking through a glass window at all the other happy ppl

2007-02-21 14:33:26 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

Has anyone else had a dream that was so upsetting and or traumatic that you woke up crying but were so tired that you fell back asleep. details please. email me..

2007-02-21 14:31:14 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-21 14:20:47 · 11 answers · asked by vanessa r 1

2007-02-21 14:17:21 · 11 answers · asked by Eric Inri 6

I can't tolerant it anymore. TOO MANY STUPID MISTAKES!!
But... Not suicidel. I need help.

2007-02-21 14:15:48 · 4 answers · asked by InTROLLigent 3

an example of someone bein depressed

2007-02-21 13:57:24 · 3 answers · asked by Vampire Goth 1

It pains me to be around people I don't know really really really well. I don't know how to talk to other people, I expect that they won't like me, and feel very nervous in any kind of social gathering. I would like to have friends, but am not good at making them at all.

2007-02-21 13:56:59 · 9 answers · asked by ME 3

my Dr. increased my Zoloft again. It was 50 mg when I started on it almost a year ago, then it was increased to 100 mg, where it stayed for a long time. It helped immensley with my depression. But then I started feeling more down than up, so it was increased to 150 3 weeks ago, and now I feel just as depressed as I was before I started taking it. What gives?

2007-02-21 13:50:57 · 3 answers · asked by ? 6

like i poked somone and now i am embarassed. HOW DO I STOP THIS MADNESS!?? i am so shy

2007-02-21 13:30:40 · 12 answers · asked by Melissa H 2

wenever I am under stress, I start shaking start breathing heavy then stop breathing at all. whenever I try to breathe, it's diffacult and I start crying when I do. I can't move, but a just keep shaking. this happens when I'm under stress or I think I've lost control of a sitiuation. I'm 14 years old and my mom thinks I'm losing my mind. I hope it's just a phase. I can't control it. It feels like my brain is being dipped in acid after a while and I have incredible headaches and feel as if my head is going to explode. can someone give me any advice to what I should do? this happens at home and school and I freak my friends out. I try not to, but I don't know how to not. PLEASE!!! help. I just want my mom to not think that I'm going crazy, but thats hard because that makes me stress out more. please help?...

2007-02-21 13:29:41 · 7 answers · asked by shan_tora 1

I am not saying they don't work or people shouldn't take them. I am on them now, but it's just not natural that I should have to take these kinds of pills for the rest of my life. And even if you had in exercise and other things like that I am still depressed. I have felt like there is something wrong with me. That there is something I am missing, probably in my diet. My dad gave me this website to look at where it gives you a lot of helpful information on health and other things. I am going to try adding some of things they mentioned, which are just basic things like fish oils and other stuff. But also sitting in the sunlight for an hour a day is also another good idea, especially if you have S.A.D. But I just think its wrong that nobody ever suggest alternatives when it comes to people in the health profession. But I've been told they have trouble thinking outside of what they were taught or what they believe to be true. But we should be given alternatives to pills.

2007-02-21 13:26:33 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Okay... I'm fourteen, and I finally decided to research my eyelash-plucking habit on the Internet. I'm starting to regret doing so... I found out about trich, and now I'm really, really scared... and I don't usually get scared this easily. For 5 years, my parents have pestered me.... "Why do you pull on your eyelashes?" "You need to STOP THAT!" And I'm afraid they won't understand if I tell them I think I have trich... they'll think I'm being ridiculous. I really, really, REALLY need some help, guys... I want to defeat this problem w/o my parents finding out. I know it's possible to overcome it w/o medicine... but I need more tips. I just found out about this condition today. Help, PLEASE!! :(

2007-02-21 13:26:00 · 8 answers · asked by D.C. 3

IM deppressed. I admit it. I want some phycological help,but I don't want to tell my parents. Im not even in High School yet.
My dad got angry with me. He had said "WHY DO I HAVE TO TELLYOU KIDS EVERYTHING? YOU CAN'T DO SHI* RITE!" Then he said "What does your room look like?" and I wasn't going to lie...so i said messy. "He said YOUR NOT GOING TO SOCCER PRACTICE!" I got really sad b.c i havent been all week. But I went to clean up my room. Then I forgot to take my shoes off before I went inside, and I got yelled at more. Then I had left my dishes in the sink, and he got mad at me and threw the glass plate forcefully on the ground, and it smashed into pieces. Then he told me to clean it up. I felt like I was picking up the broken pieces of my heart. I was crying then, and thinking about this guy who all of a suddeen turnd on me and started to hate me. I like him and We used to be best friends. Im depressed, heart broken, and lately, being ignored. What do i DO?!

2007-02-21 13:25:04 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

It is so hard to get out of bed in the morning, even if I've had 8 hours of sleep. I want to take a nap when I get home from work, and I look forward to going to bed. I wish I could just stay in bed all the time. What is wrong with me? I'm not doing anything productive outside of work because I feel too tired to even move.

2007-02-21 13:24:09 · 13 answers · asked by chardonnay 2

I am really confused right now. My boyfriend suggested that I might be bipolar. I have really bad depression spells and I get happy over stupid stuff but that usually last like 10 secounds then I get angry over stupid stuff and sad and frustrated and etc. Then sometimes I lie about the most ridiculous stuff. Thank god my bf is understanding but sometimes I still wonder If we will last bc of these things. I get so depressed I think about death and my funeral or if my dad dies what would happen. I have at one point thought about admitting my self into a pshyciatric hospital. but I didnt bc I might not be crazy. I think people are all against me and I cannt do things I used to bc I am scared people dont like me even if I know they do. I feel helpless And I am so confused. Am I crazy?

2007-02-21 13:14:07 · 10 answers · asked by candie bear 1

2007-02-21 13:12:28 · 3 answers · asked by Happy Summer 6

im 18 the doctor says im healthy i just have nervous speels my chest will hurt and ill get tingly or my head or just a paranoid feeling that goes with panic attacks my mom works so i stay home what can i do to get my mind off of it

2007-02-21 13:05:30 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

SHE'S 85 WITH MANY TYPE OF ILLNESS ALONG WITH LAZINESS, SPOILED, MEAN & NASTY, DEMENTIA, ALZTHEIMERS, AND OTHER MENTAL THINGS. I CLEAN WHOLE HOUSE, GIVE MEDS, COOK 3 MEALS A DAY, DEAL WITH HER ABUSIVENESS, IT'S MORE MENTAL THAN PHYSICAL. I HAVE NO DAYS OFF. AND NOW I HAVE TO TAKE HER TO DR. APPTS FOR CANCER TREATMENT. IVE BEEN DOING THIS AS A FAVOR TO THE FAMILY FOR 3 YRS. IT'S LIKE WHEN I FIX MY TO SAY THEY NEED TO GIVE ME HELP SO I CAN WORK, I NEED MONEY TO TAKE CARE OF MYSELF. IT'S STRESSING ME AND DRIVING ME CRAZY. I AM GOING TO SCHOOL TO BE CERTIFIED HHA! I START NEXT MO.

2007-02-21 12:49:18 · 1 answers · asked by annie e 1

2007-02-21 12:40:09 · 3 answers · asked by christina l 1

I told her I would think about it and she wouldn't do anything without my permission but I only feel comfortable with her...and she's not a professinal an she wants me to see one

2007-02-21 12:39:33 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am 14 years old and go to a great high school. I play three sports well, and have some bad, good, and great friends. My parents are divorced and have been for a while. Right now I'm having some problems and I don't know how to cope with them. Nothing I do makes me happy. 24/7 I'm just depressed, and at school I never even smile. I come home and just sit on my bed and do nothing, or go on the computer and surf the web. My grades are going down because I don't do homework, and I've lost friendships because I'm always "so depressing". What the hell can I do?

2007-02-21 12:23:35 · 9 answers · asked by KFree 2

2007-02-21 12:19:55 · 3 answers · asked by karl s 3

my day was pretty good, i feel considerably less depressed :)

2007-02-21 12:08:54 · 17 answers · asked by rt1290 6

The past few weeks I've been stressed and crying about it. But lately, I find myself crying about any and everything. Little things, like watching television. I was watching The Parent Trap this weeend and I started crying. My little cousin started crying the other day, so I cried. Thinking about things that I havent cried about in years makes me cry. I'm always happy and peppy, so this is a DRAMATIC change. All of my peers noticed that I haven't been myself lately. Could it just be the stress, or is it something more serious?

2007-02-21 12:04:19 · 17 answers · asked by liltrojan6 1

please help me! my one friend was once suscidal. she tryed to kill her slef twice and she used to slit her wrist. now she lives with her gram and she want to send her to a meantal hospital where she wont be ale to see her friends and her boyfriend. well her boyfriend isn't talkiong to her and shes cutting herslef again because he was always the one that got her throught it last time and i don't know what to do. i know if she has to leave she will kill herself beacuse she doesn't want to go back there again and i don't know how to help her. please someone help me! i need to do something befor she does something really stupid!!

2007-02-21 12:00:35 · 6 answers · asked by Love Lust Life 2

any body that knows that this , in effect , or affect , or , just for me , infect , is a rhetorical question , butt then again i dont expect anybody but those in the no to know and if you aint in the no but you can feel me anyways than you should KNOW that the no is situated at the corner of fifth and main and if you dont know what town that it is i speak upon , and for , than feel free to ask me , i tell all coz i know all , DON MOTHER ****** MCLEAN .

2007-02-21 11:55:19 · 2 answers · asked by whatisthisallabout? 2

the thing is that normally i m a calm and peaceful boy from childhood,but nowadays i am getting angry very much,even for small things i m getting very angry.eventhough i m trying to control it its increasing day by day.can anybody tell me why it happens and how to control it?.now my age is 20.is there any connection with the age?.

2007-02-21 11:42:54 · 10 answers · asked by lallan 2

Or that I should at least be a little picky in looking for one.

If I should be picky, then what do you think I should look for?

If you think therapists are a bad idea altogether, then what would you recommend instead?

2007-02-21 11:41:31 · 7 answers · asked by ? 4