Mental Health - April 2007

At some appts both of them are there so we can all discuss and draw up a treatment plan. This is the first time anyone has truely helped me. People have said they would be there for me but it never felt like it. Right now they are the only people I trust. With them being the first ones to help me I am afraid. I feel like they will screw me over. Should I be feeling this way? Has anyone else experienced this?

2007-04-24 04:09:35 · 4 answers · asked by b 4

My boyfriend is schizophranic and he is very distant and Not talking at all......Do you think its right his family s keeping me from him until he gets his MEDS. or are they doing the right thing......I would like to be there to support him while he's down.

2007-04-24 00:40:13 · 11 answers · asked by Lesha 1

2007-04-23 23:30:00 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

i keep having bad freams about a girl named carly and she dies every night in my head in the same way over and over again and she always writes me letters saying ehy dont you help me al** and i never do i just run.
its horrible.
i dont even no this girl and i have never met her before but in the dreams its like a different eppisode every night.
it carries on.
she is like my best friend in my head, is she real? what is bothering me?
help!!

2007-04-23 23:18:39 · 6 answers · asked by emo_hardcore_xox 1

I've already been diagnosed with PTSD and Depression. My mental health has been thrown between doctors and counsellors and therapists who have actually made me worse.

My old counsellor would tell me stories of his sex life and etc.

I'm just wondering how I would be diagnosed with this?
What are the symptoms?
How can they be treated?

Thank you

2007-04-23 23:14:57 · 10 answers · asked by ★☆✿❀ 7

he is 81 this year. he also has prostate cancer which hes getting chemo for.
Alzheimers is an awful disease, he doesnt go out anymore, cos he gets lost, he no longer phones out, as we think he doesnt remember how too.
Now, he cooks everything under the grill, forgets to wash and wears dirty clothes!
BUT THEN, when i speak to him, he sounds fine,denies all knowledge of getting lost etc..
its like hes a chameleon..the mental health nurse says hes better now than hes been.. but they cant see him acting while they are there.. is this normal alzheimers behaviour!

2007-04-23 22:56:24 · 16 answers · asked by tiny_lou1965 4

To overcome Depression and PTSD without seeing a councellor?

I'm suffering from both. I've tried councellors and they've all made my problems worse.

2007-04-23 22:32:41 · 7 answers · asked by ★☆✿❀ 7

2007-04-23 20:28:46 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Lately I seem to be having small anxiety attacks but only at night. I sleep with the tv on so I have something to distract me from the feeling. Has anyone experienced this? I could use some support.

2007-04-23 20:26:57 · 11 answers · asked by ? 3

I work as a part time librarian for two years. Sometimes, if my boss asked me to do extra hours, I would say yes. But some of the staff did not like me and they sabotaged my work and spread the rumor that I took money into my pocket. Then I told my boss that I was not suitable to do more hours that I promised to take, she said I did not have a good work spirit and report my absence to the HR. I told her that my colleague was trying to smear my charactor but she did not want to take that. She said it's all personal problems. So I told her and the HR staff that I had depression and could not take more hours than that. After that I was doing my part time hours as usual. The boss left because she too could not tolerate the horrible work that those colleagues did to her. But she still held the believe that I was doing wrong for not taking the hours as promised. Now I saw the other branch had a full time position, I applied for it but after they interviewed me, they said I am not suitable

2007-04-23 20:19:14 · 6 answers · asked by Denim 1

i should study very very hard it's for my university... i am studing 10 hours per a day now and i want to study MORE ....I NEED THIS (i should study 30 books what do you think will i be successful ???) i don't want to be hopeless what should i do?

2007-04-23 20:14:50 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

I started cutting again and i don't know how to tell my fiance. I am worried that he's going to blame it on himself. He's not the reason that i cut, but it's has something to do with it. How do I tell him? I have tried to stop and i can't. I cut on my stomach and he hasn't seen it yet. I am just affraid that he will and get really mad. SO I want to tell him before he sees it. help me please....

2007-04-23 19:23:16 · 14 answers · asked by sinoritalizz 1

I am paranoid i am also very negative i feel like ppl talking behind my back constantly. i have trusting issues. and i have this extreme gut feeling that something is going to happen and its very very bad. i think someone is going to die.

2007-04-23 19:02:55 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

So awhile back my girlfriend has perscribed zoloft for depression but she was only 14 at the time. On the front page of the zoloft webside it says for adults age 18 and up. This medicine messed her mind up and ever since then she has spells where she will get really scared, or not know where she is, and not even recognize me. She will talk with slow and slurred and get frustrated. Since then they diagnosted her with bipolar dissorder but it seems like shes more schizophrenic cuz her personality totaly changes. Shes been on so many medicines I think she should just be taken off of everything because she was depressed before but now she has so many more problems from side effects and having spells. Anyone know anything about this stuff? We've been dealing with it for a year now and its not getting any better. Serious answers please.

Did the doctor make a mistake? Any ideas what her symptoms could be? Thanks

2007-04-23 19:02:22 · 10 answers · asked by PW 3

Schizophrenia/Bipolar/Borderline Personality Disorder and all of the thought or mood afflictions covered by those classes.

>>> Serious Replies Only Please. <<<

What is thier occupation if they have one?
And, how long have they been at that job?
Give me whatever you can for information without being overly specific..
Thanks in advance for any of the replies that come :)

2007-04-23 18:10:34 · 19 answers · asked by lost_but_not_hopeless 5

After about 2 months, I am beginning to realize time is not healing the wounds. I need help. Do I seek a psychologist, psychiatrist, some other type of help professional.

I also have an HMO health insurance company (actually it is GHI HMO). To the best of your knowledge will I need a referral from my primary care physician? Right about now, I can't stand that doctor and have no desire to call him up and poor my heart out about needing counseling. (and I would check with my insurance company, but it is 1am, so I don't think they will answer.)

What do you look for in order to determine if you want to see this counselor. I don't want anyone to know I am going, so it's not like I can ask people if they know anything about them.
Finally, I really don't want my parents knowing I am in counseling, do you think I can avoid giving them my mailing address...and I don't want to give them my work one...they open my mail there.

2007-04-23 18:07:46 · 5 answers · asked by uhohwhatswrong 2

I had heard that vitamins such as Niacin, Thiamin, Biotin, B12 and B6 are helpful in fighting depression. I have been taking the stongest dosage I am allowed on everything but Thiamin( couldn't find it at my store). I SWEAR I am feeling better. I am not trying to create false hope for those who are suffering, but I wanted to pass this info along...because what can it hurt? And, my question is...have any of you tried vitamins and received positive results like I have? I know that the B12 complex didn't work for me...I have to take B12 alone, B6 alone, etc, because the B12 complex isn't strong enough doses. I read somewhere that they did studies and found that these sort of vitamins were said to help as much as anti-depressants. I am a believer! I really do believe it has worked for me. So, feedback please..anyone else had success with vits?

2007-04-23 17:50:38 · 6 answers · asked by ShineOn 4

2007-04-23 17:34:07 · 12 answers · asked by ayame_abarat 1

i get paranoid about two main things:
1) i'm sooo convinced that my ex (i'm bi), whom i haven't seen or talked to for two years is on the hunt for me. i feel like whenever friends call me, they are tapping my conversation and letting him hear it or recording it for him to hear it later. this has caused me to not wanna go into town, so i do my shopping and errands in a town 45 minutes away from mine. even little things, like gas. i'm just sooo convinced people are on his side and he's watching me and will pop out and attack me one day.
2) my school and work. for some reason i feel like my classmates and the staff are in on something i don't know about. when they conversate in front of me, i look for hidden meanings in their talk and i'm so convinced it's about me. i feel like everyone hates me and they all talk badly of me behind my back.
what kind of mental illness could this be? i have anxiety and panic attacks too.

2007-04-23 16:30:40 · 12 answers · asked by Craigy Boi 4

2007-04-23 16:17:01 · 5 answers · asked by Miss Casey 4

It's like sometimes I have out of body experiences. Im not sure how to explain it really.

2007-04-23 15:51:33 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

For the past couple of weeks I've been feeling really bad. Lately all I do is go to school and then come home and sleep. Days when I don't have to go to school all I do is lay in bed. I only come out of my bedrrom when I must, and I don't eat very much anymore. I don't know what's wrong with me. I just feel sad. I usually have a good relationship with family and friends, but now I avoid them because everything seems to make me feel even worse. I haven't talked to my parents about the way I feel. My mom thinks I sleep all day because I'm lazy, but I just have no will to get up and do things anymore.
I don't like talking with anyone about the way I feel, so how do I go about explaining this to my mom?
Please help me.

2007-04-23 14:57:18 · 7 answers · asked by Manx 5

i am being serious for those of you who might think this sounds stupid.
but i have suffered with this for years now and ive only just found out about 10 mins ago that it is an actual phobia!
im 95% sure this ia what is wrong with me, although the symptoms only apply when im alone, if someone is sleeping with me or in the house i am fine. for those of you who know anything about this, is this the same?
and where can i get help for this, its basically ruining my life

2007-04-23 14:08:01 · 5 answers · asked by mowgligurl 4

I hae had anxiety bad for the past few months and i dont know what to do about it . I dont do anything but wait for my husband to get home and i do nothing..I watch my baby ..I tried lexapro and it mader things worse...I want to feel liek a person again and work and do things. ...Im scared of everything and everytime i take medication i stop because the harsh side effects.

2007-04-23 14:04:12 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why is it that it is when I am sleeping that I worry the most?

When I somewhat asleep, unconscious, that is when I worry. Worry to the point that it makes my stomach churn. The feeling that you did something wrong and that your life is over. I think that when I get these intense feelings, I am in a dream-like state.

2007-04-23 13:45:47 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am right now. I'm trying to trust in God more and less in myself, but its just so hard, I think about my dad and how he is shunning me, and I think about other things that tend to lead me downhill, but just the other day, I was eating at a Chinese resturant, when I had some sweet and sour soup. Now this is going to sound wierd, but I felt one hundred percent better like I had never been depressed before, and I realized that I was lacking something in my diet! So my mom put me on the depression seminar and it is helping a lot, I'm trying not to worry about things to much. Even though I still do, but God has finally shown me what the problem is! Now I'm a little more relieved! Praise God!

2007-04-23 13:29:33 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've recently applied for social security income because since I was little I was in some slow classes, like in reading and math, and I'm currently on medication for anxiety and bi polar, plus paranoid skitso, which I'm not really that but the medication is for that too. I'm also in counsiling and about a year ago was on meth really bad and I'm still recovering. I haven't heard anything yet but I was wondering if that would be enough for me to qualify for SSI, and also, I'm single so about how much would I get a month?

2007-04-23 12:44:26 · 7 answers · asked by xhollyosx 1

My nephew is young and handsome and wants to have a relationship, his medication causes impotence and he has met a nice young lady and wants to lead a normal active sex life. He has to take his medication to keep him on track. I want to help him and do not know what to do. Is anyone out there in this situation and found an answer??

2007-04-23 12:27:50 · 6 answers · asked by Happy1 1

I've been dating my bf for four months. Everything's great--he's wonderful to me, and his parents really seem to like me. We often spend time at his parents home, and they're always genuinely kind and gracious toward me. There is one thing which bothers me, however. I was hospitalized for depression 1 1/2 years ago. My boyfriend knows this, but his parents and brother don't. I'm worried if they find out, they'll think I'm some sort of crazy person and will forbid me to see him. If we ever were to become really serious (getting engaged or married), I think it's possible they would want to call things off.
Should I tell them only if things get serious? They are great people, but I'm not sure how they'd react. I don't want them to feel I lied to them.
I went to get the help I needed, not to have this hang over my head like a dark cloud. I would hate it if I were judged for being diagnosed with a disease I never asked for, and is incredibly prevalent in this country.

2007-04-23 12:25:47 · 9 answers · asked by curiogirl84 2

They divorced about a year half ago after 18 years of marriage. She went back to him after six months of divorce. She realized she still loved him and thought that she could help him and change him. He is now more controlling than ever. He gets upset if she walks out of the room. He cries you don't love me, you want to be away from me. He abuses pills and becomes violent at times.He self mutilates himself by burning his arms with cigarettes. She knows that he needs medical help, but she doesn't know what to do or how to get him help. He will not do this on this own.
She just doesn't know how to make him. Any advise on how she can legally get him help without him getting angry? She believes he will feel like she is turning against him.

2007-04-23 11:49:00 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous