Mental Health - April 2007

I have to write a paper about how an addiction has effected
my life, and i have cut, and i was addicted, and alot of my friends have cut too. but i don't know if cutting is really technically addicting.

2007-04-22 12:49:32 · 16 answers · asked by oo 3

2007-04-22 12:44:10 · 5 answers · asked by Angel in Captivity 4

2007-04-22 12:42:32 · 9 answers · asked by ஐKatஐ 3

I think my wife is bipolar and needs to get professional help. But she denies that she has a problem. I am afraid for the two children that we have. She has been mentally and physically abusive to me and the children. One day, I walked into the house and she had my 3 year old daughters face buried in the sofa and my daughter was trying her hardest to get away. She told me that she was trying to rid my daughter of a demon. She also drinks everyday and sometimes drinks while driving with our children in the car. I need help,but do not know where to turn.

2007-04-22 12:39:20 · 19 answers · asked by blossom_48_2000 1

I've tried several different anti-depressants over the past 9 years. None have really had any negative side effects other than lowered sex drive and Paxil would make me extremely irritable when I drank alcohol (which of course is my own fault since you are supposed to avoid it). But with the Cymbalta (which I'm taking for depression and anxiety) my anxiety has increased about a million times over. I keep reading horror stories online about how it makes you suicidal. I'm not to that point but thoughts do run through my head. I told my doctor I was worried about the extreme increase in anxiety and she told me to keep taking it and prescribed some Xanax as well.

Is there any particular reason this drug is affecting me about a million times worse than the 7 or so other medications I've tried? People are also talking about how horrible the withdrawal is; I stopped all my other meds cold turkey with no problems, now I'm really worried about getting off this crap.

2007-04-22 12:30:18 · 8 answers · asked by hmg 2

sometimes for no reason at all i get really angry and depressed.. like uncontrollable anger, and it can last for weeks at a time, whereas other times i am really happy about everything. i've started cutting and binging and purging. is this clinical depression?

2007-04-22 12:25:24 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-22 12:05:32 · 14 answers · asked by Dale K. 1

i find the drugs prescribed oppressive

2007-04-22 11:55:15 · 9 answers · asked by ? 4

my parents think im crazy. i cut myslef b/c i wasent thinking
i been thinking of sucide b/c i cant choose over my love or my family it diffcult b/c i love both and either way i go i hurt someone os i just want everyone to be happy

2007-04-22 11:25:45 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

Racist thoughts are irrational like phobias...is it a form of xenophobia or...?

2007-04-22 11:08:02 · 11 answers · asked by Daisy Indigo 6

I haven't had the easiest life, and all my life people have said i over-react. I was abducted and raped as a child, was in an abusive relationship when i was 14, got pregnant at 14 and miscarried (from abusive partner) - and then again when i was 15. I've had councelling, but it hasn't helped. I find it hard to physically talk about any of it. People tell me just to 'get over it'- but it's not that easy for me. I see a young mum with a baby and i break inside. Someone yells or screams and my heart goes into my stomach. I can't be touched. I have constant nightmares/flashbacks. Is this normal? I'm 19 now

2007-04-22 11:05:14 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

I tend to just be stupid on a sunday ..

2007-04-22 10:24:12 · 7 answers · asked by jizzumonkey 6

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2007-04-22 09:57:24 · 18 answers · asked by troutpotato 4

was dating a guy for three months.. he was very into me, (called me day after meeting, asked for date next day,etc..) the few time we hung out i was my normal sweet self.. but i found out that my favorit closest aunt was terminally ill so i shut down. i never told him what was wrong, but i guess he stayed around hoping i'd be how i was before. eventually he said he couldn't take me treating him like that anymore and broke up with me.. i didn't call him for a few weeks, but then my aunt died and i sent him an email explaining i was acting weird bc my aunt was sick. he didn't respond right away so i flipped out and bombarded him w/text messages..(crazy i know) he never ever did respond. a girlfriend of mine asked him what was his deal and he said i was annoying the heck out of him with my bs. i know for a fact that he doesn't have another girlfriend, so he honestly was tired of me being rude/cold.

so why when i reached out he didn't believe me/respond?

2007-04-22 09:09:13 · 6 answers · asked by noway 1

2007-04-22 09:07:09 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

From the smallest to the worst addictions possible, what is the best possible way of getting out of 'any' addiction?

2007-04-22 08:13:56 · 7 answers · asked by Marriot_Plum23 1

I was Dx'd w/ GAD in 2002. I work in mental health as a case manager for people with severe and persistent mental illness, it is a job I do well at.
I have weekly supervisory meetings with my supervisor. After my meeting this week, my supervisor mentioned that everytime she talks to me I appear anxious and nervous. She said that this concerns her because she does not want me to get burned out. She wanted to make sure that I was taking care of myself because she says that if I don't take care of myself, I can't take care of clients. I told her that I was not burned out at all and I never expressed any anxiety when dealing with clients. I only experienced anxiety around supervisors because I want to do a good job and sometimes get nervous and think that I am going to look bad. She seemed to be okay with that, but I have been super paranoid about it. I know that if I disclose my illness there is a chance I can lose my job even though it is illegal. Discrimination is very hard to prove.

2007-04-22 08:04:23 · 10 answers · asked by Mary 2

i am told that i am bi-polar but really i don't understand the whole aspect of it. i need some serius help from some who are going thru it!!!!!!!!!!!

2007-04-22 07:56:52 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have O.C.D. and have beentaking Luvox 100mg twice a day for about 5yrs.The problem is somethings are better but now I feel like im out of control.Nothing is ever good enough for me.It does not matter how hard the kids or my wife try im never happy.I like things a certain way and if its not exact I cant control how it makes me feel.I try hard but sometimes just blow my mouth off and it hurts them.I have never got physical,but I know verbal is just as bad.I expect things to be how I want all the time.I want to feel satisfied,I never do.I have rituals that I have to do daily or I feel like im going nuts.I cant get things off my mind unless I do them.Please any advice would help.Even someone just to talk to about this.My email is porkchophaynes2007@yahoo.com if you can help.

2007-04-22 07:47:10 · 2 answers · asked by porkchophaynes2007 2

"Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage."
~Edward Reginald Frampton

2007-04-22 07:09:46 · 5 answers · asked by LadeeBug Buddha 3

i was dating a guy for three months.. he was very into me, (called me day after meeting, asked for date next day,etc..) the few time we hung out i was my normal sweet self.. but i found out that my favorit closest aunt was terminally ill so i shut down. i never told him what was wrong, but i guess he stayed around hoping i'd be how i was before. eventually he said he couldn't take me treating him like that anymore and broke up with me.. i didn't call him for a few weeks, but then my aunt died and i sent him an email explaining i was acting weird bc my aunt was sick. he didn't respond right away so i flipped out and bombarded him w/text messages.. he never ever did respond. a girlfriend of mine asked him what was his deal and he said i was annoying the heck out of him with my bs. i know for a fact that he doesn't have another girlfriend, so he honestly was tired of me being rude/cold. so why when i reached out he didn't believe me/respond? is he

2007-04-22 06:45:10 · 10 answers · asked by Lisa L 1

I have to go see a head doc. Monday afternoon for depression. I am kinda scared. What should I expect. Whats going to happen there. I dont like talkin to people I know how is talking to a stranger going to help?

2007-04-22 06:23:25 · 3 answers · asked by turtle 2

Okay, if someone is uninsured and suffers from severe depression, what can they do about it? Medication alone would cost around $100 a month and that's not including the doctor's visit to get another prescription.

2007-04-22 06:12:06 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-22 05:14:38 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

No matter how dangerouse or stuped your fear is I want to know about it trust me my fear is stuped ime scared of spas and filters so what are you scared of???

2007-04-22 01:22:00 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am depressed. I feel really aolone. There isnt anyone I can connect to, or open up to. I have friends, but I dont have the best friend, the true friend. I dont have a boyfriend. My family....NO WAY!!!
so now what do I do? I dont want to drink because that isnt gonna do anything to help me.
I hate this, it sux!! help!!

2007-04-22 00:35:16 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

i've been on for hours some nights/days and it's affecting my life negatively.

2007-04-21 21:42:18 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

In the treatment of schizophrenic patients who suffer extrapyramidal side effects, is this caused by the reduction in dopamine in the eps, which then creates an over abundance of acetycholine in the muscles? Or is it due to an over abundance in the EPS, which in turn effects the muscles?

2007-04-21 21:00:10 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

When I feel sleepy I take a nap but could not sleep. I seemed to have trouble sleeping at night. The sleepiness prevents me from doing things smoothly.This has happened a few months so far and I don't have any interests in anything in life and the thoughts of committing suicide are just around me.Is this something like depressionPlease help me to get out of this situation and tell me a cheapest way to treat this as I am in financial trouble

2007-04-21 18:15:10 · 10 answers · asked by An Optimistic 1

Lately, my parents have been thinking that I am whacked out and are ready to send me to a therapist. My guidance counselor asked me if I was smoking pot the other day. (which I don't) My G.P.A. has went from a 4.0 to a 2.4 (A's to D's) and I have lost all caring towards the future as far as college and other long-term plans are concerned.

I have been feeling out of it for awhile now. Sometimes I am really hyper and over-dramatic and laugh at stupid things, sometimes things that I am thinking about and not what is being said, so it looks kind of weird to other people. Sometimes I am really sad and just want to crawl into a hole and never come out. I have cut myself and felt very guilty about it after the fact. Sometimes I get paranoid and let my imagination take over, almost hallucinating at times.

I don't know what is wrong with me but I think I do have a problem. However, when my parents ask what is wrong, I cannot bring myself to say anything.

2007-04-21 18:12:34 · 14 answers · asked by ZAK ATTAK 4