Mental Health - April 2007

I have a slow-learning disability and I didn't get my high school diploma when I graduated, instead I got a certificate, and I've done talked to one college and they demand a diploma, the bastards, I've been out of school for almost 3 years now and I have to go back, but I just want to go to school for either real estate or a business major, does anyone know if theres anything that can help me with this?

2007-04-27 14:52:10 · 7 answers · asked by ? 2

if i can't touch a toilet seat or a door knob with my bare hands and then proceed to eat my sandwich without washing my hands first?

2007-04-27 14:46:45 · 19 answers · asked by just me 2

i always feel like crying and feel agitated. i binge. I hate when my mom talks and gives me advice about my work/anthing. I have terrible moods where i want to die and i feel empty. I know its depression but i dont know why i always feel like crying and empty also i feel like biting or squeesing something really had and i feel trapped in a box can any1 help me by telling me what i have?

2007-04-27 14:35:54 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

i'm 12 years old and my older sis is alway saying "to bad i have to live with you when you have PMS" when i tick her off.

2007-04-27 14:26:24 · 15 answers · asked by Morgy 2

I have mood swings for no reason. I just wake up and feel really angry and irritated at everyone. But I don't have huge highs or lows. I have chosen to stop drinking alcohol as I thought that might make it worse but it doesn't seem to make any difference. I am really over it, I just want to wake up happy and appreciate life as i have a very good life. If I want it, but it is not happening, does it mean it is chemical

2007-04-27 14:25:53 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have a long plane ride coming up soon. My Dr. gave me Niravan to help calm my nerves, since I'm clausterphobic. But, can I be too nervous for it to work? I have never taken it before.

2007-04-27 14:17:34 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

You may want to look at this and then tell me why us Christians should not be upset about schools refusing to teach creationism when they are made to preach this stuff --http://www.massresistance.org/media/video/brainwashing.html
What are your feelings?

2007-04-27 14:14:27 · 16 answers · asked by Midge 7

Has anyone been on Wellbutrin and Prozac and still had orgasms and a sex drive? If so, how much of each medication?

2007-04-27 13:40:15 · 6 answers · asked by Matt G 1

He is in late middle ages, retired and not in the best of heath and tells me he is "all right" but I am worried about him. what can I do?

2007-04-27 13:37:58 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-27 13:20:27 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

College was an emotional roaller coaster for me this semester and I went from As or Fs. I was said to be suffering from depression, but I feel that my state of mind was a lie. I felt like shhit for more than two months. I don't feel guity for coming up with so many excuses. I don't know if I feel guilty. More apathetic, even though this wasn't the person I was. I don't know if I convinced myself that I am sick and I became sick. I've told my friends and professors that I'm sick and they believe me. i sometimes believe myself too, but at others, I think I'm fooling the whole world. SOmetimes I don't know what's real anymore. I'd like to sleep a long happy sleep. I use to be happy and look good. Now, I don't give a damn.

2007-04-27 13:18:59 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

How could I tell?

2007-04-27 13:08:30 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm tired all the time,I'm in a bad mood a lot and I don't really enjoy the things I used to love. Do I have depression or do I just work to hard ? I mean I do do a lot of things...
what do you guys think?

2007-04-27 13:06:11 · 6 answers · asked by Igloo Fondo 1

2007-04-27 13:03:27 · 17 answers · asked by Gypsy Gal 6

Every symptom of depression I have. I have so many reasons to be depressed I don't even know where to start. I'd really hate to burden my parents by asking them to take me to the doctors. I also feel as though If I told them I'd be looken upon as a faluire or werid or maybe they wouldn't even believe me. I'm 13 and have been depressed for 2 years now and I'm afriad If I countinue to not seek help I might have an emotional breakdown. How do I tell them I'm depressed, I have no choice.

2007-04-27 12:47:34 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

My adoptive son has recently been diagnosed with both PTSD and Conduct disorder due to his abuse. Raeding the definition of Conduct Disorder does not fit him except for his outburst of anger. Can the two be interelated ?

2007-04-27 12:27:00 · 3 answers · asked by lar89ryk 1

I know I'm depressed, I have know for quite some time and everyone else knows as well. But the idea of going to a shrink and taking meds... its seems fake to me. Its seems like I'm running from myself. Is this a rational way of thinking?

2007-04-27 12:21:06 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have been having horrible anxiety and suffering from post-partum depression. Previously, I was on 40mg Prozac, but my dr. increased that to 60mg and gave me .5 mg Xanex to take when needed. Has anyone tried Xanex and have it help? I'm scared about being doped up and he said that I may have increased anxiety in the beginning. I just feel so hopeless and incredibly ansy.

2007-04-27 11:48:01 · 9 answers · asked by Kquestion 2

I had hopes of going to grad school and at one time I was very determined to make good grades, but this semester, I have been overwhelmed with depression and anxiety so much that it has affected my ability to concentrate and think critically. I am usually an A and B student, I did have a 3.6 overall GPA, but now I know that it will fall significantly after this semester's final grades are calculated. I managed to pull a 3.9 GPA last semester, but this semester I am expecting below a 3.0, maybe in the low 2.0 range. I feel like a total failure, and I feel like my entire life has been ruined. Sometimes I feel like I can't go on. Should I drop out of school for a semester and concentrate on my mental health or just keeping going and make below average grades?

2007-04-27 11:04:53 · 15 answers · asked by uoflentropy2009 1

Well, I'm 17/male and have been taking 60mg of Prozac for Severe Depression for the duration of about a year now and following a fairly productive and successful life, my depression has caused all that to take a sharp nose dive. I'm not working to form on anything, I have been no use to my football club, my 8 A-level subjects have sufferered severly, and worst of all I'm too tired to do anything, at any time of the day. While I'm awake I feel like I'm a prisoner in my own mind which has been redecorated to resemble a torture chamber and the rest of the time I sleep.

For anyone who is a professional in the field of depression, suffers from or has suffered from Depression, A little support and info other than that which I get from my elusive psychiatrist (Yes I am seeing one) - would be greatly appreciated. How did you alleviate these feelings of chronic fatigue, the twitches all over (may be something else) and the sheer lack of enthusiasm for life? Thank you in advance.

2007-04-27 10:43:35 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I just started Cymbalta 6 days ago. I am already at 60 mgs. I already feel a positive difference, but I am so tired- I am sleeping alot. I also feel my body jerking as I am sleeping. It is wierd. I am hoping the tiredness goes away. I really don't want to do anything but sleep. Has anyone experienced this?

2007-04-27 10:24:27 · 6 answers · asked by aquarias 1

I am very dependant on my sleep. If i go to sleep at 11 o'clock or later, I cannot function the next day. If I have a few nights of really late bedtimes, I get really sick. My friend said she can go to sleep at 2 o'clock and be perfectly fine. My parents are very strict with bedtimes, and I always went to sleep early when I was younger. Could this be the reason for my desperate need for sleep?

2007-04-27 10:14:19 · 4 answers · asked by Milo T 2

I don't feel like I am living anymore, I feel like I exist where I wake up every day, take care of my kids, go to work, etc. , getting through the day but I don't feel like I am really living life to the fullest. I love my children more than life itself but they are the only things that keep me going. Besides them, I am miserable and sometimes I just want to be alone. Does anyone feel the same way, I feel so lonely sometimes.

2007-04-27 08:55:50 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I don't have anybody- no family and no friends that care about me enough to even call me. I'm in so physical and emotional pain and I've hung in as long as I could, but unless I can talk to some people and get some sort of support, I'm not going to make it. I just don't have the strength and my heart hurts so much. There's just so much pain and I can't make it go away. To be left here in so much pain all alone day after day. I've asked God for strength, but now I just want to go home. I'm so tired of fighting. I have so much chronic pain and the doctors don't know what to do. It looks like I might never get better, which means never leaving this house, never going for a walk, never driving again, never being able to go back to church. Just being here alone with my cat. I can't take it anymore. Please someone help me. I just need a friend to get through this.

2007-04-27 08:54:03 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

my husband is in the army and away for 4 months. Just lately i have been feeling really down all the time i dont sleep and have lot weight. I lost my little boy 11 years ago when he was 5 weeks old but just lately i cant stop thinking about him and have nightmares nearly every night. My family live in england and i miss them really much i only get to see them once a year has we live in germany. I only have 1 friend and she has just moved away.

2007-04-27 08:29:14 · 15 answers · asked by mandy 1

My father has fronto temporal dementia.

He is only 60 years of age. He can't communicate to us. He doesn't speak to us and finds simple tasks hard to do.

He walks around the house and keeps trying to get out of the house. He seems bored but what can we do? We take him out in the car as he likes it but can't give him anything to do in the house as he just walks away.
Any suggestions? I love my dad and want to help him. I asked him to pass me a newspaper 5 or 6 times nice & slowly as I thought he might understand but he just just shouted really loud and clenched his fists. In anger at himself for not understanding. I think It's Pick's disease.

2007-04-27 08:00:57 · 6 answers · asked by youronmyfoot 2

Just curious, as to how many people have been dumped out of a relationship, because of being mentally ill? Did they leave you when you were in the hospital? Did they stick around for that and then leave you? Or has your lover stuck by you the whole way through.

Do you think being ill has driven people way from you? Does this, inturn make it hard to trust others? Just curious, as to to other's experience!

Please discuss and share :)

2007-04-27 07:33:59 · 5 answers · asked by Spider in the Salt 2

Does anyone know the usual treatment options for someone with passive aggressive disorder and sever OCD?

2007-04-27 07:12:26 · 5 answers · asked by portiaraylee 2

We have never faced this before. We could not figure why he lost his scholarship, lost his place at Indiana University, mood has changed (goes balistic if anyone brings up or talks about something he disagrees with), is going through money like water (and it's not his own money)! Mom had an idea when he lived at home but he always put her mind to rest by reassuring her that he wasn't doing this drug. Now that he has lived away from home for one and one-half years, we notice a hugh difference in his personality, his appearance, etc. He is suffering with anxiety attacks and sees a therapist but I don't think the therapist is going down the right road with him. His personality changes in the drop of a hat and he has actually scared his parents to death with his screaming in the face to them. How can we as his parents speak to him without igniting the bomb in him. How can we get to his physcian or therapist and give them a "heads up" on this problem. He is worth saving!

2007-04-27 06:59:44 · 12 answers · asked by joie 6

I want to work, but my 18mo. old is having to receive treatments and testing for a rare condition. On top of that, I'm going through a very nasty divorce. DHR says I have to get a job, but I'm so stressed out that I just don't think I can hold down a 9-5 job right now. I've started having anxiety attacks. Besides, who would hire someone that has to take time off regularly to go to the hospital w/ their child?

2007-04-27 06:59:14 · 8 answers · asked by supermom 1