Mental Health - May 2007

I watch t.v. a lot. And on the shows I like I pretend I am one of the characters. And before going to sleep I think about them especially the lead actor and actress. And the only thing that will ease me is when I know that they are dating each other. What should I do?

2007-05-02 20:06:13 · 10 answers · asked by elizabeth 2

or do you think addiction is DIFFERENT from a disease. Do you think they are perhaps using the wrong word when they say DISEASE or do you think it is accurate?

2007-05-02 19:12:13 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have a few mine are:

-I have to have some type of noise going on like a loud fan, or a dehumidifier
-I cover up no matter what the temperature.
-None of my body parts stick out over the bed.
-The room has to be pitch black (or close to it)

2007-05-02 18:48:04 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

My friend has social phobia and claustrophobia. He avoids many situations because they give him panic attacks and extreme anxiety. He is planning on spending almost $600 for four sessions of hypnotherapy to cure it. Will hypnotherapy cure this? I thought hypnotherapy was more for weight loss and smoking. I don't want him to spend $600 for nothing. Thanks!

2007-05-02 17:50:49 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-02 17:09:17 · 6 answers · asked by Alvin L 1

I think that my germophobia caused me to have OCD. I ritualize because of my fear of germs. It's become an everyday thing now, and it's so annoying. I feel like Jack Nicholson in As Good as it Gets. How do I stop ritualizing??

Today kinda opened my eyes to my problems..I had to go to the doctors for a check up and had to do the dreaded urine sample. I NEVER use public bathrooms..even if I'm dying to go. The whole time I was in the public bathroom I felt anxious..my hands started shaking too. Why did that happen to me? I had to wash my hands a few times but it really didn't relieve my anxiety. How can I stop this??

Are there any alternatives to medication and psychologists? I don't really like either.

Thanks in advance for any help I may receive.

2007-05-02 17:06:45 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

well the hardest thing for me was to keep up with my time in the month when i will have my period.



well i guess u have some hardship becoming a teenager.
tell me
want to know more

2007-05-02 16:26:58 · 22 answers · asked by Tee$$$$$$ 2

It's so jumbled up with thoughts & I'm so overwhelmed that I can't meet all my obligations & appointments.

2007-05-02 16:13:50 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

So my mom has been in and out of a loop for about 2 years now. We believe it's depression, but she won't go to a doctor or a therapist no matter how much we support her. She drinks a lot and sits up in her room. She often comes out just to vent and yell at my father for events that happened years ago that really just make no sense. Then she can do a complete 180 in seconds and start crying and talking about why she is so sad.

I bieleve she knows she is depressed but refuses to get help. Our family has tried, and her friends have tried as well. We don't know if something is chemically or mentally wrong with her. Whenever we try to help she pushes us away and then says that we don't help her. Sometimes she gets into these moods and we don't believe she has been drinking.

She isn't tearing my family apart, but it's getting to the point where I just want to rip out all my hair, because she says she wants help... and then turns around and says she can do it on her own.

HELP!!

2007-05-02 15:56:56 · 10 answers · asked by Norrec B 1

for over half a year ive thought that almost all of my friends/workmates dont really like me and only hang out with me at partys because they dont want to be nasty, alot of stuff like this actually i think it might be just be paranoid but i feel it everywhere =/

2007-05-02 15:26:41 · 2 answers · asked by jamie` s 1

the work environment.

2007-05-02 15:08:56 · 4 answers · asked by kelly y 1

for life? i mean.. i wasnt a heavy smoker.. about a year ago I smoked less than 10 times.. but i feel a lot lazier this year ... Will I ever recover?

2007-05-02 14:58:37 · 5 answers · asked by Fuck you Yahoo Answer Staff 3

I think my son might have Asperger's, he fits a lot of the criteria. However, he is also dealing with a lot of anger. I am wondering if his trouble associating with his peers may be causing the anger.

2007-05-02 14:42:04 · 8 answers · asked by tbdaulton 1

I am SUPER ANGRY right now. I'm gonna go work out...I usually paint or something else...but I really need to blow off some steam. I hate that I got rid of the punching bag. What do you do?

2007-05-02 13:18:39 · 6 answers · asked by Stephanie 4

Just took my first Lexapro two hours ago. Not supposed to work for 2 weeks. Past the horrible nausea. Now my mind just hurts. I'm bewildered now. Confused. Sad. Disconnected. Help!

2007-05-02 13:08:29 · 6 answers · asked by goddess 1

I am sure that men do it too, but I have never heard of or seen one. I have met plenty of women that do it, but no men... any answers?

2007-05-02 11:39:18 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

in local newspaper I read where British doctors did brains scans on volunteers given small doses of two of the active ingredients of cannabis and says its triggers psychotic symptoms, (newspaper didn't say anything about scans after they smoked the marijuana) doses of CBD and THC and smoking the weed are not the same. But the doctors says marijuana causes psychotic symptoms, where are the studies that compart marijuana effects with what smoking tobacco, and what alcohol does to u. What psychotic symptoms is tobacco and alcohol have?

2007-05-02 11:29:37 · 8 answers · asked by hotgrandmother 1

I'm doing a report on it and I can't find it...

2007-05-02 11:28:51 · 3 answers · asked by Kaylie 2

2007-05-02 11:14:19 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Ok, I was once in love with a guy who had cancer. I stayed with him all the way through it. As he was almost completely in remission, I started having hallucinations and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Because of this, he left me. What is the difference? I'm not a violent person. I dont want to hurt anyone. I dont understand. It was once said "Schizophrenia is to psychiatry as Cancer is to medicine". Why do people with mental illnesses get treated differently? We didnt do anything to deserve our illness! We didnt choose it. We're sick. We're not demon possessed. We need love and support and understanding. I know that no one can truly know what its like unless they also have a mental illness. But I do expect people to treat me as though I am still a person with feelings, emotions, and opinions. I am posting this for everyone who is mentally ill and is treated the same way as I am.

2007-05-02 10:24:47 · 9 answers · asked by pocketful_of_sunshine 4

2007-05-02 09:58:11 · 9 answers · asked by Sylvia 1

He has drank all my life. my mom never knew him not drinking. It's a case a day now for the past 5 years or so. He had a routine physical bout 3 years ago and they said he had the beginning signs of pancreatitis and should quit drinking immediately and come back in 6 months to check if the symptoms and signs improved at all. Since then, his drinking has consistently increased and he has avoided the dr at all costs. He is not the same person at all. He doesn't remember long enough to have a conversation. He is getting senile almost at age of 45. He keeps a steady job and makes good money, he misses days and mornings here and there but makes it enough to stay employed with a state job. the second he gets home though he sucks two down like he's waited all day for that. He won't talk about it with anyone, is in denial and drinks and stays by himself in our family's garage all night long and weekends. I want to commit him through the county to an impatient RX program.Is this possible?

2007-05-02 09:54:16 · 21 answers · asked by sarahsariesarah 1

2007-05-02 09:53:12 · 4 answers · asked by ♥ 1

He can be the most loving person in the world and next he is acting wierd hallucinations, delusions and violence. Just out of the blue and the next day he won't remeber a thing, reallyhe will not remember a thing. I think that his biological mother had it she lost it when he was 5 and things were never then same - she still does strange things from what we hear.
so can it be that he has schizophrenia? I don't know anything about it, how would I find out and what can I do?
Take a look at my other question if you like...

2007-05-02 09:38:25 · 8 answers · asked by Rosie 4

Can bi-polar disorder be managed by diet instead of meds?

2007-05-02 09:27:31 · 8 answers · asked by PartyTimeBBW N 2

I self harm i started when i was 7/8 (i'm 15) to cope with being bullied & the stress from my dancing i managed to stop for a while as people began to notice that i was becoming more accident prone as i broke my arms & fingers. I started again about 3 1/2 years ago, people have seen me at scool banging my head against the desk repeateadly but they just think i'm weird i know i need to tell someone but i don't know who i can trust or how to tell anyone. I recently found out one of my friends used to cuit & i've been talking with her about her peoplems & getting her to talk to someone. I want to do the same but i don;t know who to tell, I don't want to talk to my friend because she's already going through a lot at the moment. It's been getting worse i've felt suicidal recently & talked to an online councellor who helped me get through it. My friend knows i've been suicidal about 2 years ago. I want to talk to someone who will understand me and not think i'm attention seeking.

2007-05-02 09:21:49 · 12 answers · asked by Rach W 1

It all started about a year ago when i was still in middle school. I went to public school and everyday at school was hell for me. I was failing most of my classes i was being bullied and i suffered threw a very long and painful anxiety and depression. It got to the point where i wanted to die and thats when my mom finally pulled me out and started homeschooling me. The problem is even today every time i think about about the past and how bad i was feeling it brings tears to my eyes and i feel like im going to have a panic attack. I enjoy homeschooling now, its just i have this scare on heart of what has happend to me in the past. I hope im making scense... I just want to know what i should do to help me move on with my life.

~Thanks

2007-05-02 08:48:27 · 5 answers · asked by Krissa D 3

feel all blue ever since i came back from hospital.i went there for severe stomach aches and they saw a cut on my hand and thought i tried to hurt myself and tricked my parents to send me to the phycatric ward.. i yelled and so did my parents and they released me. that was the best hospital in my city but people ussually dont go there because they donnot treat people well and good people come out as ill , broken , mad people from there
now i feel that i m mad, i am the only daughter of my parents and i have no one to talk to.. i dont know what to do... i m lost.. all blue.. cant forget the hospital and those mad people..

u can also add me on ana.cutie@yahoo.com if you cannot answer here

2007-05-02 08:02:03 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was recently prescribed 50 mg Zoloft for depression while having other tests run. I took a whole pill the first day and ended up nauseated all night. The second day I took half a pill and everything seemed okay until the next morning when all the feelings set in again. I was thinking of taking a half in the morning and the other half about mid day. Is this a good idea or not?

2007-05-02 07:49:47 · 14 answers · asked by CJ 1

If your a bit dissatisfied with the way it all turned out but don't quite have the energy to start again just yet will anti-depressants help you get over the feeling of failure and motivate you to try again or will they just make you less emotional?

2007-05-02 07:48:26 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous