Mental Health - May 2007

I have schizophrenia and have been on SSDI since 1998. The medication I take costs $2,500 per month and Medicare takes care of that. Should I take the good job for $50,000 annual income and give up Medicare and prescription benefits. Right now I have an annual imcome of $16,000. What should I do?

2007-05-28 18:36:51 · 7 answers · asked by MissKathleen 6

What are the symptoms of chronic depression, how can someone become so deeply depressed so suddenly, how can someone get back out of it without medication?

2007-05-28 17:17:31 · 9 answers · asked by Molly R 2

hi am markita am 15 everyday i cry an i used to cut my self but i dont anymore i feel as i might start again i think of my ex again an again i mizz him its like once ur single u want someone to bring that touch back that feeling i try not to be all out there but i want love now an if it doesnt come am goin to take it i feel so lonely an i dont know y i cry so much i feel so alone an i have lots of probs like angry an i get mad really quick an jeousy alot i want to talk to someone before i go back to cutting but i cant tell my mom she wouldnt understand nobody does i tryed telling the skool consulor but she threated me that she would tell my mom who can i talk to who can i tell i feel like am goin to kill my self i tryed cuting my risk i need help i feel it but who can i trust do u kno wat i can do a consulor somethen i even have a suicde hotline on my fone juz if i get that way i feel like my world is falling an am sliping away 4rm life

2007-05-28 16:41:09 · 8 answers · asked by markita n 1

I've been led to believe that I am either autistic or have Asperger's syndrome. Where do I need to go to get tested or something to see whether or not I have the disorder?

2007-05-28 15:51:07 · 6 answers · asked by Matt U 1

I've suffered from depression for over eight years. I meditate on the positive, pray daily for healing, and attend several Al-Anon meetings a week. I aslo go to see Psychiatrist and Psychologist, but I only get so far and I fall hard into deep pain and despair. What do I do now?

2007-05-28 15:46:44 · 11 answers · asked by ? 6

Sometimes I feel like I want to talk to a psychiatrist. However, I feel like if I ask people will look at me differently or fear that there is something wrong with me. I don't think there is anything seriously wrong with me, I just stress a lot about normal problems. Should I try a psychiatrist, or should I confide more in a friend? I worry that some of the things I say to my friend will change her opinion of me. What shoul I do?

2007-05-28 15:44:57 · 8 answers · asked by Mad Hatter 2

I have had thoughts of suicide, and sometimes I've felt like everything was hopeless and that I couldn't move on.

But my dad can be a worrywart too. Is it in my genes or could I have a problem?

2007-05-28 15:22:23 · 14 answers · asked by Geekier Than Thou 4

I have been reading up on Lexapro on the internet and nearly every comment is negative. I have been prescribed it for depression and am feeling better already although I have only been on it for 5 days (10mg). I am reading stuff like weight gain, electric shock feelings in your head, etc. Does anyone have anything positive about Lexapro as now I'm quite scared about taking this drug. I hate the feeling I have when I am not on it though. Am I doing the wrong thing taking this. Help very unsure now. I know it affects everyone different, but I am really looking for some good stories to even out my feelings now of doubt to continue with the medication.

2007-05-28 14:44:52 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

i see things not really present,like pen on table or table cloth which i am thinking it was there just before or like something on the workbench which i think was there just now....
dose this mean some thing need urgent attenssion

2007-05-28 14:29:07 · 10 answers · asked by newdsigner 1

will antidepressents effect intelligence???

2007-05-28 14:22:49 · 8 answers · asked by newdsigner 1

I am autistic and I'm always being made fun of at school, and people call me fag, retard, and a******. I don't know why they would do this, do you know why people would bully autistics like that?

2007-05-28 13:27:04 · 6 answers · asked by Maninblack 1

I randomly get animalistic rage to kill people, physically harm people, shred them to pieces in horrid ways. I get these morbid thoughts about murder/mutilation, and a powersurge of pure energy that keeps me wired. I take on a crazed attitude, pacing about, cranking up my ipod, pretty much holding myself back from what I'm drawn to doing. I feel like I have to get away or just keep walking, even when I don't know where I'm going or it's too late to go anywhere. I feel like a beast out for a kill. I get a bloodlust and a desire to kill, but I control it. I get it sometimes at school, sometimes at night, and after church especially. I can't help it and I don't try and induce it; it just happens. I don't take any meds and don't have any mental disorders. Is it my imagination, or is it something else?

2007-05-28 12:36:47 · 18 answers · asked by [Wolfie] 2

just grabbing some clothes and taking off,start over somewhere knew?

2007-05-28 12:12:37 · 7 answers · asked by Hello to Danger 1

2007-05-28 11:57:40 · 2 answers · asked by niki b 1

Ever since adolescence I've been having a weird attitude to food. Either I overeat or I starve myself. Right now I am on an overeating phase, and I don't know if I have the energy to muster myself towards eating less, because I know where I will end up.

I have trichotillomania, schizotypal p.d., and depression. I have very low impulse control, and I do very easily get unhealthy habits. I have been struggling against trichotillomania for many years, and if you have it you will now how difficult it is. It is like kicking a drug addiction. Just as difficult as kicking my eating disorder.

I don't want to spend the rest of my years carefully planning what I eat, because it will turn into an obsession, and spin out of control. All I want is a carefree attitude to food. Even though I don't have a diagnosis, answer the question as if it were: "is it possible for someone with an eating disorder to ever get a normal attitude to food again?"

2007-05-28 10:59:00 · 2 answers · asked by Nina 2

It all started with a situation last November.. when a lot of self-esteem/ confidence issues had been building up, and a guy who I had a mini-crush on that'd danced with me and given me attention ended up thinking my best friend was hot. It killed me and triggered a four month depression of self-hate/ mutilation and confusion. I felt used by that guy for one night and people had always told me that I was prettier than my best friend. However, by four months, I had started coming out of that phase, and I also found out that this guy who I'd thought used me thought I was hot but he and my friend sort of had this thing now. And I didn't care anymore!

But after these few months, I can't be the same. I feel a whole lot better, but everytime someone thinks my best friend is hot or cute, I get filled with this anxiety and get put into that depressed state. I think it's an inferiority complex I developed but I don't understand any of it or how to get out of it. It only happens with her too!

2007-05-28 10:58:24 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

I can't find a good place.

2007-05-28 10:54:26 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

hHow long have you been using it and what results has it given you?

2007-05-28 10:18:15 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-05-28 09:50:55 · 14 answers · asked by divinemadness 4

i have one

"it is not the event that effects your life it is the way you deal with it"

i have it printed on to bright pink laminated in places and when i feel down my husband texts it to me it makes me say to myself no matter what happens

"does it really really really really matter"

9 times out of ten when i think about it hard ok so i made a mistake at work or spoke out of line but it really isnt life or death is it


the answer is usally NO then i say oh well i can get on with it now


do you have something like this that helps keep you going

thank you


xxx

2007-05-28 09:14:37 · 18 answers · asked by vici 4

i have one

"it is not the evvent that effects your life it is the way you deal with it"

i have it printed on to bright pink laminated in places and when i feel down my husband texts it to me it makes me say to myself no matter what happens

"does it really really really really matter"

9 times out of ten when i think about it hard ok so i made a mistake at work or spoke out of line but it really isnt life or death is it


the answer is usally NO then i say oh well i can get on with it now


do you have something like this that helps keep you going

thank you


xxx

2007-05-28 09:03:32 · 8 answers · asked by vici 4

like talks about a hour by hour schedule, what type/major of college degree required,salary(for week,month,year,hour),paid vacations,sick days paid,etc.
give a link. and thx alot if you find a site

2007-05-28 08:47:41 · 4 answers · asked by daniel l 1

okay im 18 now and my parents owned a buisness about 5 yrs ago, but we ended up closing it. we have alot of debt due to it and are slowly recovering, but my dad is obsessed with being rich. my mom works a full time job plus another job on the weekends (7 days a week) my dad and my brothers farm and do offside things like sell meat, and goods at different markets. i also work a seperate job. i think my dad was mad a couple days ago too cause i had my graduation from high school and they were supposed to be out selling, on memorial day weekend. i felt bad that i couldnt even graduate from high school without ppl being pi**sed off! im living at home for college next yr but am not looking forward to it. then again i dont want to move out either yet. my dad thinks they work so hard, yet so do i!! i slept in til 7:00 am this morning and he thinks thats late or something. i dont know what to do!!! alll they care about is money.

2007-05-28 06:20:25 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

she sits in her room
the wall of pain keeps getting taller
the ocean of sadness is rising

she still sits there
she thinks
she tries to to forget everything
but more memories keep entering her mind
like ants enter into an anthole
one by one.
thoughts and memories
haunting her

she cant take it anymore

so she breaks

like a glass falling on the floor
and shatters

she shatters...into tears
she cant stop crying
she cant stop hurting
she just wants it to end

and thats when she opens the box..
the little wooden box under her bed
she takes out the blade

and she presses it to her skin...
right on her wrist...where the veins are..
the veins that carry the blood that keeps her alive
that keep the pain alive..
the same blood that she had when she was hurt..
the same blood that she had when she was smilling..
and the blood that she has now
the body that is full of pain..sadness
and she cuts...and cuts untill she stops crying
but not deep enough..
she isnt that strong
so she just..
stops...

2007-05-28 06:17:26 · 14 answers · asked by meat 3

2007-05-28 05:18:00 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am on Effexor XR at 112.5 mg daily and I was just put on clonazepam at 0.25mg in the morning and 0.5mg in the evening to help with my anxiety. Can anyone tell me about their experience on clonazepam? What should I anticipate? Did you have any side effects? Thanks.

2007-05-28 05:12:53 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

doctor's appointments - me and my car , time off from work . afetr awhile it has gotten so old . the thing is ,there isnt any help . her relatives are elderly . if i vent too much , i fell guilty as hell . i never mention this in her presence . what the hell to do ??

2007-05-28 05:04:19 · 10 answers · asked by Mark H 1

I always rearange my room i cant stay in the same spot for more than a week. And when i get dishes im always afraid theres going to be loads of germs on it. I have to inspect the glasses people find it wierd.?

2007-05-28 04:52:36 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

My birthday is today and I'm now 19. I'm bummed because I'm getting farther and farther away from my childhood. And I have very little direction in my life. I'm not in school until fall, hopefully. I have two jobs that don't even qualify for part-time, and I'm in the army which I'm no good at. I'm not ready to grow up because I don't know what the hell I'm doing. It doesn't help that I suffer from depression, which I'm currently on meds for. Nothing is planned for today, which is a bit unusual. Our porch is being painted today, so that's the big thing for today. I don't want to call my therapist because I see her tomorrow and I'd like to be able to make it from one session to the next without running to her with a crisis. All my friends have either moved away or are at school so if I want to go out I'll have to go by myself. But I don't need to add that to my depressive mood right now. I guess it's just a regular day for me.

2007-05-28 04:32:16 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

i have depression, it runs in my family, my sister and brother took their own life, i use yahoo answers to cope, even if i do not know anyone of you, i love that fact that you take the time to read my thought and answer my question, i love all of you.......... i wish i was able to say this to my brother and sister but I never did, not till it was too late

2007-05-28 03:51:35 · 17 answers · asked by Nina 2