Mental Health - August 2007

I had a bedwetting problem up until about age 9. Now Im 34.
I have had some very stressful events in my life in the recent past.
Death of a close family member, Divorce, and other things that are overwhelming to me.
So I can somewhat see why I'm having this problem.
But also, many others have dealt with the same or worse and not had a childhood problem reoccur just because of stress.
So has anyone else had this happen to them, and how did you deal with it if you did?

2007-08-18 11:37:42 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I cut myself and I have a hard time deciding if I want to stop or keep going. It seems worthless to try and I just need help. Why is cutting so bad anyways. I don't get it.

2007-08-18 10:49:57 · 5 answers · asked by macncheese27 2

I went to this outdoor food restaurant today. It is in a dangerous neighborhood, and while waiting for my food, I noticed a group of guys throwing their trash on the ground and then moving to this enclosed area where it looked like they were setting up shop (selling drugs). I must've been staring pretty hard because one of the guys looked at me, threw his arms out and said "what you staring at, amigo?"

I didn't say anything, but I wanted to take his life. I'm not talking figuratively, I meant what I just said. I wanted to kill him. And the only thing stopping me from doing it was the law.

On the way home, I realized that I would kill him if I wouldn't get in trouble for it legally.

What is wrong with me? Is this some sort of mental disorder? I never really felt like this. Everyone I've talked to says it's related to my being a combat vet, but I don't think it has anything to do with it.

2007-08-18 10:21:46 · 9 answers · asked by sirmoosta 2

happened alot through your life, of the nature the same as in the dogtanian cartoon clip here? and now your 30 have borderline pd and wait for therapy.....but how could you get over alot of situations like this happening to you throughout your life, that ruined your self esteem?
these things mainly happened in my teens and high school, growing up.
guys in school, gangs in neighbourhoods..
here is the example from my favourite cartoon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK3W6y8LyzU

2007-08-18 09:38:44 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

im too hypersensitive to brush my teeth and i couldnt talk until i was 5! i get special help but thats kinda rarely. i still cant even say toilet! i can write it though. my parents dont belive me but my doctor says i am. i cry a lot but i dont no why.

2007-08-18 09:26:48 · 12 answers · asked by Totally_Orton 3

I am a 15 year old black boy who lives in Nottingham, I live with my mother, my grandmother, four sisters and one brother (who i dont talk too.) I am never allowed out of my house too see my friends or do anything that I want too do. My mother constantly says that she doesnt want me living with her, because I have no respect for her, yet everyone else I meet says that I am a nice child who is vey poliet.

I dont live with my father and I have never seen him before, my mother often says she regrets having me because I am no good and have no ambition, which I dont believe is true. My mother says that I'm not allowed out because I am a young black boy, and that I am a moving target for other young black boys too shoot or stab etc. I am only ever allowed out to places my mother wants too go and im only ever allowed out with an older member of my family. It is the six week holidays and prior to them I have become extremely depressed, and I feel very alone and unhappy.

Please help!

2007-08-18 09:21:23 · 9 answers · asked by Shadowlyfe2009 2

it seems like i dont really have much freedom to write as much as i want due to the character limit in this box.,
simply, i just feel like killing my self. i feel hopeless. i am of foreign citizenship while inside i feel like i belong to where i've spent the last 6 years of my life, california. now im back to my national country, and the customs here just dont make me feel like im home. the things i have to do here to survive just doesnt feel right and i feel very lost. What should i do?? i want to go back to my home that really feels like home. i feel like i should do my best to get American Citizenship but i just feel hopeless cuz i know that that will be really hard. therefore, now i just feel like killing myself. im lost, hopeless, and suicidal. i cant sleep at night. please help me.

2007-08-18 08:46:48 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

My girlfriend is disable and got upset and threw a bowl of carrots on the floor. The cops came and put her in jail for dom / vol ! She can't read and hardly knows what's going on in life. From the miss treament of her family keeping her locked up for years! She has now been locked up for 26 days. I have put in all the paper work and talked the state att. and the p/d's. Yet they all say the judge will not let her out! How can this happen is there a law that "a person can not throw food in there home!" they have now put a no contact order on me. Yet I am the only person that understands what she is trying to say since she uses no nouns in her voc. What can i do about these laws that are not right! she has done nothing wrong! And who knows what is going though her mine! At this point...

2007-08-18 07:31:41 · 12 answers · asked by tommoore66 2

I've seen some really ignorant bad advice in response to questions on serious illnesses. I'm wondering what compels people to do that. Is it just plain ignorance? Is it arrogance? Do you confuse mental illness with lack of intelligence? What's the deal?

2007-08-18 07:15:11 · 22 answers · asked by Alex62 6

21 years old, and most of my life I've been a bit of a worrt wart. Okay the deal is, no matter what I love, I get a feeling of worry, something being wrong, and that if I don't prove my love in one way or another, in every moment of each day of my life, I'll lose it forever. This also makes me begin to question my personal prefreneces, which makes me even that more depressed. What can I do, to just live life loving, and not worry?

2007-08-18 07:11:34 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

i don't smoke weed just because I want to and that I like it. but rather I smoke because I am trying to cope with others and be friends. but when I do this, I am the one that is suffering. I know this sound depressing and everything but I feel like I have to mention this to somebody. but yea.. it's been bothering me for quite sometime now. See when i smoke...i begin to feel really lonely, and only at that time do i hate being lonely...then i find myself saying(blurting out) things that are fairly rude in front of a group of people. i'm not sure why i'm blurting things out like that but i was thinking maybe because i wanted attention or something. something I really lack during conversations with my friends. i mean, i'm a natural loner. I like to stay quiet, listen, and understand where people are coming from. that's just in my nature but when I smoke, for some reason, i seem to want to get out my lonely state. as if i weren't comforatble with myself. that's where i feel terrible.

2007-08-18 06:41:28 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

i got a problem. i have social anxiety (no friends, stay inside all day, hardly go to social events), severe depression and emotional issues which tire me out and fatigue me. i have no confidence or self worth, i feel im a burden on people and lower then dirt.

i met this girl, i like her, but due to my problems i ignore her, and seem distant and cold but its just shyness and fear. weve met 4 or so times now in a small crowd, i act the same everytime. ignore her mostly cant make conversation, little eye contact, only respond to questions, serious face. i was told she likes me. i dont give alot of feedback, not aggressive enough to make anything happen. im worried i will miss this oppurtunity due to my ilness but i feel i cant offer her things she may want like social activities and stuff. can relationships work in my position? its been 8 days since we last met, and i dont know what to do, am i worthy of her? all i can give is love which i desire too. i dont wanna be rejected too.

2007-08-18 06:37:21 · 22 answers · asked by mecicoplajjer 4

My husband is on Fluroxatine for his depression, which has helped in the past but only briefly. I have heard alot of positive stuff about St Johns Worts, but could he take this along side his fluroxatine?

2007-08-18 05:53:27 · 19 answers · asked by CD123 1

its gotten a little better but i still feel like i have a dizzy feeling in my head and everything feels like a dream, i guess its depression , but i can still laugh, and get angry, aint i supposed to be all sad and stuff? Is there any way to get rid of depression without medicine? the only way it aint that bad is if i play Age of empires 2 all day..
i dont even feel like going outside, i always wanna come back home..any suggestions?

2007-08-18 05:38:04 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

he/she always complain about something. and never change.

2007-08-18 05:20:01 · 20 answers · asked by askawow 47 7

every since my roommates mother only brother and sister passed away he has gone down hill. his brother died in a drowning accident now my roommate has the fear of water. he over reacts to the slightest thing even trivial. we changed our home phone number as someone was harrassing me he won't even call his own dad to give the man the new number an my roommate is exscutor of his dads estate. if his family won't do nothing to get him some help even if it means to put him in the hospital what rights does someone not related to him have. financial wise i can't afford to move from here.

2007-08-18 05:00:38 · 15 answers · asked by precious_52803 2

How do you cope? How does it make you feel? Any input is appreciated. Thanks.

2007-08-18 04:47:10 · 6 answers · asked by Sabrina 6

Okay, so I'm going to be a freshman in HS, I start on Monday.

Since orientation I've been excited, but there are still a few things making me nervous about it. I decided to write down everything in details that I was fearing about the first day. I was hoping it would help me overcome my fears, but now that I have it down on paper, I don't know what to do with it. How would I take those things and fix them before school?

On the list I have written: having a panic attack in the morning or on the way (I do a lot. I think it's because I'm afraid to go to school because I feel trapped like if I needed to leave I couldn't), will be too nervous to eat breakfast, hallways will be hot and crowded with people (if it starts to get hot I freak out because I've been dehydrated and over heated before and it was scary), not knowing what to do with all the books, and eventually having to sing a solo in front of everyone in class in Mixed Chorus.

How do I overcome my fears??

2007-08-18 04:39:13 · 13 answers · asked by i use Y!A 1

father died last year, at his funeral my uncle sat by me and he died the next day. Then my fav uncle died in Sept, then my 25 year old sister died in Oct. It's now almost a year later and I'm still not right. Will counselling truelly helpped this lost soul?

2007-08-18 03:31:51 · 15 answers · asked by Tiffany B 2

please help...

2007-08-18 03:25:34 · 6 answers · asked by paola 2

I lost the man I loved suddenly and unexpectedly in January 2007. My heart is breaking and I feel so sad and lonely without him. I just don't know how to cope with all the mixed emotions I am going through. I seem to have good and bad days, and the bad days, like today, are unbearable. My family are supporting me, but they just don't know what to say to me to make things better.

Can anyone suggest anything to help me get through this?

2007-08-18 03:17:05 · 21 answers · asked by . 5

i remember very little about my childhood. very little indeed. like it wuz deleted in my memory. gone... kapot... kapish..
**** it troubles me. this is not normal. evrybody remembers fairly much from their childhood wyl i hav almost none.
I DONT HAVE A SENSE OF HISTORY. now this is so strange. bothers me allot.
my yahoo messenger is schoolskipper24. i might be online so PM me now.
pls.. i need your answers... this is serious...

2007-08-18 03:16:33 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Tnx. With all respect intended - Mwah! =)

2007-08-18 02:37:05 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

my doughter 9year old petent of downsindrome (mangolism) . i search a school near delhi INDIA. for better education. we search for a docter in india for better tretment. she is physicaly normal but problem in talking . she learning to see others . she do't learn by talking. plz sugessed what we can do for her.
please help me

2007-08-18 01:04:02 · 2 answers · asked by sangals h 1

I have a friend who created 3 or 4 split personalities due to post traumatic stress.

One deals with anger, sadness, and all negative emotions, to cope the pain he feels. He likes to put all his pain on this personality. He refers to this Persona as a demon known as Hina. Hina is suicidal.

The second one is a normal everyday one he uses a lot of the time, normal young adult, happy, goofs around with friends.

Now a third one is a girl persona - this one is nameless. She said she's in love with a man, but I am concerned what this could do psycholically to him since they are dating. What should I do?

2007-08-17 23:23:51 · 5 answers · asked by Richard 1

There are so many 12 to 16 year olds on here going on about 'slitting their wrists' and wanting to go and kill themselves and being for EVER depressed because their life is high school is 'dreadful'....sure some have valid excuses and may genuinly be depressed...and that is was answers are for....but so many of these kids may just be those angsty teenagers who are self indulgent and spoilt rotten? what do you think??
Im just interested thats all:)

2007-08-17 22:38:16 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

I think it is annoying when doctor's continue to say, "We have no ideas how people gain Schizophrenia and Split-Personality disorders. yes, the two are different, but we've yet to discover how they come about."

First off.. I am one who suffers from Schizophrenia. Which is caused by a dramatic (negative and continuous) occurrences in your life. Your life is so miserable that eventually your mind "splits" and becomes two people, three, four, even up to 10 different "other people".

As for split-personality, I'm not sure how that one is cause, but I'm guessing you may be born with it OR even, like Schizophrenia, gain it from a bad experience in life as a child.

I'm sorry, I just needed to let that all out.

Scythex: Don't mind her, she's all...weird and stuff.
Lykaios: Yeap. X_X

2007-08-17 22:24:02 · 5 answers · asked by ♫White Cyanide♫ 2

I think I have a some kind of mild OCD. I obsessive over problems I have with people and the sorts of things I couldv'e done differently. When I get an idea in my head I can't let go of it and I just keep obsessing over that one thought. It keeps me up at night and I can't sleep. Suddenly everything will remind me of a relationship I feel like I screwed up, and I can't think of anything else and I just drift off, unable to focus. It's not just with my thoughts, either. I feel the need to organize things, keep random things like my music collection in perfect order so I know exactly where everything is. I have to finish things like books and moives, and I can't just stop halfway through. I organize things on desks like a game of tetris and leave them in a very set positions.
Is this some sort of condition? And is there something I could take to make me a little looser, forget about social issues I obsess over and not clean stuff so particularly?

2007-08-17 22:04:38 · 4 answers · asked by zud000 2

Well we've already talked about this issue and shes claims she 'doesnt like talking about things' though always talks about them, and when i suggest perhaps since she talks about these things so much it would be a help for her to have a therapist....but she just goes on about that saying 'they're stupid' but i know she is the talking type and that therapy would help her....well considering how much she unloads to me. so anyway she hinted the other day that 'well i would want to commit suicide but now i over think the whole thing and realise it would be pretty selfish....' why is she telling me this? does she want attention? is she crying for help? or what? she drops hints like this all the time, what do you think she is trying to get across to me? should i suggest again that she tries therapy? im not the best person to behave as a sounding board....

2007-08-17 20:56:07 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am 15 and I have been drinkg rum from my dads pantry to hide and numb my pain for many days now...I have been so downtrodden and depressed about never being able to find that special someone that I just drink my troubles away.....Lets face it..I am going down a spiraling path might as well go out with a bang...

2007-08-17 20:42:09 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous