Mental Health - August 2007

Someone i know is having symptoms of blurred vision,heavy
breathing,dizziness,exhaustion,cold and hot,headaches,muscle aches,and nausea what could this mean she has??

2007-08-11 10:12:50 · 7 answers · asked by Amber R 3

Hello I'm a 19 year old female and I've just gotten over the flu, but lately all doesnt seem to be going well, I've gotten into a habit of not being able to sleep at night for reasons above me, and I end up sleeping all day instead, I feel like Im going to throw up when Im about to eat something, and I feel dizzy half the time, and for some odd reason, I keep getting the feeling of being scared, Not in the way of "Im scared because Im sick", but just scared as if I've seen a ghost,Im all shakie my insides just want to turn I just feel horrid, all of these weird emotions and sickness all at once, can anyone tell me what's going on??

2007-08-11 09:39:12 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

i play alot of sports but i've never had a freind i feel so bad about my self and my sis only make fun of me....does anyone have any advise

2007-08-11 09:24:09 · 17 answers · asked by Felix S 2

I dont know what to do hubby is away in iraq and comes home around the beginning of sept. I am entering the severe depression stage again and severely worried about being left alone with my new born baby. Any ideas on how i get through this. I refuse to take medication. I hate the numbing feeling the medication gives me. Hubby helps control emotional waves. I am a sleeping and cold medication taker to sleep away the depression stage over all i dont know what to do...

2007-08-11 08:52:27 · 5 answers · asked by Kay 1

2007-08-11 07:47:02 · 9 answers · asked by geyamala 7

I had another question previously about how my friend is going threw the same thing I did with anorexia. I had great advice. So she wanted to talk to me but it was on msn. It wasn't face to face as I would have preferred but she confessed to me. I tried to help her but she doesn't think its that serious and she just left. She thinks its okay to not be hungry. I feel like I failed. I explained to her what I went threw and that getting better isn't easy. I'm still working on that, it's hard for me to see her go threw this because she means a lot to me. SHe also told me not to tell any of our other friends, but I'm debating, I promised her. I just want her to know that if she wants to get better she will. I told her that. Is there anything else I can tell her??
Please she means so much to me! I just- is there something I can do for her? She really doesnt think shes sick! and I'm worried! Please! anything!

2007-08-11 07:01:59 · 8 answers · asked by briacass 3

What is a "psychotic personality"?I saw a psychologist using the term and I've been looking everywhere for it but I can't understand what it means...I'm quite familiar with the personality disorders but I've never heard about this one.

2007-08-11 06:39:04 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-11 06:02:47 · 6 answers · asked by viya g 1

some form of mental health issue?

About 25% of people will experience some form of major depression.
Panic/anxiety disorders are common as well.
Personality disorders add up - who doesn't know a narcisist, borderline, histrionic, avoidant personality, anti-social, etc?
Bipolar and the schizos are another 4%.
Then there are the officially neuro problems like Asbergers, Autism, etc.

Normal is a statistical average. It is an ideal, not reality. Since no one is perfect, the discrimination against mentally ill folks is absurd and borne of denial and ignorance.

Your thoughts?

2007-08-11 05:29:43 · 8 answers · asked by Alex62 6

Like I say what have you been up to, and they take that the wrong because she dont work, so I just meant like hobbies or jogging or anything she has been doing. Everything I talk about she finds fault with.

2007-08-11 04:42:27 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

lately ive been obsessed with porn and erotic stories online. i've always felt ashamed i want to stop. i just read a so called erotic story, that i wish i haven't read. im disgusted and want to throw up. military men raped military women. Im serious. i think that story turned me off to sex and these stories all together, what really got to me is that this really happens in the military, wish i never read it.

2007-08-11 04:30:01 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have a bad social phobia. Has anyone had experience with kava kava? Does it help? Do you know of any medication that helps??

2007-08-11 03:53:52 · 3 answers · asked by ♥Jen♥ 4

They are responsibly managing their illness with medication, and behave as normally as anyone else.

2007-08-11 03:32:55 · 6 answers · asked by Alex62 6

with bi-polar illness in older men why is sex so much an issue and facsination

2007-08-11 03:21:40 · 5 answers · asked by dana m 1

i know i spelled it frenetically... Tnx =)

2007-08-11 03:09:31 · 2 answers · asked by Brookllynn © 4

Sometimes I feel sooooo good It's like I'm living the dream and hot as f%^& and nothing matters and I can't stop laughing for at least an hour. Other time (mostly when I'm alone but more frequently now when I'm in public or at school ) I want to cry and cry (so much that sometimes I have to have a cold shower just to calm down) I feel so useless, I feel like I'm a perfectionist who fails at everything and I will never get ne where but fat old ugly and lonely I should just give up now and get what I deserve. I do a lot of other things in my life by extremes but I don't know if it's really bad enough to be manic depression.

2007-08-11 02:50:56 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

dontcha think =)

2007-08-11 02:26:33 · 9 answers · asked by Brookllynn © 4

I'm sorry, but I used to believe that mumbo jumbo and no matter how much faith a person has, it's not going to cure a mood, anxiety or psychotic disorder.

Of course, nearly all religions can help people better cope with their issues. That's not faith though, that's science, but what's with the "Oh no, don't trust in medicine or psychologists, trust in god." talk? How scary! Besides, working on the premise that there is a god who created everything, didn't he create the possibility for psychiatric drugs that work?

"Don't get chemotherapy for your testicular cancer, get a bible!" Frankly, that kind of advice is dangerous and people like this should be banned.

Any thoughts on that one?

2007-08-11 02:25:19 · 9 answers · asked by skunk pie 5

I have been on risperdal .25 mg since june 29th, and i have no side effects besides sleepiness (which is why the doctor prescribed my dosage at night), and aready since ive been on the medication i have seen small changes starting to happen (if that is even possible).
anyway, my questions are,
1. How long could it take to see bigger and more changes?(estimated weeks, moths, etc)

2. since i take my dose at night before bed, the effects wear off early morning/noon of the next day, will that effect increase to all day till the next dosage intake that night, over time with continuation of the dosage?

2007-08-11 02:07:12 · 7 answers · asked by l w 1

He is not overweight and he does not snore. He had a history of sleep walking as a kid but I've lived with him for a year now and he has never done anything like this before. I'm a very light sleeper so I tend to wake up when he "wakes" up. Sometimes he comes and sits on my bed and I'll open my eyes and see him "staring" at me... his eyes are open, but he's asleep. It's driving me crazy because I haven't slept well in a month and we're leaving for college in a few weeks. I don't want him to be made fun of or hated because of something he cannot help.

What can we do? Are there medications? Why did it come on so quickly? Is it because we are living at my house and not his anymore?

2007-08-11 01:52:19 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

I know i have some kind of mental illness but have never talked to a doctor about all of my problems! Except for a brief time and they suggested i had depression but i didn't tell them EVERYTHING. I have never been properly diagnosed or been on any medication. I know yahoo answers is not the place for this but right now i have no money or medical insurance and I'm 20 years old. Below me i will describe my problems I'm having and at the very bottom i will give you a little bit of information about my passed. My over all question is what mental illness(es) does it sound like i have?

2007-08-11 01:51:33 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've only seen one who I swear was trying to get me to kill myself by letting me take Prozac for 6 months and upping my dosage when I told him the medication was making me so much worse. I did try to kill myself, but I never say any professionals after that. I quit the meds on my own. Do they get paid more for hospitalizations? He worked at a psychward too that's why I wonder. I had 2 appointments with him one both were shorter than 5 minutes.

Since that was years ago and I never saw anyone since, I have no best impression of a psycho-doctor. I think when I try meds again, and I will, I'll just see my GP. He usually has about 10 even 15 minutes!

2007-08-11 01:19:16 · 6 answers · asked by skunk pie 5

what are the classical methods of getting rid of depression?
without any help from psychotherapists, and pills?

2007-08-11 01:12:52 · 12 answers · asked by Yuri K 2

Is it at all possible to overcome one obession, one which has been financially and morally distructive? I am attending gamblers annonymous, and I honestly feel I will recover from the devistation it has left me in.
MY QUESTION IS: Is it possible to unconciously replace one compulsion with another? Such as after the gambling has ceased, having the compultion of something positive? I've noticed that I can't sweep my floor enough...I took 4 hours cleaning out my car with not one speck of dirt behind. I wasn't like that before when I was gambling. Is one obession taking over the other?? It sure seems like it.

2007-08-11 01:12:18 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I don't want to live at home anymore. I need space and im kinda fed up with my parents and siblings. By the way if ur wondering....23.

2007-08-11 00:17:21 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am really stressed out. I wanted to end it all but, I can't. How do I get this stress off my back.

2007-08-11 00:01:06 · 7 answers · asked by kissme f 1

I spent the better part of 3 years during and after my freshman year of college severely depressed and experimenting with different medications with my doctor. I remember things that happened during that time, but not as clearly as things from before the depression. It may have been the meds, but I think it was the depression. Anyone else?

2007-08-10 23:38:45 · 7 answers · asked by fiVe 6

My boyfriend talks in his sleep, mostly its just nonsense, and he never remembers doing it upon waking.

2007-08-10 23:31:44 · 2 answers · asked by curvypea 1

Ok so Im addicted to the internet. Im up till like 4 every morning on myspace or talking to people or looking for people to talk to. Im seriously addicted and I cant stop. At 2 25 when i say ill go to bed i just keep pushing it 15 min further until the sun comes up. I go to sleep really late or really early in the morning and end up getting up at like 1pm it really screws up everything! I know your thinking just TURN IT OFF!! But its not that easy for me. That constant urge in my head that keeps saying "just 15 more min" too put yourself in my shoes its like either continue with the inter net or sigh... shut off... get upp put computer away... brush teeth.. get ready for bed.. sit in bed and try and fall asleep for like an hour... so i choose internet. I CANT STOP!! please help. thanks

2007-08-10 22:36:38 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have to admit, im a worry wort. Just curious how many other people out there are too.

2007-08-10 21:02:37 · 5 answers · asked by Aintitthetruth 3