Mental Health - September 2007

i find it popping into my head about 4 times a week. sometimes its serious sometimes just little thoughts.

2007-09-17 17:42:34 · 6 answers · asked by cheese_84_99 2

I always wanna fly to a place called neverland, which is my escape place.
thinking about dieing all the time and wonder what it would be like if i was gone and see if any of my family or friends would miss me. plus i use to cut but not anymore ive turned to pills and other stuff.

2007-09-17 17:22:04 · 8 answers · asked by Stephanie Elise 1

I don't have as many troubles with the label as my daughter does. She feels if friends find out they will think she is a nut case or something. I don't see either of us as nutty, but rather we have a chemical imbalance that makes us too fast or depressed. I think I am trying to help her accept herself with this disorder. I think if friends are going to reject you because of this, they probably don't know enough about it.

2007-09-17 17:09:42 · 3 answers · asked by deehutchison@ameritech.net 1

I have a friend who is an admitted alcoholic. The problem is, he does not want to quit. He says he "enjoys drinking" and does not believe AA and a rehab program would help. (He completed a 30 day program in 2003 and resumed drinking soon after leaving) What should I do?

2007-09-17 16:23:57 · 13 answers · asked by KhrisB 3

I've decided that it would be extremely difficult for anyone struggling to overcome an addiction of alcohol, and or drugs.

What do you think would make it such a hard thing to overcome? Emotionally, mentally, physically..

2007-09-17 16:21:08 · 10 answers · asked by roo 1

I don't think so though, sometimes I do have thoughts like I'd like to die, but never at my own hands, because I'd just be too scared. There was this girl, my age, that was run over and killed this week, and I thought, I wouldn't mind dying, and Im' sure she did, why not me?
Anyway, I think I just imagine myself being depressed so I feel like I have the symptoms. I'm also one of those "poor me" people, so mabye I'm just really narcisstic and need to get over myself?

2007-09-17 16:11:42 · 14 answers · asked by Catherine 2

Can someone please tell me what are the symptoms of anxiety attacks?
Does Lexapro help with anxiety?
Do Anxiety attacks go away on there own?

I had a Really bad Migraine awhile ago. I had numbness, vision problems and slurred speech. Eversince then I panic when a glare of light hits my eyes or someone takes a picture with a flash. I also feel like i see white spots when I glance at something fast. It makes me so scared that I begin to panic and sweat and get really scared. I hate feeling like this. Has anyone else ever had a migraine like that? I also worry about everything! I was given Lexapro not sure if I should start a medication or not!

2007-09-17 15:51:21 · 13 answers · asked by Beach Girl 1

Could this be OCD?
These are some things that I ALWAYS do:
Everything that i do has to be in evens <-- that is the major one

I usually have to touch an object an even number of times with both hands or my hands feel tingly and weird

When I'm in the car, I'll breath in when we go past drive ways and breath out when we go past grass.

I swallow and breath in patterns (especially when i'm in the car)

If I stub my right toe on the stairs, I have to go back and stub my left toe with the equal amount of force

When I'm walking on a sidewalk and one foot steps on a crack, the other foot has to step on the same size crack and i keep stepping on cracks until both feet feel equal. If I dont, one feels heavier than the other.

Everything has to be symmetrical

If one finger kees doing al the typing on the keyboard, i make sure to "include the other fingers"

What do you think?

2007-09-17 14:51:39 · 13 answers · asked by Baton Twirler 3

I wake up every morning, I feel fine. I always have shaky hands. But , on top of that somedays I feel just weird.
Hot flashes, cant catch my breath. My heart races and flutters.
I have always had panick attacks. I am on 50mg of zoloft per day.
I also have like weakness in my legs. Nothing major just feel sometimes my legs are weak.. It never last long just for an hour or two....

2007-09-17 14:51:06 · 8 answers · asked by stacie m 4

I need help before I sink deeper into my addiction!

2007-09-17 14:48:07 · 1 answers · asked by Ramjet 5

I'm a teenager. For the last month I've felt depressed and about a couple of weeks ago I realized it might be depression. I don't know if this counts or not but I became a vegetarian two and a half months ago. I feel sleepier lately. I can't sleep at night or I usually don't get to sleep until late. When i come home from school I fall asleep, because I'm so tired. My heart feels heavy and I just feel sad all the time. I feel isolated from my family. I stay in my room most of the time because it seems like every time I come out I end up arguing with my family. I have been craving a lot of junk food and just food in general, I gained 5 pounds this summer. I'm just hungry all the time, even if I'm not hungry i usually eat anyways. I have no interest in things I used to and I just feel sad instead. Some days are better then others which sometimes leaves me thinking I'm stupid for thinking I am depressed. Sometimes it's even same day. Could this be depression, and I'm not suicidal.

2007-09-17 14:40:26 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am Bipolar and manic too.
First of all let me say this: We love animals and even feed his--my neighbors because they are always hungry. We feed stray cats at our local gas station every evening. I spend around two thousand dollars a year on vet bills. We don't even own a gun.

Our neighbor asked us to help find a home for his new puppies. Someone pulled up at our home looking for the puppies and my husband told them where the neighbor lived. The neighbor called us and asked us if we had seen the puppies the next day and my husband told her about the people that stopped by to ask about them because they are missing. She got mad and did not believe it. Her husband called my husband today saying he was going to involve the sherrif and my husband told him to go ahead. I called him back myself and told him that he knew me better than that and he said yes, but not my husband. I am thoroughyly pissed off and am worried they will do something to hurt my dog now. What would you do

2007-09-17 14:23:26 · 6 answers · asked by just julie 6

Every day I get up at an inhumane hour, and I come home around 5pm and before I know it, It's the next day and the alarm is going and im about to get up and do it all over again. I make enough money to survive, but im not exactly "rakin it in" but it just feels like im wasting the majority of my time, making other people rich so I can be "not poor" and it all just doesnt seem worth it.

When that alarm turns on I get that "OH NO" feeling in my stomach and it immediately makes me angry and depressed and an almost nervous, first day of work type feeling. How can I have a steady income and be able to wake up.......whenever the hell I want to wake up!??

2007-09-17 14:13:13 · 14 answers · asked by ziggy 1

relationship and keeping them?
you become clingy, want intamacy...and your opinion about yourself always shows through. which is a very very low one.
iam a 30 year old bpd sufferer thats had a very traumatic life.

i feel like im the only french person to have ever gone through anything like this or suffered this way..

can anyone advise?

2007-09-17 13:43:29 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have been plucking hairs from parts of my body for the last few months. I don't touch the hair on my scalp at all, but I regularly feel like I need to take out hairs (with my fingernails or tweezers) from around my belly button, eyebrows, etc. I started noticing that there are a lot of ingrown hairs and even small scars a few weeks ago.
Also, My eyebrows don't grow as fast as they used to. Sometimes I have the urge to pull a hair from the side of my eyebrow and before I know it, half of my eyebrow is nearly gone. :S
Is it possible for my eyebrows to ever look and grow normally again?

This is really embarrassing and I really want an honest answer. Thanks

2007-09-17 12:43:09 · 4 answers · asked by tsh_s 4

Does any one go through this, when ur trying to sleep & u go into a light sleep then have a very disturbing nightmare sometimes you are able to open ur eyes and see what's next to u but ur body is still in sleep mode and ur unable to wake up although ur eyes see ur body is immobilized. then somehow u push ur self to gain control & wake up, but then seconds after u go to sleep the same thing happenes again. then again and again.. till u finally sleep completely and have a full pledged nightmare throughout the night.

This happens almost every night and its truly torture I don't know what it is - most of the time i am awake and asleep at the same time only my body is not there totally immobilized till i fight and push myself to gain sensation and wake up.

2007-09-17 11:27:58 · 6 answers · asked by seeker 1

One thing I don't like is people on Y/A "skipping" lines in their answers...makes it harder to read. (But that's just me !)

2007-09-17 11:17:51 · 8 answers · asked by Deenie 6

one moment you feel confident, like life is great, so much to do, see ,experience, then the next moment, it all seems so hopeless, lonely, so pointless....
is this a medical condition? or is it something everyone has gone through?

2007-09-17 11:14:11 · 4 answers · asked by rtyertyret 1

First off, yes I have an alarm clock and yes I got to bed at a reasonable time every week night.
During the first week of school I woke up no problem at 6:30 every morning. That was probably because I had a lot on my mind. Now that has changed, I go to bed at the same time every night, set my alarm to 6:30, and sleep in! I used to be able to get up, shut my alarm off, then go upstairs and get ready. Now I automatically wake up, shut my alarm off with my eyes closed (not an easy task with a cell phone) and go back to sleep. It's like I have no control over when I can wake up. My eyes literally won't open and I have this overwhelming feeling of sleepyness I could pass out! So then I sleep, until 7 when my mom woke me up! That really puts a damper on my day!

2007-09-17 11:11:58 · 9 answers · asked by Sweet<3 4

2007-09-17 11:08:47 · 4 answers · asked by Rayan Ghazi Ahmed 4

uh well like a month ago i stopped taking a mood stabilizer(abilify) b/c of harsh side effects and didnt replace it because i pretty much tried everything i can for my age and nothings worked. now im jus on an anitdepressant (prozac) and i am having like extreme relapse of the bipolar disorder. i am in a mixed phase and i was wondering like if i would need to be in like a physciatric hospital or somthing b/c i sometimes want to overdose, cut, ect... but ive never done it so...


what do u think. please help. thanxx

2007-09-17 11:01:21 · 3 answers · asked by faliica I 2

2007-09-17 10:39:14 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-17 09:17:06 · 10 answers · asked by originalrob 1

by the way its a family member and hes homless and has been trin to quit 4 5 years

2007-09-17 09:07:08 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Heinz's wife is dying from a rare form of cancer. There is only one drug that can save her, a radium compound that a druggist in Heinz's town has discovered. The ingredients to make this drug are costly, and the druggist is charging 10 times what it costs him to make this drug. He pays $200 for the radium, and charges his customers $2,000 for a small dose. Heinz tries to borrow the money, and can come up with only $1,000. Heinz explains to the druggist that his wife will die without the drug, and asks him to sell the drug at a cheaper price, or to take payment later. The druggist replies, "No, I discovered this drug and I am going to make money from it." Heinz becomes desperate. He breaks into the drugstore and steals the drug for his wife. Should Heinz have done that ?.......This is taken from the book "The Sociopath Next Door" by Martha Stout, PhD. What do you think you would have done if you had been Heinz? When you answer, give your reasoning, please.

2007-09-17 08:26:29 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

i have all the symtoms of 'teen depression' (im 15):
Sadness or hopelessness
Irritability, anger, or hostility
Tearfulness or frequent crying
Withdrawing from some, but not all people (unlike adult depression where the withdrawel is from everyone)
Loss of interest or enjoyment in activities
Changes in eating and sleeping habits
Restlessness and agitation
Feelings of worthlessness and guilt
Lack of enthusiasm and motivation
Fatigue or lack of energy
Difficulty concentrating and making decisions
Thoughts of death or suicide (feels more like an actual need)
Extreme sensitivity to criticism
Unexplained aches and pains
loss of consentraition

im not sure i believe in depression but i c no other reason other than that im making it all up to explain this. i could never make up something that feels this bad tho, its like everyday is pure torchure 4 me...

(yea i kno i cant spell)
what do u think? do u beliv in depression?

2007-09-17 07:28:33 · 18 answers · asked by meeee! 2

like, even now. i have this fear in the back of my mind that he;ll just come home from NJ(work 90min away) and just start slappingme, and maybe put me in the hospital...

i was hit wheni was little, butit's stoped. and i was only hitif i did sometnign annoying(play with windowns, tye strings acros the house, ect) but no worth being hit over(notging is though). More like, a, STOP thAT kindof thjing.

how can i stop the fears? i cant leave, i'm only 13, so, that aint an option. and neither is tellingmy mom b/c i have and she thinks it BS.

2007-09-17 05:59:31 · 11 answers · asked by Crazygirl ♥ aka GT 6

My x-boyfriend and I have had a rough relationship. He has had a meth problem for many years. He now seems like he can possibly stay clean. He has a good job and has for several months. However, he still has major paranoia. He has been hurt in the past by other women cheating on him. Thus, he thinks I am a cheat and constantly says horrible things to me that involve that. Nothing could be further from my character. I broke up with him a few days ago because I was tired of being insulted and not being treated well. I know in the long run this is the best for the both of us. However, I am having a really hard time being alone. I don't want to look for anyone else because I have a lot of self-esteem issues that I need to work on. I just don't know how to move on without all these emotions getting in the way. I have no friends and no family, they dropped me because of all the drama for the last 2 1/2 years. HELP!!! What do I do??

2007-09-17 05:01:30 · 4 answers · asked by hasjewels 3

When you have a lot of worry and stress in your life and you feel like you will never get through it or nothing can be done to help. What do you do to get through it and feel better?

2007-09-17 04:54:02 · 8 answers · asked by Exotic Pink 6

i have this problem which i detest like hell. i am a university student and i am bound to do presentations at times. the problem is this that i have this fear which bugs me when i know i have to present my work in front of audience. when i stand in front of the crowd my heart beats real fast as if i have been running. my legs start shaking and i my face gets real hot[flush]. with all that problem in me how the hell can i do the presentation??!!!

2007-09-17 04:51:13 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous