Mental Health - October 2007

2007-10-23 00:48:32 · 14 answers · asked by tulip 4

I am doing some research and I was wondering what can occur to the brain and/or body if the person is never treated for depression? Scenario: The depression was brought on by the sudden death of a close friend. I would first like to say I do know there are stages of grief that one must go through in order to heal. I want to point out the depression stage. If one becomes trapped in that stage and nothing is done to try to get past it, eventually what effects would it have on the body and brain from a physical stand point? I always thought after some point it could take a toll on the body, but what is happening from within.

2007-10-23 00:09:41 · 4 answers · asked by animalsrgodsgifts 2

Why do people have difficulty remembering things.

2007-10-22 19:56:14 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

My community (PQ) was evacuated already, it it's really close to RB and Poway. I'm at college right now in LA and I'm constantly calling my parents every couple hours. I don't think I can even sleep tonight. Almost all my friends back at SD have been evacuated already. I have a headache with thinking about it and I can't concentrate at all on hw.

2007-10-22 19:29:42 · 6 answers · asked by Katy H 3

why are there so many people who are dealing with depression? why are there so many people trying to kill themselves?

what the hell did the human race do to itself to turn out this way?
why would a father of 2 children under the age of 5 step onto a railroad track as a train approached?
why is that teenagers these day walk through schools with their heads hung to the ground and when some punk pushes their button they end up shooting up the school and themselves?

god must hate us so so badly since he is constantly driving so many of us to our graves early....

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i am just hoping for some input from other people on my feelings right now

2007-10-22 18:39:31 · 9 answers · asked by EeE 4

2007-10-22 18:12:18 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have been disabled since birth and also have mild to moderate depression. I've been able to cope with the depression through attending school and working hard and staying busy. I didn't consider it a disability until it ran me over like a truck in early 2002. However, since July 2001, my mother whom I loved dearly died on my living room floor, my father became increasingly distant, my other disability and the depression have become worse to the point where I am now on disability and not working, due to my stupidity and my wife's grief over HER mother's death our children were taken away by child welfare and our parental rights were terminated last month, I was just told by my wife that she has begun an affair over the internet with some guy she met on a sex chat site which she blames on me for not paying enough attention to her and not having sex often enough because of my antidepressants which kill my sex drive.

I have nothing left. No job, kids, health, marriage or Faith.

2007-10-22 18:10:20 · 29 answers · asked by Marc 2

I've had a really dramatic time lately, with my lying friends, my frusterated parents, angry teachers, poor grades due to incomplete homework, problems with friends who want to be more, my art and writing suffering from all this, my constant emotional burden, missing church too often, money problems, knowing I'm about to move away from my best friends, and much more, I can't seem to find anything that actually cheers me up instead of getting my mind off things. Once I'm done with the activity that is making me forget all my problems (not drugs. It usually has to do with my reading some sort of romance manga or fantasy novel or expressing myself through art.) I go back to my depression. I've been like this since school started this year. I usually just asked my friends for advice that I knew would never work, but that ended recently. I've been crying my self to sleep at midnight after a heartfelt prayer. Also recently cried during every class and was sent home two periods early for it.

2007-10-22 17:39:57 · 8 answers · asked by Spikey Paws 2

I am really depressed and I have issues with anxiety and anger, so today I went to the campus health center and filled out the preliminary paperwork so that I can go in when they have a free space.

Their website and brochures say that most people are better within 1 or 2 visits, and that 90% of people are finished in 7. But between the aforementioned problems and my issues with gender identity, assertiveness, and severe homesickness, I really don't think I'd be done in 7.

So, is it weird to go to so many appointments? I feel like I shouldn't even go because I have six different issues and I'd use up too much of the counselors' time. I went to a counselor for almost two years before I moved up here, and while that helped a lot, many of the problems are cyclical and the gender and homesickness are both new. I feel like I went too much back home, and I don't want to monopolize it up here in college either.

Am I weird? Do you have any advice?

2007-10-22 17:05:08 · 8 answers · asked by Rat 7

I contemplate suicide all the time. I can't help it. I feel so bad inside and people don't make it any better. I hate myself. Who can love me when I don't?

2007-10-22 17:02:39 · 6 answers · asked by Brandy U 2

I met a man who was so kind and sweet 6 yrs ago. He would move a mountain for me and he is very warm and goodhearted
His problem is he is an alcoholic. He drinks so much I expect to come home one day and find him dead. He drinks at home and never goes out.
Last evening he told me he had 2 glasses of wine, but he threw up all over my bed and in the sink in my bathroom and everywhere you could smell vomit.
I am so disappointed. I cannot do anything about it, but I need him to quit lying to me about how much he has drank and trying to make this my problem. I have told him to stay away from me when he is on a binge. He doesnt seem to get it. I will not file a restraining order, but I feel like he needs to understand I am not going to put up with it.
Right now, I am home from a 12 hour shift and washing the sheets he thew up all over last evening.
What do I do? Its soo sad.

2007-10-22 16:58:23 · 5 answers · asked by happydawg 6

im am bleedin profusely here! and in alot of pain im afraid to go to the dr bc they will laugh! ne home remedies

2007-10-22 16:50:20 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

I really need help as to why someone would do this?
Lets say theres a person who is always picking on you. They have other friends who have shared the same experiences as you that they are nice to yet they PICK ON YOU for doing the same thing. They treat you like youre a monster when their own friends have done worse. And its not even like these situations are 'bad things' yet they think its ok for their friends to do but talk bad about you for doing same thing. Why would someone do that?

2007-10-22 16:41:55 · 5 answers · asked by kf 3

2007-10-22 16:39:06 · 3 answers · asked by MJ Boulevard 3

Ever since I was little I have these weird things I do with my body. THey vary every few years. I am almost 15, and when I was about 12, I would roll my head into my eyes because I HAD to. Or move my head back and orth hard because I HAD to. And now I hold my breath and i wont let myself breath until I squeeze my toes together so many times. And its worse on the road, like when I am in the front seat of a moving car, and we pass poles and the trees, their shadow on the road "makes" me hold my breath. And i repeat (under my breath) a lot of things that I read or people say. This is disrupting my life. What is wrong with me?

2007-10-22 16:30:15 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

tired alot of the time, worried about what other people think, always needing to keep a clean house becuase of worry of people dropping by even if im completly exhusted ??

2007-10-22 16:29:48 · 3 answers · asked by Kimberly 1

I am currently on Zoloft 75mg .. and the anxiety feelings have only gone away a bit but have come about freqently still. I have been on this dosage for 2 months .. I have an appoinment next week .. what will happen do .. any experiance??

2007-10-22 16:26:45 · 2 answers · asked by Kimberly 1

Someone falls for someone else. Then they start becoming abusive. Im talking majorly mentally, emotionally, psychologically abusive to this person who they know feel they have won over. Eventually you get sick of it, you tell them im done giving a damn about you and they respond with ha ha, people like you never stop caring. What were they trying to say by that last line? Do they actually think that I would never stop caring about them despite being mistreated or are they hoping i wont so they can keep abusing me?

2007-10-22 16:13:40 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-22 15:29:23 · 6 answers · asked by FLOSS 2

My husband's family is nutty, to say in the least. His grandmother says and does stupid things to others all the time. She's a major hypochondriac and it shows up in two of her kids (one is on every herbal concoction - the other is on every medication possible). The women all are very emotional (more than normal). They all don't get along very well, as they say and do hurtful things to each other. His sister is the same way. I kind of thinks it's a female thing; but one of his uncles is on antidepressants. Anyone know what the deal is here?

2007-10-22 14:38:02 · 6 answers · asked by daff73 5

health problems, that there are people outhere indulging in happy, fullfilling lives, getting their needs met, getting their rocks off sexually....having fun....indulging in weird and wonderful experience..
while im battling on alone in life, trying to get the help for my mental health health problems which are bpd and ptsd..

living alone, in a lonely apartment....hardly no posessions...on welfare....never been employed......no friends.....no supportive family....no one there except your mental health team.....plus, its been like this all my life...and im 30 now..
having suffered greatly from abuse and bullying throughout your life..
surely these circumstances are a recipe for somebody to just quit, give up????
im aging prematurly....im bald.....i have physical imperfections..

plus theres probablly people who dont like me for whatever reason, that probablly get off on my misery and failings in life...get off sexually to....turns them on.
how can i handle this painfull

2007-10-22 13:58:09 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have major depression and maybe a little ADHD ... but a lot of the the time, I actually feel... insane. I had bloodwork done a couple months ago, but for different reasons. If I had ADHD, would they have told me about it because of the bloodwork? I'm fairly smart and very creative, and would hate for meds to mess with my creativity. I've always been an abstract thinker, and have can hardly concentrate if something's not interesting- but when it is, I'm hooked. A lot of the time, I also feel insane. I don't really feel like I relate to many people... the one person that I ever felt I did relate to, I found out had ADHD as well. I'm not talking like hyper, just... insane about the world. Insanity that I think, stems from sadness. I find so much joy in the arts- particularly music. What are the possibilities, and what should I do about it?

2007-10-22 13:54:32 · 6 answers · asked by live*laugh*love 4

Autism (Aspergers), Bipolar, Scizophrenic, psychosis, and the list goes on - no one knows the answers for any of these and all at points cross over. Everyone I know who has aspergers had manic periods and mood swings, to different degrees and some seem to cope better than others.

Could they all be part and parcel of the same condition, and the professional feel the need to over name and confuse us all - just one of my crazy thoughts - still I'm allowed as have aspergers....

What do you think?

2007-10-22 13:35:36 · 13 answers · asked by Aspergers Parallel Planet 3

Please tell me if you think we are capable of weathering a protracted time of great testing and hardship today.

I fear we aren't, am I right?
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2007-10-22 13:27:55 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have anxiety disorder.

Sometimes i feel as though i am not real and like i am not a part of what is arround me, Sometimes i look down at my arms and think for a moment that they don't belong to me.

I feel as though i am at a concert in the audience and the rest of the world is on the stage.
I can see them through the barrier between the stage and the audience, but i am not a part of their world.

Is this dissociation?

2007-10-22 13:26:47 · 3 answers · asked by Kangarooooo 2

2007-10-22 13:10:57 · 5 answers · asked by fixn2rock 2

2007-10-22 12:46:18 · 52 answers · asked by Bayou Baby 1

I have been to many sites on adult ADD. On every one I have 99% of they symptoms. But how is it diagnosed? Is this something I should be concerned about? If I do have it do I need to see a doctor? What could they do for me?

Thanks

2007-10-22 11:33:11 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-22 11:31:25 · 10 answers · asked by lady lazarus 1

why is it i am addicted to a substance that is of my choice , i am told that it will kill me , yet it is still my choice to take it , though it is one of the the things that i enjoy so much , it has made the empire that i believed in , yet due to the fact that although it was the powers that be introduced this addictive substance to my country and they realised that they could proffit from my misery ,,,,,,,,,,,, ie smoking ,,,,, yess it is a killer , but that is my choice and not theres ,,, it is now me that feels like a leapor in my home country

2007-10-22 10:59:58 · 28 answers · asked by El Diablo King Of Kings 3