Mental Health - October 2007

I've had a very difficult year; i had attempted suicide at the end of my junior year and underwent therapy treatment where i was diagnosed with depression and an eating disorder. Right now i'm in my senior year and i'm at a plateau where i am neither sick nor getting any better. i'm deciding on whether or not fasting will help any. I know that i have fasted before in an effort to lose weight but this time i'm hoping to go about it in a more spiritual manner. I want to feel more in tune with my body before i continue with my treatment plan. I've allready had alot of progress with my depression but i still have to work on my ED. I hope to find a center, a balance, so that i may find more strength and fight off any relapses.

does that make any sense? i'd love some feedback, hell even someone to fast with and keep me centered, because i know i can't do this alone. MUCH ADVICE NEEDED!
Thank you.

2007-10-17 17:03:17 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

i dont ever want to go out anymore because im scared i might hurt someone, when people walk past me even tho i dont know them just looking at them is enough to seriously anger me, even random things like lamposts and stuff, i plus im getting into a lot of trouble because i literally cant go out during the day anymore, i feel open and exposed and everyone just seems annoying, when i hear ppl laugh i sometimes think its at me, ive lost interest in friends, girlfriends ... i dont want to do anything anymore... ppl tell me to seek "pro help" but i hate them more than anything. plus i have a bad way of dealing with the stress that have ended up with a few trips to the hospital ... ive stopped all my hobbies, i dont see the point in it anymore and i literally cant tell anyone about it because i just wont, i feel like im cornered, even if i wanted to live what the hell is worth living for. pain is the only thing that you ever get in life, and all pleasure is is pain in disguise

2007-10-17 16:50:52 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ArcORWBI9ZOggKxhXZhByS_uxQt.;_ylv=3?qid=20071017180951AAW8jHa

I read your advice on my previous question, and thank you for this. I have taken the subject up with my son, told him I talked to a shrink (which I did,) and said it is a feasible option.

Someone mentioned that a person not acting rationally should not be able to make serious decisions themselves.

He is acting rationally, comparatively for him. He refuses medications, and refuses the mental hospital.

The thing that scares me is that the trip, according to research will scar his record. It is already probable he won't make it into the colleges he wants to get into, even with an IQ of 150+ and great SAT/ACT scores, 600+ hours of veterinary 'internship.'

He says that if he can't get into these colleges because I sent him, regardless of "depression," he will kill himself.

No meds can cure someones dreams being shattered, can they? What can I do?

2007-10-17 16:15:59 · 2 answers · asked by Animal Liberation Front 2

My boyfriend deals with stress by doing drugs. He obviously uses the high as an escape.

I care about my boyfriend very much. I just wish he would care for himself.

I don't want to leave him when he obiviously needs support.
Mostly everyone in his life has left him behind when he needs help. I don't want to do that to him, but I also deal with my own issues (including depression...) this is very hard.

Most people just say "make him choose between you or drugs". Its not that easy. I want to be there for him & hopefully help him understand WHY he doesn't need them.

Sure, not everyone is stress-free 100% of the time... I don't feel drugs will change that.. if anything, they leave matters worse once the high fades away..

2007-10-17 15:19:12 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

I really don't like seeing the cuts that she has all over her arms, and wrists. She thinks it's fun because her so-called "friends" do it. The marks are nasty, and she acts differently now. She is also cutting herself in really dangerous places by the arm, she gets help from our schools counselor, but it still worries me. What can i do to help, or what can i do to help her stop, i don't want to lecture her like a parent... HELP!!

2007-10-17 14:49:08 · 12 answers · asked by Miss K 3

2007-10-17 14:47:29 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is there differences in physiology?

2007-10-17 14:38:52 · 4 answers · asked by Stony 4

I recently found this resource, (Yahoo answers) while checking my sons Computer history. I found a lot of web research on bi polar disorder, depression, and smoking cessation.

My son is bi-polar according to the information I gave a psychiatrist. Why he could not go himself? He refuses to.

He is a 15 year old, and I break my back for him. He is in an amazing school (private, of which I pay the tuition,) and wants to become a veterinarian.

But I fear he may, at some point, attempt suicide or homocide. He has severe anger problems, and hits his brother for the littlest thing. The doctor said it wasn't just teenage hormones and to hospitalize him in a mental institution. I would put him in ER but I do not know if he is in *immediate* suicide danger.

He says, on a moral, not defensive standpoint, that interfering with a planned suicide is wrong, and that it is one persons choice, and forcing someone to live miserably or force them medication is immoral.

Opinions? Suggestions please

2007-10-17 14:09:51 · 9 answers · asked by Animal Liberation Front 2

I don't hear voices or anything, and have never really thought much about it, but I was watching a tv show the other day and it had three different tests (which card will turn over, which cell phone will ring, and I can't remember the last one), and I got them all right. Also, I know what song is coming on the radio next about 80% of the time. It's not conciously, but I will have it stuck in my head right before it comes on. Sometimes I even change to the station it will come on. I have deja vu (spelling?)- and it's very specific. It comes in dreams, and it may not happen for years, but I remember it when it does- always. Maybe I am just crazy, I don't know!

2007-10-17 13:49:55 · 5 answers · asked by Loving Mommy 2

Why does intelligence, in particular high, take such a prominent place in details shared about mentally unwell people. (Always given a paragraph even in a very brief synopsis) Is it because it indicates a particular illness or because it affects progress? Any informed answers greatly appreciated it's too specific and complicated to google and I don't want to directly ask a health professional.

2007-10-17 12:34:01 · 10 answers · asked by Bewildered 2

just asking.

2007-10-17 12:01:08 · 15 answers · asked by ♥ Plain Nikki 6

Or if you have them every so often, how do you get out of it, back to where you feel better? thanks

2007-10-17 11:59:24 · 25 answers · asked by merlin_steele 6

i get depreesed alot and kids make fun of me. i even tryed to cut my wrists the last time i fought with my mom but i used a dull knife and i'm now glad i didnt sucsead

i know my spelling sucks

2007-10-17 11:20:31 · 47 answers · asked by danny 2

am just like the laughin stick cos i dont go to uni when all me mates do they just take da piss av ad it out with them but they just seem to think its funny and one of these days am gonna do sum damage to one of them they make me feel so down n depressed!! can someone talk 2 me??

2007-10-17 11:19:05 · 9 answers · asked by an146442 1

2007-10-17 11:09:38 · 20 answers · asked by Gtrmstr 1

i've been a cutter for awhile now. i'm not ready to give it up but realize that i can't do it forever. probably for the past few years i have had an urge to go through one of my veins in my wrist. not with a blade. just a pin. i don't want to commit suicide. but, it's hard to explain other than calling it an urge. so, my question is to other people who self harm. have you ever felt this? or is this unusually for people who deals with ths problem?

2007-10-17 11:05:08 · 15 answers · asked by ♥ 3

my friend says that he's going to die from bottled up rage. Can u actually die from it?

2007-10-17 11:02:48 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

EMDR is an acronym for 'Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing' and I am interested in finding out more from those who have tried it. Have you benefited from this?

2007-10-17 10:36:31 · 5 answers · asked by Kitty Katty 4

EMDR is an acronym for 'Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing' and I am interested in finding out more from those who have tried it. Have you benefited from this?

2007-10-17 10:35:07 · 3 answers · asked by Kitty Katty 4

I know this sounds mad, I can not cry. I mean a tear comes out by the wind in my face and when I go near onions. But when am sad and really down, I can not cry. When I was young, I got bulled a lot and cried all the time. But 7 years has gone bye and in those 7 years. My Nan has died, my grampar died and a lot of other sad thing has happened and not one sad tear. If fills like my sole is screaming at me, but still nothing. Do not get me rung, I am not an emo. I all ways have a smile on my face, laughs at things and do silly stuff. My friends and family think I’m happy and well. But i think I’m going to run out of happy juice and wind up as a mad man. Sometimes I think I’m a monster or something, I fell like I need to let out all my sadness in me and I do not know how. I’ve tried sad songs and movies. Do you think this is rung and do you think I’m a monster! I do not mind what you say; I just laugh it off…. Like all ways.

2007-10-17 10:22:09 · 9 answers · asked by Can't Stop Smiling 2

My son has been diagnosed with general anxiety disorder. He is only seven, and we do not want to put him on medication if we can avoid it. Does anyone have any suggestions for other ways to treat this. Any helpful hints would be appreciated. Thanks

2007-10-17 08:41:15 · 8 answers · asked by hopeful1 2

I do not know what it is but I think it's 'skinheads' I don't know what the word neo-nazi means?

2007-10-17 08:12:24 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

But now, if I have a "bad" day, like everyone has sometimes...I worry that I am back-sliding..or going to relapse..when all it really is is just one of those days...

Did anyone else recovering from depression/anxiety go through this..and were you eventually able to shrug off the fear of relapse altogether?

Thanks

2007-10-17 08:07:24 · 8 answers · asked by billtucker67 4

do they?

2007-10-17 07:56:34 · 4 answers · asked by baywatch 3

I know I have depression, all the signs are there. It has been going on for almost a year now. Started off slow & now getting worse. I tried St. John's wart, omega 3's and Sam E, nothing seemed to work. I dont want to go on antidepressents because of the side effects. I don't know what to do. Has anyone tried a herbalist? What options do I have?

2007-10-17 07:04:07 · 17 answers · asked by Chubbs 1

2007-10-17 06:01:49 · 6 answers · asked by miss sobriety 6

I have just found out that my new girlfriend of only 5 months is an alcoholic. I had know idea until this weekend when I found her totally drunk, dilerious and injured. It scared me like nothing in my life previously had. Neither she nor her family (who all knew) had told me about her 'disease' at all, and she gave me no signs of it over our short relationship. I feel foolish not to have seen possible signs. I have read and meet a lot of people involved with alcoholics over the last few days in order to try and understand what she is going through. I love her dearly but don't know if I (now) want to stay with her and over time 'help' her someway OR leave her soon. I am scared that if I leave her then she will get much worse because I have left her, and that maybe she might get badly injured or try to commit suicide someday. I think I would feel very responsible if these things occured. She's been an alcoholic for 7 years and is fully aware of her disease and wants to stop. PLEASE HELP!

2007-10-17 05:50:38 · 55 answers · asked by AtWittsEnd 1

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2007-10-17 05:06:58 · 5 answers · asked by bailaen_ny 2

I am a stay at home mom of two, and lately I've been stressing ALOT! What is the best pill to take or just anything that can give me serenity?

2007-10-17 05:02:09 · 14 answers · asked by Kilikina 1

2007-10-17 04:26:44 · 8 answers · asked by Tyson S 1