Mental Health - October 2007

my son age 6 has adhd and was givin concerta 18 mg on friday. he started taking it on saturday. well he couldnt sleep and said he was seeing monsters on the ceiling. and tonight he just acted realy wierd just staring at me. i kept saying his name and he just stared at me realy weird for like 5 mins. i have done research and found after taking it for long periods of time they can see things. but has anyone had this happen when just taking it? i dont know if he is just playing like children do. or if he is realy seeing things. i am going to call doctor in the am to speek with him about what is happening. but i also wanted so input from u guys

thanks

2007-10-14 17:20:26 · 2 answers · asked by mommy3at22 2

Sometimes I feel happy being sad and depressed cuz i feel that i deserve it ....anyone else feel like this?

2007-10-14 17:18:17 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

She's bipolar and suffers from depression as well. She is currently avoiding all of her family and surrounds herself with a bunch of non working, loafing losers as friends. She works as a waitress and has incurred about 10K in medical bills because she did not have health insurance. I have been calling her to try to get together with her in order to guide her, but she has been avoiding all of us in her family like the plague. Do I let her crash and burn or what?????

2007-10-14 16:25:39 · 20 answers · asked by wanninonni 6

I take...

Adderall: 5 mg twice a day for ADHD and treatment-resistant depression.

Klonopin: 1 mg as needed for anxiety. (I am gradually lowering the dose on this med).

2007-10-14 16:19:59 · 5 answers · asked by Ben 3

I'm 16 and i have anxiety problems. I have many small anxiety/panic attacks, but i've only had 2 bad ones. I'll tell you about one and tell me if it was a true panic attack. The worst one i've ever had was when i was talking to my parents and my heart started racing so fast it was fluttering, i had trouble breathing and then i started hiperventilating, then my hands started tingling then my face, i was very lightheaded and dizzy and felt like i was goint to faint, I felt like i was going to die. Was that a true panic attack?

2007-10-14 16:05:34 · 13 answers · asked by Barrel_Racing_Cowgirl 3

I am so depressed right now that I want to kill myself. I won't, but I feel like it. I cry and cry. It's mainly because I'm trapped in a job that I despise. It's not like, oh, I hate my job, it's a nightmare and I can't afford to leave and I am good at nothing. I need somebody to talk to but don't have the money. Where can I go?

2007-10-14 15:59:16 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

My friend has been taking Prozac for about three weeks. She says she's so fatigued all the time and doesn't feel any better. Plus she's hoarse all the time since shes's used it. I only took it a couple weeks and didn't get that. Any advice would sure be helpful. Thanks folks!!!!!!

2007-10-14 15:51:55 · 7 answers · asked by zen 6

can i a bs firing and the downward spiral resulting be ptsd and is there help

2007-10-14 15:44:41 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Even after a lot of time has passed.....even after therapy, self-help, moving on with life in every other way.

2007-10-14 15:01:14 · 42 answers · asked by abbacat 5

if i spin around on my butt with a lampshade on my head while screaming im a loopy but job

2007-10-14 14:36:17 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

im 15 & i miss my gramma. i havent seen her for 2 months. everytime i call her to see her, she makes excuses like "im busy" or "i dont feel up to it" i hate it and i feel like she is lying to me. i always have to call her first. she never calls me. i cry for her every night. i miss her so bad. i feel so depressed. i feel like she doesnt care about me. i usually see her every 2 weeks. why doesnt she want to see me? i told her i miss her and i love her. that didnt help. i cant stop crying. i want to die. i miss gramma and she doesnt want to see me. it hurts. i cry myself to sleep over it. help

2007-10-14 14:20:04 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-14 12:35:22 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

why do i spend the whole day doing homework, when my friends only spenc a couple of hours. Im in Pre IB, BUT MY FRIENDS ALSO HAVE THE SAME CLASSES I DO . help!

2007-10-14 11:49:08 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do you think that people who do the brainwashing use subliminal messages so the other people aren't aware of what's being done to them?

2007-10-14 10:37:37 · 4 answers · asked by Deenie 6

i cut my self at night time ,when i am doing it at night time its not sore i cant feel a thing ,i am just siting there thinking why is this not hurting me why cant i feel it , if you have had any experience in self harming get back to me

2007-10-14 10:34:55 · 21 answers · asked by suzywong 4

I was going out with a girl and the relationship only lasted about a week because the moment I started going out with her I just wanted to be by myself and I pushed her away.

I know I've suffered from teenage depression on and off in these last 2 1/2 - 3 years and I felt my worst a couple months ago when I had finished school. I just felt that life is just one bad experiance after another and that I was worthless and ugly ect ect... In a way i still do.

She was a beautiful girl and we had loads in common but I just felt uncomfortable as soon as I started seeing her. Even all of my friends said she was stunning.

So, even though I feel generally better now, am I always going to push people away from me for the rest of my life? Because I pushed her away, insisting that we should be 'friends'. And is this because of depression? And if you have experianced depression has this happened to you?

2007-10-14 10:13:43 · 5 answers · asked by Rob 2

I cry like every day.Even if its for no reason.Am i depressed or something or is it just cuz im a teenager//??

2007-10-14 09:52:03 · 10 answers · asked by Jess 1

I'm 16 and i have anxiety and panic attacks. My anxiety problem started when i was about 13 and i started having anxiety/panic attacks about a year ago. I've had lots of small anxiety/panic attacks, i have had only 2 bad ones. The worst one i've ever had happened maybe 4 months ago and i was talking to my parents when i started getting very nervous, then i started having trouble breathing and that made me hiperventilate, my heart was beating so fast that it was was fluttering, then my left hand started tingling and then my mouth and face, i was very lightheaded and dizzy and felt like i was going to faint, i really thought that's it i'm going to die and pretty much through the whole experiance i was crying my eyes out. Was that a true panic attack? If yes then since i've had atleast one bad panic attack will i have more bad panic attacks?.....My mom is getting me an appointment to the doctor to get all this checked out. Is going to the doc the first step of getting this under control?

2007-10-14 09:51:30 · 4 answers · asked by Barrel_Racing_Cowgirl 3

I have a really hard time remembering things... Do they have a medication for that???

2007-10-14 09:49:47 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

child: age 12, male

(bipolar disorder, drug abuse, and depression run in almost everyone in his family)

he seems manic, one minute he's sitting and drawing, the next he's bouncing off the walls, screaming for a toy, he get violent when refused, uses force and verbally abuses everyone, he is easily angered, demands privacy to a scary level, he has fits of gibberish when were just yells on the top of his lungs singing or talking to himself while he pushes himself around the kitchen floor on his back, he whilstles for hours to annoy everyone and refuses to stop, will not concentrate on homework and refuses to read, watches excessive tv (very violent and pornographic), has never listened to his parent or accepted punishment, he tends to punish everyone around him, always claims ot be unloved and extremly bored.

What is wrong with him? I think its ADHD and Bipolar Disorder, but I could be wrong.

Any ideas, guys?

2007-10-14 09:45:20 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

i feel so depressed all the time. i dont know what to do. i feel as though everything is going wrong and nothing is going right. i hardly see my friends now, but i dont feel like i can force my company on them.i cant go into to much on this....it make me feel worse. added to that i lay awake at night worring about stupid things...stuff ive said, dne, school....im 15 btw. does anyne have any advice?

2007-10-14 09:15:54 · 7 answers · asked by Kio. 2

I have never openly spoke about this so bear with me. My family has a history of OCD, Anxiety, Depression, hypertension, ADD,

This may be just a stream of conscious - so try to put it together :-P. By the way, I believe in medicine and I am not looking for a "drop off of your meds and do this" solution, thanks!

I was prescribed Lexapro and cymbalta for my OCD, depression and anxiety

I am taking provigil for ADHD and constant tiredness.

There are times where I feel amazing - there are times where I feel like I have to keep my mind occupied and constantly be doing things --

Sometimes (not always) when I have coffee on top of these it makes me feel great, i.e. I feel great, no shame, don't beat up myself, no OCD

So I began taking caffeine pills in the mornings and for the first day it was great - then the second day and beyond it didnt help any more so i stopped about a week in, and coffee doesn't always do this.

Basically, does this make sense? Anyone else like this? Thoughts?

2007-10-14 08:46:14 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I want to know the options for prescribing medicine as a psychiatrist. Can you become a psychiatrist after being a psychologist? And what's the different routes and how to go about them? Nurse Practitioner can prescribe medicine, but do you need to go to nursing school as an undergraduate prior? And what comes after, a masters degree in nursing? Or if you aren't a registered nurse is there a program you can go through to become able to prescribe medicine? Whats a Ph.D? A Psy.D? Can a Psy. D prescribe meds? What ways can you prescribe meds by avoiding medical school?

2007-10-14 08:24:42 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-14 08:14:07 · 9 answers · asked by RazzleDazzle 2

i have been on meds before and this time i would prefer not to if possible

2007-10-14 07:52:57 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Could anyone suggest a site that gives concentration music,motivation talks,great speeches mp3 to download free

2007-10-14 05:23:59 · 1 answers · asked by shiva 1

I woke up today to the realisation that I am not happy anymore. It winter, Im always tired with school, I got my SAT's next year, lost all my friends (they wernt real friends), everytime I look in the mirror I hate what is looking back, My whole class said Im a really wierd person on friday, and I just want to cry all the time.
Please help me. I dont want to talk to my parents because I dont want to worry them, they are really good to me without all this.

2007-10-14 05:11:14 · 9 answers · asked by Answer Me This 1

HELP! they have teased me for months now and only once has there been a concrete reason to tell a teacher and even then they didnt get in trouble!

2007-10-14 05:04:19 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

make your mind act A) slower, B) become socially slower C) get embarressed and ashamed easier D) make you feel gross about yourself no matter what you do E) make your spelling worse F) concentration worse G) feel numb or/feel unmotivated and embarressed by this also.
and finally see no point in life and are suicidal.

i am worried about my friend and he described this exact same symptoms.
or is this another condition or am i spot on for saying he has depression?
poor sod. i am forcing him to seee a doctor soon. he was talking pretty heavy last night.

2007-10-14 05:02:47 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

i keep reading about people saying things like-i see people in handicap blah blah blah that don't look like it- guess what- you can have a Heart condition or severe Fibromialsia, Muscle Spasms, etc have something that is not "acting up" at that moment,(but can at ANY time) but that does NOT make someone not handicap-only the IGNORANT ones are handicap.--

2007-10-14 04:47:53 · 3 answers · asked by susiwak 2