Mental Health - November 2007

Recently put on Cymbalta 60mg by my pysch for alcoholism. I take @ 7am and am zooming all day long. My pupils are huge and I drink like gallons of water. I also have zero appetite. Has anyone else noticed these side effects?

2007-11-18 11:51:39 · 3 answers · asked by Rachel M 1

please help me make your answers as long as u want

2007-11-18 11:48:47 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

I do

2007-11-18 11:45:19 · 5 answers · asked by Isai 2

This is very hard to talk about but I have had an addiction to porn for many years. I have lost jobs because of it as well as ruined relationships. But I am finally willing to admit I have a problem and seek help. Does anyone know where a good place to start would be, websites for self help with addiction like this etc...

2007-11-18 11:36:53 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

is that true that been unstable emotional is to be psico dangerious person?????? please tell me what exactly means that meaning UNSTABLE EMO.??????

2007-11-18 11:35:02 · 4 answers · asked by kenia 1

When Yahooanswers was down for a good part of the day today, what did you do? I was feeling antsy...share your experience.

2007-11-18 11:30:42 · 4 answers · asked by Seablanco1 6

I'm going to a therapist about my social anxiety but I don't think she's dealt with someone who's had it before. I was too shy to ask. But yeah she has me printing out stuff on how to manage social anxiety. I don't have insurance so I can't see another therapist (she's a social worker). She's nice and seems to understand how I feel but it feels pointless. If she doesn't know how to help me overcome social anxiety then I might as well do it on my own, without seeing her. Am I right in thinking this way? I'm afraid she'll have me talking about the past and analyzing what went wrong..

2007-11-18 10:59:19 · 6 answers · asked by noname 3

2007-11-18 10:52:01 · 5 answers · asked by Mrs. Someone 1

A general question but please be as specific as you like.

2007-11-18 10:40:25 · 5 answers · asked by esha26 1

2007-11-18 10:39:53 · 7 answers · asked by Scratch 1

Please tell me about your experience. I amcurrently taking 75mg of effexor xr and have been for almost two weeks. I am just a little discouraged. So truthful and honest imput would do me wonders.

2007-11-18 09:43:14 · 7 answers · asked by Scratch 1

Many symptoms of my mental disorders like anxiety, depression, OCD, & Tourette's Syndrome are interpreted by people as abnormal & childish. I also had 2 strokes @ age 5. Many of my behaviors are socially unacceptable to society but I can't help it. & mny people tell me there's no excuse for me being this way & when I try to explain why I'm the way I am, people don't want to hear it & they try to call me trouble-making & attention-seeking when I'm not. I can't help who I am. I prefer to be alone & people say it's unhealthy to be alone all the time. My brother considers me a sick, twisted, & demented sociopathic freak because he doesn't understand my disability & does not care. Who is he to diagnose me? & he's very mentally abusive & always insults me & tells other people to not trust me. My whole family hates me based on others' gossipping about me that's not true & I try to explain it & they don't want to hear it.

2007-11-18 03:53:05 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-18 03:14:41 · 3 answers · asked by Fred D 1

Yoga helps me. What else would help?

2007-11-18 02:08:17 · 13 answers · asked by califrniateach 4

2007-11-18 01:31:33 · 12 answers · asked by janet.sands 1

i mean not the common one. for instance, person with more that two hands or legs. person with weird deseases or disorders.

2007-11-18 00:52:28 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-17 23:08:08 · 5 answers · asked by cranford72 2

I wrote it last night. it's kinda unfinished, it doesn't sound finished, but i was struggling to think of any last lines. almost all the poems i write end up unfinished.

You found me swinging by the neck
In your favourite tree
And it was Autumn,
The leaves swirled around me.
The colours red and brown
A sunset-gilded rain,
As the leaves fell to the ground.
You cried for me again.
And i was slowly swaying
In the crisp and cooling breeze,
The noose gently creaking,
Like the branches of the trees.

2007-11-17 21:11:51 · 11 answers · asked by pullthetrigger 6

I'm a 16 year old and I suffer from emetophobia (fear of vomiting) I could swear to you that I rather die than vomit; I haven't thrown up in about 6 years. I'm seaking for your help because I wonder if this is going to kill me.. I suffer days and even weeks w/out sleeping because I panic, and feel sick, and can't sleep, etc and still go to school all tired and can't concentrate on my life. I know there is not really a cure for phobias, so how getting over it? I sometimes wish I die because I'm scared to grow up w/ the phobia and won't find myself friends or a husband(since my family is tired of me). I hate feeling lonely and I hate people to see me looking like a weirdo...
any suggestions? I don't want to end my life here...
PS: I've gone to doctors, councelors,psychologists, etc and it doesn't work. The only words I can remember is, "If you can't help yourself, no one will." But how?...I feel desperate...for those of you who have emetophobia know exacly what I mean..

2007-11-17 21:06:29 · 10 answers · asked by Myself 3

i have been suffering depression for several years now. i have my good days... like when my sons were born... but for the most part i am almost always in a funk. i try to joke about serious things, just to make them a little less stressful. i try to pretend things don't bother me as much as they do. but some times it just gets so heavy in my heart and in my head that it seems as if there is no escaping it. i know many people recomend getting a job, but i have several physical conditions that limit what i can do. and i do get out almost every day and just... breathe. but that funky little blue thing... that demon that calls itself depression... stays very close behind me.

then, there are days when the end of everything seems so very easy to reach for. it's just right there. and if i just grab it... savor it.. everything will be ok. but two little voices remind me that i need to stay.. at least a little while longer. it's my boys... telling me they love me. and that they need me.

2007-11-17 20:31:58 · 22 answers · asked by wrldzgr8stdad 4

2007-11-17 19:33:36 · 7 answers · asked by wrldzgr8stdad 4

My EX husband is a very odd person. After living with him 4 months, i filed for divorce bacause of his strange behavior. He refuses to see a doctor because he sees that nothing is wrong and he refuses any kind of medication. I will list the characteristics and hope someone can understand what I'm talking about and hopefully someone can help me classify what kind of illness he has:
1. He has ALWAYS lived in small secluded places such as campers. Last i heard he was living between homeless shelters and his car.
2. He isolates himself from people and has NO friends.
3. He speaks about "off the wall subjects" when having a conversation such as politics, history, and sometimes just brings these subjects up out of the blue.
4. He uses these big words that he are never used in everyday language that are read in college textbooks.
5. He does have a bachelor's degree, but only works day by job WHEN he has a job. He tends to work piddly minimum wage jobs.

2007-11-17 18:59:48 · 9 answers · asked by Suzy R. 3

I just don't know what is wrong with me anymore, I feel so bummed out all of the time. I am pretty sure I have Social Anxiety Disorder, I have read alot about it and all the information hits the nail directly on the head. If I do have Social Anxiety Disorder it is very much interfering with my friends, I feel nervous even going to hang out with them because I am afraid that they will judge me while I am with them so I just try and avoid them on the weekends. And because of that whole thing I feel I might be depressed now, I just don't know what to do. I want to talk to my mom but I am scared that she will think I am making it all up. If anyone has any advice/answers it would be wonderful if you could share them with me.

2007-11-17 18:41:01 · 4 answers · asked by Scissorhands. 2

They are recommending a 20Mg. dose thinking that it will cure insomnia too

2007-11-17 16:01:24 · 7 answers · asked by Allen 2

i was babysitting these kids tonight and their dog was outside, sitting by the bay window in front of the kitchen table. I looked into the dogs eyes very intensely and then started talking to him through my mind. i said "Sampson, if you can hear me, go walk to the back of the yard and sit" and he auctually did it!!!! then i told him to walk to the back door AND HE DID THAT TOO!!! once is a coincidence but twice is just scary! i never said anything out loud.. it was all through my head! im really scared.. am i going mental!/ whats happening to me!!! AHHHHAG =(

2007-11-17 15:34:09 · 20 answers · asked by bulletprooflonliness 4

Is it okay for a 15 year old to still be creeped out by the dark? Like i will -never- go down stairs during the night unless someone else is there. I always check my clost before bed. For me i love sleeping on my right side, i would fall asleep soo quickly, but im facing my wall. So i have to lay on my left side so i can see the closet and the door.

Im not so much afraid of the dark in general but of like someone being in my house or room at night. It freaks me out to no end. Ive watched too many horror movies in my past and i have issues telling myself that they're not real...

Does anyone else have this issue?

2007-11-17 14:43:56 · 39 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-17 14:01:22 · 13 answers · asked by PrincessKitty 2

Not someone who you think is insane, but someone who is clinical diagnosis as insane. Insane is not the word to use, so someone who cannot function on society due to their mental illness.

2007-11-17 11:43:02 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous

Hi
I self harm. [ please do not try convince me to stop or tell me the dangers. im fully aware of what im doing. i dont do it reuglary. its something i do when i cant cope and i am gettin help. im seeing a GP fortnightly and a counsellor weekly but its early days. i have yet to properly talk to the counsellor about the self harm but we have briefly talked about it. she said when i am ready to stop i will stop. and she will help me develop other methods of coping but that might now i might not have the strength in me to stop. and that if i dont want to stop i wont. and i dont want to.]
however when i do it i do like to tell people. crazy as it sounds. i feel relieved for it.
i usually tell my best friend when i have done it and she wil ask to see it to check i dont need any medical help etc.
if i do it in school. and i cant speak to my friend or tell her what should i do? if i do it in school i cant carry on like normal and go to lessons so what do i do?
thankyou very much x

2007-11-17 11:40:14 · 8 answers · asked by Nart 2

I feel like everything I do is wrong...I feel unlovable because no guys have ever liked me...I feel ugly inside and out...I know its shallow I really do...but its been stressful.

2007-11-17 11:15:49 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous