Mental Health - December 2007

2007-12-25 02:51:32 · 6 answers · asked by dajani_dina 3

1. Prolonged stress is said to cause all kinds of illnesses. What is 'prolonged stress'?

2. If a stress sufferer begins to return to good mental health, is the risk immediately removed or does it remain due to the past stress?

2007-12-25 01:42:10 · 7 answers · asked by Nog 3

i cant study!
after 10 minutes i am forced to just watch television or go play basketball.i really want to study but my mind just escapes into different thoughts.i also can sit for a long period of time so that causes me to quit studying..
help?!!

2007-12-25 01:05:48 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I feel my depression along with false pride has sort of made me a very lonesome individual . There is a lot of negative energy surrounding me and I dont know if I can enjoy anything anymore . I used to be a sort of a kid who loved sarcasm and didn't respect people much as a youngster . I am losing my self esteem at this age - of being a arrogant prick now and back then . This feeling is causing a lot of pain and depression .
In family occasions as well I just coccon myself and not able to share much of good spirits with anyone . I know its hell - but please can anyone advise what I can do to improve ...to be more Graceful and Nice person... please please no funny answers ... I want to drive this negative energy from me.
God Bless

2007-12-25 00:35:04 · 13 answers · asked by WaterGuy 3

In terms of neurochemicals release, i want to know difference between masturburation and sexual intercourse...

I know sexual intercourse is more of pleasure but how much 'more' pleasure it is as compared to sexual intercourse.

2007-12-25 00:14:43 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

The subject is the question itself. How do you resolve to be confident of yourself? How do you reach out to others so they will notice you? how will you start to change yourself for the better? how do i get out of my inferiority complex? What is the best things to change in oneself for the coming year?

thanks in advance

2007-12-25 00:06:01 · 11 answers · asked by Merton 1

i know many people here will find this Christmas very hard, me included, so i just wish everyone as much love and happiness as they can get. you're all in my thoughts.

2007-12-24 21:40:59 · 19 answers · asked by pullthetrigger 6

Tomorrow i am going to my mums house and my sister will be there. I think my sister knows about my cuts and has tried to look before but i just pulled away pretending to be playing... i hope my mom doesnt find out about it... they are all the way up my arm and i have no long sleeved anythings and they are still visible with makeup... and yes i know what you are going to say... "stop cutting.. get help"... but dont say that because i know that and i am getting help.. i have a counsellor.. i swear that this was the last time i will do it... well, any tips on how to hide it?

2007-12-24 19:51:19 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-24 19:24:44 · 10 answers · asked by Shima42 4

My nephew recently got kicked out of his home by his parents because they found out that he robbed a house and is doing drugs. He dropped out of school and he came to me for help. He used to be a good kid and I think he's just hanging out with the wrong crowd and that's why he started getting into trouble. I want to let him stay with me in my apartment but I'm afraid of what he might do to me. So far he's been nice and I really don't think he would hurt me, but sometimes I get scared of him. I really feel sorry for him cause our family has abandoned him. I think he really needs someone right now to help him get straight again. He's been sleeping in his friend's car. What should I do?

2007-12-24 18:57:44 · 9 answers · asked by HAPPY FEET 3

From Childhood I’ve been shy, introvert, I have always felt deprived of love and no recognition or appreciation from others, on one occasion my father told me straight he doesn’t love me. I was always alone at school, group work was always left for me to do because the students in my class knew I was a high achiever and my parents would be furious if I came home with a bad grade.

I’ve been suffering from depression now for a few years now, and pains in my arms and legs all my life. My parents aren’t the most supportive parents, at 14 they forced me to get part-time work for pocket money so I did I worked part-time at a supermarket where my main shift was weekends Saturday 12-10pm, Sunday 9-10pm I worked there for 2 and half years before exhaustion caught up with me. My doctor told me that I had to quit my job and he wrote me a week off from school for bed rest, so I did. I never quite recovered from the exhaustion, it followed me and caught up to me badly during my last year of school, this caused my grades to drop which angered my father severely. I remember on night when I was trying to relax surfing the net my father came in and he was so mad he hit me across the face so hard I fell off my chair.

My parents never gave me any freedom, I wasn’t allowed a girlfriend, to go to parties, go out at night, I wasn’t even allowed to go to my school prom or even the school award ceremony. After school I was to come straight home and to stay in my room until the next school day, other than bragging rights they didn’t want a sound from me, I was always sworn and cursed at if I tried to join the family in the living room they made sure to make me feel unwelcome. My dad and sister are both very verbally abusive towards me. My sister is my parents absolute favorite they’ll do anything for her, seeing her going to school dances and bringing boyfriends home really makes me wish I was allowed to do those things, it really eats at me.

Straight after finishing my last exam I got work painting safety walkways at a steel mill, there was no break for me, because I needed money to pay my parents rent and to go to university. My first year of uni (last year) was the worst year of my life. I began classes tired form the job which ended the Friday before I started uni, a week or so later I found out from other students from my school that the scholarship we came to the uni under had already been paid out but mine hadn’t weeks later they still wouldn’t tell me why they didn’t pay so I had to pay for uni out the money I had earned painting, I also found out that the uni had messed up my courses by putting me in two trial courses which I didn’t agree on and they felt the need to charge me full price for this. There where major problems with these two accounting courses like errors in their exam papers that caused the mid term exam to have to be redone by the whole class because of missing figures and the fact that the papers were only being marked on the final answers, that were not checked for errors in the markers sheets.

The stress and exhaustion got too much for me so I cancelled my B semester I finished A semester and spent I week sorting out the final paperwork I also didn’t have the money to go back to uni for B semester. Then I burnt out and collapsed I was asleep for a month and a half before I woke again , you’d think they took me to a hospital but no they just left me in my room. I spent the rest of the year trying to get back to normal life, because while I was asleep I wasn’t eating, showering or going to the toilet (I remember my pee being brownish red which was worrying me) and I was still sleeping around 18hrs a day, since then my eye sight (I have black and white dots throughout my entire eye sight) and hearing has been getting worse, whilst still waiting for the private psychiatrist to get back to me I had to endure the verbal abuse from my father about what a useless sack of **** I was day in and day out.

In my country its illegal for a doctor to subscribe anyone under 18 any anti-depressants, So when I was 18 I asked him if he could help me, he referred me to pubic mental health place and a private psychiatrist. The private psychiatrist got back to me earlier this year because they had a long waiting list, the public place never got back to me. I’ve been on anti-depressants since but they aren’t helping but he couldn’t help me with the fatigue. I’ve also been unable to find a job in my town this whole year, Job interview after interview they all turned me down, I can’t work as fast as other people anymore and having depression all counts against me. I’m really at the end my line, I haven’t felt alive in years I feel so dead inside and lately suicide is looking like a much better alternative. I can’t get a job, I can’t pay to study, I soon won’t be able to pay rent. What in the world should I do?

2007-12-24 18:49:52 · 19 answers · asked by Fortuna2 2

i liked my childhood frnd.
i proposed but she denied.
i still tried for 6 months
.i spent all my money on her, i didn't eat but phoned.
actually she lives 2200km far frm me.
in childhood we were tougher.
1 day i hurt her very much that she nearly tried for a suicide.
i appologised n we resumed our frndship.
but i feel very guilty n want to cry.not only for this reasons but for many reasons like this but iam unable to.
please help me , make me cry or due to pressure i will die.
please help me make me cry.
plz
plz
plzz...........

2007-12-24 18:43:15 · 9 answers · asked by deepank r 2

I realize that I have chronic stress. I broke out in shingles a few months ago and then I just finally kind of snapped-broke some laws, lost all motivation for school and work all while feeling like if I got any more stress that I just might finally completely loose it!! Any suggestions on what to do?

2007-12-24 18:28:23 · 4 answers · asked by fraucarlson 6

I am mad of cure'ing the stammering. Becase i like to speek near everybody and my special and 1st girl . For that i have did many things. like takeing the book and reading for 3 houres.

2007-12-24 18:16:04 · 3 answers · asked by saji-g 1

2007-12-24 17:27:57 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am getting easily bored. I cry at times because I can't just have a "normal" family bonding Christmas season, and also because of the unfairness life is throwing toward me. I don't feel very hungry, and I feel weak and tired. I feel a bit cold at times, like there's no one to warm me, to take out the pain smashing me down. I sigh constantly about the downs of life. This started a few days ago with my mother getting angry but now I am completely taken over by all this. My parents are stuck in a little world of their own. My mother is ignoring me basically, and we live together and all, but I barely see her because I try to escape by going outside. My father is working a lot... so no one seems to notice. I feel empty and lonely. Is this stress or depression

2007-12-24 17:04:35 · 21 answers · asked by Chelz 2

What has worked better for you, pills or changing your thoughts? I am trying to deal with being in and out of depression, and I don't want to be on drugs, but I am willing to listen to peoples' opinions about medication. Also, without medication, what methods are there to beat depression?

2007-12-24 16:58:21 · 5 answers · asked by headcheese 5

2007-12-24 16:53:53 · 6 answers · asked by Blankito 2

I am really depressed and I know its christmas eve and Im just bringing the holidays down, I feel really bad I feel like theres really no point to life right now and when I tell people how I feel I know exactly what there going to say there gonna say "you matter so much, dont be so down on yourself" but the problem is I cant help it theres alway that constant reminder that Im a screw up and a horrible worthless person I just need some advice on how to get through the night, maybe even the week I just need to hold on because I know this feeling wont last forever.I thinking about jumping in front of a car tonight!PLEASE HELP ASAP:(

2007-12-24 16:38:24 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

How is it that EVERY person I deal with, family even worse, I'm putting myself in the position to get hurt physically or mentally? I hae to spend Xmas & New Yrs. completely alone. People always discriminate against me & make fun of me, beat up on me, take my money, tell lies on me, cheat me. I'm about to cry right now. I'm trying very hard not to call the crisis hotline or commit suicide. I already cried earlier today. I'm about to cry again. Either that or punch or kick a hole in the wall. My brothers came ALL the way over to my house, just to get their kicks out of violating my pet peeves & laughing @ me, & whispering, talking bad about me. They even stole some of my CD's & DVD's. My brother was INTENTIONALLY smacking on his food, & I told him. Don't do that because you'll trigger off an anxiety attack for me. He had this, "***** I know u ain't talkin' 2 me"-type look on his face & then smacked more & LOUDER. I was curteous enough to feed them. When I put on my earplugs they laughed.

2007-12-24 16:14:34 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-24 16:06:35 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have had 2 major deaths in my family in the past year.
I can't talk to my parents about my sleeping problems because they don't believe me.
I have bad dreams, and i wake up alot.
i was wanting to know if there is any pill i can take w/o my parents suspecting it.
yes I know i shouldm't take anything but i never can sleep and it's effecting me in school and sports.

2007-12-24 16:01:33 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-24 15:47:02 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have been cutting myself for almost 4 or 5 years now and idk how to stop i have tryed telling people how i feel writting and much more things but i just can seem to stop even my friends dont make me gulity enough tostop it and my little cousins see the marks and ask me i almost cry but i hold it in and say it there cat scratched but there getting older and smarted....and they wont take the cats as a answer pretty soon also my dad :( he found out and idk what to do the only reson i had stoped for a little while was becuase he didnt know knwo he dose and i dont care i have somuch going on....but other than cutting i dont feel safe talking to anything i want to be a trong person and when i talk it just makes me cry i cant even look my dad in the eyes anymore much less almost anybody else and im almost always depressed idk what to do

2007-12-24 15:41:31 · 5 answers · asked by briana.wruck 2

So a friend of mine has been smoking marijuana for 12 or so years now...and hes letting it run his life. He comes home from work just to leave and smoke 4hrs l8r he comes home just to leave 2hrs later to smoke again. He makes 550$ every friday on his paycheck but never has any money to show from it come sunday. It's been bothering me for awhile now but it's gotten worse..how can i confront him and get him to quit?

His fiancee whom hes been with for 6yrs now barely sees him [i'm suprised she tolerates what he does] marijuana always comes b4 she does, actually marijuana is his TOP priority over paying bills or what have you. I need help!!

2007-12-24 15:39:12 · 8 answers · asked by onegremlin89 1

i just have this question (yes i am secretly making mysef sick) how do i open up to my mom and tell her about my problem, i really need to tell her but i dont know how to open up to her

2007-12-24 14:42:03 · 8 answers · asked by certifiedballer34 1

Is there any vitamins that can improve my mood like happy cause i can be a B**** and i dont mean to just is there a vitamin or something that will increase my mood to be more nicer

2007-12-24 14:04:57 · 4 answers · asked by Jackie 1

This year was the culmination of a long period of waiting for certain things. I got engaged after dating for three years, and while I want to marry him, I wasn't all crazy excited like other girls I know who got engaged. I guess because it took so long that we were already out of the intense, passionate phase. Then I finally graduated college a couple of weeks ago. It took me almost 7 years because I decided to break from my parents, work full-time and go to school at night. But that didn't seem so exciting either because after 7 years, you're just like "well, finally." Then I also just got a new job, which will get me out of the boring, life-sucking job I had all through college. And I was super excited about that and it took a month to hear I finally got it.. and now I'm just like, okay.

Now what?

I feel like I'm always looking forward to things in life and when they happen, it's back to boring old life and it's depressing. Do I need therapy to ever really be happy?

2007-12-24 14:03:24 · 8 answers · asked by oparker20 2

(something that upsets them)and can they spiral back into addiction from this one event?

2007-12-24 13:24:48 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

but i don't want to go to a doctor or take pills...so do u think there's something else i could do?

2007-12-24 13:05:42 · 21 answers · asked by nothing 5