please i want to know
maybe theres something wrong w/ me maybe theres not
but i want to hear possible from someone with like schizophrenia, multiple personaility disorder, depression, etc.
just curious
if your medicated was life really so bad before?
2007-03-21 15:56:19 · 16 answers · asked by the name is irrelevant 1 in Health ➔ Mental Health
you say you have multiple personality's well could one of them be a nympho maniac and if yes can i meet her
2007-03-21 16:07:45 · answer #1 · answered by zellparis 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I have had depression for all of my life. I have been on and off medication since 1983. Right now, I haven't taken meds for about two months, and I'm trying to see if I can do okay without it (I have a bottle of Paxil that I can start taking again if it gets worse).
It's kind of funny, maybe, but I'm used to being depressed and always seeing the negative side of everything. It's become such a big part of my personality that I can't imagine it being any other way. I seem to be the most creative and efficient when I draw from my depression--I'm usually able to avoid bad situations by always expecting the worst thing to happen. Being happy is kind of boring. I don't want to sound like I think I'm superior to others, but sometimes I feel like I have a depth that happier people don't have. I also try to understand other people's bad feelings even if I don't particularly like them. I honestly think it forces me to try to be a better person even if I don't want to.
2007-03-29 05:47:29 · answer #2 · answered by majnun99 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've personally experienced depression and bi-polar symptoms in my teenage years. I now am off medication and don't have those symptoms anymore. I work with people with schizophrenia, and from what I understand without your medication your disease will progress, in your hullicinations and voices will increase. going on and off is bad also. Crazy is not a good word, its a stero-typical word, an ignorant word that classifys people as something less then other people or "normal" people. In my experience of working with people with mental illness for 4 years now, I have found people to be such caring, funny people, who above all want to fit in and be excepted. It is a shame that the media and society belittles these illnesses they way they do. With treatment, people can still be a productive part of society, and live basically a "normal" life.
2007-03-29 14:59:20 · answer #3 · answered by Kellie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I read your question and then read all of the answers people gave. I then decided I would rate them, which I have never done before, until tonight. I will try to give you my experience with mental illness with as few words as possible. I was originally diagnosed with Bipolar II disorder. I was never quite stable, my doctor told me to file for disability, and I had to go stay with family. I left my family and came back to where I had been living. I had been having a very difficult time with depression and intense suicidal thoughts. One morning I woke up and realized that GOD had a better plan for me in another life, and that He was trying to give me the message to go to Him. I felt so relieved and free as I began swallowing an entire bottle of benadryl. I was cleaning my house, sweeping my patio, when my phone rang and a friend came over...(you get the picture)
My diagnosis was then change to Schizo affective disorder, which I denied and was extremely mad about. I have always liked the way I think. I am just now coming to terms with the Schizo part of my illness. Now, I have a very difficult time, between mood swings and delusional thinking, but the medications do help and I have a great psychologist. I work part time and have 6 credits left to finish my bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice, which proves that a purposeful life can be achieved. The positive and negative symptoms of mental disorders vary greatly in the intensity and duration. One last note regarding some of the other comments. Some of the answers given clearly lacked a very important factor: personal experience with a severe mental illness,, as well as education, which kept them from giving you a thorough answer based on experience and education. (FYI) Multiple personality was changed in the DSM-IV-TR
years ago. It is now referred to as Dissociative disorder. If you are concerned about your mental health, don't be afraid to seek some help, but I would strongly encourage you to confide in someone you would trust with your life, and begin slowly. Quick answer: Mental illness can be severely disabling, relentlessly cruel and subtly insidious. Good luck to you!!
2007-03-22 00:05:00 · answer #4 · answered by pdubie2005 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's different for everybody. If you are hurting yourself or others or thinking of doing so, then medication and professional help are almost definitely necessary. Most times it is not so bad as far as depression goes, people can usually work through it with changes to their lifestyle, and of course, time. Schizophrenia and MPD often have some form of either violent tendencies or amnesia when bad things could be happening, and probably require help.
2007-03-21 23:06:11 · answer #5 · answered by wwwordsmiff 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suffer from bi polar and if i had not been treated i was doomed. I have mixed States when i fell like sad and happy and don't know, i get delusions, which way to feel I'm paranoid , this is while medicated, the lowest dose that fits for me to have my own thoughts, Yes indeed my life was a living hell. I work with my meds and mind control otherwise the doctors over medicate you and you feel nothing. good luck
2007-03-28 10:58:21 · answer #6 · answered by laura k 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm bipolar and stable on meds. Before I got on the right meds I could barely function. I didn't have a job, I couldn't stay in school. I basically hid in my room listening to loud music and playing solitaire. There were too many racing thoughts, I had the concentration span of a humming bird on speed, and mostly I wished I was dead. I'm thrilled to finally be stable enough to move out and hold a full time job and consider going back to school.
Also, please don't refer to us as "looneys". I'm pretty sure you spelled it wrong, anyway.
2007-03-22 06:38:34 · answer #7 · answered by fiVe 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Everyone has issues, depends on what you define "crazy" as. Psychiatrists are good listeners that is why people keep going to them. Check out www.healthyfootsteps.com for free tool you can share w your doctor. Med and mod trackers and it's FREE!
2007-03-29 14:39:58 · answer #8 · answered by healthyfootsteps 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it was!!
Life is much better as a stable person. Living with hallucinations, agitation, depression is NO way to live. I will be forever grateful to the doctors for finally helping me out of the hole of mental illness.
There is nothing worse.
2007-03-21 23:02:51 · answer #9 · answered by Libby 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
as i have a mental illness=bipolar with occasional psychosis(thank goodness),most people know this illness by manic/depressive disorder.it is an emotional,chemical illness and is the cousin of sychzoprenia.let me just share this poem with you that was published by a support network. "A Bipolar Prayer".....God grant me the strength to endure just one more day.That I can just keep going in front of all the prying eyes watching for all the mistakes they see...Harness the demons that try to steal the thoughts from my mind,give me assurance that the words I speak are understood by them from me..Help me not to be bitter or question why I was chosen to live with this horrible illness that I was given through no fault of my own..Teach those around me to love me as I am,give them patience to know I struggle through each day and pray not to wake up alone...If today I should fall Lord,please protect me and the ones I love,remind the one who come to help me that I'm still a person,that is reaching out for help from within..Please let them be gentle with me,to know I'm frightened and may not even know who I am or where I may have been..God stay with me in the cold lonely places where they take me to and I never know for how long..I sit in these strange places with all these thoughts racing through my mind wondering why they don't understand me,and what I done wrong..Sit by me God as they take me through their system, with all these people about me,and then there is always some of my loved ones wanting to send me away..I try to tell them that I am okay each time and yet my words seem to fall on deaf ears,like I'm not even there nor have anything to say..God I beg of you as at last I make it to the hospital,give the doctors and the counselors and everyone the skills they need..That they may be guided by you,and you provide the wisdom so that they might find their Demon and I'll finally be freed..Give me grace to accept the things I cannot change as I travel through this life seemingly on center stage..Remind me Lord of the beautiful things and all I have to look forward to when I at last conquer this SILENT RAGE.i am constantly ruled by my emotions without my 5 psychiatric medications.this illness got me fired from almost every job i had.the simplest description for bipolar is 'the inability to deal with everyday stress'.emotions rule unless my meds work.
2007-03-21 23:56:34 · answer #10 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you act crazy, after a while people will start treating you as if you were crazy. Is that what you want? If so then you have got a lot of growing up to do. Good luck!!!
2007-03-21 23:02:36 · answer #11 · answered by kimmi 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋