I am very close with a couple of people who suffer from cyclical mood swings/depression. Even during their good mood swings they had trouble anything confrontational and regularly misinterpreted what people said or the tone in which it was said. During the bad swings they were intolerable to be around and totally irrational, angry, bitter, and confrontational with no sense of reasoning.
Once the doctor was able, after experimentation, to get them on exactly the right medication, their behaviour and attitude change was like a miracle. Their reasoning and interpretation abilities are what is considered normal with the right medication. Both are much happier.
The brain is an especially chemically reactive organ. Much more is known by the medical and scientific community about most of the other bodily organs than the brain. We should financially support medical science continuing studies to make advances in psychiatric treatment.
Just your garden variety OCD. My sister has it too.
Chronic Anxiety, Melancholy and frequent existential insanity.
In the world's harsh wear and tear many a very sincere attachment is slowly obliterated.
Είμαι ταξιδιώτης τόσο στο χρόνο όσο και στο διάστημα
My previous post may have seemed smartassed or trivial, however, i was being 100% serious. the solid, no doubts about it diagnoses are depression, PTSD, ADD, borderline personality disorder, panic attacks and anxiety. i have to carry a clean wash cloth in my purse to roll up and put in my mouth when the anxiety gets too bad. It is either that or risk a chipped tooth, bitten tongue or some other similar nonsense. Suspected diagnosis is either autism spectrum disorder or aperger's syndrome. waiting to get tested for that. From clinical opinion, i was misdiagnosed as a rugrat, but that was a long time back. Psychology was not where it is today. The end result is that i do not sleep without medication. As in, if i don't have my night meds, i do not sleep. be it a couple of days or weeks. This sucks ass to no end. This isn't me trying to get sedatives, it has been documented in my charts each hospital stay, whether it be for surgery or psych ward.
Sometimes I feel like flying like a bird, heading towards my friend or gf, whereas actually I'm in office, class or at home... and last time it happened when I was in the bathroom... Don't know what type of mental illness is this :P
I reach out to every one struggling and those who have come to terms with mental issues x x x
I'm extreme bipolar
my mood swings up and down
One minute I am the happiest person alive the next minute I pretty much want to die
I also have ptsd, Which I have been working hard at overcoming, But I don't know for sure if that is ever going to happen or if it is possible.
I have never been diagnosed with a current mental illness or had any kind of therapy for a mental condition. **REDACTED BY MODERATOR**
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To deal with my various diagnoses I have been on countless medications over my lifetime starting when I was a child. They either stop working or the side effects become untenable. There are times I have been able to go without meds. I do know enough when it is time to return to the medication route.
Therapy plays an important part too. Or at least it did when I was younger. As I have gotten older I have learned to deal with things myself and ask for help when it is needed.
It took a long time but I have made peace with the fact that I will always have issues with my mental health. That was the hardest thing to admit and accept. My life got a little bit easier when I was able to do that.
Not diagnosed with anything, but my anxiety can be pretty crippling at times. I've tried, and still practice mindfulness meditation and a little CBT, but for me the only think that keeps devil down in hole is running.
I recognise that this, my anxiety, is part of me and a kind of side effect of things that I like about me (I'm empathetic, hard working, socially conscious and driven to do my best) and I try hard every day to live with and manage it. I wouldn't change me, I'd just like to keep that part of me from dominating my life as, at times, it can.
My most dislikes are simply those who commit gossip, lies, terrorism, murder, theft,
take advantage, or harm others and animals in any way.
I consider all of these equally self-important, immoral, and inhumane,
practiced by those who think the rest of the world owes them something.
After I returned from Vietnam, I had recurring episodes of PTSD. Using a combination of psychotherapy and group therapy, I managed to overcome PTSD. I owe many thanks to my volunteer psychologist and my fellow group therapy members. I know that not all of them had the type of therapy success that I had, but they all had some success.
But, what I did come here to say is, that I'm lucky enough to have a doctor that believes that EVERY person is unique... When I go to see him the first question that he ask me is," What can I do to help YOU today?"
Thank the cosmos for this extraordinary blessing!!! Unfortunately for me, When it comes to pets, I only wish that I was able to show them the love that they would so freely give to me...
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