Anybody got them? Schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, oedipus complex, neuroses, tourette's, hysteria or whatever else. Tell us a little about your spiritual inner tumor!
I probabaly have the Avoidant personality disorder, but eh...
i was diagnosed with "anxiety disorder" in 2001 and was taking paxil for a couple months... that shit fucked me up big time...
I don't like people much. Does that count?
I have a brother who was diagnosed with schizophrenia in combination with psychotic episodes. After a few days of not sleeping (and being pretty normal all hif life prior to that time), he imagined the other people in his house to be after his appartment and finally jumped out of the window (3rd floor).
He's been on medications ever since and does pretty well. At least I think so. He's getting a bit worked up about some things he was pretty indifferent before, but all in all it seems to be not much of a problem.
I study physics.
>>6
That qualifies. ;D
I was treated with SSRIs for depression for 9 years. Then I found out I just had a sleep disorder. Color me pissed off...
Oh come on!
No one of you even takes meds? What's with all the jibber jabber about prozac and shit these days?
Well, I'm anxious-avoidant as well. (Due to practically being raised in the middle of a jungle.)
My mother is freakin' Paranoid. (People come in and steal things at night! Like my can of soda!)
And, recently, my younger brother lost it.
My parents blame it on him staying up all night either playing video games on the computer, or playing PS2. He just snapped one day saying there was something wrong with him, that he was hearing voices, seeing things, etc.
We took him to a hospital and they found nothing physically wrong with him, and then after two weeks of them keeping him there doped up on drugs doing various tests (2 spinal taps, MIR scans, blood, etc) my parents just decided to break him out.
It was actually quite funny. They just got him dressed and started walking him out of the hospital, and had actually got him out of the building before the doctors noticed. Though as soon as they did the doctors ended up calling security and the police, so they didn't gte away with it.
After that they sent him to a "Behavioral Research Center." That pretty much messed him up even more since they tried to get him to follow their commands, while he thought it was some sort of dream of something, and he wasn't used to the atmosphere. He actually tried to fight the doctors off...
After ~2 weeks of that, my parents finally got him out... So now he wanders around home talking crazy, though not as much as when he was at the hospital.
>>9
moral of the story, don't trust psychiatrists
>>10 suffers from paranoia and needs treatment at our special clinic!
This is an old thread, but I'm bored and interested so gogo thread necromancy.
mental disorders (me):
Social Anxiety Disorder - 30mg Buspar twice daily
Depression and/or Bipolar Disorder (they haven't decided) - 20mg Lexapro daily
Sleep Onset Insomnia - 50mg Trazadone daily at bed
They're working on adding attention deficit disorder to that mix too (yay adderall!)
On the general subject, the meds are often helpful when it's the right med and there's actually something wrong. Unfortunately, the mental health care system has some serious problems, though it's getting better. (SSRIs are overused and often misprescribed, too many people get their psychiatric meds from a general practitioner who is simply not well educated in their proper application, this causes lots of medication imblance.)
Massive Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder combined with Asperger's Syndrome :D
>>13
Buspar working well for you? That pretty much wiped out my anxiety problem, although it wasn't a social one. Seems like great stuff.
Also, does it make you drowsy just after taking it?
>>17
I've found buspar to be an excellent drug. It's been helping alot for me, though I may have my dosage upped just a bit. And, yeah, shortly after taking it I can feel a sort of drowsyness/dizzyness hit me but that fades pretty quickly. I'm very happy with buspar. (though I've met alot of people who say it doesn't work for them)
Kids: Always remember that drugs are to be regarded like diets: Some may generally have the same effect for pretty much all people but some just work for special groups of people. Digestion systems are different, even mental ones!
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>Tangent: Does anyone else think that Tom Cruise is a moron who actually knows nothing about psychology?
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This seems like the proper thread to ask this in. I'm 20, and my psychologist and psychiatrist appear that they might be getting ready to diagnose me with ADD. If anyone here has been treated for it, can you give me a run down of the different medicines and their effectiveness?
I have the pure-o form of obsessive compulsive disorder :( One day i hope it goes away.
Hope is so passé...
i want to know what are some of the treatments for someon like me with bad dapresshion...
>>29
The recommended treatment is going to be 'talk therapy' along with drugs. Now what can end up happening (and often does) is they give you a bottle of pills and leave you to your own devices.
Effexor, Lexapro, Prozac are a few anti-depressants I can think of off the top of my head but there are alot more.
doctors today...they dont want to help people. all they want is money, a perfect example of people today...
Damn i hate the world
Oh yeah, doctors USED to be known as the very definition of honesty and integrity, but not any longer in these MODERN times!
And for those countries where doctors are funded by the government, they'll refuse to take in new patients if they've already met the quota they need to guarantee continued funding.
Yeah well, arguments about modern times and capitalism are maybe more appropriate than about the nature of doctors herein.
Of course.
Would I be diagnosed with a paranoia disorder if I claimed that the only winners in modern capitalism are scammers? Capitalism has long ceased to be of any benefit to honest workers and innovators, favouring instead people who can milk the same dishonest products 'till the brainwashed masses have forgotten that they're sick of all the dishonesty.
but its true, to all people exept those who inheret old money. i mean the word is becoming corupted by the driving force behind every developed country, and that is money. those who live an honest life will never become anything. excuse me if i seem too pesamistic, but the comon person with no real knowlege of how modern cpatalism operates is insignifacent.
but than again, i may juest be biested by my extream hatred for so many peoplin the world...
You wouldn't be diagnosed with paranoia for that. </obvious> The thing about capitalism is, it is uncaring. Competition is great for the most efficient production of goods and services, but a strongly competition based culture leaves those who can't keep up in the gutter, devoid of any human decency. Capitalism, great for making stuff, terrible for distributing it.
> those who live an honest life will never become anything.
I wonder what Diogenes would say to that if he were alive today.
It's all very subjective.
>>37
It's just as good, if not better, than communism or socialism at distributing things...
>>39
What a weird conception of "good" and "better" you must have...
>>36
<｀Д´> Capitals, motherfucker. Do you use them?!
>>41 has grammar OCD
yay
ADHD + OCD. That's awesome. I couldn't get bored even if I tried hard.
Prolly have a few, at least one, but not enough to be recognized ill. Meh.
Paranoia, occasional depression...and possibly what you'd call schizophrenia, although technichally hearing voices in your head can be considered completely normal for someone with an over-active imagination like me. And schizophrenia isn't synonymous with 'hearing voices'. >>; Oh, yes, and rages. Near-uncontrollable rages. x_X