Serious Mental Ilnesses

AngelsAndDemons:

I know you said "people that have actually been seriously diagnosed"
but I'm just interested in this topic
Hope you don't mind
:)
Sometimes I wonder if I have a mild form of OCD
Every time I see the floor dirty (in our sitting room) I have an overwhelming sense of fear and I just HAVE to clean it.

When I'm cleaning it, I feel this huge sense of relief, it's such a great feeling.
It worries me =S

You could just have a dirt phobia.

I'd try and desensitise yourself to that, either systematically or by flooding.

Flooding would be rolling around in the mud whilst being made sure you do by someone and eventually, you'll be fine.

Or systematically, you slowly introduce yourself to the dirt at different lengths until you're okay with it.

Hmm i'm actually very interested in what you have all been saying. I dont have any psychological dissorders but how do you cope or treat this, do you take medication? I dont want to seem niave or blunt I kinda know how it feels when people ask questions i have diabetes sometimes can be irritating.

bookmarK:

Hmm i'm actually very interested in what you have all been saying. I dont have any psychological dissorders but how do you cope or treat this, do you take medication? I dont want to seem niave or blunt I kinda know how it feels when people ask questions i have diabetes sometimes can be irritating.

That's all right, you only learn by asking.

I don't personally take medication, as my therapistsaysthat it only hides the problem and doesn't make it go away. I just have to live with it day by day, though when I was diagnosed I had to spend a lot of time in hospital, because of severe hallucinations.

I didn't go to the doctors or something but I think I have some problem. You see, when I saw something on the internet, I'll began to have two person talking, not really hearing it but I just verbally talk it out. Something like debating. I don't have DID. Or Schizophrenia bcoz I don't hallucinate.

Last time, when my friend called me and ask me on something, I'll reply back nicely but when I'm off the phone, I'll started to scold her for asking me that. It's two different kind of personality I've got. Am I normal?

And are there anyone that read stories, no matter what stories, if you read it, you'll feel what the characters are feeling?

I was recently diagnosed with: clinical depression, anxiety, social phobia, and minor OCD. It started with just anxiety, when I was a little kid I always had it and that caused the onset of OCD, that person in my head constantly watching me, pointing out every little single flaw or things I do wrong, and I can't stop thinking. It completely drove me crazy until I wanted to hurt myself to stop thinking. I just wanted to stop caring so on came the depression, and social anxiety has always been there. I cannot connect with people. I'm way too out of place. OCD and depression run in the family. Now I see a therapist and take anti-depressants. I'm slightly overwhelmed with dealing with everything, all of these are just something I thought was a normal phase for teenagers.

Somebody close to me has a serious case of OCD. They are on the highest level of medication possible for it, but I have no idea of how it is effecting them in the long term. I know and can understand some peoples frustration with the illness and although I do not have it personally, I am happy to give an outside opinion to anyone, as I have experience of the problem and am happy to give my advice. If you have this illness and are reading this, don't think you are weak because you have it. This person was a doctor before having this illness and this shows that it can happen to the best of people.

Over the summer I was hospitalized in a psychiatric facility for ten days and I was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, general anxiety disorder, and that my OCD symptoms had worsened.

I heard voices. And I knew it wasn't normal. I knew how to stop them but they were giving me the worst headaches. I had awful mood swings and horrible panic attacks and I couldn't get through the day without snapping at someone or just feeling plain crappy. My concentration was almost impossible to control and I had these rituals that I had to do in the same order or else I'd freak out and believe something bad would happen in the day.

So I started seeing a psychologist, and she helped, but my parents didn't like her because she addressed how their own anger issues were affecting my life. I got prescribed Zoloft by a psychiatrist. That seemed to make the situation worse, because a small problem led to my wanting to commit suicide. That led to the hospitalization, where I was put on 20 mg of Prozac daily and I won't lie, I'm not cured but things have gotten better and I've learned how to handle myself when things in my head get kind of rough.

I've been diagnosed with Bipolar II and Generalized Anxiety Disorder, tentatively diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. I've been hospitalized eight times, the last time in September of '08. When I have insurance I take medication for the Bipolar but not the GAD. The anti-anxiety medication doesn't do anything that I notice and the anxiety isn't debilitating so I'd rather not play around with meds on that one. I take a single mood stabilizer for the Bipolar that works very well.

I've been diagnosed with PTSD, chronic depression, and I'm a recovering drug/acohol addict. fucking miserable. -.-

Angel_xo:

I know you said "people that have actually been seriously diagnosed"
but I'm just interested in this topic
Hope you don't mind
:)
Sometimes I wonder if I have a mild form of OCD
Every time I see the floor dirty (in our sitting room) I have an overwhelming sense of fear and I just HAVE to clean it.

When I'm cleaning it, I feel this huge sense of relief, it's such a great feeling.
It worries me =S

Similar to this, I've never been diagnosed or anything and it hasn't really affected my life, but sometimes the littlest things will just bother the fuck out of me, things like people tapping their feet or the position of something on a desk or uneven buttons and lots more.

This thread fascinates me, by the way.

I have clinical depression. I've suffered from it since I was seven (11 years now) and I was suicidal for the first time when I was eight. I was hospitalised when I was 16 but I was released after my assessment (six weeks) because of a number of reasons. I've learned better coping mechanisms now and - most importantly - I can feel it coming on before things get too dire but it's something I still struggle with.

It's also conditioned me to think a certain way and because I've spent so long being suicidal (at one point I was severely suicidal solidly for a year and a half), my mind is quick to jump to that point when bad things happen, which is really difficult to deal with.

Like some people here I've got OCD anxiety and clinical depression. Yeah it's a lot to take, but I'll get by.
I've had it for years but I've only noticed it recently when it got worse.
It does totally destroy you as a person, that's what I hate.

I suffer from severe OCD. Not obsessive actions (ie washing your hands), but obsessive thoughts. Ever since I was five years old I've had terrifying images flashing through my mind on a daily basis. I didn't sleep in my own bed until I was eight. I was always afraid.

It really got bad when I was about eleven or twelve. That's when the dinosaurs and spiders changed into talking corpses, which - shocker - are a lot harder to ignore. I got paranoid and had severe panic attacks at night. I had to go back to sleeping in the same bed as my mother. I always felt like there was someone at the foot of the bed, watching me, waiting for me to go to sleep.

The paranoia peaked right after my 13th birthday. At that point, we'd been trying alternative medicines and acupuncture, and they helped marginally. But when it got bad, my doctor prescribed and antipsychotic - Abilify. It's amazing how a pill the size of a grain of rice can make such a difference. I'm never paranoid now. Sometimes I do get obsessive thoughts at might - my mom's going to die, my cat's going to run away - but they go away. The doctors say we're lucky we caught the paranoia fast, since it was schizotypical and would likely have progressed into schizophrenia. Anyone who has a severe mental illness, just remember that you're not alone.

Can somebody please help me?
I'm not alright and I don't know what to do.

@ thenamelessgeek
Well, what would you need help with? Tell me here or in a message, I'll listen and do my best to help you out. :)

Borderline Personality Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder and PTSD.

Bipolar Type II and Generalized Anxiety Disorder. I've been unmedicated for over four years. It's awful. Basically you just sink into such a deep depression you don't even feel depressed because you're depressed ALL THE TIME.

I have clinical depression and borderline personality disorder. I have finally find out about the disorder after searching about self-harm on the internet few days ago. Self-harm is one of the possible sympthoms of BPD. Then I read about this disease on wiki and few others sites, passed an online test for BPD on about.com with answering "yes" to 9 out of 10 questions. I don't have permanent fear of being abondened, maybe simply 'cause there's no one left around who can do it. Well, I have my mom and brother, who I'm living with. And my dad who's in Russia now. Thanks God for them. I'm sure that no one of them not gonna leave or move out. But I'm afraid of their death. My parents are 55 and 53 right now, I think about them pass out and simply the thought about it terrifies me.
I don't have any friends left, just casual acquitances. I feel unabled to make new ones, though I need it so bad. I feel unabled to let people in my life, I don't wanna fall in love with someone, 'cause I know it will never ends in a good way.
No one gonna love me with all my issues, mood swings and depression. I've already accepted this fact.
I'm afraid that someday I'll end up cutting too deep when there is no home.
I can't tell about this to my mom 'cause I don't want to bring her more problems than she's already have to deal with working on 4 jobs. Besides telling her about this won't help at all. She won't take me to therapy or lock up in the hospital simply because considering the country we're living in, it would useless.
Yeah, we could find a personal therapist who would then prescribe me some meds, which I doubt could help. And therapist + meds will cost a lot of money we don't have.

I used to be very vocal about my struggles with depression and anxiety, but since I've left mibba I briefly saw a psychiatrist originally for the aforementioned depression and anxiety, but ended up going in depth with my experience with dissociation, derealization, and depersonalization and the experience of simultaneously feeling as though I am not real along with everything and everyone around me being unreal, as though I was constantly a dream that was dreaming. dissociation for me comes in waves; I've been completely unresponsive, staring forward for hours. I've been unable to feel my arms and hands but able to move them by my own will. It's sort of like a buffer to life; like some kind of trance that never really fully goes away.

More recently, I've been experiencing auditory hallucinations and what I suspect to be visual hallucinations, but neither are full frontal; it's things moving or appearing in my peripheral vision. Things that I hear that I'm not sure are really there or not. Things that could be explained but something inside me says that they aren't real, tangible things that I should be hearing and seeing. I'm not sure if it's a new symptom or if it's a new way that the dissociation and drdp has been making itself apparent.

I don't really have a diagnosed mental health issue. The reason is because mine are mostly due to my autism. With that said, I do have severe anxiety issues though. It used to be so bad that I would get very depressed due to my overloaded emotions too. They caused me to self-harm and often caused some suicidal thoughts. >< Luckily, I was able to get on a medication to prevent them from getting worse.

However, I still deal with very severe anxiety. It gets to the point where I worry about silly little things from time to time. I mean, it gets so ridiculous at times. I feel like I'm crazy for getting so worked up over every little thing that comes into mind. :c