Mental Health

[Griffolion]

It's believed about 1 in 5 people in the UK suffer or will suffer from mental health problems in their lives. I'm sure this will roughly be true for other countries too.

What do you suffer from, or what kind of mental illness affects you in your family (does a family member / friend suffer from a mental illness)?

I know the term mental illness seems quite harsh and repulsive, but the term extends even to stuff like depression and anxiety disorders.

Me personally, i have mild/moderate depression and have done for maybe 4 years now. It all funnily enough started a few months after i broke up with a girl i really cared about after she had been a real ***** to me. I guess it all just got on top of me, but considering the vast majority of my family has suffered in some way too, i think i was genetically pre-dispositioned. I'm doing a lot better now, a combination of some mild medication and supportive friends and family keeping my mind doing things and generally accepting me regardless of my issues.

So yeah, how's things for you?

 

[Jonluw]

I was never technically diagnosed with anything, but I guess I did go through some depression a while back.

 

[Boris Goodenough]

Alzheimer is the only one I can think of at the moment, both granddads got it.

 

[Leon Last Lord Shyle]

erm lets see chronic depression aspergers and of recent my mum has started talking of getting me checked to see if i have manic depression

 

[nunqual]

I have pretty bad self-image, but that's it.

My girlfriend, however, experiences panic attacks quite often, due to a particularly traumatizing event in her life.

 

[Serenegoose]

Bipolar disorder, and I have panic attacks. Many symptoms fit PTSD, particularly the nightmares and the hypervigilance, but you try getting a diagnosis for that unless you've been in a war.

 

[SilentCom]

The mind is a complicated thing. Just because you're not thinking or feeling presumably the same things as everyone else doesn't make you mentally unhealthy. As far as I see it, just like how everyone's body is susceptible to sickness, everyone's mind is also. This "sickness" isn't always clearly defined because measuring the mind isn't as easy as measuring the body. As far as 1 in 5 people being sick, I'm surprised it's not more. I've never actually went to a psychiatrist or mental health specialist but it doesn't take one for me to realize that I have depression problems.

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

I'm a crippled, permanently angry, self-destructive, alcoholic waster who has at least six times gotten bored and decided to play russian roulette with a bunch of pills.

Managed to convince trained professionals I was fine, though, so I must be.
Acting is fun.

 

[leedwashere]

I have depression off an on, sometimes will just wash over me with no warning. Also I can get rather obsessive-compulsive over some things. Always doing things in the same order and looking at my girlfriend like she grew a second head when she suggests changing it. Also got a thing with numbers, odd numbers really freak me out sometimes, especially if they're prime

EDIT: ack! 17th post

 

[Griffolion]

The mind is a complicated thing. Just because you're not thinking or feeling presumably the same things as everyone else doesn't make you mentally unhealthy. As far as I see it, just like how everyone's body is susceptible to sickness, everyone's mind is also. This "sickness" isn't always clearly defined because measuring the mind isn't as easy as measuring the body. As far as 1 in 5 people being sick, I'm surprised it's not more. I've never actually went to a psychiatrist or mental health specialist but it doesn't take one for me to realize that I have depression problems.

Yeah i agree with what you're saying. I would say everyone has a mental health issue to some level, but that statistic will most likely be based off people who have problems that manifest themselves at and above clinical levels of severity. Again, those levels are defined in relation to the very arbitrary 'norms' of this world by the WHO.

 

[Blueruler182]

Depression. Twas a lot worse than tis today, but I was in pretty bad shape.

 

[sky14kemea]

All the women in my family have had Depression at one point. I'm like a ticking time bomb! My brother also had Aspergers as a kid but he got a lot better as he got older.

However, I'm mentally safe enough to be out in public.

 

[barbzilla]

I have mild sociopathic tendencies. For those of you who will confuse this with something else, this means I do not experience emotion normally. I tend to suppress my emotions.

 

[JanatUrlich]

My mum has Alzheimers and my dad once had a breakdown, but I dunno if they class as mental illnesses.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

However, I'm mentally safe enough to be out in public.

Unless there's an anime shop nearby.

Epilepsy (Minor). One of the things about mental conditions is that most of the lesser conditions can be learned to live with. I know quite a few successful Asperger/Synaesthetics/SAD sufferers; it's something you need to work with, not lean back against.

Obviously Autism/Downes can't be worked with, but it can be minimized.

 

[DanielBrown]

Social phobia, which has led to anxiety and pretty deep depression. >.<

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

I'm a crippled, permanently angry, self-destructive, alcoholic waster who has at least six times gotten bored and decided to play russian roulette with a bunch of pills.

Managed to convince trained professionals I was fine, though, so I must be.
Acting is fun.

You still seem a nice chap though; you play the clean Russian Roulette without guns, so you must be thinking of the awful mess your brains would make on the wall.

OT: Not sure what I am. I have pretty bad lows and good highs, fluctuating between them at will, plus image problems and a distaste/fear of most humans.

Gosh, and the smell. The person who found me might gag from the stench, and we can't have that.
I'm all about being considerate.

also guns are illegal in ireland

 

[Alkaline]

I have pretty bad depression, which so far peaked in January. Could barely feel any pleasure from anything for the whole month.

Would've said Asperger syndrome if I considered it a disease or whatever, but I don't, really. Probably worth mentioning that my brother and father also have the condition.

I wonder: how many posts will it take for someone to complain about the unusual amount of Aspergians here?

Bipolar disorder, and I have panic attacks. Many symptoms fit PTSD, particularly the nightmares and the hypervigilance, but you try getting a diagnosis for that unless you've been in a war.

Jesus. May I ask how, if that's alright?

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

I suffer from ADD, OCD, Dislexia, depression, and moderate clostraphobia.
But hey, that's why we've got drugs!

 

[Serenegoose]

Jesus. May I ask how, if that's alright?

18 years of pretty hardcore parental abuse. Hitting, mockery, etc. Nothing sexual, thankfully, but pretty much everything outside of that. Had a dream a few nights ago of my father trying cut me up with a cleaver. Hit him with a hoover (I don't get it either) til he stopped and yelled at him til I cried. Fairly tame nightmare, really.