Mental Health

[Hiphophippo]

I've not been diagnosed with anything, though it's my belief that nearly anyone could get a claim to something if they really wanted it. My life is hard, very hard, but I'm a pretty well adjusted guy.

 

[Still Life]

Well...

I have clinical depression, social phobia and other anxiety issues.

I don't take meds from personal choice. I've been pretty proactive in confronting these issues and I find that just having someone to anchor me is enough. Thank god for close friends!

However, I am in much better shape than I was, so I've come a long way from the empty, suicidal shell that I was.

 

[Hammer's Girl]

These days? Fuck knows what my diagnosis is. I see a new psychiatrist every six months and they can't make their mind up so my "diagnosis" changes with monotonous regularity.

I am clinically depressed and have been for about 14 years now. Medication works, sometimes. Right now, not so much. I'm probably due another medication review.

My friend has had this problem, she keeps being sent to different doctors who keep diagnosing her with different things, it normally flips between BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder) and Bi-Polar but the latest doctor doesn't think she's Bi-Polar and doesn't believe in BPD so hasn't given a diagnosis at all, just more meds *eye roll*.

Most of my friends have had problems with depression at one time or another, as has my Mum. My Father is an alcoholic.

As for me:-
'Eating Disorder, Not Otherwise Specified' (I don't fill all the criteria for any one ED bu have symptoms of all of them)
Anxiety and Depression (which I keep lying to shrinks about and should really get help with)
Fibromyalgia (which is technically in my head - Wiki article here [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibromyalgia].)

 

[Womplord]

These days? Fuck knows what my diagnosis is. I see a new psychiatrist every six months and they can't make their mind up so my "diagnosis" changes with monotonous regularity.

I am clinically depressed and have been for about 14 years now. Medication works, sometimes. Right now, not so much. I'm probably due another medication review.

My friend has had this problem, she keeps being sent to different doctors who keep diagnosing her with different things, it normally flips between BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder) and Bi-Polar but the latest doctor doesn't think she's Bi-Polar and doesn't believe in BPD so hasn't given a diagnosis at all, just more meds *eye roll*.

Most of my friends have had problems with depression at one time or another, as has my Mum. My Father is an alcoholic.

As for me:-
'Eating Disorder, Not Otherwise Specified' (I don't fill all the criteria for any one ED bu have symptoms of all of them)
Anxiety and Depression (which I keep lying to shrinks about and should really get help with)
Fibromyalgia (which is technically in my head - Wiki article here [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibromyalgia].)

This sort of thing makes me wonder if it would be more accurate simply to diagnose yourself. I mean, its easy to find the DSM IV in a library and read up about some of the problems you suspect you have. And ugh, borderline personality disorder not a diagnosis? sigh.

 

[dslatch]

School has me marked on a depression list and a healthy dose of good old ADD

serious ADD/ADHD run in my family I didn't get hit as hard with the genetics stick there...

 

[Hammer's Girl]

This sort of thing makes me wonder if it would be more accurate simply to diagnose yourself. I mean, its easy to find the DSM IV in a library and read up about some of the problems you suspect you have. And ugh, borderline personality disorder not a diagnosis? sigh.

Have you ever tried doing that? Most people when they read medical books of any sort recognise parts of themselves in every disease listed. It's very easy to convince yourself you have a condition (physical or mental) from reading the diagnostic criteria.

 

[The Funslinger]

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?

It's basically a shield for doctors, because they HAVE to name and label everything these days, therefor by their own rules, I claim all psychologists have OCD.

OT: I'm one of those many people misdiagnosed with Asperger's in the UK. It's all "oh, you're being a little bit different. I shall now claim you have an incredibly slight case of Asperger's!

Seriously, a little note to any psychologists here. Don't round it to the nearest vaguely possible thing because of slight correlating symptoms. The general attitude these days is "oh, if I say he has nothing and something happens I'll be to blame, but if I say he has something and he's fine I can say it's mild and he's overcoming it!" Really for me it was horrible. Got labelled with this bullshit at a young age and was essentially black-marked for all my childhood and teenage years as some kind of time bomb special child. Besides, I've met people who actually have Asperger's, and like you say, it's not something to fuss over. God, I hate the British Government for this...

 

[The Funslinger]

i'm close to schizophrenia...

though, if i may get technical, a primary DSM diagnosis for schizophrenia based on auditory hallucinations is contingent on the patient expierencing one of two things, either: a) two voices having a conversation, or b) one voice providing a running commentary on the patients life, neither of which are the case with me

i'm more along the lines of... there's a voice in my head that i occasionally have a conversation with, so there are parts of both criteria but isn't fully one of the other

A running commentary just sounds like it would be awesome... *wants* I really don't see how that would be an illness. Hell, some kind of inhuman gift would probably be considered an illness nowadays.

 

[A Raging Emo]

Well, I developed Insomnia and still suffer from it, and I've been diagnosed by a Therapist as a Sociopath.

Edit: and I suffer from Depression.

 

[Aetera]

Bipolar depression. It sucks(understatement), and the meds really mess with you until your body adjusts to them. The best way that I can describe it is going from a super creative, motivated high, to a... not sad low, but completely numb, lacking in any desire or care for anything low. The lows are pretty much me being made Dragon Age-style Tranquil. Yes, it gets that bad.

 

[KiraTaureLor]

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?

You need to edit your post, and ask for diagnoses, because I read a lot of posts were people are self diagnosing.

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

OCD and neurosis runs on my father's side. I plan on being careful and avoiding some of the pitfalls my grandfather did and my father is falling into.