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Your [Brain Problems] Are Writing Checks Your Body Can't Cash
Usagi
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This is a thread for people to air their brain-related problems and get support from other groovy folks. You don't have to be suffering from anything to post here, just be a supportive, awesome person.
Take the following into consideration before posting:
* People tend to treat the brain as magic or something. It's still a physical thing, and sometimes breaks down like any other part of the body. Don't think that your mental illness is some personal failing of yourself.
* Likewise, don't be ashamed to post here. Some people finding that talking it out can be very therapeutic. You aren't a bad person for having a cold or fever, so why would you be a bad person for having some brain thing?
* Self-diagnosis is silly. Go see a professional before thinking you have anything.
* Since a lot of people in these threads tend to skew younger, keep in mind that a lot of colleges have people trained to deal with problems you may be having. If you are enrolled, then your outrageous tuition fees should be covering that shit. Don't let those student loans go to waste.
* Likewise, check out support groups. Colleges love damn groups for just about everything. Groups: not just for anime.
* Understand that this is the internet and you may or may not care about how much personal stuff you divulge.
* While this thread, ideally, should be a warm happy place of digital hugs and sweetness, having problems does not necessarily absolve you of personal responsibility and shit. In other words: at least try not to be too thin-skinned if people toss out some criticisms. Unless they're being dicks about it, I guess.
* One big caveat to post here is that few people here are trained doctors that really have any idea of how the brain works besides an article they read once on Wikipedia. While a lot of people here are awesome, and the place is good for...feelin' good, ultimately you and your doctor should probably be the final authority on any major decisions you make.
* Having said that, doctors are not perfect. If you've been seeing the same person/people for a a good while and aren't happy with the results, then shop around.
Resources: (PM me to add stuff)
Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline: 800-4-A-CHILD (800-422-4453)
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance: 800-826-3632
Boys Town National Hotline: 800-448-3000
Hopeline: 800-442-HOPE (4673)
Mental Health America: 800-969-NMHA (6642)
National Alliance on Mental Illness: 800-950-NAMI (6264)
And if you haven't read this explanation of depression by Allie Brosh, you totally should:
(A Tube Approved Thread)
Take the following into consideration before posting:
* People tend to treat the brain as magic or something. It's still a physical thing, and sometimes breaks down like any other part of the body. Don't think that your mental illness is some personal failing of yourself.
* Likewise, don't be ashamed to post here. Some people finding that talking it out can be very therapeutic. You aren't a bad person for having a cold or fever, so why would you be a bad person for having some brain thing?
* Self-diagnosis is silly. Go see a professional before thinking you have anything.
* Since a lot of people in these threads tend to skew younger, keep in mind that a lot of colleges have people trained to deal with problems you may be having. If you are enrolled, then your outrageous tuition fees should be covering that shit. Don't let those student loans go to waste.
* Likewise, check out support groups. Colleges love damn groups for just about everything. Groups: not just for anime.
* Understand that this is the internet and you may or may not care about how much personal stuff you divulge.
* While this thread, ideally, should be a warm happy place of digital hugs and sweetness, having problems does not necessarily absolve you of personal responsibility and shit. In other words: at least try not to be too thin-skinned if people toss out some criticisms. Unless they're being dicks about it, I guess.
* One big caveat to post here is that few people here are trained doctors that really have any idea of how the brain works besides an article they read once on Wikipedia. While a lot of people here are awesome, and the place is good for...feelin' good, ultimately you and your doctor should probably be the final authority on any major decisions you make.
* Having said that, doctors are not perfect. If you've been seeing the same person/people for a a good while and aren't happy with the results, then shop around.
Resources: (PM me to add stuff)
Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline: 800-4-A-CHILD (800-422-4453)
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance: 800-826-3632
Boys Town National Hotline: 800-448-3000
Hopeline: 800-442-HOPE (4673)
Mental Health America: 800-969-NMHA (6642)
National Alliance on Mental Illness: 800-950-NAMI (6264)
And if you haven't read this explanation of depression by Allie Brosh, you totally should:
(A Tube Approved Thread)
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i'm really happy
I have no idea how to do this and I'm kinda confused on what would and wouldn't be relevant.
it's harder for something like general depression, because it's not so much a better as "this sucks less"
with my bipolar disorder, once i got on my mood stabilizer, three days later my entire life was different
but for SSRIs and such it's much more of a gradient than a sudden shift
what do they have you on for anxiety/insomnia?
It establishes if you have any kind of erratic behaviour, or other things associated with ADHD
whether you realize it or not, you live your life MUCH differently than a mentally "healthy" person when you have a disorder of some sort
Some things are awful, some things are great, bunches of stuff are middling
The biggest thing is that I'm finally starting to deal with all of the emotional damage done in my 20s, so that's hard, but by therapist is awesome and I'm learning to sit zazen and it feels amazing to be moving in a forward direction
I'm doing alright all things considered
but god damn it
this thread title
I've just now managed to clean my place of all her stuff, which has helped, and I've tried to occupy my free time with friends and games and exercise, I know what I should be doing it just
sucks a lot.
I thought I was ready to start my grown-up life with a house and kids and all of that but
well, that didn't work out! I'm trying to stay doing all the things I should do when I get to feeling this way, but on Monday I found out she was fucking around with an old friend of mine and I've spent this entire week anywhere but at my own home because I'm terrified of what I'll do to myself if I'm alone.
So.. I should probably see a doctor.
please go see someone
please talk more here if you need to be heard
please pm me if you need to be heard privately
zoloft and trazodone, but I rarely actually take the latter. I'm really sensitive to sleep drugs; if I take them, I sleep for 10 hours without the possibility of waking up (even splitting the pill into quarters!), but if I don't, I'm lucky to get four hours.
I'll be hanging around this thread a lot.
I've not really discussed it with friends much because for some reason I feel a weird shame on having been cheated on, like it makes me less of a man or something. I know that makes no sense at all but, engh.
You might have a big rambly PM in your inbox soon.
It took me a couple of months to notice I was feeling/reacting to things differently, not that subtle stuff wasn't happening before that but to be big enough to notice was an eye opener
Also, hugs
At least next quarter starts on Monday so i'll have something to do, but i'm worried that because they are all online i'll not be able to focus as much as I did last quarter. Spending 80% of every waking moment sitting here doesn't do me much good, but I can never think of things to do elsewhere/come up with the motivation to try them.
I know it's super easy to just say "get out of the house", when in reality it's the very last thing you want to do (see people/interact with society)
but I promise just being out, even if it's for bullshit reasons, like taking an hour to shop for twenty minutes worth of groceries, and making small talk with everyone you can without being weird about it really, truly helps.
Yeah, being unemployed blows. It doubly sucks for me because I have no real skills that apply to any jobs I'd want, no degrees, pretty much nothing, ugh.
i'll give you 7 dollars a month to play games with me on sundays
i will not provide your copy of the games
last time I was unemployed I was horrendously depressed, and I pretty much didn't look for jobs at all and just moped and slept all day
and now I'm at least doing stuff during the day and not taking naps and such
also spending time with my daughter is nice, since I didn't get a chance to do it much when working my previous job
really hoping a day job is in my future
i wish trazodone knocked me out like that
What games?
Yeah, but how do I do this. I don't want to give too much detail and end up with a 20 page whatever, but I don't want to skimp on the detail and miss things they probably would want in there.
I dunno, Halo 4, I just bought Secret World.
Left 4 dead.
Whatever is on my steam list.
It's pretty cool
I feel like I've plateaued lately. I am functional but I have bad dips sometimes and have yet to develop any coping mechanism beyond "ride it out". My doc is talking about taking me off AD's in a couple of months, not sure how I feel about that. I also need to move, and that'll probably be a lot of stress.
Overall though I guess I'm okay. I just feel like I've stopped making progress and am worried about backsliding.
Still convinced I will never really be happy.
Just 5 more weeks...
http://www.audioentropy.com/
@Death of Rats
first you need to take a deep breath and realize this isn't an exam you can fail
you aren't only going to see this person once forever so you can't fuck it up
next you need to realize there's nothing to fuck up. this is an exercise all about helping you feel better.
give a general timeline of your life, think of times where you struggled, or where there was a hard dissonance between you and a person you were having a conversation with, the kinds of things you have trouble focusing on, little quirks you might have, how you did in school, what you excelled at, what you had trouble with
and if you miss some details or you go into too much detail
so?
they're not gonna laugh at you, they're gonna work with what you give them and if they need more they'll ask for more and if they need less they'll tell you so
another part of the exercise is just getting things out of your head and somewhere else, like on paper
ain't no reason to fret, dude, it'll go great
if it is something you dislike you should tell your doctor, since there's no sense in paying for a prescription you don't take
and there's TONS of drugs out there that could help, though i'm sure that's not an exciting prospect to you. my point is that there's no cureall, and there are some things that will work better than others
i take geodon for my insomnia/anxiety but it's also an antipsychotic that works with my mood stabilizer so i'm not sure if i can recommend it
i love you
Like I realize this sounds like the punchline to an ADD joke but when I was asked to do this, this is the very question that plagued me into immobility and I just gave up on it and never went back! So uh, don't be like me
Oh man I've been struggling with this one a whole bunch recently
Though today's particular brain problem is that I absolutely hate it when people (especially strangers, especially strange dudes) stand behind me and I have a roomful of such here for this scheduling conference. I am longing for a wall at my back like nobody's business.
I picked this up from my dad, though he probably had a legitimate reason to worry about who was walking up behind him
but I get all nervous if I can't see who's entering the joint
Ugh, I really identify with you here. I feel like I can't shut up about how bad I feel about my body these days even when I say to myself "don't talk about diet/exercise/being fat don't do it don't do it" ooooh there I go again.
But the truth is for the last year and change I've been really struggling with these intense bouts of depression. I don't feel in control of my emotional state, and it's to such an extent that I don't think it can't be explained only by this being a stressful time in my life. It doesn't help that I don't have anyone to see about it right now and my immediate family... well they have their own shit to deal with, but also they... I guess lack the understanding of depression that would help them to help me? That's the best way I have of putting it.
Anyway it sucks.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN