How many of you are mentally ill?

GregN

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Be careful what you say in this thread because Tonk will dig it up and use it against you.

Of course, like the coward he is, he won't admit to his own illness.
 
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wasabi said:
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As opposed to Tourette's...
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wasabi said:
you shouldn't look to me for inspiration. No one else does. Don't start a fad.
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Anyone looking to me to be to be a trend-setter is a massive fool. But you and I both know this.
 
SNKNostalgia

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I find that a lot of these disorders, especially along side with anxiety and depression, can be combinations of other disorders. For anxiety, there's General Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, OCD, PTSD, and Social Anxiety Disorder. Chances are if you have one of the that latter 3, you will have some of the first two in most common cases.

I have Social Anxiety Disorder, without a fucking doubt. I didn't develop it until I was 24. I would get shallow breathing, heart palpitations, muscle tension, change of voice, no eye contact and be quiet in many social situations. It fucking sucks ass knowing that I have always been a very sociable person that is now blocked by this disorder. If it wasn't for me waiting tables, bar tending and hanging out with a lot of people, I would have very shitty social skills along with this. I keep it under control with Klonopin (Clonazepam) a benzo like Valium and Xanax. It doesn't fuck you up stupid like Xanax and it lasts longer than Valium.

It really does keep me from finishing college due to the class setting and keeps me from working other types of jobs other than restaurants. I just started to get therapy from a Psychologist who is a great guy, about a year ago. I am getting better as this is a disorder you have to expose yourself to the fear so to speak.

The one thing I think that is setting me back is drinking and smoking ciggs. They tend to feed my anxiety overall, but at the same time it alleviates while doing both. I know better, but have been doing it anyways. My social life revolves with drinking with coworkers and other friends. That is why I have been putting it off to quit.

So yeah, I have been doing something about it for the past year. I have cut down on drinking and smoking, and I am just going to quit it all together as it doesn't seem all that hard now. I even take minimal doses of my Klonopin as its side affects make me groggy and irritable at times.

This shit is no joke, it has taken away 5 years of my life. I am just glad I made it through a lot of it and will get better in time. It humbled my ass to having a high level of empathy and understanding of things. That is the only good thing from it I got.
 
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SNKNostalgia said:
I keep it under control with Klonopin (Clonazepam) a benzo like Valium and Xanax. It doesn't fuck you up stupid like Xanax and it lasts longer than Valium.
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I was on that for a very short while. Once it got settled into my system, it did horrible, horrible things to my temper. I was like a particularly testy bottle of nitroglycerine in an earthquake. Everything I saw, I wanted to break. Everyone who entered my line of sight, I wanted to kill. Quite literally, I walked around for a few days with my fingers bent and locked into claws, unless I was specifically doing something else. I spoke to my doctor after three days, I think it was, and told her that the stuff definitely wasn't for me, and got it dropped like a hot potato. Lexapro made me not give a damn about anyone or anything, and Klonopin made me want to annihilate everything I saw. Both of those suck, and going without was a combination of mind-numbing depression and anxiety attacks that were so bad that it was physically mimicking the symptoms of asthma.

Hunting for the right medication is a royal bitch, but finding it really is like air to a drowning man.
 
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...I was on that for a while. I used to abuse the stuff prior to battling Sniper Wolf or Ocelot from afar.
 
LWK

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SNKNostalgia said:
I find that a lot of these disorders, especially along side with anxiety and depression, can be combinations of other disorders. For anxiety, there's General Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, OCD, PTSD, and Social Anxiety Disorder. Chances are if you have one of the that latter 3, you will have some of the first two in most common cases.

I have Social Anxiety Disorder, without a fucking doubt. I didn't develop it until I was 24. I would get shallow breathing, heart palpitations, muscle tension, change of voice, no eye contact and be quiet in many social situations. It fucking sucks ass knowing that I have always been a very sociable person that is now blocked by this disorder. If it wasn't for me waiting tables, bar tending and hanging out with a lot of people, I would have very shitty social skills along with this. I keep it under control with Klonopin (Clonazepam) a benzo like Valium and Xanax. It doesn't fuck you up stupid like Xanax and it lasts longer than Valium.

It really does keep me from finishing college due to the class setting and keeps me from working other types of jobs other than restaurants. I just started to get therapy from a Psychologist who is a great guy, about a year ago. I am getting better as this is a disorder you have to expose yourself to the fear so to speak.

The one thing I think that is setting me back is drinking and smoking ciggs. They tend to feed my anxiety overall, but at the same time it alleviates while doing both. I know better, but have been doing it anyways. My social life revolves with drinking with coworkers and other friends. That is why I have been putting it off to quit.

So yeah, I have been doing something about it for the past year. I have cut down on drinking and smoking, and I am just going to quit it all together as it doesn't seem all that hard now. I even take minimal doses of my Klonopin as its side affects make me groggy and irritable at times.

This shit is no joke, it has taken away 5 years of my life. I am just glad I made it through a lot of it and will get better in time. It humbled my ass to having a high level of empathy and understanding of things. That is the only good thing from it I got.
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I had only one panic attack in my whole life, and that day up this point was the most terrifying experience I've ever had. I felt like I was having what I imagine is a heart attack.
 
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Lord Wolfgang Krauser said:
I had only one panic attack in my whole life, and that day up this point was the most terrifying experience I've ever had. I felt like I was having what I imagine is a heart attack.
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what do the little girls say when you tell them this awesome story?
 
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