Social Anxiety/Depression/Mental Illness [Archive]

Funkadelichika

01-10-2008, 10:59 PM

I get pretty bad depressive spells sometimes. Overall I am depressed alot of the time. Recently I have turned to meditation and breathing techniques to help me calm down and cope. When I was a teenager I was put on antidepressents for a short while but I stopped taking them. Didn't feel like I was dealing with any issue that might be there.

smorzando

02-10-2008, 11:52 AM

Apparently on my school file it says I have depression, but I also think that it's a load of bull, because I never went anywhere where someone could have diagnosed me, so I don't really know how it got to be on there. No one's chased me up about it until VERY recently, even though it was allegedly put on there a few years ago. I go to any length to avoid seeing the school counsellor, and she's done nothing about it even though I'm considered a 'medium to high risk'. Funny, that.

smorz.

Musical-Mind

03-10-2008, 12:46 AM

Like everyone that's human i get pretty heavy almost severe depressive moods plus high anxiety, but that's why i'm writing. it really helps to get over those types of feelings.

narmour

12-10-2008, 09:32 PM

I get really depressed sometimes... some of the things that go through my head are insane. Never put a label on it though, I guess im just not the 'type of person' who would ever get depressed. I do very often stoop down to pretty intense low moods though. It's a strange state of mind and it's not something i talk about freely, I wouldnt know if I ever needed help or not. And for some I suppose that would be quite dangerous

narm

lizzierose

21-10-2008, 01:59 AM

Hi everyone,

I have been depressed for many years now. I was put on antidepressants over 2 years ago and am still on them...sadly I think I will be on them for a very long time. I have recently given up alcohol, so fingers crossed this will help a lot.

Reading poetry helps me a lot... infact it helps me more than actually writing it myself!

x

Yog

21-10-2008, 04:56 AM

Hey, everyone has a different medicine. For me it's writing, but if reading is your thing then have at it. If it helps, then by all means, keep at it. :D

ravenmoonmaiden

21-10-2008, 09:50 PM

I have two of the above, Anxiety and Aspergus Syndrome which in a mental problem. I've also had depression. I don't have meds for either and sometimes find it hard to cope but my poetry and faith help me focus

ILikePrivacy

26-11-2008, 09:19 PM

I've never been diagnosed with anything, and I'm not one to attention-seek, but I often get in those moods, and like a lot of you people the best medication is to write about it, I also find a heavy weekend helps to forget a few things.

electricalice

27-11-2008, 12:21 PM

im 18 and ive had plenty of all of these things i went on antideppressents 3 years ago aged 15 all of mine have had causes though rather than being longstanding genetic mental illnesses i am on antideppressents but i know when i feel safe ill get better...i hope i will feel safe soon

Mr. Blocks

29-11-2008, 06:16 PM

I've had two of those mentioned in the title. Depression and anxiety.

I've been on medication twice aimed at my depressive state, but twice I refused to take them longer than a couple of months. I can say that they did help, be it the actual drug or a placebo effect they might have had on me.

Life at the moment is nice. I have nothing to be depressed about, but then having something to be depressed about isn't what I note as being depressed. It's when you have no reason to be depressed that is the worst, you end up hating things you shouldn't be, like trying to find the worst in everything and placing horrid thoughts in something you shouldn't.

I wouldn't recommend drugs to anyone to be honest, when taking them I felt I was being "dumbed down" so I didn't think about everything so much.

If you think or believe something is working, it most usually will. As I mentioned above was all I needed. If you believe your depressed then you are going to reflect that belief in your daily life.

I don't think I'm depressed, and I'm getting on well. Soon to move out, and currently at uni.. last couple of years I was at home, didn't go out, and was failing everything I did at the time.

electricalice

02-12-2008, 10:52 AM

Mr. Blocks

04-12-2008, 02:12 AM

I wouldn't recommend drugs to anyone to be honest, when taking them I felt I was being "dumbed down" so I didn't think about everything so much.

I found this too and still do to some extent but sometimes i feel better feeling numb than feeling the pain .....i suppose im weak but there you go

What medication did for me was enable me to make things happen with my life, where I didn't feel as though I couldn't do anything. It helped me want to improve my way of life and thus making my actual depression far less probable of returning to me.

The thing with drugs, they shouldn't be used long term, there is no knowing what they actually do to your brain. It might help, but they shouldn't be relied on, if you take them for years and years, I get paranoid about the idea that it would eventually ruin my character, intelligence, and things like that.

Feeling numb to everything can help, but it's far better to be able to feel good. I numbed myself with medication for a couple of months, and got on with my life. I've had to do it a few times now, but now I am finally hoping it is done for.

Tommy Walker

15-12-2008, 05:34 PM

I was diagnosed with a mild form of autism when I was very young. People tend to misinterpret that so I've never had many friends. Don't know if I've had "depression" in that term but I've been depressed out of my mind at times. Luckily it's been over for a long, long time. In a way I appreciate my autism, since it makes me write the way I do which is my favourite interest.

amberzak

15-12-2008, 08:05 PM

Tommy Walker

15-12-2008, 08:32 PM

amberzak

15-12-2008, 08:50 PM

No, it's not Asperger's. There is a certain difference; I'm interested in more than one thing! :)... It's not that obvious. I just work and think different. Anything else is just like an ordinary awkward teenager.

They don't know what is wrong with me yet. I am waiting for diagnoses. All they said is I have Autistic traits. I didn't realise that there was a difference.

As a child they tried saying I was Manic Depressive and various other things

Yog

15-12-2008, 09:21 PM

Just wanted to clarify, having autistic traits doesn't mean there is anything wrong with you. It just means you are different. People with autistic traits very frequently live very "normal" lives and happy ones at that. Just look at as a way to better understand yourself and your place in the world, not as if there is something wrong with you.

Tommy Walker

15-12-2008, 10:30 PM

I've been pressured around in this enormously conform society that I live in, but I have started not to give a damn. In fact I appreciate my difference, so I don't have to put up with everything and regular people's boring lives either. :)

amberzak

15-12-2008, 10:35 PM

YOG. Just to clarify what I mean. I know I am different and there is a reason I started seeing a phyciatrist.

The thing is, I accept that I am different. It upsets me sometimes, but most of the time I am okay with it. And it is my differences that makes me who I am.

sunday

13-01-2009, 02:23 PM

I have had experience indirectly and directly with mental health problems.
I have met few sensitive souls who have not had experience with the mental health system. I have my reservations about it. It is very, very easy to diagnose someone, but a diagnosis will never fully explain the many subtle differences in experience each person will have.
Where does personality begin and illness end?

As for medication, the brain is still utterly mysterious to modern science in many respects. Science, afterall, is theoretical, not definitively factual. Medicating the brain in absence of factual information is therefore something to think long and hard about.

Morph Pheonix mentioned that medication made him feel dumb, unable to think. This is exactly so, because medication such as risperdal, anti-depressants etc, reduce the production of dopamine in the brain- an essential chemical in allowing one to think.

In a mentally ill person, dopamine, among other chemicals, will over-produce in the brain, causing a mental state which is not normal to the person, and one which will not go away. This is why medication sets out to reduce dopamine production.

However, as Ben Harper sang so sweetly, for some "the drugs don't work they just make you worse"

Writing is a FANTASTIC therapy. And I read in the newspaper just the other day that gardening is too. Who knew!

Antipodi

13-01-2009, 11:22 PM

In this so called modern society I think our feelings towards each other are becoming colder yet we idolize useless Famous people who really are just paper doilies with not much space for the air in their head just because they were lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time....most of these guyz couldn't make a ham sandwich in the real world and many are just pretty faces who fade away with age...thus the obsession with youth fullness and appearance
the side effect of advertising agents creating this is.....a false world of beautiful people with money to burn and supposedly some form of intelligence...this mainly done to sell product..not to reflect reality...yet we damn well believe them...thinking following fashion is individualistic

creative sensitive souls especially teenagers cant in most cases reach the dizzy heights of those fortunate few (even though we are told we all can) and utter and feel complete devastation and despair ...many of us as teenagers trying to become successful dependant adults believe these creatures of paper dreams and fall into depression...I know I did...Hopefully with the help of family and friends we grow out of this ..but i have noticed in the last few generations(told you I was an oldy) an increase in believing in the dream factories edicts ...I say don't
and as for mental illness in many cases it is a chemical in-balance in the brain and you really should heed your doctors advice lest you start to live in an imaginary world(sound familiar) and this destroys you..

PS ..my brother has mental illness and he is in denial and is still living at home with my parents because he just cant cope...

Isis-ra

01-02-2009, 07:22 PM

I've probably experience all of them in the 17 years I have been living, although I rarely speak to people about them especially family (they would probably just ridicule). The hardest thing I found to find a light in was not depression nor social anxiety (Which I still have), but OCD's, having a voice threatening to kill your family if you don't repeat a prayer over and over again in primary school is one of the worst experience's I have ever had.

BenJohnson

01-02-2009, 07:48 PM

but OCD's, having a voice threatening to kill your family if you don't repeat a prayer over and over again in primary school is one of the worst experience's I have ever had.

That must be tough to live with, a kind of guilt complex before anything has happened. You sound like you have had quite a struggle Isis.

Isis-ra

01-02-2009, 08:46 PM

Its been a struggle, and sometimes it still is. But I am actually quite grateful because Its allowed me to appreciate the beauty in life, and has added depth.

I'd say it is better than living in "lala" land. :)

danihaw

17-04-2009, 11:14 AM

Have any of the people on this forum experienced any of the above?
I personally have had run-ins with depression and social anxiety. Unfortunately I think they are quite common these days, it is good that they are recognised but its also sad that people have to put up with this kind of illness.

Depression and anxiety are such disorders which most people face in there life as some stage for one reason or the other. If it's children the pressure of studies gets over their head and if it's adults the pressure of work attracts depression.
I have had depressions and anxiety for sometime. The best way to get over anxiety and depression is to take a break from your regular schedule, go out, and take good sleep. This helps in clearing the mind and try consulting a specialist who can suggest you as how you can get over your problem.

BattyOldMaid

20-05-2009, 03:51 PM

I have just recently been diagnosed as having social anxiety. I've always been a loner, since every one on my mother's side is a loner, I've not really had much thought about it. Each one of us at one time or the other have said we are misfits, we don't fit into society, as we have different ideas, opinions and morals than that of the majority.

I had severe post natal depression when I had my first child, with counselling I was able to pin point the reason, I had way too many people in my life and couldln't cope, bear in mind it is a huge leap from a loner to a mother with meddling people meaning well, or bullying in laws.

Over the years I've coped by cutting people that demanded too much of me, I've coped by being social on line as opposed to being social in real life, I tend to avoid being in places where people are more likely to strike up a conversation. I think the social anxiety has gotten worse with the children, as I've had to talk to teachers, nursery assistant, other children's parents at birthday parties - yuk! LMAO - but it's not too bad if I just get in the mind set that I'm only there for a few hours and have the rest of the month being a hermit!

Batty

rantingpete

20-05-2009, 04:06 PM

I suffered from anxiety many years ago due to noisy neighbours. The anticipation is awful. I was prescribed anti-depression tablets but they made me worse so I didn't bother taking them. I'm fine now but it's always there lurking in the background. Writing helps and talking about it is important.

waywardgirl

25-05-2009, 07:29 AM

I think I'm just a hypochondriac, and all the mental foibles in my brain are just part of who I am. Trying to get rid of them would be wrong. But working through those problems and talking about them to my loved ones always helps me realize I'm not a crazy as I thought. In terms of societal expectations, They are insane. The feeling that you have to live up to some standard is actually what I hate most about myself and everyone else. I have to get a good job, lose weight, look pretty, have great sex, eat healthy, be green, be polite, get good grades, make money, have nice things, drive a nice car, smile all the time, know exactly what to say like I'm fucking scripted, and have kids and a good looking hubby.
Trying to hold on to all the fucking stupid ideals i had when i was 17 is impossible. What Am I going to have blue hair and work at the mall forever, and I feel bad that I look down on people like that. But I want to much more out of this life than 9 dollars an hour and sucking up to stuck-up customers pissing me off all the time.
Woah... i should change my user name to rantingcandida

decide

29-05-2009, 06:57 AM

i have my days when i am just so down and i just don't want to be. and its little things that sometimes can just put me in this downer mode that nothing can get me out. i feel that everyone feels this way at one point or the other no one is ever completly happy, i think people just deal and try to forget and move on.

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15-07-2010, 09:11 AM

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Lady Frazier

09-08-2010, 02:53 PM

I'm not sure what my biggest problem is. I have many. And I call them problems because they hinder me from living a happy life.
I am schizophrenic. Ouch. This has with it a constant paranoia for me that I am doing something wrong, that someone is about to get angry with me and beat me as I have been beaten so many times in my life. I also feel like I won't live long. It's not a fear but a realization. When I was in third grade I remember thinking "wow. Fourth grade next year. Too bad I won't live that long." I see, hear, and smell things that are not there. Crazy things, frightening things. I gave birth to a child when I was 18 and he was taken away from me. The judge said "Schizophrenics can't raise children"
I have a sever sever sever anxiety disorder. A constant churning of my stomach... almost always feeling so scared of everything (which goes hand in hand with my schizophrenia) that I have to throw up. It really hinders my ability to live life. Instead I just cower away from everything and everyone so as to not trigger an attack.
I also have Major Depression. But with a past like mine, who wouldn't.

asphara

09-08-2010, 03:56 PM

Well, I would be depressed but I'm too busy doing drugs and being bulimic to notice. Writing poetry - I don't know what its about - something sexual I think.

Lady Frazier

09-08-2010, 06:31 PM

I've been on intense medicine since I was 11. Seven months ago they wouldn't refill them because the last prescription I was given was from a German Doctor in Germany. I moved back to the United States in December. I've been out of all my medicine since January. Let me tell you, my body has been a train wreck. Emotions throwing me every which direction, schizophrenia acting up, social anxiety peaking again, anxiety attacks almost everyday for absolutely no reason worth having one. Today, they finally gave me my meds back. I feel like I'm taking a step toward recovery and I am so thankful. I'm normally a morose person, never thankful for much that happens in my life so this is big for me. I can see the future can possibly be better for me and that is exciting. ^_^

asphara

09-08-2010, 06:56 PM

I have a suspicion that every sentient being living in the West is completely fucked up - not least myself.

Funkadelichika

17-08-2010, 07:43 AM

I was just recently put on some meds for severe depression and anxiety. Thought I'd come here to talk about it as there really isen't anywhere left. Iv gone through hell the past few well the past year I guess. Tried to ignore it and drug it away with something and nearly killed myself with it. Went through freaking withdrawl with felt like I was so sick for a week or so. Anyways after that I decided it was time to actually go to a doctor....they immediatly put me on something to help me sleep and stable my mood. So far the sleep part is working amazingly...Iv never gotten so much sleep in my life. I'm no longer awake till 3-4am as long as I take my meds. And I am HOPING my mood changes too. Iv always been worried about being on meds though being one who overdoses on just about anything I know Im not to be trusted yet with the full prescriptions. I know this is all jumbled needed to get it out somewhere were I knew people would get it at least in part. I'm sorry I haven't been active in this community in commenting and such... I want to be and so try to at least be as a moderator when it's needed. I want to get back to writing and reading but...I just can't create when I feel parts of me have been torn out. -_-

Henry P

17-08-2010, 09:00 AM

i have suffered from depression, but it has cleared with medication and retirement. i think it could return easily though. Most people suffer from some kind of mental illness if their lives are difficult or disappointing, yet don't admit it. It stills carries a stigma.

Monkeyfeet

17-08-2010, 02:46 PM

I am currently in the process of 'untangling' the wires in my head. Its like over the years things have been plugged in to the wrong places and it makes me confused, angry, sad, etc. Psychotherapy is helping and the meds i take are essential as i have previously tried to come off them with horrible consequenses. Some might say i am addicted to them, this is not something i like so i have decided that i am making a choice to take them (which i am) and if i chose not to take them that is fine, i may risk a suicide attempt though, so i stick with the decision to take them. This way I am still in control. Bad things have happened to me but i am learnign now how i got to the place where these things happened so i can better understand why it happened.
I like who i am (on my good days) and i like being different, i don't like being judged, but what can you do?? people will think what they want to think.

asphara

23-08-2010, 07:40 AM

fallingangie

23-08-2010, 09:32 AM

I had been a victim to rumours and social harrassment for the last 7 years. WHen one stops another begins, it just went on like that and Im still suffering. I am very sensitive to these stuffs now, though I was stronger before, and now Im going through that point of life when you just start to give up and can't take it anymore.
I have lost all my hope, Im in frantic despair, I don't have anybody to turn to or any solution to the mess I am in. In simple words, yes I am going through hell lot of social anxiety and depression. All I ever wanted was to live a normal life and have acceptance, but it all turned to dust. Maybe God is punishing me for some mistake that I made long time back, maybe that is why my life ended up like this. No matter how hard I try, I just can't live without giving a damn to what others say or think about me, and that is jus making me even weaker. I give up......

Funkadelichika

23-08-2010, 07:14 PM

funkadellicica - what meds are you on? I'm on quetiapine (seroquel) and am ment to be taking 600mg but I think 200mg seems adequate for a chemical labotamy. I'm really worried 'cus my illness can be really really extreme, but at the same time I am rather attached to having a personality and desires. I'm taking a lower dose and stocking up for emergences - four of these pills will nock you out for 12 no sweat. I think these are the most dangerous drugs in my armory.

I'm on Remeron at the moment. They may put me on a Benzodiazipine (sp?) as well if this doesn't help. I am familiar with seroquel...(a friend of mine takes it) I don't think the doctor that saw me listened to me enough and may have prescribed the wrong meds but im waiting a few more weeks to see if these kick in a do much other then make me sleep. I'm only on 30mg but again I think it will be changed.

fallingangie don't give up! as much as I can say I know how you feel I hate knowing others feel the same way. :(

Lady Frazier

25-08-2010, 08:26 AM

Something you must remember when dealing with these illnesses... PMA (Possitive Mental Attitude)... It is something that can help you a great deal. I will post a thread with those points in it that I believe may actually help some of you just as it has helped me cope. With PMA you can say you have an illness rather than being one of the many whose illness has them.

A lot of doctors don't fully understand you when you tell them that a medicine isn't working. As well, a lot of people have a difficult time in their ability to successfully relay that message to their doctor. DO NOT BE AFRAID TO SPEAK UP and let them know that the meds they have given you are not working. They may suggest a higher dosage. They may suggest another type of medicine. But do not tip toe around the topic that, for example, a .5 mg of xanex or a 5 mg of valium just isn't enough to properly treat the condition for which it was initially prescribed. Stress how you feel and what you're needs are.

Funkadelichika

25-08-2010, 09:09 AM

I feel I may have been misdiagnosed perhapys by the doctor who only saw me once... She didn't take time to learn more of what I was thinking where as my regular doctor would go so far as to ask was I still seeing so and so had I tried going to groups for someone to talk to etc. If by my next docs appointment I feel this med isen't working I will speak up to my normal doctor whom I know will make a sincere effort to listen...he always does and always shows respect for me as a patient.

And I can make an attempt at positive thinking sometimes others it just seems impossible!

roast23

11-09-2010, 10:24 PM

Whatever you struggle with there are always to deal with it.

The problem is that the answer is never there when you need it most.

jaxter

20-11-2010, 01:43 PM

I don't think that you are struggling due to this problem. These types of things are not a problem. In depression and anxieties people must do meditation. It is helpful and beneficial in future. People suffering more from these problems then it are better to them to consult a psychiatrist.

Sir Day

20-11-2010, 02:42 PM

My mental illness is your title just add manic,drugs handed out by the psychiatrist help a lot but it not easy to discover the right drug for any one person. For anxiety I'm now taking
Valerina a traditional herbal medicine you can get it in Holland & Barret.

k2hsharpe

21-11-2010, 03:03 AM

hi dbn

if using Valerian please be careful you aren't taking any MAO Inhibitors. I'm not sure wether these are relevant to your medical condition or even if this class of meds is used a much any more (perhaps hider an help with this?) - i remember this from 35 odd year ago, so were i you i'd do my own research ...

: -)
k

a PS
http://hubpages.com/hub/What-Are-MAO-Inhibitors
http://bipolar.about.com/od/maois/a/maois_profile.htm
http://bipolar.about.com/od/maois/a/maois_and_diet.htm

Sir Day

21-11-2010, 04:13 PM

Thanks k2hsharpe

I did have a look into researching the information links you provided
but I'de be better advised to ask my GP.
Thanks again.

Mango

02-02-2011, 12:17 AM

You can tell if you're depressed by whether you have a pistol pointed at you head or not. That's what happened to me, then from somewhere deep down inside I heard a wee-tiny-little voice that said, "This is crazy." It was almost inaudable but I heard it and I listened. I went to a walk in clinic and told them and they hustled me of to see a shrink who put me on anti-depressants. I stay on them for 4 years and then took myself off. I still have bouts but nothing as severe as the time I came close to offing myself.

shuyun

02-02-2011, 02:01 AM

i'm slightly sociopathic making it difficult at times to have any good emotional connections with people. I simply "don't get it" at times and is seen mostly as a heartless unfeeling bastard by some very close to me. it's caused by a congenital lesion on my temporal lobe, an accident at birth.

it's a release when i write my poem, it actually tells me that in some way I do feel, just not as good as everyone else.

hasaral

24-01-2012, 07:52 AM

Modern life style is very complex. We have endless needs but limited time and resources to fulfill our needs. So we have to work hard all the day. Depression and anxiety is the fruit of the hard work.

Anxiety and depression are common in many developed and developing countries. Surprisingly the highest rate found in the United States. From a latest survey it is said that 26.4 percent of people of USA have anxiety or depression.