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Drug users and mental illness

What mental illnesses do you suffer from?

  • AD(H)D

    Votes: 170 28.4%

  • Anxiety

    Votes: 401 67.1%

  • Depression

    Votes: 404 67.6%

  • Bipolar

    Votes: 136 22.7%

  • OCD

    Votes: 110 18.4%

  • Panic Disorder

    Votes: 138 23.1%

  • Other (please specify)

    Votes: 91 15.2%
  • Total voters
    598
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I think my childhood/teenage use of weed led to depression and social anxiety but now that I have matured (a little, only 22) its not as much of an issue (as long as im not smoking everyday). I think if i waited to smoke until now I'd be much better off, then again I dont think id change anything and met a lot of good people through weed.

Very true about OCD with opiate use, I think its just part of addiction in general. they say your life revolves around use, so true. Its very hard to progress in life when all you are focused on is feeding your receptors. Way more important than food or school.
 
addiction is an obsession - its not even necessarily OCD.....its in a league of its own tbh
they share a lot of the same characteristics tho - ritualistic behaviour, anxiety if the behaviour cant b performed, obsessive thoughts around the drug, etc
and yea weed makes me feel depressed, esp the next day, if i do it too often too - same with any drug really i guess (apart from psychedelics)
 
I think I posted on this thread but it got deleted in the BL outage...
I am diagnosed with ADHD, Bipolar II, Anxiety, and OCD.
The ADHD diagnosis is nonsense, my psychiatrist made it up so my insurance would pay for my amphetamine. But otherwise, I got a respectably fucked-up combo. Could be worse... OCD's gotten better, mainly just depressed these days.
 
Attention Deficit Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Anorexia Nervosa suptype II, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Treatment-Resistant Major Depressive Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder/Agoraphobia, Transient-Global Amnesia, Generalized anxiety disorder, severe insomnia, circadian rhythm sleep disorder, night terrors, paranoid/delusional schizophrenia, and the beginning of it all: post-traumatic stress syndrome...I think that's all of it. *sighs*
 
Refractory manic depressive, social anxiety disorder and type A personality disorder.
 
ADHD
Anti-social personality disorder- Used to be uh alot of trouble. Having this diagnois on my record REALLY fucking sucks.
 
MomokoBP said:
Attention Deficit Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Anorexia Nervosa suptype II, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Treatment-Resistant Major Depressive Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder/Agoraphobia, Transient-Global Amnesia, Generalized anxiety disorder, severe insomnia, circadian rhythm sleep disorder, night terrors, paranoid/delusional schizophrenia, and the beginning of it all: post-traumatic stress syndrome...I think that's all of it. *sighs*
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A lot of the things that you've listed being diagnosed with probably shouldn't have diagnosed, because the diagnosis of one excludes the diagnosis of another.

For example, a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa excludes a diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder, and often dissociative identity disorder. Additionally, a diagnosis of night terrors excludes a diagnosis of severe insomnia and circadian rhythm disorder.
 
I cant believe noone has pinpointed the cause for this post to be made. Theres a religion dead set against men, women, and kids being subjected to what the American Psychiatrict Association has to offer. Which is of piss poor quality, but it's what the insurance copanies will cover services for.

These research that came up with these described afflicitions are not only subject to scrutiny, but the remedy (drugs) are changed every ten years or so, from the drug manufactuers so they can keep up the interest under the guise of healing.

Through The Church of Scientology and its offshoot Dianetics, I was able to kick a ten year crack cocaine habit, learn what spirituality is, how to train my mind, take care of my body, manage life, have kids, and my money is right. I have had to move people out of my life because identified what they were all about, for ex. when I stopped getting sick my Mothers life was realized and she got answers and didnt like em, so fuck her.
I had been going to a psyche for ADHD meds, Klonopin, and psychotics.
I could hardly function, but my college demanded that I stay in touch with a psyche.

Psyches should be avoided at all costs.
 
brian-amp said:
I cant believe noone has pinpointed the cause for this post to be made. Theres a religion dead set against men, women, and kids being subjected to what the American Psychiatrict Association has to offer. Which is of piss poor quality, but it's what the insurance copanies will cover services for.

These research that came up with these described afflicitions are not only subject to scrutiny, but the remedy (drugs) are changed every ten years or so, from the drug manufactuers so they can keep up the interest under the guise of healing.

Through The Church of Scientology and its offshoot Dianetics, I was able to kick a ten year crack cocaine habit, learn what spirituality is, how to train my mind, take care of my body, manage life, have kids, and my money is right. I have had to move people out of my life because identified what they were all about, for ex. when I stopped getting sick my Mothers life was realized and she got answers and didnt like em, so fuck her.
I had been going to a psyche for ADHD meds, Klonopin, and psychotics.
I could hardly function, but my college demanded that I stay in touch with a psyche.

Psyches should be avoided at all costs.
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I'm assuming that you were being sarcastic about the COS. In case you weren't, I'd like to chime in that, for me, I couldn't live a normal life without my psychiatric medications. I am bipolar and without my medications I wouldn't be able to live a normal life, control my constant mood swings, avoid going manic and doing god knows what, getting depressed and being unable to accomplish anything, or getting into a mixed state again and trying to commit suicide once more.

Mental illness is a legitimate thing and I cannot understand how a person could live in denial of this, much as I cannot understand those who deny that the Holocaust ever happened. I have had to live through the symptoms of being bipolar and I have nearly died because of a recent manic episode in my life. I know that for many people they can never understand without living it for themselves, but I wouldn't wish that on anyone.


Thanks to psychology I now have my life back and I am able to finish what I started of my college degree.

beyondgone said:
A lot of the things that you've listed being diagnosed with probably shouldn't have diagnosed, because the diagnosis of one excludes the diagnosis of another.

For example, a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa excludes a diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder, and often dissociative identity disorder. Additionally, a diagnosis of night terrors excludes a diagnosis of severe insomnia and circadian rhythm disorder.
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I have sometimes wondered if many people in this thread are self diagnosing. I was surprised to learn how common self diagnosis is these days. I have seen a lot of this going on in mental hospitals, predominantly when I was in adolescent wards.
 
lokai said:
I have sometimes wondered if many people in this thread are self diagnosing. I was surprised to learn how common self diagnosis is these days. I have seen a lot of this going on in mental hospitals, predominantly when I was in adolescent wards.
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i think mental illness and drug abuse really do go hand in hand and im not at all surprised to see the results of this poll and to assume that most of these individuals hav bn diagnosed professionally
saying that i suspect there is self-diagnosis going in in the odd person to some degree
which worries me - u shud never ever label urself with a mental illness until u know for sure u hav one!
 
drug_wench said:
i think mental illness and drug abuse really do go hand in hand and im not at all surprised to see the results of this poll and to assume that most of these individuals hav bn diagnosed professionally
saying that i suspect there is self-diagnosis going in in the odd person to some degree
which worries me - u shud never ever label urself with a mental illness until u know for sure u hav one!
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I disagree, but just slightly. If you never accept you have some form of mental illness you will never seek help, probably it will just manifest to a point where you are either dead or leading a highly secluded life, but if you never say, "Something is wrong here," you would never seek any form of help, would you? Obviously you can't get into specifics, but I dunno, I feel I self-diagnosed myself and my psychiatrist I now have seems pretty on the same line as myself, and its not like I went in and said, "I think I have SAD, OCD and Depression." I just stated how I feel and essentially I got this, except for it turns out there is PTSD which although I completely realized, I failed to self-diagnose, but when he told me you know, I think you are suffering from post traumatic stress my jaw dropped and it made so much sense to me, so anyways, as now properly diagnosed, but still early diagnosis, no meds yet, just a lot of conversing:

Social Anxiety Disorder, PTSD, OCD, Depression (we haven't gotten into this too much yet, I actually feel it is due to using Cannabis too much and if I quit it may clear up just fine, I've always been like, not very interested in anything, I feel its more a part of my personality than true depression, I don't really know if there is anyway to overcome it, meds may help who knows, the anxieties are definitely somewhat new and not a true part of me, mostly stemming from the PTSD).

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Anyone else feel the whole system is a bit slow? Like we've had two appts in the past month both 60 minutes long, and he talked for more of it than me, lol, and I don't have another appt until a month from now. Maybe it is because I'm not self destructive, or suicidal, or a danger to others but I dunno, it feels really slow especially considering these feelings aren't even new, been dealing for well over a year now and only recently got the opportunity to actually talk to a psychiatrist about it. Oh and I took one of those silly disagree, neutral, agree tests, lol, maybe this will lead to some more action, I dunno but in my opinion there is no way he will properly know what is wrong with me from the test, most of the time I didn't even feel much of it related, like, "It is important that I feel loved by others." I dunno...I really can't say I have any opinion on this, outside of family I've never felt love for or from another person so I have noooo idea.
 
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vortex30 said:
I disagree, but just slightly. If you never accept you have some form of mental illness you will never seek help, probably it will just manifest to a point where you are either dead or leading a highly secluded life, but if you never say, "Something is wrong here," you would never seek any form of help, would you?
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i think i worded myself incorrectly - absolutely u know wen something is wrong with u.....that or others observe something is wrong with u
i just dont think u shud go around saying 'hey ive got bipolar' or 'hey ive got ADHD' unless uve bn diagnosed
i always knew i was an anxious person and i did suspect it was out of the ordinary so i went to a psychiatrist and told him about the extreme anxious thoughts i had had all my life
he asked me if i was using any drugs and i said 'well currently im high on P (meth) - does that count?' (smartass)
he said 'why do u use P if ur anxious?' and i just said 'it makes me feel normal - always has.....sure i get anxious coming down but otherwise i feel fairly calm on the stuff'
next thing u know he pulls out this list of symptoms - stuff like lack of concentration, hyperactivity, disorganisation, high anxiety/depression, trouble sleeping, racing thoughts and says to fill it out as i wud if i wasnt on P
i had no idea that had anything to do with ADHD so i was in no way drug-seeking but i scored pretty high on that list
he waited to see me again wen i was 6 months clean before getting me to fill out the list again - thats wen i was diagnosed with ADHD as well as severe GAD (apparently common for ppl with ADHD)
in a long-winded way, thats me saying i knew someting was wrong, i just had no clue wat it was - i thought i was just a hyper-anxious chick
that was basically wat i meant by u shud b diagnosed by a psychiatrist before u say u hav anything even tho wen u suspect somethings wrong ur probly right
makes this poll a lot more accurate too!
 
Well, I've been diagnosed with ADD, Bipolar, and Panic Disorder by doctors, namely psychiatrists/psychologists for credibility.
 
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