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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
bpd
ptsd
depression/anxiety
insomnia
boredom <----- this one i hate the most

im worse without the drugs...
 
Mental Illness and Drug Use

I am Bipolar (hypomania and depression)
ADD
Anxiety

I take a shitload of drugs.

Cymbalta for depression, lamictal for bipolar and abilify to sleep and to rid myself of obsessing at night of bothersome things.

Adderall for ADD and now it's turned into an abusive drug

Clonazepam for anxiety. I've abused in the past, but somehow have gotten over wanting to abuse this most of the time.

I know I definitely abused alcohol for a long time due to anxiety and starting abusing adderall for energy. Depression saps me of alot of it.

I'd probably lick a toilet seat if I knew it would get me high.
 
addylover - adderalls an amphetamine in USA right? how does it give u energy if u got ADD? or r u taking shitloads of the stuff?
ill tell u how to stop abusing it (this is wat i do wiv my ritalin cos i know i can b a stimulant abuser) - get ur chemist to give it out in daily handouts......works like a treat!
 
I think i definitely have some form of ADD, although its only mild. Easily irritable, can't sit still, fidgety etc. Never seen anyone about it as it isn't severe and i dont want to be on any of the fucked up meds i'd get anyway.

Doesn't really bother me though, although i find it very hard to concentrate on something that isn't stimulating or doesn't interest me. I switch off very quickly.
 
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I have ADD but not the "H" part of it. It is an internal type of restlessness. I forget the name for it. But it is ADD. I started abusing it and got some energy but now I dont really get much from it except alot of focus. In fact, too much and I will fall asleep. But I just don't think Im ready to give it up, though Ive got down by nearly 80 mgs.
 
depression,anxiety and panic disorder but now the panic disorder as near enough vanished after 5 years of having it bad
 
OCD without compulsions, violent thoughts pop up and music, accompanied with some paranoia. it causes me to have trouble concentrating in class too. anyone know whether that could be ADD or something related to ocd. im 20


zoloft - 100mg a day
 
^it cud b related to OCD
i was diagnosed wrongly of OCD, without compulsions, but it turned out to b ADD
my old friend has OCD without compulsions and she had trouble concentrating in class too
 
Severly BiPolar, rapid, rapid cycling (couple of times a month).

Detected I was different, @ 7.

Got suicidal @ 13.

Diagnosed 20+ years after word.

Tried the Pharma way.

Now its, weed, suppliments, mediation and a lil smoked opium from time to time.

Was sick WAY before a drink or a drug. (fact 1st drug I took was crack, yes, i wanted to die)
 
MindCrime said:
Severly BiPolar, rapid, rapid cycling (couple of times a month).

Detected I was different, @ 7.

Got suicidal @ 13.

Diagnosed 20+ years after word.

Tried the Pharma way.

Now its, weed, suppliments, mediation and a lil smoked opium from time to time.

Was sick WAY before a drink or a drug. (fact 1st drug I took was crack, yes, i wanted to die)
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I feel ya. I was mistreated as bipolar. I actually have anxiety and depression, but the Borderline personality disorder is the main one. I cycle fast and hard. I change moods 15 -20 times a day sometimes.
I became suicidal and a cutter and 13. Attempted suicide 3 times. My mother, the compassionate person that she is, told me after the last one where my bf saved my stupid ass, " You put yourself in there, you pay the hospital bill."
I was dxed this summer. I'm 21.
I have managed to stop the cutting behavior through self-medication, but I doubt thats much better.


I think that you can see that most people that use on a regular basis are self-medicating. Its kinda sad to think about how much unresolved, unspoken emotional pain that lies just below the surface on BL.
 
Hum, anxiety and depression.

And, hum, paranoia, most of the time I guess.
 
SWlM said:
bpd
ptsd
depression/anxiety
insomnia
boredom <----- this one i hate the most

im worse without the drugs...
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wow someone else with bpd. The boredom comes with it...can get me in trouble...CRUSHING BOREDOM WHAT DRIVES YOU INSANE!
 
I used to be bored all the day everyday, but know I play guitar when I don't know what to do. You should try to do something creative!
 
Phy said:
I used to be bored all the day everyday, but know I play guitar when I don't know what to do. You should try to do something creative!
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With bpd it just seems harder than that. I honestly just feel I need to go out and "get into trouble" do something I shouldn't do. Its kinda a bad place to be. I think I could end up snorting heroin off the bathroom floor or god knows what...sometimes its good to live in a small town where you can stay out of trouble now and then.
 
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