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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
I am really hoping that some strange things that have been happening- that are affecting me so badly now that I can't ignore anymore- are drug use related, and hopefully will pass.

But some things were present way before I used anything. The odd things that are worrying me are getting worse now, and this is the soberest Ive been in years.

Going for an assessment soon and am trying to describe and write down exactly whats going on, and am pretty afraid of being diagnosed with anything apart from something that is curable and will just GO AWAY WITH TIME.
 
OCD for me, and anxiety/stress sometimes causing mild depression which are a result of the OCD though.

However, in fact the drugs(psychedelics specifically, lsd , mushrooms, ayahuasca) have helped me to spot my problem,make realisations, and make significant process in living with it.

Generally I am against all that categorization of mental 'illnesses' or disorders, although sometimes it might be helpful, it can also make it harder for someone to overcome them.
 
Depression, paranoid Schizophrenia (since 1 year ago) and Schizoid Personality Disorder. I think the Schizophrenia diagnosis may actually be changed to Bipolar or Schizoaffective Disorder (with no true mania but a lengthy mixed episode) once I describe things to my doctors and psychologist in more detail.
 
melancholic depression
social phobia/avoidant personality disorder (more likely the latter, but former is whats diagnosed)
generalized anxiety disorder
adhd(predominantly innattentive,)

possibly more, but these are the ones that are diagnosed, except for GAD though which im 95% sure i have. but it may be temporary.
 
i have a fucked mind and didnt have any mental probs till acid at 19 since then alot of things bipolar,schizophrenia insane anxiety avoidant personality you name it i have it shoullda checked the family history :O)
 
I voted panic-disorder but I found a new doctor who says I'm bipolar. I'm not sure if that's true, but I think there's a "mild" version that seems similar to anxiety, or can co-exist with anxiety. My moods are really seasonal, anyway... the sun came out and it's warmed up, and I feel so scattered and irritable that I'm craving heroin again (after not craving it for the past couple months). Who knows, maybe the doctor's right. I wouldn't be craving drugs like H if I had moods like a healthy person.
 
psilocybin420 said:
i have a fucked mind and didnt have any mental probs till acid at 19 since then alot of things bipolar,schizophrenia insane anxiety avoidant personality you name it i have it shoullda checked the family history :O)
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I had a fucked up mind before I did acid... but acid and mushrooms certainly made it worse... MDMA too....
 
I strongly believe that most drug users are self-medicating something...and usually using, in the end, makes it worse.
 
classic bipolar disorder type I
panic disorder related to epilepsy (of the complex partial seizure variety)

not bullshit diagnoses, and have been institutionalized against my will 2x by the state of California.
 
Pillthrill said:
I strongly believe that most drug users are self-medicating something...and usually using, in the end, makes it worse.
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The world damages us, then diagnoses us as being damaged.
 
drug_wench said:
my god flatflux - my anxiety is totally related to epilepsy too (grand mal)
it freaks the shit outta me!
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Do you get prescribed a benzo. or barb. to take long-term for that (epilepsy?)
 
im on sodium valproate, but cant take a very high dose (not high enough to stop the seizures anyway) due to a poor liver
so im on a low dose of clonazepam as well - seems to work :)
 
I'm very shy. I get so nervous. I happen to be socially awkward and shy. I spent a lot of my time as an adult not going places. I'm consciously aware that I am. Escapism appeals to me because of this. :\
 
Ive had depression on/off since i was 13.

I dont think my drug taking is a huge escape from it, because i just fucking love taking drugs. They are FUN. Whats better than being high? Not much IMO.

I think it worsened my depression at times, at certain times i have used drugs to escape something, but the correlation just isnt there the majority.
 
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