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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'm not sure if I suffer from any clinically diagnosed diseases, as I've never been........ but I do suffer greatly from this affliction with the addiction of heroin, and it's one hell of an affliction, and it's cause & effects are hellish sometimes unfortunately.... I'm dealing with the "after effects" as I type... kicking is a bitch
 
^ We are all here for you. Like I told you on AIM, you never know when it's your last shot. I am glad you are sustaining. I am so here for you. Any of you, I hope to help anyone how is trying to kick it. Lets stay alive and safe.

Love and respect,
Stella bella
 
canj00feelit - agreed wiv stella, PM me any time and if u hav MSN we can talk.....i actually agree that addiction in itself is a mental illness.....its classed as one in all the abnormal psychology books, and its one fuck of an illness to b saddled wiv :\
pillthrill - i was wrongly diagnosed wiv BPD (wen i was on drugs), and i remember the doctor saying that ppl wiv this condition really hate being alone....u too can PM me and id luv to talk to u on MSN if u hav it....u seem like a cool compassionate person
one of my closest friends in the support house i lived in after detox had BPD and was a cutter - i often wish id kept contact wiv her (she went into a halfway house for treatment of BPD), as i was the only non-alcoholic, dope sick chick at the house, and i spent many nights not sleeping, sitting in the living room crying on her shoulder.....the doctor that diagnosed me wiv BPD said that borderlines r selfish individuals - this was not my experience wiv this chick (quite the opposite in fact) and doesnt seem to b the case wiv u either from the posts ive read of urs
 
Adhd and anxiety/panic are the worst followed by mild presson
although a couple docters have suggestest i could be bi-polar

been on several anti physchotics,tried alot of different antidepresents(not needed for a few years now),lots of benzos, i can't think what else but i know there is more :p , comminted to the mental ward.

just temzapams, dexedrines(not used much because of other physical medical problems caused by anti inflammitories), and sweet sweet pot for now.

edit i supose i should enclude the fact i've done lots of street drugs
 
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Diagnosed with major episodic depression. It is treatment resistant thus far. The worst part is the intense irritability/aggravation I feel EVERY DAY. No energy, self-isolating. It has stolen the first half of my life. it is all downhill from here.
 
drug_wench said:
canj00feelit - agreed wiv stella, PM me any time and if u hav MSN we can talk.....i actually agree that addiction in itself is a mental illness.....its classed as one in all the abnormal psychology books, and its one fuck of an illness to b saddled wiv :\
pillthrill - i was wrongly diagnosed wiv BPD (wen i was on drugs), and i remember the doctor saying that ppl wiv this condition really hate being alone....u too can PM me and id luv to talk to u on MSN if u hav it....u seem like a cool compassionate person
one of my closest friends in the support house i lived in after detox had BPD and was a cutter - i often wish id kept contact wiv her (she went into a halfway house for treatment of BPD), as i was the only non-alcoholic, dope sick chick at the house, and i spent many nights not sleeping, sitting in the living room crying on her shoulder.....the doctor that diagnosed me wiv BPD said that borderlines r selfish individuals - this was not my experience wiv this chick (quite the opposite in fact) and doesnt seem to b the case wiv u either from the posts ive read of urs
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I have no question that I am borderline. I did my research as a psych major and looked and the dx criteria. Its me to a T. Its feels great to finally get an answer, but also its the death sentence of psych disorders, their is no simple medication that will make it go away. Its a personality disorder and your personality (a consistant way of behaving) has to change to recover, and I just haven't gotten there.
There are different ways that borderline can show up. You get those who become angry and often lash out at others. Then you have those who show more depression and anxiety and turn everything inward and lash out at themselves. I tend to be more of the last one.
 
Oh i forgot to tell the mods to put in an option for no mental illness, as that was pretty much the point of this thread, to see the ratio of mental/sane users.
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LOL! Interesting!

This is quite impressive. I mean it. Well, it's both impressive, funny, tragic, everything. 250 voters! Wow!

Reading this thread [and skipping that quoted post], any sensible and intelligent person would conclude to two things:
1) Drug users are exclusively people with mental divergence
2) Mental divergence is often caused by drug use

[here, with drugs we mean mostly [but not limited to] psychedelic ones]

And yes, instictively you get to that "Chicken egg or egg chicken" . Interesting.

Fuck, so the people that are somewhat mentally healthy or well-balanced are a minority among drug users? Or there are no mentally stable psychonauts because of their use of psychedelics?

>>>> rhetorics ~ rhetorics>>>>>>

I think you should re-do the poll. Should be interesting.

PS: Noone with 'HPPD' ?
 
mutnat said:
I think you should re-do the poll. Should be interesting.

PS: Noone with 'HPPD' ?
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Unfortunately we can't redo the poll without losing the existing information - we can't just add an option. It'd be a shame to lose all the responses, so I think we'll keep it open - you're welcome to PM with poll suggestions of your own though. :)

Fuck, so the people that are somewhat mentally healthy or well-balanced are a minority among drug users? Or there are no mentally stable psychonauts because of their use of psychedelics?
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The poll is geared towards the mentally ill - as you pointed out, there's no option for 'no mental illness' so it doesn't give any information as to the ratio of mentally ill/healthy drug users. It's also worth remembering that those people who visit TDS aren't necessarily representative of Bluelight, and Bluelight in turn isn't going to be representative of any population of drug users as a whole.....
 
pkt - interestingly, according to my shrink, most ppl wiv AD(H)D suffer from either depression or anxiety (or both) and often abuse drugs
it kinda makes sense - it doesnt exactly build up ur self-confidence wen evryones pissed off at u cos u cant concentrate on wat they want u to :\
 
Depression and anxiety which I never had until after I did E... which sucks. I'm the only one I know out of my whole group of dosing friends who has this though so I'm not sure if I can really say it's E's fault.

However there is no history of depression or anxiety in my family so it seems a little weird :|
 
I wasnt diagnosed with OCD but my depression showed traces of this behaviour so i chose both.
 
summer sunrise - E can cause depression and anxiety in susceptible individuals
often it eventually dies down or goes away completely so hang in there!
 
summer sunrise said:
Depression and anxiety which I never had until after I did E... which sucks. I'm the only one I know out of my whole group of dosing friends who has this though so I'm not sure if I can really say it's E's fault.

However there is no history of depression or anxiety in my family so it seems a little weird :|
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I believe the same has happened to me. Took E over 3 years i would say. At points 3-4 pills a night sometimes higher with like 6-7 sometimes.


drug_wench said:
summer sunrise - E can cause depression and anxiety in susceptible individuals
often it eventually dies down or goes away completely so hang in there!
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Its been going on over 3 years for me now and ruined my life :\
 
^sounds like u used it quite heavily
remember u were fucking wiv ur serotonin level for 3 yrs and u stopped.....now its 3 yrs later
its completely plausible that u will recover eventually!
 
SilverFeniks said:
i was depressed/suicidal when i was 13, got put on worthless meds, sent to court, almost comitted, etc. ... years later i've just been fucked up from years of drug abuse, still too afraid of doctors to give them another serious shot.

i'm not manic, or ad/hd. i can't relate to what a lot of people say about panic attacks [only had about a week or two of each, luckily not regular for me], though i often feel very uncomfortable and completely out of place / out of touch with the world around me.

but instead i just have moods that shift daily from happiness to misery, day in day out .. and i always feel so scattered, confused, always at a loss to communicate the disorienting and worthless thoughts that endlessly run through my head for years ..

i'm probably just good olde-fashioned 'crazy.' we're all surprised i've made it this far.
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it sounds maybe something like DPD ?
 
Asperger's Syndrome (high-functioning form of autism), anxiety, depression, OCD tendencies, insomnia, and emetophobia (extreme fear of vomit/illness).
 
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