The EADD Mental Health Support Thread

[Acidtek]

I can relate to you atm! My view of the world is a lot different to most people's! CBT is good and is working for me when I'm in the comfort of my home helping me to let go of some of my thoughts, I just need to learn to challenge these thoughts when I'm out in the real world! My vi polar is pretty much under control, I'm learning to deal with the ups and downs and the psychotic episodes are controlled pretty well by my combo of meds!

 

[koneko]

^^^
I dislike the way people have to / get pushed into - to identifying with a "psychiatric label" ...

 

[Acidtek]

In some ways it helpful to understand the way your feeling, you can do some research and see that what you are experiencing is common amongst people with certain illnesses, but thats just my opinion, having a lable has been helpful for me, but I can see how it might not work for others

 

[Allein]

I refuse to be diagnosed with anything.

They've told me I'm on the autistic spectrum, but I think it's bollocks (mainly because my mother insisted there was something 'wrong' with me and pushed for a diagnosis).

I can relate to being schizoid though.

I got told the other week I'm incapable of communicating. It's more the fact I don't want to communicate with illogical, irrational morons.....

I know there mostly BS but would you mind trying this multiple choice, I scored 30. No worries of you rather not

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aqtest.html

 

[cherrycolouredfunk]

I'm a girl, pushed around by my mind, the world and sometimes other people. I'm a bit mental, crazy, and crackers, other days I'm sane, insane and 'normal'. Most of all though, I am me!

I don't want to be pigeon-holed, i'm far too valuable and complex for that. Nor do I wan't to be given a title to live up to, that I then accept is all i'm going to ever be, so never try to change. I am made up of water, so therefore in a state of flux. I change from second to second, minute to minute, hour to hour,day to day,you get my drift.

 

[Marmalade]

channel 4 did one. is it the same one? ...

sorry, unless it's related to tech gadgets, i trust the wire even less than i do CH4

I know there mostly BS but would you mind trying this multiple choice, I scored 30. No worries of you rather not

 

[Allein]

channel 4 did one. is it the same one? ...

sorry, unless it's related to tech gadgets, i trust the wire even less than i do CH4

The test was put together by:-

Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen and his colleagues at Cambridge’s Autism Research Centre have created the Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ), as a measure of autistic traits in adults.

Neither Channel 4 or The Wire compiled it

Where its ended up being hosted on the net is neither here not there, the bloke seems pretty clued up to me, but like I said multiple choice questionnaires are largely BS although they can be useful over longer period of periods of treatment to measure the effectiveness of the treatment in question.

I was just interested if someone who had been diagnosed with a form of Autism scored highly on the test, Mr C may not wish to partake which is entirely up to him.

 

[Mailmonkey]

I scored 32.

But, as I said in post #2, I am perfect mentally.

 

[Myshkin]

Somebody Portended Doom.

 

[brimz]

I'm a girl, pushed around by my mind, the world and sometimes other people. I'm a bit mental, crazy, and crackers, other days I'm sane, insane and 'normal'. Most of all though, I am me!

I don't want to be pigeon-holed, i'm far too valuable and complex for that. Nor do I wan't to be given a title to live up to, that I then accept is all i'm going to ever be, so never try to change. I am made up of water, so therefore in a state of flux. I change from second to second, minute to minute, hour to hour,day to day,you get my drift.

yeah i get that tottaly the bit in bold , the rest is a nice little way to put things

 

[Marmalade]

The test was put together by:-

Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen and his colleagues at Cambridge’s Autism Research Centre have created the Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ), as a measure of autistic traits in adults.

Neither Channel 4 or The Wire compiled it

Where its ended up being hosted on the net is neither here not there, the bloke seems pretty clued up to me, but like I said multiple choice questionnaires are largely BS although they can be useful over longer period of periods of treatment to measure the effectiveness of the treatment in question.

I was just interested if someone who had been diagnosed with a form of Autism scored highly on the test, Mr C may not wish to partake which is entirely up to him.

SIMON baron Cohen sounds WAY too much like Sacha baron Cohen for my liking either way


whatever happens, i'd go with borat

 

[Myshkin]

Simon is Sacha's brother. It's a fact that makes their respective careers seem weirder still.

 

[wcote]

Now I have talked to key worker and loads of other nice people face to face, im in a MUCH better place

So im good now, my normal relaxed self.

 

[Allein]

Simon is Sacha's brother. It's a fact that makes their respective careers seem weirder still.

Wikipedia quote:-

Baron-Cohen is the son of Judith and Vivian Baron-Cohen. He is married to Bridget Lindley[15] and together they have three children, including independent film maker Sam Baron and songwriter Kate Baron.[16] His brothers are film director Ash Baron Cohen and Dan Baron Cohen (International Drama and Education Association). His sisters include acupuncturist Aliza Baron Cohen. His cousins include computer scientist Amnon Baron Cohen, composer and musician Erran Baron Cohen, comic actor Sacha Baron Cohen,[17] composer Lewis Furey, film producer Daniel Louis, playwright Richard Greenblatt, University of Washington chemistry professor Seymour Rabinovitch, University of Montana Japanese professor Judith Rabinovitch, and film-director Mark Robson.


crazy world we live in

 

[Allein]

I scored 32.

But, as I said in post #2, I am perfect mentally.

Perfect mentally....define that one for me then

@Sam "Somebody Portended Doom"

1.) it wasn't me

2.) have you been at the 2Cs again

 

[Mailmonkey]

I'm perfectly happy with my mental state.

I was kind of taking the piss. We're all somewhere on some spectrum, we're all different. Some people need help resolving who they are, others don't. Some people need meds to get them through and feel they can integrate, others don't.

I'm not meaning to sound heartless, or judgemental, cos I'm not. I'm lucky to be happy with me mental health.

 

[Allein]

A sound response as always MM touché:D

 

[Myshkin]

@Sam "Somebody Portended Doom"

1.) it wasn't me

2.) have you been at the 2Cs again

Sounds Pleasantly Demonic.

I haven't been at the 2C's, sadly. Just playing allusive games with the ol' initialism. Just like my grandad did in Mannion's bar, Cork city. Or maybe not.

He's a cousin, not a brother, to Ali G then? That sounds about right. Although having been in a relationship with one of the extended clan, I can tell you that those Kohanim lines get blurred to say the least.

 

[effie]

I definitely have extensive experience of mental health problems, my own and those of people I love..

I firmly believe that psychiatric diseases don't exist as individual entities. It's not like, say, diabetes, which has a specific cause and a specific outcome - mental illnesses are a cluster of symptoms which seem to go together and seem to follow a particular course and respond to particular treatments. It's all a continuum. There is no such thing as normal and no such thing as a specific psychiatric label in my eyes, apart from the fact that people love to give you labels..

There is no one cause either I think - it's a mixture of biology (your brain chemistry being out of whack, or an episode triggered by drugs, for example), psychology (stress, or childhood trauma, for example) and social factors (your support network, financial worries, housing etc) and there is absolutely no point treating one area (eg the biological aspect with antidepressants) without also looking at the other areas...

There certainly are clusters of symptoms that often go together, in what we call depression or mania or schizophrenia for example, and there are treatments that tend to work for people with these clusters of symptoms, but everyone is unique. And it's only a disorder or an illness if it affects you (or others around you) adversely, I think. And there is no such thing as normal :D

I've had depression for about 8 years now I think, with about 3 fairly major episodes resulting in a total of about 6 months off work, and I am currently going through a bereavement (which isn't classed as a mental illness but it's been far scarier and I have felt far crazier than I have during any of my depressive episodes) and I have had a partner who had a psychotic episode and a friend with bipolar disorder and another (several actually) with anxiety. Mental illness is scary, but it's so stigmatised still - it would be a lot less scary of people were more open about it and shared their experiences. So many of us will experience it at some point in our lifetimes.. I think the human brain just isn't "designed" to cope with the pressures of modern society...

Great thread Brimz, as a TDS mod and someone with a lot of personal experience I had to post :D I appreciate TDS can be quite US-centric, and it can be a lot easier to talk about your problems with people you know well, in the forum you know well (or vice versa sometimes!) - we have TDS regulars like there are EADD regulars, it just depends where you feel comfortable

 

[Myshkin]

Fancy a hug Effie?

No funny business, I swear. Which isn't much, coming from me like.

Good post. I agree with a lot.