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Mental Health thread regarding mental health

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chillinkillin

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So I definitely think there is an epidemic of disorders. College kids looking to score adderall or xanax, whatever the case maybe. What I would like to ask you is how many of you have had a mental disorder in the past and used the 'its all in your head' coping mechanism. The ration of thinking where you believe YOU are in control of your thoughts and impulses. The reason I ask is because I had suffered various traumas growing up started using a bit of drugs in high school and then coming to realize my problem all along later on in life age 19. I definitely think the drugs brought the effect faster it brought a new wave to my thinking. Whereas when i was young my failures were overridden with heavy anxiety and drastic black and white thinking which devastated me at times. I guess what i'm trying to say is I definitely think there are many sheeple in mental disorders but I do inevitably believe they exist. BTW i have is Borderline personality disorder
 
i think society demands to much of people these days to fit in to a certain way of living. everyone is wired differently and to be 'normal' in this day age is not as easy as it sounds. some people deal with pressure better than others. the thing which im a bit on the fence over are things like adhd. i mean the milder forms could certainly just be attributed to having a totally different personality from others, or being 'dumber' if you want to put it bluntly. when i was a kid there were a few kids in school who fitted the signs and symtoms of adhd but were just getting into trouble. could it oif been the home life? or just thats how they are.

im glad in some respects that mental health is well heard of and gradually getting less stigma. lets say 100 years ago if you had severe anxiety and borderline pd, im not so sure it would be as easy to avoid work and get benefits.

is your name taken from a certain scary movie? ;)
 
I don't really think there are more mental disorders now than they're used to be, rather that they're more mediatized and people are more aware of what they are, whereas before they'd just be dismissed as nothing. I also think lots of people who use such drugs as adderall or xanax do it for reasons entirely unrelated to the drug's original purpose.
That being said: I had anorexia a few years ago (even though it's usually classified as an eating disorder, I'm including it in mental disorders) but part of the thing is that you don't realize it so I never thought it was all in my head, since I didn't think there wsa a problem.
More recently I've been diagnosed with severe depression and very often I definitely don't think I'm entirely in control of my impulses and feelings. I'll often realize that I'm exaggerating something that happened, or that I'm punishing myself too much or whatever, but that's not going to change the fact that I feel I deserve it, for instance - and that I don't think I have any control over in the short term.
In that sense, I think mental diseases are just like any physical disease - you can't cure it by wishing it away or by telling yourself it's not there, you've got to work on it.
 
I definitely agree with Pagey that it's likely that the world has just a). got better at identifying and recognizing a broader spectrum of mental health disorders and b). between the battery of pharmaceutical commercials and the increased focus in movie, tv, and literature has influenced more people to jump on board.

It is likely that there has always been a certain amount of people with borderline disorders and more are just now coming forward. Unfortunately, there are also likely a lot of misinformed or easily swayed (sheeple as you put it) folk that are also coming out of the woodworks.

I do believe that modern society in 1st world countries has a tendency to be isolating. With all of our technology and social networks, it often seems that people are more lonely and less connected than ever. Most people start to get crazy when they are too cut of from a group or support network.
 
you sound similar to that of a bipolar or borderline personality disorder. i think what you said is valid and i have lived through similar circumstances. i definitely think there are alot of people out there who stay in their anorexia or whatever because they start seeing it as normal. they start it become a reality and maybe even assume others do it and dont reveal it. there are anorexia forums and discussions to promote the disease and they even give tips on how to help curb appetite. with me i noticed many people can engage in anorexic behavior like not eat for a period of time to fit into a dress or whatever then those same people judge an anorexic who is a bit more extreme. its just fucked up
 
^Mmh...I think the term 'anorexia' is misunderstood. It can be taken as simply not eating (ie. because of drugs) or, in the case of the actual mental disease, it's eating less but not realizing you're doing that/ that there's any sort of problem.
I recall stumbling on some of those forums you mentioned, it's pretty sick. However I don't think the people who promote that sort of behavior actually are anorexic, because if they were, they wouldn't even be intentionally starving themselves. It took me years to accept the fact that I had in fact been anorexic, because at the time I was absolutely convinced I was eating perfectly normally. I now realize I was eating along the lines of 800 calories a day + going for runs every day as well. The very definition of anorexia encompasses the idea of seeing your behavior as normal.
IMO those forums are run by people who have some sort of obsessive body image issue, but are not anorexic. That's how I see it anyway.

I agree it's ridiculous that people will then judge severely skinny anorexics because of how they look, forgetting that you can be anorexic and overweight, for instance, but that doesn't make the disease any better. I also hate the use of the term 'anorexic' as an insult because it's something the individual has no control over. I really wish people would spend more time trying to understand eating disorders instead of dismissing them so easily. It's really sad.
 
^ just to clarify i'm no where near anorexic. i was a linemen stand at 6ft4 240, haha. but completely agree, may i ask if you think anorexia is a downward spiral led by a bad decision, any chance it can be that? not second-guessing it as a disorder i can completely see that; i too had issues with insecurity with my weight which is funny because i've always been a larger male. its the mental health that caused that, and i still have insecurities with always seeing i'm not good enough, could be weight one day or flaws a different its just a horrible cycle to be honest. to see where i'm at now with my physical health to what i was, i should be near what i dreamed of, but then again its never as good as it seems
 
chillinkillin said:
^ just to clarify i'm no where near anorexic. i was a linemen stand at 6ft4 240, haha. but completely agree, may i ask if you think anorexia is a downward spiral led by a bad decision, any chance it can be that? not second-guessing it as a disorder i can completely see that; i too had issues with insecurity with my weight which is funny because i've always been a larger male. its the mental health that caused that, and i still have insecurities with always seeing i'm not good enough, could be weight one day or flaws a different its just a horrible cycle to be honest. to see where i'm at now with my physical health to what i was, i should be near what i dreamed of, but then again its never as good as it seems
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Sure I think it can start off by a bad decision, I guess - like someone who decides to diet who doesn't need it. For me it started because I wanted to lose weight, which I did somewhat need at the time, but it got completely out of control and I ended up losing about 40lbs more than I should have.

Jktm said:
Don't be so quick to judge these individuals either, as they have a mental illness as well. Just read up on that link below. I know it's a wiki source, but wiki is good for general information a lot of times.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_dysmorphic_disorder
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Oh I wasn't judging at all, I really wasn't, especially considering I very likely have body dysmorphic disorder.
 
I think my parents fucked me up by fucking up my brain with antidepressants at age 8. It's been downhill from there.
 
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