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Joshy said:
Why shouldn't it be? How on earth do you expect your average joe public to accept something that they can't see (apart from in its most extreme cases) much less understand?

Depression is only now just seen as socially 'acceptable', and feeling a little sad at some point of your life pales in comparison to some of the associated baggage that can come with mental illness.

Even the term 'mental illness' seems like it should have a stigma to it.
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Joshy said:
What on god's green earth makes you think that I don't appreciate the severity of mental health issues? :confused:

Saying it won't be socially acceptable isn't nearly the same thing as saying it doesn't exist.
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Well my post was more aimed at albert really. Sorry. I guess I am saying that Joe Public would have a hard time disputing the impact that these conditions can have if they saw it first hand.
 
fus said:
Well my post was more aimed at albert really. Sorry. I guess I am saying that Joe Public would have a hard time disputing the impact that these conditions can have if they saw it first hand.
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Quite. As I said earlier people like that are lucky to not have first-hand experience, but that shouldn't stop them having empathy and understanding for those who do. It's a nasty, horrible affliction at times (certainly for those involved) and shouldn't be underestimated.
 
fus said:
Well my post was more aimed at albert really. Sorry. I guess I am saying that Joe Public would have a hard time disputing the impact that these conditions can have if they saw it first hand.
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I don't think it would to be honest.

"That couldn't happen to me... Or anyone I know".
 
BringTheRain said:
Just been having a look on line and i "could" suffer from Perfectionism or Neuroticism.

But I think you have to draw the line somewhere.

Reading about Perfectionism I can relate to some of it. But I am not as bad as the description.


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I think if everyone read them things online they would also match them. Sometimes its best not to read them. If that makes sence :|
 
Leave well enough alone BTR, and if you're worried seek professional advice. It sounds trite, but it's true. First year medical student syndrome is easy to catch when you start looking things up on the internets... ;)
 
Generalized anxiety and Panic disorder here, not quite bi-polar but the same 'group' and have had lots of close contact with people suffering bi-polar. I used to help run a website that has protected chat rooms for anxiety/depression/ptsd/bi-polar et, where people can meet others in the same boat.

When I first started with mine, I found chatting with others who have the same condition helped me more than any med or therapy (and I went through a lot lol)

And albert, I'm sorry but you really do have no idea :(
 
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Danny091 said:
I think if everyone read them things online they would also match them. Sometimes its best not to read them. If that makes sence :|
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LOL, couldn't agree more. I think I am right in thinking, I should be able to retrain my brain. So if for EG My car needs an mot. The extreme highs and low before and after the mot. Should be avoided in the future, if I can keep going with the help sessions?
 
BringTheRain said:
Also slightly of debate ;)

I have an obsessive personality. If an idea comes into my head, it wont leave until I have done it. Is this OCD or something else? I have noticed that in the last 3 weeks, normally I would get worked up about an idea. And HAVE to follow it through, but last weekend. Instead of getting worked up, I was just meh!!

I know OCD for example is like cleaning. I don't think I suffer from OCD.
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I don't think that would be OCD, more of an obsessive personality of some kind.

OCD usually manifests itself as a feeling that you must do something very specific, a certain way, and not doing it causes anxiety and panic. I'm not a doctor or anything, so I'm not any kind of expert on it, but I did know someone who had OCD, and they had the constant compulsion to wash their hands, for no real reason, as it were, they just became overcome by the urge to do it. They could just be sat doing nothing, then they'd get a bit twitchy and then have to go wash their hands. The thing is, they knew that they didn't 'have to' wash their hands, they hadn't gotten them dirty or anything, it just made them really uncomfortable if they didn't. If they left the house, they'd always take hand sanitizers or wipes to clean their hands with, in case there wasn't a toilet available.

We never spoke of it, so I don't know if they had any other 'routines', but the hand washing was an obvious one to notice.

Edit: Wow, stop posting so quickly! :p
 
Its why i don't read the side affects of anything anymore... Because i always think i start to have them :|. So i make myself not read them xD
 
alangelluk said:
Generalized anxiety and Panic disorder here,
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I think anxiety is the worst thing in the world ever. It has stopped so many things from happening in my life. Just simple things like the cinema :(

I think my anxiety was made worse by working in a call center for nearly 4 years. All that time just waiting for a beep in your ear, and you start talking! The gap between beeps could be 5 seconds or 5 minutes.
 
Just to make a point of the Stigma thing, put it this way, I'm not comfortable talking about certain things even on here to people that I know I'm never going to meet. I'm not going to talk about them, but still, it is a sad state of affairs when not even the 'anonymity' of the internet gives you enough confidence to talk about the subject.
 
Camarilla said:
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Edit: Wow, stop posting so quickly! :p
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LOL its the text train!

110% it is not OCD. I think I do have an obsessive personality. But thinking about it, the reason why I want it to be done perfect. As if it bodged, it could go wrong. Which leads to worry. SO I can kind of see a connection.
 
Camarilla said:
but I did know someone who had OCD, and they had the constant compulsion to wash their hands, for no real reason, as it were, they just became overcome by the urge to do it. They could just be sat doing nothing, then they'd get a bit twitchy and then have to go wash their hands. The thing is, they knew that they didn't 'have to' wash their hands, they hadn't gotten them dirty or anything, it just made them really uncomfortable if they didn't. If they left the house, they'd always take hand sanitizers or wipes to clean their hands with, in case there wasn't a toilet available.
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Ok i must admit i went through that when i was younger. Not as bad as taking wipes with me or anything but i did ALWAYS wash my hands it got to the point i had chapped hands. Thankfully it isn't bad anymore but i do still have to wash them a lot when cooking or something otherwise it just winds me up.

Checking things are off! Omg i check everything is turned off before i leave otherwise i cant leave :|. Also like above this was worse when i was younger and i would check that things were off multiple times and check them again before i could convince myself that they were and leave!

Thankfully both of them have now gone to a manageable level that i just check things once and washing my hands i only do so often :|.

Anxiety is one of my big things too. I worry about everything so add that to worrying if things are off? worrying about my hands. Typing this is sounds so STUPID! but its like most mental disorders i suppose when you look at them from this kind of angle they are but once you are in the position again all bets are off.

Social anxiety i suffer from mainly now, people freek me out. I dont like busy places and i did have panic attacks in ALDI once due to the sheer ammount of people. Thankfuly this has also toned down abit now and i can do my daily thing. But i still get worked up about it.

Yeh i just made myself sound like a total nut job but oh well.

Edit: Things that aint level! Or not in the centre or something like that will wind me up so much i will change it even if its not mind to change.
 
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fus said:
Be careful with self diagnosis. It's a slippery slope. Hypochondriasis is /really/ difficult to deal with. :)
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Yeah 110% agree with this, my gf warned me as well. Just thinking out loud I guess.

But this has to be my thread of the year. Sorry to OP for taking it off track.

But I dunno, i feel HYPER HYPER LOOLLZZ joke ;)

I feel like I have stuff of my chest, maybe just needed to vent. I dunno lol
 
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