Mental Illness

[86_rolla]

i went into the doctors a while ago and asked me questions like hows your family life, uni etc etc any worrys i said nah everythings sweet and he turns round and goes yip youve got depression WTF

[bluemaumau]

Why pop pills when alcohol can fix the problem just as easy?
Dont' even need a subsciption for it...

[barryogen]

ADHD and bordering on Aspergers

With a bit of obsessive compulsive disorder(thanks Dad) thrown into the mix...

The ADHD and compulsive thing is a pain, but I deal with them ok, the aspergers helps with some things, although sometimes I am quite aware of where I am socially.

People with Asperger syndrome lack the natural ability to see the subtexts of social interaction (sometimes resulting in well-meaning remarks that may offend and so on, finding it hard to know what is "acceptable")

although some of the "features" of aspergers help with my employment...

Asperger syndrome can involve an intense and obsessive level of focus on things of interest

othertimes it doesnt.

Sometimes these interests are lifelong; in other cases, they change at unpredictable intervals.

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an almost obsessive focus, and great memory for apparently trivial facts

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often have little patience for things outside these areas of interest. During the school years, many are perceived as highly intelligent underachievers or overachievers, clearly capable of outperforming their peers in their field of interest yet persistently unmotivated to do regular homework assignments

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Many people with Asperger syndrome also make idiosyncratic use of words, including new coinages and unusual juxtapositions. This can develop into a rare gift for humor

errr, sorry about the long winded post, will try to keep it shorter in future.

[sergei]

This is load of BS..
THey invent new "mental ilness" for just diferent people's characters.
The stuff barryogen described is not "mental ilness", same goes for "depression", most of depression is lack of something from outside (ie wolrd) not inside (ie body function).
People will always be more or less different depending on their genetic make up and culture.
There is no clear margin between normal and mental ilness thus, I could consider every one "mentally ill" in some extent. Infact could you please define normal?
Some people are more impulsive than others, some are highly motivated/focused, some are careless, some are greedy/selfish, some are giving/selfless, some are very calm, others are very active, some are moody, and other are emotionless etc...
It does not make them mental.
The clear Mental Illnes would be something like split personality , or urge to kill, or say when people see things etc. (I'm not an expert). Normal mental ilness are usualy becuase of chemical disbalance, genetic, or physical or psycholoical trauma related.

[RomanV]

It seems that there's a syndrome for anything that deviates half a percent from the social norm, and you're a hard done by victim if you have one of them.

Asburgers syndrome is what I was trying to think of earlier, as an example of a 'syndrome' that is (IMO) a load of bollocks. Sure, it's a common set of traits, amongst people....

who everyone else knows as geeks/nerds/etc.
Why is that a 'syndrome' all of the sudden?
People like that have always been around, there's nothing wrong/syndromeish/weird about being a little different.

People being 'different' is what makes people so interesting.

There's nothing wrong with you, just because you dont want an accounting job, wife, three kids and a white picket fence.

Asbergers sydrome is a symptom of the biggest problem that we have in society, 'victim mentality'.

If anyone looked hard enough, they could probably find traits of a disorder in their personality.

But it all means SFA at the end of the day.

I could break down my personality into traits of various disorders, but I give them as much credibility as horoscopes.

BTW if you truely had aspergers syndrome, your lack of respect for alledged authority would have you questioning the people that come up with things like 'aspergers syndrome'.


EDIT: Doh! pretty much beaten to the punch by sergei, who shares a common point of view with me.

[barryogen]

heh, not claiming to be a victim at all, just pointing out what the doc said... I've always been odd, and from quite a few different places, aspergers is what I "fit into".

As far as a/effecting me, it doesn't a hell of a lot, yeah I'm different, but I know how I'm different, so know how to deal with it.

The obsessive compulsive thing is a pain, ever tried to stop your self from doing something over and over again, knowing that it's stupid to do the same thing multile times, but being unable to stop yourself? I have, and it is not good at all.

About the only thing I can try to do is fight it, cut back on some things(like checking that the door is locked only 3 times instead of like 5), and the more I do it(cut back), the less it shows up.

[Jebus]

EDIT: Doh! pretty much beaten to the punch by sergei, who shares a common point of view with me.

I actually think you guys may have the same mental illness.

[mr pad]

ever tried to stop your self from doing something over and over again, knowing that it's stupid to do the same thing multile times, but being unable to stop yourself? I have, and it is not good at all.

Nope. Sounds ghey...

[barryogen]

ever tried to stop your self from doing something over and over again, knowing that it's stupid to do the same thing multile times, but being unable to stop yourself? I have, and it is not good at all.

Nope. Sounds ghey...

it is, it is indeed... the worst thing is that I know it's dumb, and I know I shouldn't do it, but I can't help myself, the only thing I am glad about with regards to it, it that the things I do it for, are all fairly normal things(door locked, alarm set type things), atleast they're not "socially un-acceptible" things.

[RomanV]

I actually think you guys may have the same mental illness.

It's true.

It's a condition called 'total awesomeness'.
Which is a condition that ordinary sane folks such as yourself, will never understand or experience.

hehe


And yeah, Barry, I sympathise with your 'door locking' thing.

I've done the same, more than once.

*locks door, jumps in car*
"crap. Did I lock the door?"
*checks door*
*locks door, jumps in car*
"crap. Did I lock the door?"
*checks door*

However, I attribute that more to a comprehensive loss of short term memory at the time, which unsurprisingly, appears to correlate directly with the massive amounts of excessive drinking that I did at that stage of my life.

[CaM]

Aspergers

sounds like me hard

[RomanV]

I think I speak for everyone here, when I say that we dont want to know what you sound like when hard.

[CaM]

mad shootdown etc. hah

[Punter]

'victim mentality'

meh,
Its not like anyone on here is out for sympathy, the interweb really isn't the right place for this sort of disscuccion anyway.

[Dell'Orto]

Narrow, intense interests
Asperger syndrome can involve an intense and obsessive level of focus on things of interest. For example, one person might be obsessed with 1950s professional wrestling, another with national anthems of African dictatorships, or another with building models out of matchsticks. Particularly common interests are means of transport

Therefore with my rather obssessive level of interest in cars means I have this disorder???

[Penny]

I don't know that I would consider myself as having OCD as such, but there are a few things that I can be obsessive about. The locking door thing - having to check several times. I quite often get in my car, then wonder if I shut all the windows, so go back inside to check. Hop back in car and wonder if I locked the door .. so have to check again.

Another thing is checking that my alarm clock is set .. I do it at least three times - every night :S

Other things that are possibly more about me liking everything to be in order than OCD - such as no wrinkles in the duvet after making the bed.. window wipers having to be down properly... coffee/tea tins facing the right way and on the same angle.

I am only a little different

[BlakJak]

I get pissed off when i've lost something valuable or important, and fret about it untill I find it. I don't know that it qualifies me as having a mental illness...!

[Carpet Burn]

Telling people the way they fell is all bullocks is pretty harsh!!! If you havent been there then you dont know, my Depression was compulsive crying over nothing, panic attacks which i ended up paralised with fear, and my life was fine but also sometimes not too! I have been off the meds for a while now, it was a chemical thing for me, the worst side afftect for me was sex drive and not "finishing" if ya get what i mean! Just ruined it! I now control it by excerise, as it increases the happy hormone in ya brain, and by recognising situations, patterns etc that can put me in a state. I have no probs at all talking bout it, coz you mite be able to help someone oneday and thats good, OCD is something i have a bit too, but more as a kid than now.
Just dont judge someone if they are nuts or a bit weird.

[CozmoNz]

Yup , whenever i see a hot chick walk on by i get very depressed...

then another one comes along.... so im very up and down

[Carpet Burn]

Yup , whenever i see a hot chick walk on by i get very depressed...

then another one comes along.... so im very up and down

The the depressing part for you is the fact that they dont stop