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Offline Karen
Subject: I feel Like a walking Pharmacy
Date: Jul 28, 2008 13:48
Mood: Discontent
Music: Take these chains from my heart
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I read my last journal entry today and cringed so I deleted the entire last entry. Life isn't so easy as to always look for small victories to make you feel better. just as sure as you find a small victory, it seems like a great big setback lands in your lap or smack dab on top of your head in my case. I get so tired (literally) of these highs and lows and all the pills I have to take, 2 antidepressants to get me high enough (doens't work) and 1 anti psychotic to keep me from being too high. Plus 2 valiuims a day to keep me calm in between. That's not to mention the pain pills that I have to take several times a day. My day seems to revolve around pill scheduling. It's a neverending process and I hate it. I wish I could quit taking all this stuff but I'm terrified of what would happen if I did. Would I get manic and tear the house apart or would i get depressed and suicidal again. Scary thoughts. But God I hate these pills.
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Offline Elysium
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Date: Jun 20, 2008 09:42
Mood: Lonely
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Hi.

I'm new to the forum and just really wanted to chat to likeminded people. I have been diagnosed with OCD. I strongly suspect I have depression and ADD and have read up on the above. I also suspect I have an eating disorder as I have always been overweight and have always binge and comfort eaten I have received CBT for the OCD and was on antidepressants for nearly 2 years, but came off them about a year or so ago because I felt a bit better, and as I was due to start a new course I thought "new start" etc. I have also received private counselling over the years in fits and starts, and am currently undergoing this. I was physically and mentally abused by my father as a child and was again physically and mentally bullied up to the age of 18 at school. My parents split up when I was 12.

I have had opportunities in my life yes; I am a graduate and have just completed a teacher-training course. However, the accreditation of my teaching award itself hangs in the balance because of a dispute with the university I attended.

I still live with my mother as I have never been able to commit to a job long enough to be independently financially stable. I have worked for most of the time since I was 18 in various sectors; retail, office work, charity work. I also did voluntary work when I was younger.

I have what can only be described as a "social phobia". I am fearful of people and situations, and spend my whole life walking on eggshells so that I don't upset people and thus spend ages agonising over why I upset them and feeling bad.

I don't feel that my mother understands my situation at all and I get the impression she just thinks i'm "being lazy" and "workshy", especially as my (now deceased) father was. (Although I am certain he had the same problems as I have). Money is very tight and she relies on me to contribute. I understand this, but I have told her to i'm blue in the face that it's not that i don't want to work, it's that I can't (because of my issues). She just sees the monetary side, and expects me to go out and find a job. Benefits are not really an option as they would not pay enough. I have been told by her that unless I contribute we will both be homeless soon.

I have tried all I can; I sought the help of a counsellor again, which as I have said before I am currently attending. My mother even attended with me, but it turned into more of an accusation match than anything. I have even seriously contemplated setting up my own business so that I could bring in the much needed income, whilst avoiding the social "issue". This however, takes time, and capital. I am going to go back to the doctor to see if I can go back onto the antidepressants. I am wary however, because I know just how drowsy they made me before.

My mind flits from one thing to another; I cannot concentrate on anything and become bored so easily. I have no interest in anything. All I want to do is sleep; because there I do not have to deal with all the c**p going on. I am always bursting into tears which just invites "hard" comments such as "what you crying for??" from my mother.

My mother and I are at loggerheads; we used to be so close, but now that's gone. I also feel I cannot forgive her for not believing me and my condition; especially as it has gone on for so long now. My father, as I said before, has passed away, and we were never close anyway because of the abuse I suffered as a child. I have no brothers or sisiters. I have friends yes, and one or two I have had for life. They do not know about my conditions as I put up the "facade" so common with mental health issues. I am afraid that if I told them then I would lose them too.

I so want to sort all this out; to lead a "normal" life. There is a history of mental illness on my father's side and my relatives there; (who I have nothing to do with beacuse of a dispute over my father's funeral), are all signed off with mental illness. I do not want that kind of life. I want to be successful; which I believe I can be - if only I can get the support I need.

At the moment I feel isolated and incredibly lonely.

I am sorry if this sounds like a sob-story; it is not meant as one - it's literally how I feel.
Also sorry it's so long.

I just wondered if anyone could offer me any advice?

Thanks
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Offline sprintingthruthedais yfields
Subject: am i a nutcase
Date: May 07, 2008 10:58
Mood: Awake
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I am so confused as to my state of mental health. I have been diagnosed with BPD, OCD, anxiety/panic atttacks, mild agoraphobia and paranoia. I walked in to see my gp and he figured this all out in an hour (a bit rich if u ask me). I think i may more likely hav bipolar as my father did. Well heres a list of my symptoms. I have erratic moods ranging from a really suicidal low in which i draw up of a list of the people i hate and how there going to die-to a high where i feel like im on drugs (only tried them once) Ialso hav another mood where i am violent, abusive and i phisically abuse my partner, inc. threatning him with knives and suck. Sometimes I hear voices and tune out and i think all my friends are in the room with me and start talking to them. theres also the voices i talk to when im angry, like my inner concience.I ve found myself wandering the streets in a daze and not nowing how i got there. Sorry for the long blog, but i really need help!!!!!!!

 

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Offline Ultra Nova
Subject: hello
Date: May 01, 2008 08:26
Mood: Anxious
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Hello everyone. I am 22 years old and suffer from depression and anxiety. I always knew as a kid that i wasnt as energetic and happy as other kids but i never thought about depression until last year. I started really feeling liek the pits, I was irrational and iritable all the time. I started eating less, sleeping more and pretty much became a hermit. I started having thoughts of dying. I was so wrapped up in everything i didnt realise most of my actions. One day i caught myself looking through the bathroom to see what meds i had lying around. I went to the doctor(after many fights with my bf about it) and went on soem anti-deppressants. They floored me....couldnt sleep and just felt like shit all the time. I finally had a break down and ended up in the emergency ward at the hospital. I stayed for 5 weeks...I came out feeling no better just more aware of what thoughts were in my mind. 

I am hoping to meet people on here that i can speak freely to and someone that can understand how it feels and how bad you hurt sometimes.  I thought most people understood alittle about depression but my bf and my family doesnt understand how hard it is to get up somedays or why i cant sleep. Sometimes i dont have the energy or the drive to get up and even make a sandwich, wash the dishes or even do my makeup. I look forward to talking with people that have similar feeling and experieces

Happy Trails!

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Offline bigmama
Subject: lonliness
Date: Apr 08, 2008 21:31
Mood: Stressed
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i am new to this site as of today. Im a bit weary about expressing myself but im tring... I was diagnosed a little over a yr ago with manicdepression/bipolar homicidal/suicidal tendencies, add, anxiety, schitz. i lost my job, my house and my husband 3 yrs ago, because of all of this... i struggle everyday to get through the day. Last january i tried to take my life. lucky for me i had a man who loved me and stood by my side.. I didnt care about my kids, my life, my house or anything. I snapped at everyone, yelled and screamed and had horrible fits...  he found me unconsious and unresonsive.  I took a bottle of klopins and serequill hopin to end my life.. I was then hospitalized.. Now i struggle every day to try and find the right meds to take.. it is a real fight, because ive been off my meds for 2 months and cant afford them... So i am going without, and struggling to deal with this, i dont sleep, have anxiety attacks, have manic episodes and dont no what to do.. I am going through the stage of taking my meds, and feeling better and them not taking them again.. Ive been hospitalized twice this passed yr.. finally found a med that helps with the bipolar and m insurance wont cover it,, now what i have to start all over again,, will i ever get this staightened out will i get the right meds? this is horrible feeling hopeless and worthless and aloone..

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