Mental Struggles.

MrPunchia · Postby **MrPunchia** » Sat Jul 08, 2017 11:48 pm

This thread is for describing your experiences with mental illnesses/disorders. Go ham on the details? Go ahead. Briefly explain? Go ahead. Not comfortable explaining? That's fine. I'm not forcing you to.

On another note, if you or someone you love is feeling suicidal, search for your country and region here then make a call for help you could very well need:
http://www.yourlifecounts.org/need-help/crisis-lines

Knux · Postby **Knux** » Sun Jul 09, 2017 8:31 am

Aspergers / Dyspraxia / OCD here

OCD has severely affected my life, and I wish I never had it. OCD is nothing like people think it is. I don't care much about things being neat and I don't have to repeatedly check if my doors locked or not. I just have had insanely intrusive thoughts that bring on a lot of anxiety (it's an anxiety disorder) and it is literally Hell. It also played a role in a lot of my decisions over the years as community leader. horrible horrible thing.

PixelPest · Postby **PixelPest** » Sun Jul 09, 2017 10:56 am

I've experienced severe anxiety in the past to the point where I've had to go to the hospital and get tranquilizers to calm from a nervous breakdown. Also am not formally diagnosed with OCD but have a lot of tendencies to patterns that I go out of my way to try and meet (a lot of it has to do with multiples of three). Even though it's not considered a mental disorder I am definitely a perfectionist but have been able to deal with it a little better in this past school year.

Knux wrote:I just have had insanely intrusive thoughts that bring on a lot of anxiety.

I used to experience these as well for about two years whenever I closed my eyes (even when not going to sleep) which sometimes lead to hallucinations when I was overtired since they were exhausting and made it really hard to even want to sleep and ultimately lead to the breakdown I mentioned above

Knux · Postby **Knux** » Sun Jul 09, 2017 3:50 pm

I actually find OCD to be one of the most interesting mental health issues because it can seriously manipulative your perspective, creates delusions, etc.

Magician · Postby **Magician** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 8:12 am

I don't have OCD, but I know someone who drank herself into what seemed to be permanent neural damage just trying to cope with it. I think it manifests in different ways, because for her there definitely was an obsession with neatness and cleanliness and I could tell it was real. People would make fun of her for it, too, but I guess that came more from a place of ignorance and discomfort than any deliberate meanness. In any case I have no idea what has happened to her since, but I don't imagine it's a happy ending.

As for mental illness in general, my advice from personal experience (to anyone that might need it) is that the best first thing to do is acknowledge it as soon as possible and then seek help if you need it. I kind of messed up the direction of my own life not doing that. I didn't want to believe that something was wrong with my brain and my mind. In a way, I'm very lucky that simply accepting it was my biggest challenge. For me, it wasn't anything life-damaging by itself but it did a lot more damage when I was having thoughts that I refused (out of pride) to believe were anything less than sane.

Mental illness can also play a role in making mistakes that affect other people. To some extent these mistakes are forgivable. There are certain times when it's not, though. Generally if you do something that's negative or hurtful to another person, and you know that there's an underlying cause for your behaviour that you need to deal with, you don't want to try to downplay such a mistake, or try to justify it, or continue to repeat the mistake. For me, generally what gets people off the hook is if they acknowledge, apologize, and seek to improve. As a wild example I wouldn't excuse away someone beating their wife if the underlying cause was mental illness. I would agree that the person in question needs help and I'd probably reserve judgement, but if this person...
- demonstrably knew there was something wrong with the behaviour,
- didn't seek to improve,
- didn't ask for help if they couldn't improve on their own,
- continued to do it after the fact,
I'd have a lot less sympathy for them.

FireyPaperMario · Postby **FireyPaperMario** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 8:50 am

does Autism counts as a mental struggle?

krakin · Postby **krakin** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 12:03 pm

Severe depression and Intermittent explosive disorder

Postby **glitch4** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 3:24 pm

MarioRPGExpert93 wrote:does Autism counts as a mental struggle?

aspergers = autism

Postby **ElectriKong** » Sat Jul 15, 2017 7:27 pm

MarioRPGExpert93 wrote:does Autism counts as a mental struggle?

I have it but I don't struggle

arcade999 · Postby **arcade999** » Sun Jul 16, 2017 9:36 am

glitch4 wrote:
MarioRPGExpert93 wrote:does Autism counts as a mental struggle?
aspergers = autism

It is not. Asperger is just when the brain is working fine, but not in the same way that anyone else, and is not part of autisme. I know it cuz I am asperger.

Knux · Postby **Knux** » Sun Jul 16, 2017 2:06 pm

arcade999 wrote:
glitch4 wrote:
MarioRPGExpert93 wrote:does Autism counts as a mental struggle?
aspergers = autism
It is not. Asperger is just when the brain is working fine, but not in the same way that anyone else, and is not part of autisme. I know it cuz I am asperger.

Aspergers Syndrome is high-functioning autism.

arcade999 · Postby **arcade999** » Sun Jul 16, 2017 2:29 pm

Knux wrote:
arcade999 wrote:
glitch4 wrote:
aspergers = autism
It is not. Asperger is just when the brain is working fine, but not in the same way that anyone else, and is not part of autisme. I know it cuz I am asperger.
Aspergers Syndrome is high-functioning autism.

It is similar to austisme, but no, it is not.

Knux · Postby **Knux** » Sun Jul 16, 2017 4:03 pm

Dude it is the literal term for a form of autism.

PixelPest · Postby **PixelPest** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 6:50 am

Knux wrote:Dude it is the literal term for a form of autism.

This. Aspergers' Syndrome is on the autism spectrum

FireyPaperMario · Postby **FireyPaperMario** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 4:16 pm

I think i have this 1 mental struggle due to my habit of eating, called Binge Eating Disorder!

Danny · Postby **Danny** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 4:26 pm

Knux wrote:
arcade999 wrote:
glitch4 wrote:
aspergers = autism
It is not. Asperger is just when the brain is working fine, but not in the same way that anyone else, and is not part of autisme. I know it cuz I am asperger.
Aspergers Syndrome is high-functioning autism.

It's subjective on a case-to-case basis, because high-functioning does not encompass everyone with Asperger's. I have a mild form of Asperger's, so I hold all of the symptoms of someone with Asperger's, except mine don't affect me nearly as much as they do with some other people. I know other people with Asperger's, and it definitely varies in severity.

I have a severe case of bipolar disorder, but I've been taking Prozac and it has managed to push away the frequent mood swings and intrusive thoughts. I also have OCD and clinical depression, neither of which I can easily "cure" or get away from, since my doctor won't prescribe anything more than Prozac to me. He's even tried taking me off of Prozac indefinitely, but I feel like that's the only thing that keeps me relatively sane. I get a lot of anxiety in social situations, at least in the real world, I seem to have no problem with it over the internet when talking to people, but I am extremely self-conscious about my appearance, my demeanor, and the way I speak, and I tend to either not engage in social activities or I try to force myself to adapt into a sort of stance that would make myself appear relevant in the current social crowd, because otherwise I feel extremely out of place.

MarioRPGExpert93 wrote:I think i have this 1 mental struggle due to my habit of eating, called Binge Eating Disorder! :o

Either you are a major troll or you are not taking this thread with any amount of seriousness.

MrPunchia · Postby **MrPunchia** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 4:49 pm

Danny wrote:
MarioRPGExpert93 wrote:I think i have this 1 mental struggle due to my habit of eating, called Binge Eating Disorder!
Either you are a major troll or you are not taking this thread with any amount of seriousness.

Danny: Unfortunately, Binge Eating Disorder is very real, very severe, and possibly life threatening.
MRPGE93: Unless you can share your experiences, more people here are gonna jump to these conclusions, especially since your wording is so nonchalant.

Panda · Postby **Panda** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 5:01 pm

MrPunchia wrote:
Danny wrote:
MarioRPGExpert93 wrote:I think i have this 1 mental struggle due to my habit of eating, called Binge Eating Disorder!
Either you are a major troll or you are not taking this thread with any amount of seriousness.
Danny: Unfortunately, Binge Eating Disorder is very real, very severe, and possibly life threatening.
MRPGE93: Unless you can share your experiences, more people here are gonna jump to these conclusions, especially since your wording is so nonchalant.

I think what Danny means to say is that there's a difference between eating a bunch of food at once and actually struggling with a condition that ruins people's lives.

Danny · Postby **Danny** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 9:49 pm

MrPunchia wrote:
Danny wrote:
MarioRPGExpert93 wrote:I think i have this 1 mental struggle due to my habit of eating, called Binge Eating Disorder! :o
Either you are a major troll or you are not taking this thread with any amount of seriousness.
Danny: Unfortunately, Binge Eating Disorder is very real, very severe, and possibly life threatening.
MRPGE93: Unless you can share your experiences, more people here are gonna jump to these conclusions, especially since your wording is so nonchalant.

You think I don't know about eating disorders? Someone very close to me in my family struggled with and eventually passed away from anorexia, and that still haunts me today. I have wholly educated myself on eating disorders front and back, and it's absolutely awful to see people go through that. I can't take someone legitimately when they act like something as serious as mental health is no big deal or a joke, and given what and how MarioRPGExpert expressed himself, I can only see to that as a lack of seriousness or a joke.

Magician · Postby **Magician** » Thu Jul 20, 2017 5:25 am

My understanding is that all Asperger Syndrome diagnoses have been grandfathered into being part of ASD now. While people still identify with the term it's no longer an official diagnosis.

Anyway, is there something I'm missing here? Are people not welcome to think aloud that they may have a disorder? Does giving a term emphasis and a smilie have a strict literal interpretation that I don't know about?

Intellectual-Panda wrote:I think what Danny means to say is that there's a difference between eating a bunch of food at once and actually struggling with a condition that ruins people's lives.

There's also a difference between an internet stranger who doesn't even know the kid, and a real-life professional who has actually been in the same room as them. Unless I'm wrong about no one here being the latter, I don't see how it's our place to approve or dismiss a diagnosis unless the symptoms are blatantly incongruous. But anyone can look up symptoms on the internet and claim they have those symptoms... when that's the case, do we believe everyone, or no one?

But that's taking this even further than it's gone, because MarioRPGExpert93 has yet to be forthcoming with any symptoms that weren't even asked for before they were outright dismissed.

I understand where this is all coming from. I understand for example that a lot of people who claim to have OCD are like "Oh, I just do things like alphabetize my DVDs" and we know that isn't OCD and I understand that's annoying. Listening and avoiding jumping too early to those conclusions is still part of having a better attitude.