Depression/mania/personality disorders?

[Big Mon]

Any crazies,besides me? What ails yr brain? When were you diagnosed? What meds do you take,etc. I'm type II bipolar Discuss!

[SPACERITUAL]

I have fanatic paranoid personality disorder. I also have ADHD. Ive been on valium or ritalin or adderall all of my life. School was really fun for me. I was treated like a piece of shit by my teachers for most of it. I was out of class for alot going to either my gifted classes or my sld classes. Yeah i was in both. It was ridiculous. In jr high i threw a kid into a plate glass door so hard that it shattered and stabbed another kid with a pen so they put me in a trailer behind the school for "emotionally handicapped" kids. It was pretty cool....we didnt really do any work and got to play nintendo and watch rikki lake. I really think the way in which we evaluate and certainly the methods we employ to teach "abnormal learners" in america needs some serious change. I had the benefit of being a highly intelligent student who was in both extremes of the educational system and those that are typified as "learning disabled" frequently only had problems as a direct result of a teachers inability or unwillingness to teach them. They frequently exhibit flashes of brilliance and originality that were not present in among the vast majority of my advanced placement and gifted peers. It is a true loss to our society that these children are often treated with neglect....pushed under the rug as it were simply because they reject the archaic classroom structure, and rightly so.

[proroby]

I am manic depressant and they tried to put me on meds but I hated it. So now I self medicate with weed and my grades in college have gone back up, but my wallet is smaller. Also, when I don't smoke, which I did for 3 months this summer, besides being sad and not fun to be around, I have OCD ticks that are stupid. Some of them make me more productive and organized, but I've found that my organizational ticks are here even when I smoke, just not as bad. I no longer go into school with 3 hours of sleep doing homework that should have taken 2 hours but ended up taking 6 because I'm trying to make something perfect that is impossible to make perfect (lesson plans: I'm doing student teaching this semester than graduate).

[Big Mon]

I am manic depressant and they tried to put me on meds but I hated it. So now I self medicate with weed and my grades in college have gone back up, but my wallet is smaller. Also, when I don't smoke, which I did for 3 months this summer, besides being sad and not fun to be around, I have OCD ticks that are stupid. Some of them make me more productive and organized, but I've found that my organizational ticks are here even when I smoke, just not as bad. I no longer go into school with 3 hours of sleep doing homework that should have taken 2 hours but ended up taking 6 because I'm trying to make something perfect that is impossible to make perfect (lesson plans: I'm doing student teaching this semester than graduate).

Weed helps. Definitely levels me out during the onset of mania. I was once on Depakote,which is also used to treat seizures. Shit made me worse. I weened myself off of it. I still take Zoloft,because my melancholia is FAR worse than my mania.

[DarkAxel]

I wasn't really diagnosed with anything, because i saw the psychiatrist kinda... well... it was either wait for two months till he could see me or seeing him "off the record". I chose the later, because i had a problem and i was kinda scared

i'm really sensitive, dunno if it's because i didn'T have a real father plus i have retarded brother (Gillespie Syndrome... rare genetical disorder... it's tough) or whatever...So i care about things too much... i'm sometimes really depressive and from time to time i have those... seizures... i don't know how to call it... when i can't move, i almost can't breathe, i just shake and cry, but i can still think pretty clearly - even though those thoughts are not very nice.
I experienced one of those not too long ago, i was just chatting with my GF on QiP about final exams and university and so on and out of the blue i got really panic about it and the seizure just happened...
the weirdest thing is that i was petrified with my hands on the keyboard and i was still able to chat with her... so i told her to call me on a phone if i didn't post for a while and if i didn'T answer to call an ambulance... it's a strange feeling not having control over my body. That's why i wanted to talk with the psychiatrist.
Those seizures started two years ago i think and they usually happen during the fall and winter. Two years ago when it happened for the first time, I freaked out my ex-GF and my mom... it was... intense

sometimes i get really confused... everything just seemes unreal and bizzare, i'm not sure what¨s going on

i'f i just seem like a pussy to you now... sorry

[Rygot]

I have fanatic paranoid personality disorder. I also have ADHD. Ive been on valium or ritalin or adderall all of my life. School was really fun for me. I was treated like a piece of shit by my teachers for most of it. I was out of class for alot going to either my gifted classes or my sld classes. Yeah i was in both. It was ridiculous. In jr high i threw a kid into a plate glass door so hard that it shattered and stabbed another kid with a pen so they put me in a trailer behind the school for "emotionally handicapped" kids. It was pretty cool....we didnt really do any work and got to play nintendo and watch rikki lake. I really think the way in which we evaluate and certainly the methods we employ to teach "abnormal learners" in america needs some serious change. I had the benefit of being a highly intelligent student who was in both extremes of the educational system and those that are typified as "learning disabled" frequently only had problems as a direct result of a teachers inability or unwillingness to teach them. They frequently exhibit flashes of brilliance and originality that were not present in among the vast majority of my advanced placement and gifted peers. It is a true loss to our society that these children are often treated with neglect....pushed under the rug as it were simply because they reject the archaic classroom structure, and rightly so.

I was in the same boat, adderall, gifted and slow classes, not put in a trailer or anything...but definitely treated like a piece of shit because I didn't agree and still do not agree with how schools are run and how students are rewarded for being complete tools.

[StudioShutIn]

sometimes i get really confused... everything just seemes unreal and bizzare, i'm not sure what¨s going on

This, combined with what you said earlier, sounds a little like a panic attack of some kind (or a dissociative disorder?..dont take my word for it..I'm not a psychologist..)



As for me, I haven't been formally diagnosed, but I am almost positive I have Sensory Processing Disorder...it's not exactly a psychological thing...more neurological..it's hard to explain...(and not really recognized by most doctors...but I've done research on my own and kinda self-diagnosed)

[futuresailors]

Trichotillomania.

And it's fun to say!

[Jero]

I'm supposed to be on anti depressants/etc, but BOO on that. Stopped taking them years ago. Smoke a lot of weed which keeps me pretty light hearted
& chill, helps me sleep, calms my ocd/anxiety a bit. Mental illness unfortunately runs in my family. Certain members of the fam have it much worse...or maybe I just cope differently so it doesn't get to me the same. However, I can somewhat easily fall back into "bad states" when I'm having troubles elsewhere.

No money is no food, no weed, no fun.
No weed is no fun, no sleep, and I get sick from "withdrawals"
No money, no sleep, no food, no fun makes Jero a dull boy.

[Jero]

Trichotillomania.
And it's fun to say!

I've known a few people with this, or something similar.
They would eat it after ripping it out.

[foomanfat]

When I was a kid, I was diagnosed with ADHD and medicated. Then I was downgraded to ADD and medicated. Now I don't take anything and am super ADD and it's awesome.
Never diagnosed, but I also have mild obsessive tendencies. Odd stuff like, having to touch something the same number of times with each of my fingers. It's not all the time, but sometimes stuff like that will really bother me.
I'm also super paranoid about what people think about me, but that's just a lack of self-confidence.

[CBA]

I constantly have issues with tonsilloliths that bend and contort my face into epileptic circuses as I nearly swallow my tongue trying to remedy the buried offenders.

C

[Jero]

I constantly have issues with tonsilloliths that bend and contort my face into epileptic circuses as I nearly swallow my tongue trying to remedy the buried offenders.
C

Hahaha, those things smell so bad. Much easier if you push them out with your finger.

[CBA]

I've used everything from fingers to fondue skewers. The only true remedy is hours of auto-frenching.


C

p.s. On topic, I have some psychic maladies as well, just don't like to talk about them publicly.

[theactionindex]

Nothing too extreme, I just get really severe panic attacks. I assume they're stress induced, but I'm not totally sure. They get pretty damn intense and scary. I take clonazepam when I get em, which basically just knocks me the fuck out. I've never really been officially diagnosed due to the fact that my doctor was just kind of like, I don't really feel like hearing about you or your problems anymore, so here, take these. I asked him if seeing a psychologist may be a feasible option and he basically repeated the question I'd been asking myself. "Do you think that would help you?" USELESS.