Topic: Does any one else here have mental health problems?

[Urusei0Yatsura]

First I want to make it clear that you do not have to say you have mental health problems if you don't want to. Also I don't want people claiming they have mental health problems if they don't, we suffer enough without having to have other people giving it bad name. I have Asperger's syndrome and bipolar disorder.

I found out I had asperger's when I was diagnosed with it when I was 15 after I had spent a long time with a psychologist for severe OCD. I could only have help for a month because once you are 16 you cannot get free help for it on the NHS. When I was 17 shortly before I was 18 I had to go to hospital (I wasn't sectioned, I was just staying as a casual patient) because I had a manic episode. Anime and Red Dwarf helped get me through it as I was kept in a hospital for 4 months. In 2010 when I was 18 I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder (which is related to the manic episode I had earlier).

Now I had originally been taking quetiapine in hospital which caused me to feel extremely stiff making walking very painful and difficult and also made me extremely ill with vomiting and nausea, it also made me put on 20kg of weight, I went from 50kg to 70kg. I was on quetiapine for over 6 months and I was ill for a about two weeks at a time every 2-5 weeks. It also made me extremely drowsy for most of the day. I was eventually taken off quetiapine gradually and gradually introduced to risperidome. Risperidome made me drowsy but it eventually worn off somewhat. I asked yesterday and I was told I could get rid of the side effects by increasing my metabolism by excercising. It still has the same side effect of weight gain which might be why I am finding it difficult to shift the weight. I have lost 3kg so far.

I want to make it clear that I do not have a mental illness, people who have mental illness are cut off from reality which I am not, I am firmly rooted in reality of the Urusei Yatsura world we live in (joke). Having mental health problems does not make you unintelligent. I am near top of my class in organic chemistry and having asperger's syndrome means you have a better memory and are generally more intelligent. People with bipolar disorder are more creative, there are more reasons why having this condition is advantageous. I have an IQ of 129, 100 being the average.

[FallinG_StaR]

That I know... I should be good... Haven't done any medical tests but to me it all seems good.

Yet, when I was young I was sent to a psychologist 2 days a week  because the teacher thought I suffered of autism.

But I was just a introverted child that didn't like to talk and preferred to be left alone and not take part in the group activities.

Last IQ test I did was when I was doing the recruitment application for the army and I scored 118 but that was when my brain was still learning (at school) nowadays... I probably would score lower... I blame it on porn and anime...

Good luck on your weight loss... I know its hard... I was the same (55kg now 70kg) but the problem wasn't medication...

[foxhead556]

@Falling wow u were in the army? How long were u in it for? But anyways i dont have any mental health problems but 1 of my friends in HS had ADD and some other stuff. He was on meds for it but im not 100% sure what they did. But for your weight lose just hang in there just continue to do what your doing for exercise. You can kill 2 birds with 1 rock as your losing that weight and gaining those uber muscles ^^

[FallinG_StaR]

I wasn't in the army... not that I didn't want to... but because I was still in school I was placed in the territorial reserve... but even after ending it they didn't bother me... but until I turn 35 (or was it 55) years old I can still be called to active duty...

[cata]

Personally, I don't think there's anyone mentally healthy. And it's like... I think being mentally ill is a huge taboo in our sociaty. As soon as you don't fit the social pattern, you're considered as mentally ill. I'm a 18 year old tomboy, I must be crazy. I like men and women, I must be crazy. I'm an adult and I still watch cartoons and videogames, I must be crazy. -.-'

My mom is mentally ill but she doesn't accept it because... she's mentally ill. I never had a good relationship with her but sometimes I feel sorry for her because she keeps on making up stuff which pushes people away.

Then, there are those mentally ill people that are happy in their own world and personally, I don't see anything "ill" about that. Are they different? Yeah but they're happier than most sane people.

I think that going to a doctor doesn't mean we're crazy or whatever. Sometimes we just need to talk to someone that we feel safe talking to because we know that person won't make fun of us and such. Heck, I dare to say that those people who don't go to the doctor, have a higher risk of becoming mentally ill or even commiting suicide. =/

And yeah, I've went to a few doctors. I don't go anymore because I'm okay with myself now and I've learnt how to deal with my depressions and hard times. =)

[Urusei0Yatsura]

Personally, I don't think there's anyone mentally healthy. And it's like... I think being mentally ill is a huge taboo in our sociaty. As soon as you don't fit the social pattern, you're considered as mentally ill. I'm a 18 year old tomboy, I must be crazy. I like men and women, I must be crazy. I'm an adult and I still watch cartoons and videogames, I must be crazy. -.-'

My mom is mentally ill but she doesn't accept it because... she's mentally ill. I never had a good relationship with her but sometimes I feel sorry for her because she keeps on making up stuff which pushes people away.

And yeah, I've went to a few doctors. I don't go anymore because I'm okay with myself now and I've learnt how to deal with my depressions and hard times. =)

Somebody who is an LSA, Learning Support Assistant at New College Durham said that 90% of people will have mental health problems at some point in their lives.

I had trouble with accepting I had a condition when I first had it. Does your mother make things up because of her condition, is she dissillusional or have hallucinations? Due to having Asperger's I have twice had a hypersensity type hallucinations#Invalid YouTube Link#

I should have mentioned when I started this thread that a lot of people who have bipolar disorder have it because they have had depression. I probably have bipolar disorder because I most likely although never diagnosed at the time have been clinically depressed several times at school because of bullying, they used to put blood on me and my clothes which led to me having OCD and washing everything. This led to a pathological fear of blood. I was put on fluoxitine an antidepressent when the doctors found out I had Aspergers that caused more problems than it solved, causing severe insomnia, something that I have always had. Before I had exams I didn't sleep for four days before the tests but I still managed to get a pass in most subjects but failed to get enough good grades to continue into sixth form and do a-levels (this was also because someone got rid of my notes for a joke who also had Asperger's, I was taken out a lot of non essential subjects because of bullying). So I had to redo GCSEs for a year, then when I did a-levels for the first time I had to stop because I had to go to hospital. Now I'm doing a-levels for a second time.

[cata]

My mom makes up things, lies about her actions and words and believes her own lies. Plus everyone must agree with her on everything, otherwise we're just a bunch of liars and etc.

[George1000]

In first row, normal weight for an adult is 68-70 kg. In next row, IQ 129 is very good. I do not believe in sindrom Asperger or like sindroms. Not saying that not exist but too is exaggerated and how is it that only intelligent people are diagnose with this sindroms? Probably someone ae hide interesed and they wish than posibble inteligent people be considered crazy.
In the 3rd row, as long as you behave normally (not crazy maifest like chick or to be agitated ) like mad people internated in sanatorium (hospital by mad) you is a normal person which not attention by invented sickness or exagerated sikness.

[cata]

^ that's not true. My mom got out of the sanatorium (hospital specially designed to deal with "insane" people") because compared to the other patients, she was able to live and work on her own. Also, she was fully aware of what kind of hospital and section she was put so we can say that some parts of her brain still function perfectly. She's out of there but her illness is still with her and I doubt that she'll ever be "normal" again.