StarTopic The Mental Health [ST]

[Plum]

Spoiler: Potentially-triggering talk about Ukraine

 

[Lord Azrael]

 

[Randinva]

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I seem to have Bipolar and/or post stress traumatic disorder. Honesty is what has helped me to revive old friendships. Like a few weeks ago I was able to meet a close friend which I met on university. This, after asking them out to a friendly (non romantic) coffee for like an entire year. What I have noticed is that the older someone is the less time they have, not in the sense that they cant go out anymore, but in the sense that they need to get picky on who to get out with.

What I have arrived at is that I will rekindle any old friendship I have no matter how long it takes me to get the eventual agreement. Though there is a lot of nuance in this, I am very clear that if what I am doing seems weird or uncomfortable they are free to tell me. That way I have received some old friends that are not interested in rekindling the friendship, which is also fine.

Honesty is really cool.

 

[KianStanley]

Mental health is the most important thing to watch out for in the body because just one nervous breakdown can send you to your grave if you have a weak heart or other problems. And prolonged depression does irreparable damage to your brain. Depression, in general, is a scary thing. It is difficult to treat, but sometimes the medication can cause complications. I learned about it here at andalahealth.com quite recently. And it says that this is the kind of illness that cannot be cured by pills. Only studies with a psychologist can save the patient, but not always. Sometimes such illnesses are chronic, then patients do not endure this condition for a long time.

 

[Randinva]

So the mods told me to come here if I wanted to keep talking about my trauma, well sadly I have my trauma on video (its anonymous) so I will post it here since I think that explains it better:



If sharing a link to share my trauma is okay, and also sharing a link to to a twitter gaming news is okay then I don't know why this wouldn't be okay.

Thank you.

 

[zumaddy]

Anyone else really good at putting their feelings on the backburner, so they feel fine for long stretches of time only to be hit with a wave of depression/hopelessness at a random point? I can't seem to get out of this cycle, and am reluctant to because it beats feeling bad all the time. IDK.

 

[Randinva]

Anyone else really good at putting their feelings on the backburner, so they feel fine for long stretches of time only to be hit with a wave of depression/hopelessness at a random point? I can't seem to get out of this cycle, and am reluctant to because it beats feeling bad all the time. IDK.

Me, what worked to me is accepting and talking about those feelings either with myself or another person.

 

[Tron1]

Dealt with anxiety the majority of my adult life. Just diagnosed with it. Thanks for this thread. I wish everyone well that is dealing with something.

 

[merp]

Interesting...

Why it's important to think about social media use as a form of dissociation, rather than addiction

Dissociation can be a healthy part of cognitive functioning, provided it doesn’t get in the way of your goals.

theconversation.com

I should remember this when trying to cut my social media use as I'm very much against disassociation.

 

[Tron1]

Thank you guys for having this thread!

 

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[Army of Light]

A certain website being in the news quite a bit that harmed me immensely, even though it's gone sort of, it's really breaking my brain right now

 

[Randinva]

So, I have like 4 months with maybe bipolar disorder (I have no idea if it's normal that my psychiatrist has told me that there is an 85% probability that it is that, and when asked if how I can be sure of that is if I have another manic episode.) and a psychologist told me in a session that I probably have ptsd too (I feel really weird that so far all the psychologists I have gone to always talk in maybes)
So far I have been depressed, there is some good days and bad days, but even on the good days I still can feel down, the way I describe it is like a mood that it's always there and sometimes I am able to ignore it and other times I can't.

There is also the issue that I am able to feel two emotions at the same time (this didn't happen to me before), which means that I feel bad plus the emotion I am feeling at the moment.

So, something weird happened today, I woke up and felt great, the depression was still there, but it was almost completely gone, noticed that I had a little muscle pains, but thought nothing of it. In the middle of the day I noticed that the pains were symptoms of a fever, but I was and I am still able to mostly ignore it, but I feel normal again, in the sense that I can think clearly.

So, the thing is that before all this mental issues happened to me a mild fever would take me out completely, but now, not only I am able to mostly ignore it, I also feel normal again.

Is this normal? I have tried to read a little about bipolar disorder, but all I have found so far are vague descriptions that kinda but not really completely describe how I am feeling, also that it is uncontrollable, but I have kinda made peace with that.

I have taken medicine for the fever, and the only problem is that I cant seem to be able to sleep, I am sleepy, but I kinda can't. I am aware that a lack of sleep and having clearer thoughts can be signs of a coming manic episode. I find that to be sad, so I guess I will find out tomorrow if this is indeed that or not.

Tragic stuff aside, does anyone know where I can read more about bipolar disorder? Thanks.

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[Irene]

 

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[Phosphorescent Skeleton]

I was recently diagnosed with OCD and have been going through the worst mental health crisis in my life. But I have a lovely partner, a good job, and a therepist who's super helpful. There are times when the doubt and intrusive thoughts make me feel like a monster and a prisoner of my mind, but when I feel better it all seems so absurd. I just have to remember those times.

 

[Irene]

 

[Baphomet]

Thankfully my mental health has been pretty good lately.