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Paranoia
Posted Monday March 31 2008, 9:41 pm
For a few years now, I have suffered from paranoia. It has been controlling my life, and it is annoying. Some examples are:
1. I am terrified of germs. If I leave a water bottle in my room even for 5 minutes, and I come back to get a sip, I wont drink it- in fear that someone else has sipped out of it. This even happens when I am home alone.
2. At night, I wake up and go to the door and turn the knob twelve times, and then I push the lock back and forth for one minute.
There are also other odd things I do, but that is beside the point. I was wondering, is it paranoia? How can I control it, so it does not control me?
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pessimist
Posted Monday March 31 2008, 4:43 pm
well i have finally come to terms that im a pessimist, and i hate it. but i really can not help it.
1)i REALLY dislike where i live and everyone who lives in it. even my friends. theyre definately the best here for me, but im usually unhappy when i am with themm.
2)i either bring everyone else down or bottle my problems up and become really moody. i am a moody person in general i guess. every little thing bothers me.
3)i have some things from my past that i cant let go of. i dont know how.
so i guess my question is :
with all of these problems that i can not avoid or change, how do i become a happier person? i am trying really hard to let go of my problems from my past. i am tryi...
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Angry and sad
Posted Monday March 31 2008, 12:35 am
I have a co worker who described me as a manic depressive (her husband is one) I get angry at the drop of a pin I yell throw stuff break things and ive even hurt myself before. I can be perfectly happy one second and then find that my hair brush was moved and be extremely ticked. I have just put off going to the doctor thinking that I'm just simply depressed moving out of state away from my family. I most of the time im worried and I feel like I can't breathe. If I am manic depressive is there any other way to get better other than medication? Or should I just go, I just don't want to be bound to a pill and rely on it for a good day but I don't want to lose my boyfriend (who has been sweet and patient with me)
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a couple promise gone
Posted Sunday March 30 2008, 12:41 am
A man who was married lie to me that he is single and said he will marry me and plan to marry me, therefore one night we have intercourse.
Then, due to his personal matters done before, he was jailed for two weeks.
He did lie to me in the very beginning that the case was not a criminal case. In fact it was a criminal case and he was the offender of the case.
When i visit him during his imprisonment, i found that he was married and i met his wife and talk to her for 10 hours, in fact it was his wife helping him to find the victims like me, to "feed" her husband, she provide the account for him to lie that it was his bank account etc..
i loved him so much and he wrote a letter to me that he will marry m...
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crying and depressing
Posted Saturday March 29 2008, 11:34 pm
im so depressed. and i want to cry but i hate people asking me whats wrong. i bottle it all up. and my brother is the reason. my brothers all reason for pretty much all my depression. its to the point to where it hurts everywhere. but i pretend to be happy and i just forget about it. and be happy. but it hurts. and my brother doesnt help at all. and i snap rubber bands on my wrist.
it hurts inside. but i cant tell anyone.
-Depressed
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friend and mom
Posted Saturday March 29 2008, 5:52 pm
i cant see my best friend ever again. except school but were going to different schools next year... so never again and if she goes some where, i cant. we're in the same group of friends and i can never go with them. my mom always screams and yells at me on how much she hates her. all because she made my neighbor and my mom get in a fight over stupid shit, and she says shes disrespectful but shes not. the last time my mom saw here was like a month or two ago. my mom says so much bad stuff about her and she ends up thinking its totally worse or something thats not. i say anything about it and she yells at me then i end up pissed off and cryin for the rest of the day. well my friend is the only person to really understand me. we get along so ...
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contacts
Posted Friday March 28 2008, 12:39 pm
i need to know how to convince my mom to get me contacts early.
she said i could have them if i wore my glasses consecutively for a year, which is going to be in november. but i just hate glasses, and they limit me to what i can do. i cant join sports teams at school because of my glasses, and they just make me feel really self conscious and i hate them. so my question is, how do i convince her to let me get them before summer instead of in november? thanksss.
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Posted Friday March 28 2008, 10:07 am
17/F This morning at school: I sang a song with my choir for an audience... No idea why, but my legs started shaking like crazy and it looked like I was having a seizure. I don't understand why this is happening. I'm comfortable with my singing ability, so what are ways to prevent this from happening again?
Also, this happens often when I'm singing and my knees were not locked.
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eyebrows
Posted Thursday March 27 2008, 8:14 pm
i pull out my eyebrows, and eyelashes, but right now it's msotly my eyebrows. its supposedly a disease linked to OCD, but my mom claims i dont have it. ive been battling this for 5 years, it lowers my self esteem, and i'm pretty positive i have it. my eyebrows, they have like patches without hair, so i like color them in i guess with thick eyeliner pencil, so it doesn't look ridiculously fake, but still it's weird. please don't judge me for this, its something i REALLY want to overcome, but how? i want to gain confidence and live my life *with* eyelashes and eyebrows, and not having to worry.
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Eating disorder?
Posted Thursday March 27 2008, 7:48 pm
My sister has really strange eating habits, but it doesn't sound like an eating disorder that I have heard of. She eats less than 100 calories for breakfast. At school she eats grapes for lunch and throws away her sandwich. She tries not to let anyone see her do it, but I have seen her do it all week. At supper, she eats normally because my parents saw that she wasn't eating as much and she doesn't want them to know.
One day at lunch I saw her eating half of her sandwich. But when we got home, I heard her trying to make herself throw up in the bathroom. She didn't succeed, but maybe that's because she is afraid of throwing up.
Maybe I am making too much of things, but what does this sound like to you? Any help is appreciated. :)
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antidepressent med samples?
Posted Thursday March 27 2008, 7:23 pm
i dont know if i have a chemical imbalance in my brain.. its complicated but is there any way i can get a sample of a zoloft pill or something? to see if itll make me feel better? prob not.. bc youd have to take the pill for a long time to see results, right?
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anti - depressants
Posted Wednesday March 26 2008, 6:34 pm
im 16 and ive had depression for about 6 months and it has just gotten gradually worse. I have been seeing a therapist once a week for about the past 4 months and now she said that i should try anti depressants. my mom called another doctor who can presribe me the medication but im not sure when my appointment or if the doctor called back. Im really scared about taking the meds. but im at the point where I just want to be happy again. Ive been looking up on the internet about the medication and it says some of the side affects is weight gain. I really dont want to gain weight since im self concious to begin with. Are all anti depressents commonly diagnosed to teens have this side affect? if it comes down to it i dont know what i shou...
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anxiety attack
Posted Wednesday March 26 2008, 10:38 am
Is there a difference between anxiety attacks and panic attacks? also, is it possible to wake up in the middle of the night for no reason having one? Thanks!
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what does having bulima do to my body?
Posted Wednesday March 26 2008, 6:32 am
iam having trouble iam over weight but have managed to lose 40kgs but have about 30 kgs to go and just cant get my head around losing the rest i also have bulimia so can sombody please help me with a few words to try and get back on track and what does having bulima do to my body
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I dont know what to put this under.
Posted Tuesday March 25 2008, 11:23 pm
ok so im tired of being someone im not. im not a prepy joke. but id rather be myself. the EMO joke. who has prepy friends. and i just figured out im tireing to be something im not. but i dont know how to cross all the way. because my friends wont like it. and im scared of what my mom and my family will think. and what her friends will think.... and i just want my brother to leave me alone about it all...
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is it okay
Posted Tuesday March 25 2008, 3:33 pm
is it okay if i distract myself from my problems. im unhappy, but im trying to distract my mind, but i feel like im going to end up even more unhappy. but ive been unhappy since a few months ago, so im trying out this method. i figure its at least temporary partial happiness. what do you think about the method? is it worse then letting myself soak in my problems? ive been doing that since my problems started, and theyre not going away. should i continue distracting my mind instead of what i have been doing?
and does this question even make sense? lol
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Hair lengths
Posted Sunday March 23 2008, 11:19 pm
kay this is kind of a wierd question> but i have heard that if you cuz your private area hair or like shave it that it will grow back faster,
is this actually true?
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period colors
Posted Saturday March 22 2008, 7:22 pm
kat,i looked at the question about brown blood on a nother girls question, and it said old blood, wellw hat if it is on the tampon also, not like when i pee tho? is that still normal?
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going crazy about secrets i know i should keep
Posted Saturday March 22 2008, 6:28 pm
(not sure if this is in the right section sorry if not)
Have you ever done somthing so bad it grinds away at your consciounce and mind for days on end? i have that right now because i did something i probably shouldnt have and now i have that sort of manic nerveous feeling because i know that no one will find out if i dont say, but i want to say so badly to a freind just so i can ease some pressuere or somthing but i dont know if i can trust any one i know except for people i dont know koz i know they wont tell any one and then it wont get passed around... i think i just found out what paranoia feels like. aah hell, any one got any tips to cope with this sort of thing i'v been like it for like 3 days now
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Bipolar Disorder
Posted Friday March 21 2008, 8:31 pm
i'm doing research for psychology on bipolar disorder so can anyone explain to me the difference between a manic episode and a hypomanic episode? thanks so so so much
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