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i really need help, my life is falling to pieeces. its long but interestin
Posted Monday May 18 2009, 4:32 pm
16/f
ok well where do i start. i really think theres something wrong with me. that i am not noticing as much as others.
well heres the thing. my ex knows me better than i know myself and helps me realize so much about myself.
we were talking last nite and he was telling me to ignore people that get on my nerves. well i said, u know me, i cant ignore things. and he said "not being able to ignore things is a blind version of sumbody not knowing themselves, meaning no one does." and i totally agreed.
i DONT know myself. at all. and its really becoming a problem. thats part of the reason we broke up, because he thought that i was changing for him and for everyone else. which is tru...
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I always think somethings wrong with me..
Posted Sunday May 17 2009, 4:20 pm
I'm not really sure what it is. I always think somethings wrong with me. I don't know if it's because I want something to be wrong with me, or because it'd explain some things or what. Why would I want something to be wrong with me if that's the case? I just don't understand it. The second I get a headache, start having pains, start coughing or anything I usualy look it up to see what it could be. Is anyone else like this? Well thanks in advance, take care.
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No confidence in myself
Posted Wednesday May 13 2009, 10:46 am
I am 16 year old girl and I don't know exactly how to say this- but I have no confidence in myself. I have no self esteem. I look in the mirror and my reaction is always like- oh wow my hair looks so bad. Or my makeup looks so ugly and dull. But then again, my friends are like- shut up you're beautiful. I am dissatisfied with many things about myself- I have a saggy ass, I have a camel toe when I wear volleyball spandex, my breasts are tiny, my whole body shape is petite. I'm tall and skinny. I have love handles, my hair is frizzy and only looks good when I straighten it and it gets even more damaged, I pick at my cuitcles/nails and bite my nails so they are ugly, I can't wear tampons still, I love to sing but I have a terrible voice. I lik...
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Is this normal
Posted Tuesday May 12 2009, 9:19 pm
I have a baby who is about to be 2 months and she always makes these weird faces at night or when shes tired like she is like half asleep one eye goes to the right a little bit and then she smiles or her lips do something i don't know if this is normal and it kind of freaks me out so can someone please help me is this normal sometimes she does it right after she eats....
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Weight & Body Image
Posted Tuesday May 12 2009, 5:03 am
21/f
I have terrible body image, but I also despise myself for caring too much about what I look like. I am now over 200 pounds, and I am 5'5". All of my adult life I have been around this weight. The only exception is that I lost about 30 pounds once, but I didn't keep it off. I tell people I want to lose weight for my health, but I know deep down that the majority of my motivation is because I hate the way I look.
Despite being obese, I seem to be in pretty good health. I have excellent blood pressure. I have perfect cholesterol levels. There is absolutely nothing wrong with me health-wise. I work out regularly. I drink nothing but water, tea, and juice, except for one or two 12 oz beers on occasion. I eat mostl...
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Vyvase Side Effects
Posted Sunday May 10 2009, 12:59 am
I take Vyvanse for ADD and it works pretty well. It does give me side effects. I definitely get mood swings from it, which i guess is normal on that kind of drug. Has anyone else experienced the same thing? What about dry scalp and skin? I've been having that and since its not one of the main side effects, it's harder to find info on it, but i did find a bit. Also, my toe will go completely numb for no reason. I wont be sitting on it, im not cold and it goes completely numb. I tried warmning it up and stuff like that, but it wasnt cold, so i really just had to wait it out. It was like an hour and 45 minutes. Can any of that be related to Vyvanse?
Thanks
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Cutting
Posted Saturday May 9 2009, 4:57 pm
14/f
Ok if you looked at the title, obviously, its about cutting. I cut myself. I've been cutting since the beginning of 8th grade. I'm in 9th now. I stopped off and on in 8th grade and I only did my wrists. I stopped for awhile after that cause my friends saw and they sorta helped me.
Then beginning of freshman year I started again. I have stuff going on so I'm doing this for no reason. I think you would know that though.
Then I stopped for a couple months and I started cutting my ankles since no one saw there. Then a couple months I've been cutting myself everyday. I got really bad on this. I started cutting my ankles, waits, wrists, legs, arms, shoulders, and mostly my thighs. I know I should...
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i dont know
Posted Saturday May 9 2009, 2:17 am
im highly pessimistic. i can never like a guy for more than 2 weeks because i always think of the flaws. I never think anything is good enough, i definitley dont think im good enough and lack self confidence. im not very happy anymore.
so how do i obtain a positive attitude...focus on peoples good points... not care as much what other people think of me... be less judgemental... stand up for myself... be happy and satisfied with what i have... and HAVE MORE CONFIDENCE.
HELP ha im all messed up
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Tardive Dyskinesia
Posted Friday May 8 2009, 8:04 pm
I realize most of you have probably never heard of that.
I got Tardive Dyskinesia from taking Seroquel (300mg). I stopped taking it about a week ago (my dr said it should get better now that im off s.quel) and haven't been noticing the symptoms as much, if at all. The puffy cheeks it can sometimes cause seem to come and go. Are there drugs out there that can aggrevate TD or just the cheek swelling part? I tried googling it, but all I can come up with are lists of drugs that can cause it, which i'm already familiar with from personal experience. Don't tell me to ask my dr. She is impossible to reach, but i will ask her at my next app of course, i just wanted to get some info in the mean time :)
Maybe someone wil...
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am i crazy? or schitzophrenic? or wat?!?!?!?!
Posted Friday May 8 2009, 7:58 pm
soooooooo ok this is weird haha
16/f
well im a very hyper funny annoying loud person. im the class clown and i have alot of friends. i have a good life and id consider myself a well liked person that is always busy. everyone calls me crazy because of how spontaneous and trouble making i am. but i am starting to think that i actually am crazy. for instance, i have this inner voice. i call him simon. dont ask haha but the thing is i dont think of it as hearing voices because i know its a voice coming from my mind, not from something outside my body. so i didnt think it was schitzophrenia or anything. but its not my mind either. its like i have two minds. me and simon. but simon only says things about 4 times a day most of the ti...
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Mood swings
Posted Friday May 8 2009, 2:06 am
I get some really intense mood swings sometimes and they've become more frequent lately. One minute I'll be really happy and the next I'll just be seriously annoyed or depressed. I've noticed that most of it happens when I'm at home and I don't really understand it. I mean sure I get into fights with my parents every now and then but lately I've been fighting with my mom about the smallest things and everyday! I could have had the best day at school but it's usually ruined within an hour of my coming home. I don't understand why I've been getting so annoyed with my parents lately. I mean maybe it's just because I'm a teenager and it's that phase the I'm going through but I'm not sure.
And also, there are times when I'm perfec...
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why am i so emotional?
Posted Thursday May 7 2009, 7:18 pm
I find myself starting to cry often, and at embarrasing moments. I cry in math because its always been very hard and frustrating for me. I tear up when I take piano lessons when I can't understand things. Lately I've just been in those moods where nothing can go right and I cry when I should be fine. Why am i so over emotional? It's not related to my period, it's been like this any day of the month. It's embarrasing to cry over something so unimportant and I just want to stop!
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attention
Posted Wednesday May 6 2009, 9:37 pm
18/F
I have noticed that everyone has their own little ways of soaking up attention when they lack it in their childhood or something, for instance if they do not get enough attention from their parents or something some people might feel the need to wear really extravagant clothes, some people do a certain activity that gets them attention, some people behave badly... etc; well, I personally for some odd reason find this in injuries. Ever since I was little I have always really wanted to break an arm or a leg or something, something that people would pay attention to... Like I wouldn't care about the pain or anything, I just have always wanted somthing like that to happen. I know it is terribly wrong, I know that some people...
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why is this happening?
Posted Sunday May 3 2009, 9:22 am
15/f
sorry this is so long.
i used to SI (self injure) like cutting and burning myself but i had to tell my boyfriend about it. i told him about 5 months ago and we have been together for about 8. after i told him i really tried to stop and i did for a little while. i havent cut (which was what i usually did) in about 4 months but now for some reason the urges i get seem to be uncontrolable. i knew that before i tried to stop i was going to get urges but i havent cut in so long and i figured they would be gone by now and they are not. well i tlod my boyfiend about the urges i still get because he is the only person i cant anything and everything to and he made me promise i would talk to my mum about it but i dont see the poin...
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Mental Illness + Surviving College large investment worth it?
Posted Saturday May 2 2009, 9:48 pm
I am 27 female US resident
I suffer from major depressive disorder, bpd, pstd, and anxiety. I've struggled for years with my mental illnesses and last summer finally got my Associates degree.
I want to go and get my B.A. degree
I am looking at a program that would cost me approx $45K to complete my 2 years. The reason it costs so much is because it's 1. Online 2. For adult learners 3. Has extra support for people with disabilities.
The program offers me a LOT of what I need, on campus and online support, a disability services that really is willing to HELP me and shorter courses (quarter instead of semester).
But am I being crazy to think that $45,000 for a degree is ok? Should I go to a school for $20K t...
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Lack of emotion?
Posted Friday May 1 2009, 10:19 pm
Well to start off, its hard to admit-but i guess its time i say it anways. I'm most deffinatly a socially awkward person. I mean, i'll have a close net of friends- but everything about me screams awkward. Hahah, all the conversations are so ridiculously awkward i just laugh afterwards, because i completely blew another chance of making a friend. How can i fix this?
Another thing is my lack of emotion. I looked up some things on it,and i feel almost as if i'm empty.(depression?) Theres some pressure on my chest that just makes me feel weird when i breathe,and i daze out all the time. It's gotten so bad i barely have the want to finish this sentance. I just lifeless most of the time,and dont feel like doing anything. I actuall...
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cabin fever!
Posted Friday May 1 2009, 4:28 pm
I'm 19 years old, female... and out of a job right now. I don't have a car or my license yet, so it's really hard for me to get around unless a friend's around... I plan to go for mine soon but while I'm waiting to do so, and waiting to hear from other jobs, I'd just like to say I'm going COMPLETELY INSANE being stuck in the house.
It's not even just going out with friends that I need to do... I feel I need to do something productive before I go even more insane. lol
So any ideas of what I can do that can be more productive? I've read, written, tried to research things that interest me, taken walks, everything. Any ideas that aren't so mundane?
thank you!
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I'm emotionless... why?
Posted Friday May 1 2009, 5:19 am
I'm a 15 year old male living in Australia and attending junior high school.
I've noticed that I don't feel emotions properly. Sure, stuff happens to me that should provoke things like sadness or hysteria, but it doesn't. I don't feel anything. The strange thing is, I can feel anger to its fullest. I can be furious at whomever I want at any given time, whatever the situation, and when I get too angry, I use violence to get things the way I want them to be.
But other things, like happiness, I can't feel - and if I'd felt it before, I don't remember. All I ever feel is anger, even when it's about small things.
I have no idea when this came about, but I first realised when my grandmother died around six years ago. She wa...
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Sociopathy
Posted Tuesday April 28 2009, 3:07 pm
I am 19 years old and I came across a wikipedia page for antisocial personality disorder and I fit a lot of the symptoms but I was not diagnosed with conduct disorder. The symptoms I have, that my fiancé has too confirmed are, apparent lack of remorse or empathy, inability to care about hurting others, inability to keep jobs, impusivity and or recklessness, poor behavioral controls, inadequate control of temper and anger (although I have controlled it a lot better than I have ever done), a persistant agitated or depressed feeling, recurring difficulties with the law (not to many since I turned 18 but from about 10 to 15 I had a bunch for fights, problems with authority and substance abuse. I smoke a lot of weed but I have taken others. Ina...
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why am i like this?
Posted Friday April 24 2009, 7:22 pm
16/f
im not sure if theres something wrong with me. i cant really figure it out but maybe you can help. i could use some help right now haha
well, my parents act like they hate me sometimes. and i guess they have a reason to. i hate talking to them. like i have a ton of friends and at school im known as the class clown. i have a great boyfriend who i love and i am very social. i love being around people but i just HATE talking to my parents and even being around them. like when they leave the house i am soooooo happy. i just feel like they are ALWAYS talking. they act like annoyong 4 year olds half the time and i tell them that i want my space and they say im rude.
they always say stuff like DID YOU ASK...
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