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questions about mental illness?
Mar 10th
Well heres the deal, I have a strange dilemma right now, and I need some advice before I tell either my boyfriend or my dad or hell anyone who will listen. I currently go to a big state university, I have anxiety (social anxiety and general anxiety disorder) and severe depression. Also I have psychotic behavioral tendencies, like having too many voices in my head, not auditory but in my mind, there are more than One voice that I can "hear". I don’t know what I should do, I don’t want to mess up my chances of graduating within the next year. Oh and currently I take 60 mg of cymbalta and Ativan whenever I need it. I get scared sometimes, and have mood swings. My dad worries about me a lot and my boyfriend.
Plus this july I have to find another place to live, since I am currently living and paying rent with my brother and his girlfriend. I dont know If I can have a job, my last one I kept having panic attacks and then I tried to commit suicide, so I had to quit. But I am mostly scared of the psychotic symptoms and of what I may do. Please help, I need your advice.
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What am I? How do I talk to my therapist about this? (Kinda Long)?
Feb 17th
So I’ve been suffering with general anxiety disorder since I was about 9 (I’m 15 now). I wasn’t medicated for the panic attacks until three years ago, 0.25 Xanax. I recently started going to therapy for depression. My counselor is thinking i’m bi-polar. but I haven’t told her all of my symptoms. She hasn’t asked either but I don’t know how to bring it up in one of our sessions. I’ve only told one of my friends everything.
When I was young (3-9) I heard voices. It wasn’t like one person in my head telling me what to do, It was like…everyone screaming at once. Sometimes the same thing and I could understand them sometimes they all said something different and it was harder to decipher what they were saying. Around my ninth birthday they stopped or at least I can’t remember them then but recently (8 months or so) they’ve come back. It’s still like everyones screaming at once; almost never saying the same thing. I also started having these visions of sorts. almost hallucinations but not as vivid as everyone says they are. I can feel them but I can’t see them like there right in front of me but I see them in my head, if that makes sense? They really scare me. I can’t go to sleep at night because I can’t close my eyes because in my head theres this little bald man that sits at the edge of my bed with just his eyes peeking over and watches me. I have to open them to make sure he’s not really there.
Is this just because of my Anxiety or is it something more? Do I need to tell me therapist and if so, How do I tell her?
Thanks so much for your answers. they mean allot to me. I’m really kind of scared.
Thanks So Much guys! I had Anxiety before the voices and visions so I don’t think they caused it but schizophrenia can cause panic attacks. We will see, I guess. I don’t have a problem telling her and I don’t have a problem with people knowing, but I don’t want to freak my parents out. There having issues with the possibility of Bi-polar. I just didn’t know how to approach it. Just come out blunt and say it or…. I just didn’t know. My next app. is tomorrow morning, I guess i’ll tell her then. Thanks so much, again!
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Please, i Really could use some advice, mental illness with new symptoms?
Feb 15th
I am a 20 year old female, whom has a history of mental illness and alcoholism along with some substance abuse (nothing hard mainly benzo popper) I have been clean and sober since october 17th 2009, i am actively being treated for Borderline Personality Disorder, Bi-polar disorder, and a general anxiety disorder. I am not looking for a diagnoses because i will see my therapist on wednesday just looking for some advice, maybe someone who is experienced in all of this. anyway im experiencing symptoms, such as paranoia (feeling as if someone is watching me, standing behind me,even in large crowds, etc) also some auditory hallucinations (im hearing mice and laughter.. not all the time mostly at night) it wakes me up and i start panicking and wake my poor fiance who hears nothing. Ive never ever experienced these things before. im also having very vivid nightmare where im being killed or in dangerous situations and wake up feeling like they’re so real and again start to panic. when im feeling paranoid im feeling in danger as if someone is going to hurt me. i don’t want to believe these things and my head is telling me they’re ridiculous but my feelings are very strong. I lead a very normal life other than these things, i dont work and am under a bit of stress financially but have been for a long time, also i am 60 mgs of celexa once a day if that helps, im just looking for some advice and maybe just some words something to grab onto. thanks everyone
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History of mental illness, new occurring symptoms, needing some advice?
Feb 9th
I am a 20 year old female, whom has a history of mental illness and alcoholism along with some substance abuse (nothing hard mainly benzo popper) I have been clean and sober since october 17th 2008, i am actively being treated for Borderline Personality Disorder, Bi-polar disorder, and a general anxiety disorder. I am not looking for a diagnoses because i will see my therapist on wednesday just looking for some advice, maybe someone who is experienced in all of this. anyway im experiencing symptoms, such as paranoia (feeling as if someone is watching me, standing behind me,even in large crowds, etc) also some auditory hallucinations (im hearing mice and laughter.. not all the time mostly at night) it wakes me up and i start panicking and wake my poor fiance who hears nothing. Ive never ever experienced these things before. im also having very vivid nightmare where im being killed or in dangerous situations and wake up feeling like they’re so real and again start to panic. when im feeling paranoid im feeling in danger as if someone is going to hurt me. i don’t want to believe these things and my head is telling me they’re ridiculous but my feelings are very strong. I lead a very normal life other than these things, i dont work and am under a bit of stress financially but have been for a long time, also i am 60 mgs of celexa once a day if that helps, im just looking for some advice and maybe just some words something to grab onto. thanks everyone
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