not about that life
Well ill give you my experiance on the matter as thats what you asked for. Personally I dont any mental definancies apart from logging into SRK but 2 of my friends suffer from Bipolar Disorder.
1 is pretty extreme the other is taking the piss. Bipolar to my layman eyes is basically something that swings your mood from hot to cold in an instance but can also impair your ability to live independantly, the UK gov in their otherworldly wisdom has sought to mend this illness by throwing money at it. My one friend who is completely crazy has to live at home and cant hold down a job (guy can snap on a dime, will go shake your hand in greeting but then start shaking his own dick) so the government pays him to sit on his ass to the tune of like 1.5 grand a month, my other friend who easily feigned the severity of his case is on just under a grand. This nigga can work and function just like anybody else.
I drink with these 2 motherfuckers, they can act all normal when bitches are on the scene. I say we treat mental illness the good old fasion way and lock these fuckers up and use them as human experiment subjects/ healthy organ transplant doners. Honestly my tax money goes to these chucklehead bastards to drink on my tab? Mad Salty.
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Get a top tier therapist. Don’t compromise on whoever. It’s going to be very expensive but that’s because it’s worth it.
We view things differently when it’s a mental illness, if someone has a herniated disc and is unable to work we don’t have a problem with that, generally. It’s much easier to tell people that you have a herniated disk rather than saying you suffer from depression, in the latter case you’ll keep it to yourself. In both cases it’s something you have to treat, mental health is the most important thing, mental illness can cause physical symptoms and all sort of shits.
My major issue is anxiety, more specifically, I’m a hypochondriac. Had a major attack all last month actually. Such a vicious cycle but this was the worst attack yet. I went to my college’s doctor and they prescribed to take 2 doses of Xanax every night so I can sleep better. Both my parents and I were skeptical of using it since those drugs are known to be addicting. Went to my family doctor and she was horrified at the prescription I was given. She literally scanned the bottle up and down with a “Wtf?” look on her face lol. She instead prescribed a low dose of melatonin for me to sleep better at nights. I honestly haven’t taken it yet. Don’t like to rely on alternatives like that unless I really need to. So its there just in case I relapse but so far I’ve been pretty normal for the most part.
Its weird though because during my anxiety attack, I took blood and chemistry tests and they all came back fine except my white blood count was considerably low, which surprised me. So was it really anxiety or was it an infection? Can anxiety stress out your immune system like that? Not gonna try to think about it too much but eh…
Are you physically active? Studies show that physical activity actually protects the brain against depression. Weight lifting especially iirc. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC474733/ Google it up and you’ll find a lot more results, I didn’t actually read that one but it looks official and I have read articles in the past that stated as such.
I strongly advise you away from drugs and alcohol. Those are temporary solutions and I don’t think are as strong as even just the weight lifting option. Sports are great too.
Most things cost money to do. If you don’t have money, that’s a major problem you have to try and fix first, and that’s not really that easy. But there are still bodyweight exercises you can do that will also help, and if there’s any way for you to find local pickup games that can be a free option too. That’s one thing other countries have over the US, almost every other country in the world is constantly having soccer games going on. You’re probably not going to get injured playing soccer and there’s pretty much always a game going on as well.
I’ve never had clinical depression, or at least I don’t think I’ve had it, so it’s hard to be sure that I can relate. However all of us have our insecurities and our periods of feeling worthless, usually brought upon on us by other individuals and society in general insisting on how we are deficient in some way. One way to really lessen that is to unplug a lot from television and also cut out the negative people in your life. If anybody insults me and degrades me I cut them out of my life, for some reason a lot of people don’t do that and instead consider getting degraded some sort of badge of honor, then have breakdowns afterwards. Don’t be that type of person, surround yourself with supportive people that actually care about you, that goes an extremely long way.
Yeah I’m a pretty bad hypochondriac as well, I either always get pains or imagine pains and convince myself I have something. Yeah man I’m working towards cutting out the negativity in my life at the moment. I’d love to get into sports again but I get so many back and joint pains its a pain the ass.
So…um, how long you been smoking crystal meth brah?
fresh out the womb
yeh I was sad too, forgot when I stopped caring and/or got too busy to care…
I am often bored tho. running out of things that are “fun”.
CvS2 can only be fun for so long
Especially after Microsoft discontinued XBL on it.