For the mentally ill.

[marthsword]

From the NAMI organization:

Mental illnesses are medical conditions that disrupt a person's thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others and daily functioning. Medical conditions that often result in a diminished capacity for coping with the ordinary demands of life.

Things not to include in this thread: whiny emo behavior

If you believe you have any kind of thought disorder, personality disorder, panic disorder, psychotic behavior, delusions, hallucinations, paranoia, or out of body experiences, memory loss, seizures. Let's hear your concerns. I believe there's some hypochondria inside all of us

Let me start. Through a tick bite years ago I developed "Chronic Lyme Disease". By this point, every few hours I switch back and forth from a regular male to a non-violent psychotic. It's kind of like a mood swing, except it's a sanity swing. Sometimes I'll walk through my house punching out all the screens in my windows. Sometimes I'll wear coat hangers on my neck and boxers on my head. Sometimes I'll get scared my cat is going to murder me, sometimes I'll forget how to eat dinner. And then eventually I snap back. All this leaves me curious. SWF is a large community. Surely some of we've all had our share of psychological troubles?

 

[sunnynice]

I think the best way to deal with mentally ill is to stay in happy mood.

 

[Ryu Shimazu]

From the NAMI organization:



Things not to include in this thread: depression, whiny emo behavior

If you believe you have any kind of thought disorder, personality disorder, panic disorder, psychotic behavior, delusions, hallucinations, paranoia, or out of body experiences, memory loss, seizures. Let's hear your concerns. I believe there's some hypochondria inside all of us

Let me start. Through a tick bite years ago I developed "Chronic Lyme Disease". By this point, every few hours I switch back and forth from a regular male to a non-violent psychotic. It's kind of like a mood swing, except it's a sanity swing. Sometimes I'll walk through my house punching out all the screens in my windows. Sometimes I'll wear coat hangers on my neck and boxers on my head. Sometimes I'll get scared my cat is going to murder me, sometimes I'll forget how to eat dinner. And then eventually I snap back. All this leaves me curious. SWF is a large community. Surely some of we've all had our share of psychological troubles?

Emo behavior sucks, but the fact you write depression off as nothing is rather pathetic. It's pretty hard to deal with, when it's serious. Just saying.

 

[Lythium]

Agreed. Depression is another form of mental illness.

Obv.

 

[Lore]

I think that he meant people who THINK they are depressed, not people who have actually been diagnosed as depressed, etc.

I should go to a psychologist one day and find out how many disorders I have...

 

[Luigitoilet]

Depression is a chemical imbalance. The fact that people lump a serious mental condition in with "emos" as a way to trivialize it is disgusting.

 

[Jonkku]

thought disorder, personality disorder, delusions, hallucinations, paranoia, out of body experiences, or memory loss

Yep. All of these.

Pretty much daily too, not just something once sometime years back.



Although, I've gotten used to most of them over the years, and they're not even noticeable to others... Atleast I don't think so.
The only thing that's kind of hard to hide is memory loss, even though it's mostly just forgetting words, and not huge amnesia.

 

[Ryu Shimazu]

Depression is a chemical imbalance. The fact that people lump a serious mental condition in with "emos" as a way to trivialize it is disgusting.

My girlfriend has clinical depression. It isn't something to lump with being emo or cutting yourself. She does neither, but she has a hard time being happy after a fight, or if something bad happens. She's 19, and she doesn't dress goth or anything, or emo, so there is no "she's immature" bull you can say. It's just a very real mental illness. And while it's not as bad as say, schizophrenia or something, it's hard to deal with, and it's something we work on every day.

=/ Kinda lame that someone with CLD would say such a thing, and he may have meant what you said Werekill, but it didn't seem as he did.

 

[marthsword]

Emo behavior sucks, but the fact you write depression off as nothing is rather pathetic. It's pretty hard to deal with, when it's serious. Just saying.

I think that he meant people who THINK they are depressed, not people who have actually been diagnosed as depressed, etc.

I should go to a psychologist one day and find out how many disorders I have...

Depression is a chemical imbalance. The fact that people lump a serious mental condition in with "emos" as a way to trivialize it is disgusting.

My girlfriend has clinical depression. It isn't something to lump with being emo or cutting yourself. She does neither, but she has a hard time being happy after a fight, or if something bad happens. She's 19, and she doesn't dress goth or anything, or emo, so there is no "she's immature" bull you can say. It's just a very real mental illness. And while it's not as bad as say, schizophrenia or something, it's hard to deal with, and it's something we work on every day.

=/ Kinda lame that someone with CLD would say such a thing, and he may have meant what you said Werekill, but it didn't seem as he did.

You guys are really misinterpreting the quote. Which is 100% understandable, I should have made myself clear. Let me explain myself with words this time.

Clinical depression is a SERIOUS medical condition. I've been there myself, we all have, which almost goes without saying. Check my list again. My intent was to list SYMPTOMS of various medical conditions that affect the mental health. Take for example, psychotic behavior and delusions. "Delusions", isn't a medical disorder. "Psychotic behavior", isn't either, rather, it's a side-effect of being afflicted with some sort of mental illness. However, CLD or Depression IS a medical disorder or possible mental illness, and anything on my list could be a symptom of either. Basically, depression isn't a symptom of mental illness, it's an illness itself.

Here's what to post: any kind of illness you've been afflicted with (CLD, Depression, Schizophrenia, Unkown), then follow up with the symptoms you have been experiencing. Let me quote myself:

Let me start. Through a tick bite years ago I developed "Chronic Lyme Disease". By this point, every few hours I switch back and forth from a regular male to a non-violent psychotic. It's kind of like a mood swing, except it's a sanity swing.

Real sorry for not even clarifying this difference in the OP. Carry on, my mistake.

 

[NovaSmash]

I've had out of body experiences before but i don't think they have anything to do with mental illness. I was also diagnosed with depression recently and was put on drugs that make you feel even worse (I've since have gotten better and stopped taking them, not sure if i needed them in the first place). Also I've been playing smash64 online for a while now and I seriously believe most of the people that play on there have some sort of mental illness.

 

[SkylerOcon]

Just in the interest of not turning away people with clinical depression, I removed depression from the list of what not to include. Whiny emo behavior, of course, is still there

 

[Claire Diviner]

I've been diagnosed with depression before. I am also diagnosed with schizotypal personality disorder, which got me discharged from the Navy. Since I was unaware I had the disorder, the discharge wasn't dishonoable or anything, thankfully.

My problem is that I generally don't like people as a whole and hate crowds. I only feel comfortable when around a friend.

That said, I hate when some people ask, "oh, if you don't like people, how do you make friends (duh-huh, urp derp)?"! Honestly, my definition of a "friend" is someone I've known for a long time who has extended their hand to help me, even if I don't ask for it. People who have basically proven themselves to me as someone I can fully trust are friends, in which I don't have very many. Everyone else to me are either acquaintances (be it good or normal), people I care nothing for, or people on my "lower than 'lower than sh*t'" list.

In hindsight, everyone has some mental abnormality of some kind, it's just some are more obvious than others. Regardless, we live in a world where things, like schizophrenia and ADHD, seem to be "normal", though not by the strictest sense of the word.

With that, I shall end this post with one of my favorite quotes:

"Insanity: a perfect rational adjustment to an insane world" ~ R.D. Laing

Have fun, fellow smashers.

 

[Moon of the Strawberries]

The only thing i'm going to say is that having ADHD and depression is a very strange and confusing mix. It's hard for me to explain, but it's like being happy on the outside but being depressed on the inside all the time. Add different psychological 'trauma' of sorts and you get a really interesting mess of a subconscious. I find, though, that being surrounded by people who support you no matter what is the best thing for any kind of mental stress. It isn't a solution, but it makes you feel better in the long run.

 

[1048576]

I know something's wrong with me, but I don't know what. I'm pretty sure part of the problem is that I'm capable of assessing myself honestly, whereas most people believe they're above average at everything, which makes me upset with myself and others all the time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depressive_realism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority

Apparantly there's labels for my view.

 

[Lythium]

I was misdiagnosed with ADD/ADHD when I was a kid. :I

Apparently, I also have some symptoms of OCD, but not enough to make me obsessive-compulsive in the technical sense. I have lots of weird rituals I have to go through in order to do mundane things.

It's weird.

 

[Kofu]

I have OCD, but I'm taking a medication for it.

I also have Asperger's Syndrome, and it makes me... different, to say the least. I have a hard time understanding a lot of social norms, so I tend to stay quiet a lot of the time. I suppose that it's also made me somewhat lonely, as I don't have a lot of close friends.

 

[marthsword]

Kofu, I admire how you can be open about that. Not that there's any kind of stigma, but it's hard for me to admit that at times my symptoms will mimic mild autism.

I just found out yesterday that, to put it simply. My antibodies have waged a war on my braincells. Or so it seems, I wasn't able to pay much attention. It's possible I'm using the wrong term. Would it make sense for antibodies to attack your braincells? Somebody educate me if you can.

What holds me back the most, of my neurological symptoms is dissociative trances. The combination of daily seizures / neurological Lyme disease causes this trance-like state. It occurs at random hours, twice or so daily. My speech slows, my perception slows. My words slur. I'm unable to tell if I'm awake or dreaming. Sometimes I carry out tasks that make no sense at all, like wiping down oranges with hand sanitizer. Athough you would think this sensation could take you away from your anxieties, it's the opposite. Suddenly I have to face everything I suppress. Imagine if every 3 hours, your brain released heroin into your system. It sucks.

 

[Teran]

I'm dangerously close to having a legit diagnosis of Dissociate Personality Disorder.

But so far I've not been fully diagnosed with any mental problems, which is pretty cool. Wouldn't be surprised if I lose my mind one day though.

 

[Life]

<------------------ Just thought I'd drop in.

(Upon further reflection I don't actually have one, I just use it as my username because I'm terribad at Smash. First time I place in the money I'm using it for premium and a name change.)

 

[Claire Diviner]

Now that I think about it, I tend to pace around a lot, and have full conversations with people that aren't there. I even go as far as playing scenarios in my head. When in a public area, I tend to pace around a lot and think about so many things heavily to myself (provided I'm not around a friend to speak with or something). I don't know if that's normal or not. Also, for some reason, I have this paranoid mindset that someone out there has the potential to read my thoughts, hence why I hate taking buses, since there tends to be a lot of people around me, crowding my comfort zone.

@InferiorityComplex: I plan on doing the same. I want to change my name from "soldiviner" to "Sol Diviner". Had I known SWF allowed spaces in usernames, I would've done that from the word "go". I can be very compulsive about how things are displayed. I even go as far as to edit the sh*t out of my posts if I sense an obvious typo, misplaced word, misused punctuation, etc.. XD

 

[Ryu Shimazu]

I'm ocd about organization. If it doesn't make sense to me, it bothers me. I also hate clutter

But I'm pretty okay, but girlfriend has some serious depression as mentioned though. She is 5'2 and weighs 120 and thinks shes fat =/

 

[marthsword]

Depression causes severely diminished self-esteem, and some personalities have a lot of difficulty balanced the sadness, self-consciousness, and anxiety from an outside source. If in her mind, she starts to fret over appearance, it could be dangerous depending on her personality. If she is somewhat neurotic, it would be a smart move to lift her spirits. It's incredibly difficult to balance identity issues and emotional issues at once, especially during such a vulnerable time. From my experience, it can put you in a deeper rut. Even the depressive have an escape or cheerful hobby. Again, this is only from my experience, but it's one method to keep yourself from being consumed by emotional trouble when you're slipping deeper into depression.

 

[Lore]

Now that I think about it, I think that up until about a year ago, I would have been diagnosed with Depression if I went to a therapist.

I'm not really sure what I would be diagnosed with now.

 

[Claire Diviner]

Now that I think about it, I think that up until about a year ago, I would have been diagnosed with Depression if I went to a therapist.

I'm not really sure what I would be diagnosed with now.

You can still go to a therapist now and find out. I honestly didn't realize I had a condition myself until I saw a therapist. It's strange what one can find out about themselves.

P.S. Nice Rei avatar. :3

 

[Lore]

You can still go to a therapist now and find out. I honestly didn't realize I had a condition myself until I saw a therapist. It's strange what one can find out about themselves.

P.S. Nice Rei avatar. :3

To be honest, I'm fairly certain that I know what I have. I don't really want to talk about it on here, and I can't really see myself talking about it with a therapist.

Oh, and thanks! <3

 

[Teran]

"You are sick, unstable, INSANE.

You need to eat plenty of pills to get better!"

 

[Fuelbi]

I think I might have a disorder or two for those who are acquainted with me

 

[Rychu]

I dont know. I tend to go into a trance and pace. Then I talk to myself.

 

[Overload]

I'm neurotic to the bone, no doubt about it.
I've never been officially diagnosed with anything, but this seems to be the case.
I've also noticed obsessive compulsive tendencies throughout my life, but they never get serious.

 

[INSANE CARZY GUY]

I think the best way to deal with mentally ill is to stay in happy mood.

This is bull s*** I can force myself to be happy in a heartbeat even if i'm depressed to the point I can't move i've done it. I think having a reason to live and junk is more important. Because then the happiness can be a lie and f*** with you real bad.

Also my take on insanily anymore is there are 2 types of crazy, insane and sane.

If I want to burn you for amusement and so you won't suffer anymore i'll get asserted so they prevent me from being amused and from him to suffer less in life.

both sound crazy to me. sane is simpley way most people think.

Also by that def if you get a Hemispherectomy so you can work better you'll be better but your mental proseccing would be limited would that make you ill?