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Mental health and or physical disorders, related or not, that happened or happens can change someone's views, perceptions, thinking and even someone's life.
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physical and mental
This shows how our physical state can affect one's state of mind and one's thinking process.
I'm having bronchitis at the moment but I was diagnosed only last wednesday. Most people were telling that it was just the flu (grippe), and that it takes longer in summer for it to take its course and disappear, and poor ignorant me, I believed them.
Instead of improving, the symptoms became unbearable: coughing non-stop, blocked nose, headaches, no hunger and feeling dizzy.
Now, I'm on antibiotics and have to use a respirator twice a day.
The physical symptoms are lighter now, but, I'm always exhausted with a very cloudy brain. I can't seem to use my mental faculties properly. I make stupid mistakes and generally speaking I'm kind of out of it.
So, this was just to give an exemple of how physical and mental health are closely connected.
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Discriminaton
Started by Marianne. Last reply by Marianne on Thursday. 9 Replies 0 Likes
Suppose I wrote that I was a schizphrene but under control or that I had been schizophrenic in the past, I would tend to thinkthat it might change many peoples' opinion or views on me...Even in the psychiatric wing of a hospital, patients tend to…Continue
All for one, one for Adderall (Living with Adult ADD/ADHD)
Started by Keely. Last reply by Keely on Thursday. 7 Replies 0 Likes
So........I have gone 42 1/2 years of my life without having to rely on any mind or…Continue
Tags: Pharma, Adderall, Medications, Big, Hyperactivity
Three weeks
Started by Marianne. Last reply by Marianne May 8. 10 Replies 0 Likes
For the first four days, I was an inmate, locked, stripped of any rights I might have had, without my clothings (that is wearing some kind of hospital bed attire blue uniform, without privacy, in a space without windows. But, in this square area,…Continue
The becoming a non-smoker difficulties
Started by Marianne. Last reply by Adriana Apr 13. 69 Replies 3 Likes
Well, as I explained cigarettes are supposed to be a relief from anxiety, stress, when things go wrong, or when you want a break (which I think are all false assumptions).... they don't make you feel any better.I was smoking over a pack a day !I was…Continue
Where does depression lead ?
Started by Marianne. Last reply by Adriana Apr 10. 6 Replies 0 Likes
To the morgueor to the hospital.Well my depressive state led me to the psychiatric department of the hospital where I stayed for two and ½ weeks. Before getting there, I tried many many ways to come out of the flunk I was in, but some ways worked…Continue
Insight Into a Shocking Therapy for Depression
Started by Adriana. Last reply by Marianne Apr 8. 2 Replies 0 Likes
Treating depression with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has been practiced since the 30s, although nowadays, this treatment is reserved only for the most severe cases of depression, since the therapy has pretty bad side effects such as loss of…Continue
Tags: therapy, metal illness, depression, neuroscience
Security
Started by Marianne. Last reply by Chris Mar 7. 3 Replies 0 Likes
It's amazing what the lack of security whether financial or emotional can do on one's frame's mind...I realized that one of the main reason why people, or myself, are feeling insecure is the lack of financial stability, the lack of $, and…Continue
Help available (follow up on the open faucet)
Started by Marianne. Last reply by Hans Schmidt Feb 27. 2 Replies 0 Likes
I have been thinking about what anchors me in this time and place. First, I always think that I am very lucky to have friends that are always there for me come high or low... But, I realized sometime ago, that I might need professional help, that…Continue
Trying to turn off the faucet
Started by Marianne. Last reply by sunshine Feb 26. 7 Replies 0 Likes
In the last month or so I've been crying like an open faucet on and off; so, after some kind of much needed self-analysis I found that there were as many as 8 factors gnawing at me and disturbing me a great deal.One obvious one is aging and the…Continue
Could A Club Drug Offer 'Almost Immediate' Relief From Depression?
Started by Sydni Moser. Last reply by Marianne Feb 10. 3 Replies 0 Likes
by JON HAMILTONNPR1/30/2012LISTEN TO THIS (9 min.) STORY - …Continue
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Comment by Marianne on May 8, 2012 at 11:22pm -
This video is horrific; I can well believe they used shock therapy possibly indiscriminately and without the patient consent (if he is not aware enough to realize what might happen to him) or without the parents'assent...
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Comment by Neal on May 6, 2012 at 12:18pm -
Horrible video of shock treatment being used on a boy in Massachusetts. This video was hidden from the public eye since 2002, case in court now.
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Comment by Marianne on February 24, 2012 at 10:12pm
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Comment by Sydni Moser on January 7, 2012 at 10:54am -
Please Explain: Hoarding
WNYC - Public Radio Podcast
Almost everyone has closets full of stuff, favorite mementos, and expanding collections of books or shoes or spices or hotel shampoos. But sometimes our emotional attachments to stuff can spiral out of control, and people become not just pack rats but compulsive hoarders. Dr. Robin Zasio, therapist who specializes in treating hoarding and other anxiety-related disorders, explains what compulsive hoarding is and how to treat it. She’ll also give advice about how to live a less-cluttered, better-organized life. She’s the author of The Hoarder in You: How to Live a Happier, Healthier, Uncluttered Life.
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2012/jan/06/please-explain-hoarding/
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Comment by Michel on November 26, 2011 at 5:31pm -
Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
Ralph and Edna were both patients in a mental hospital. One day while they were walking past the hospital swimming pool, Ralph suddenly jumped into the deep end.
He sank to the bottom of the pool and stayed there.
Edna promptly jumped in to save him. She swam to the bottom and pulled him out.
When the Head Nurse Director became aware of Edna's heroic act she immediately ordered her to be discharged from the hospital, as she now considered her to be mentally stable.
When she went to tell Edna the news she said, "Edna, I have good news and bad news."
"The good news is you're being discharged, since you were able to rationally respond to a crisis by jumping in and saving the life of the person you love. I have concluded that your act displays sound mindedness."
"The bad news is, Ralph hung himself in the bathroom with his bathrobe belt right after you saved him. I am so sorry, but he's dead."
Edna replied, "He didn't hang himself. I put him there to dry.... How soon can I go home?"
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Comment by Keely on October 17, 2011 at 10:55pm -
Does anyone know if purchasing drugs for mental health from an online
Canadian pharmacy is illegal?
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Comment by Michel on October 16, 2011 at 6:56pm
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I think mental illness scares so many people because we are all potentially subject to it. A human brain can take a lot of crap and remain unscathed, yet a few odd molecules can turn it inside out.
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Comment by Marianne on September 27, 2011 at 11:10pm
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I am MY OLD SELF AGAIN, not too depressed even if I try to read not so funny fiction books...
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Comment by Michel on September 16, 2011 at 1:44pm
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Comment by Keely on September 15, 2011 at 10:38pm
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P.S. the guy was convicted by the way! He was an accessory to murder or something to that effect. Bastard!
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