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Q: What’s a good website for discussing mental illness symptoms?
I’m borderline personality disorder and maybe more, I have a ton of psycotic symptoms that I have never heard anyone else describe. Is there a good website where people leave messages about the crazy things happening to them?

A: well you could try recoveryourlife.com

Q: What are the symptoms for mental illness in teens?
I really need to know the symptoms for mental illness in teenagers.
Note: I have most of the symptoms for ADD, I say stuff without thinking and I don’t always think about consequences. I also don’t think things through.

A: look it up on Yahoo search or wikipedia♦

Q: I have been experinecing some symptoms of mental illness, or am I just being paranoid?
Just dropping by and thought I’d ask a quick question. I’ve read about the symptoms of many mental illnesses, including schizophrenia, which says symptoms can include a withdrawal from society, boredness and a cahnge in personality..dullness. I have all this.

Recently I’ve stopped hanging out with my friends and prefer staying home doing absolutely nothing. I sometimes question suicide but I’d never do it. I constantly read about shizophrenia becasue I’m scared I have it.

A: Yeah, I agree with the first answer this sounds more like depression.

Schizophrenia is incredibly severe, people would know something was wrong with you there wouldn’t be much question. Schizophrenia symptoms also include: delusions, hallucinations, memory problems, irrational thought patterns. If you see, hear, and believe things people tell you are absolutely not true and do not make any sense a lot of the time then you may want to get checked for it. Schizophrenia is a debilitating disease, people usually can not lead any type of normal life without any sort of treatment.

Take an online depression screening, because that is much more common and has the same symptoms you mentioned.

Q: When did the symptoms of your mental illness start showing?
When did the symptoms of your mental illness start showing?
Did they start showing suddenly? Was it after a breakdown? What age did they start showing?

Oh yeah, what is your mental illness?

A: Well, I have been depressed for quite awhile and I also suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
I was abused at the age of 12 or 13 and my symptoms of depression first began showing up at the age of 15, when I wa so depressed that I wanted to hurt myself. The symptoms of PTSD started at the age of 18, when I still hadn’t talked about my history of abuse and it was still repressed. I remember hearing this one triggering song and I had terrible flashbacks. The symptoms of PTSD were quite sudden but the depression has been going on for years. This is the first year where I feel significantly less depressed because I have found the right therapist, the right meds and the right friends to give me their support.

Good luck to all of you

Q: Will McCannitis become a recognised mental illness, symptoms-obsession, irrational hatred and self?
righteousness?
And revelling in and getting manically excited by the tragedies in peoples lives
Along with irrational delusional arguments to try justify their hatred
And a group pack mentality
Anne S – I do hope you and your fellow perfect Mccannitis sufferers don’t find karma bites you in the butt with this.
a delusion of perfection is also a symptom – the sufferer believes that in childcare they make no mistakes
Misty – you’re probably right. Frustrations in their lives and repressed anger is being funnelled into this issue through teenage like group mentality.

A: They are more to be pitied than scolded.It appears that this case gives vent to pent up anger from other issues which have not been properly dealt with.I can find no other explanation for it.

Q: how do you pin point symptoms of a mental illness?
you know how sometimes if you have a mental illness you think you are just normal? well how do you actually pin point symptoms to find out that you have it in the first place?

A: There are professionals out there that will be able to analyse you. It will be their opinion (and opinion only) of whether you suffer from a mental illness (remember there are many variations of a mental illness – it is not so black and white). How do you define ‘normal’, normal is only what society deem it to be.

Mental illness is a huge tree that boasts many branches.

Q: What are the physically apparent symptoms of mental illness?

A: Mental illness specifically doesn’t tend to have readily apparent physical features. There is “monster in the bushes.”

These people look just like anyone else. Especially if they are being treated and are not experiencing symptoms.

If they are expiriencing symptoms it may be somewhat evident in some cases.

Some types of schizophrenia and the negative symptoms associated with it can cause a decline in hygiene and or a blunted affect where the individuals face may appear stone like. They may loose the ability to show emotions in the face. But these are not an across the board symptoms.

Hygiene issue, particularly that are not usual, may be present in a number of other disorders such as depression, bipolar, and various psychotic disorders.

But not everyone who starts to look a tad dingy has a mental illness.

Anorexia is a mental illness that comes with a whole string of physically apparent characteristics. Low weight thinning hair dark circles under the eyes etc.

Individuals who are manic may appear to be high on something.

But by and large you couldn’t pick a mentally ill individual out of a photo line up if you had a million dollars riding on it.

The assumption that the mentally ill tend to somehow appear defective or noticeably different is a stereotype.

Q: What mental illness would these symptoms come under?
I have low self esteem, I feel useless and lethargic, I dont like going out and being in public, I imagine bad things happening to people when i dont want them too, I find it really hard to deal with stress

A: It could be a generalized anxiety disorder, or a social anxiety disorder. I have anxiety issues, and have some of these same symptoms. I have been seeing a doctor, and there are some meds that they can prescribe to help with these kinds of issues. I hope you feel better. Good Luck!

Q: Can thinking that you have a certain mental illness make your symptoms worse?
Or do you just notice them more? Like if you thought they were normal before but now you know they’re not.

A: It could make them worse or just more noticeable. I’m diagnosed major depression, but most likely bipolar. I also have an anxiety disorder. When i was first diagnosed with anxiety, i noticed my panic attacks more because i knew what they were. When i was first diagnosed bipolar, i became more obsessed with self harm than i was before. So it could go both ways.

Q: How can you tell the difference between black magic symptoms and a mental illness? mythology folklore?
I mean, somebody that has Derealization may feel very spacey,,tired, weird and all sorts of symptoms and black magic can make you feel the same symptoms so how somebody differentiate?

A: If it is Black magick, there are ways of protecting oneself from Black magick. If you take those steps and the conditions persist, then it is a mental illness. Or, it could be a mental illness brough on by a firm belief in Black magick and so, a counter spell will do the trick but it isn’t really magick but as long as it works, wh cares why?

Black magick does in fact exist but is extremely rare. If you skeptics would ever come into contact with it, it would make you a believer real fast. It is however, rare and so your chances of getting into contact with the real black magick is not likely, unless you seek it out.

So go ahead skeptics and do it, I dare you.

Blessed Be

Q: Is it possible for the shingles to give you mental illness type symptoms?

A: Coping with the pain of shingles can cause depression.

For about one in five people who develop shingles, the pain continues in the same spot long after the blisters have cleared. This condition is known as postherpetic neuralgia.

When you have postherpetic neuralgia, damaged nerve fibers send confused and exaggerated messages of pain from your skin to your brain. This leaves the affected area of skin sensitive to even the slightest touch. For some people, the brush of clothing or a breeze can be excruciatingly painful.

Pain medication, antidepressants or anticonvulsant medications may help provide relief until the pain subsides.

Shingles can also lead to other complications, including inflammation of the brain (encephalitis) and other neurological problems. If shingles occurs on your face, it can cause hearing problems and temporary or permanent blindness. Loss of facial movement (paralysis) is possible as well. If blisters aren’t properly treated, bacterial skin infections are another potential problem.

Q: What are the symptoms of mental illness/retardation?

A: They aren’t the same thing, first of all. Don’t assume that people with mental illness are unintelligent, or that people with low intelligence are crazy.

Mental retardation (or whatever term is used to mean the same thing) is having intelligence far lower than average. According to what I’ve read (am currently re-reading The Bell Curve, for what it’s worth), retardation is an IQ below 70, meaning it is only 70% of average. So a ’symptom’ of mental retardation can be anything that is a result of having a very low intelliegence.

Mental illness is something else entirely. A person can be very intelligent, even a genius, and still have a serious mental illness. The symptoms are as varied as the illnesses themselves, but usually are some kind of diffficulty dealing with life and interacting with the rest of society -regardless of- intelligence level.

Q: signs/symptoms of mental illness in a 7 year old child?
nephew has some rituals around repeating things to do with super heroes and/or characters in video games, will also “scratch” at his face in both sides and then look up followed by “flicking” hands twice ….we don’t want to over-react, burt we are beginning to see it happen more and more often ……could it be ocd, a mental illness, a phase, a reaction to stress, or some other behaviour “issue’…thank you for your thoughts, experience and help.

A: some kids have little physical tics they do and dont realize they are doing it- licking lips, blinking a lot, etc especially when they are stressed. you usually outgrow that but i’d have a consultation with a psychiatrist if you can. it happens much more in boys too.
rituals are usually just something that is comforting for kids this age

Q: Why do people mistake symptoms of my mental illness as a sign of immaturity?
Because of my OCD, people think I’m immature for not being able to control my thoughts, & they think it’s child-like.

A: i know exactly how you feel, i have a panic disorder along w ocd and i wish i had an answer for you why people think we are immature or making this up. The only thing i can think of is they do not understand,until they walk one day in our shoes, they absolutley do not understand. It is also real hard to explain to someone who doesnt understand. I have been with my fiancee for 5 years and u would think he would understand considering he is the only person i trust but he dont, he was pissed at me and thought i was doing it for attention. Kinda makes me second guess our engagment now. Pretty sad huh, the only person i trust turns on me and dont support it or understand, nor will he try to. I hope this dont happen to you with a significant other. Good luck, i hope this helped you.

Q: For what symptoms and mental illness is diazepam prescribed?

A: It’s a benzodiazepine which is a tranquiliser. They are prescribed for anxiety but can also be prescribed for pain too – particularly if muscles have gone into spasm. It requires a low dose to act as an anti-spazmodic.

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