/mental/ - Mental Health, Illnesses and Disorders

I've been diagnosed with many mental disorders.

I'll give you a list:

Aspergers

Schizotypal (Once they thought it was Schizophrenia)

Narcissism

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

Why does nobody believe me that I was born here to save the world?

>You have reached level 84 on the Goldberg scale.

Get on my fucking level plebs.

>depression & anxiety

200mg time-release 5htp daily

Meditation

Support people I keep posted about progress

Being in control of my sleep

Being in control of neurotic habits

Going out a lot

Spending time around other people at night

Making things

Lists

Concept maps

Keeping assholes out of my life

Tbh I do all this stuff but I still am a legitimate risk to my own safety

>Depression

used to heavily self medicate with alcohol. Now I'm pretty much sober, going to therapy and on ADs. It still gets pretty rough at times, but there have been small changes.

>flag related

Still haven't found a coping mechanism.

>Schizoid Personality Disorder

Give zero fucks

>>6567

>depression

do 2edgy4u stuff to make myself less mediocre of a person

>borderline autism

nothing, I can pass for normal as long as I dont try to have friends which I dont really care about so its all good there

>can never fucking sleep

take ball-tripping amounts of benedryl the fucked up dreams have stopped coming

>anxiety

I blink my eyes for longer and with less time between blinks for around 10 seconds

Paranoid Schizophrenia

Major Depression

Take my meds as prescribed. Got a job.

Living the good life.

>mfw I feel better nowadays than before my illness broke out 5 years ago

Thanks Obama <3

>>6567

>Social Anxiety.

Not going outside. Being a NEET living with my parents, and having no friends makes it easy.

>Bipolar Maniac Episode

There's no way I can cope with them. Anyway, when I go maniac I don't see any problem.

I hate the idea of going maniac because depression will hit once the maniac episode is gone, and even when the depression episode is gone, guilty will remain. I try to avoid any external stimulus that can make me go maniac. The best way to achieve that is not thinking in what I'd like to do (doing creative stuff and having friends) and not browsing internet, except for downloading music and two chans.

>Everyday (depression and anhedonia mainly) [afaik, not really a disorder, but my "normal" state since four years ago]

Avoid thinking in the future or the past (easier said than done). Trying to lying on the bed in the dark as much as possible while daydreaming (about suicide, having a dog, being homeless…) or listening music. For me, sitting is the hell since I start feeling guilty and anxious and despair overflows me. I'm on SSRIs now, but they don't make me any better.

>Bipolar Depression Episode

Like above, with the difference I can't control my thoughts at all. So lying on the bed doesn't really help me…

I heard dissociative drugs (keta, dxm) really cut depression (you shouldn't take while being on antidepressants).

>Binge Eating

Buying as little food as possible, and avoid stuff ready to eat like cheese, ham, jam, honey, cookies…

I'm living with my parents now, they are the ones who do the purchases and they buy whatever they want (I think it'll make it easy if I told about my condition, but I can't).

Again, SSRIs should help me but they don't.

>Obsessive–compulsive personality disorder

I don't care. It was a issue only when I worked (I need to fix a lot of things before being able to work again, so I'm fine with it). I wasn't diagnosed back then. I didn't even see this as a problem itself (I though the problem was the other people and my social anxiety). I'm not even sure if it could be considered a disorder (and I think my psychiatrist thinks the same).

>Social Anxiety

I don't leave my studio other than for grocery shopping and visiting my parents (=my only social contacts).

>Anhedonia

Lots of alcohol so I can enjoy playing games/watching movies/listening to music.

>"depression" (not an actual depression, just feeling like shit

Lots of alcohol.

>Insomnia

I'm prescribed 1 anti-depressant and two anti-psychotics but I only use them as a sleeping aid a few times a week.

>Alcohol abuse

Beta blockers against the anxiety every minute I'm sober during weeks of heavy drinking. And I just ordered benzos from the internet, that should help me stop drinking completely.

Schizoaffective.

Mania, depression, constant low-level hallucinations and esoteric beliefs that others see as delusions, psychosis escalates when at the far ends of the mood scale

Asperger's/HFA

Bad when I was young - food neophobia, extreme tantrums, excessive focus on petty things (had a room absolutely fucking packed with Pokemon memorabilia at one point) - but these days I just talk quickly and stim a bit,

EDNOS

I'm a recently weight-restored anorectic, so I get this label.

Oh, yes, I forgot, as I guess it's a disorder:

Benzo and opiate abuse

Started when I was quite young and scripted temazepam for sleep, opie thing came in later when family members were scripted them, haven't done any for about two months(? my grasp on time is terrible, aspie shit) and am tapering off the benzos. Nobody knoes about the opies so I just withdrew on my own. That's mostly over now.

Does anyone have BPD and how cope?

Anxiety, but not just social situations. I'm constantly anxious or stressed out.

Depression. Enough said.

I talk alone a lot. Sometimes I imagine there are other people speaking with me and speak back. Not really a mental illness; I don't hear any voices, know there's no one there, or anything of that sort. I'm just lonely and a shut-in. lel

>>6567

> Aspergers

I have learned to read people in some situations, and turned the pattern recognition into a tool for dealing with social crap.

Otherwise, I cultivate an aloof, quiet persona that tends to make people back off unless they're okay with me not saying much. I go by the Silent Bob Principle, and just say as little as possible as much as I can.

If I trust people, they get warned about the autism. People are generally understanding.

I seldom go out in public without headphones in to shut all the noise out.

I work mostly on my own in a warehouse. I deal with only a few people on a regular basis.

And I've learned to manipulate people to do what I want, so I just use those skills to make them think I'm a normal person if I don't need to deal with them often.

> Depression:

CBT. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.

I get enough sleep. I hang out with friends. I keep in touch with people. I stick to my schedule. I do things, I make plans, I stick to the plans, and I make sure to enjoy things. I treat myself once in a while.

It is constant fucking work not to hate everyone and everything and want to die. But I don't want to die. I don't want to be depressed. It sucks, and I want to live. I made the choice not to take my life, and I am sticking with it.

I also refuse to deal with abusive people who drag me down or anger me. I literally cannot afford to spare the mental energy on them.

I'm a selfish asshole, but I have to be to survive.

> Dyspraxia:

Careful attention to everything I do. I have to do everything right, or it goes wrong. I'm still clumsy, I still fuck up, but I haven't hurt myself or other people with it for a while.

Years of karate training helped a shitton. I learned to bully my reflexes into coordination through muscle memory, and have ingrained protection and stability reflexes.

Downside, I tend to pull martial arts blocks on people during regular male bonding horseplay, just on reflex. Or if I'm not paying attention, someone moves in my peripheral vision and I'm halfway to a guard stance before I realise it.

> Sociopathy:

I'm trying to be nice. I try to use it only for good, or to get by.

I adhere conspicuously to society's arbitrary bullshit rules, so people think I'm a good person, and forgive me when I flagrantly break or ignore rules.

If I'm caught out, I turn on the charm and manipulation to get away with it. Thanks to the aspergers, I've had to learn to manipulate people, but I still think it's a little creepy.

But I'm a selfish asshole at heart, so I tend to ignore it after a while.

I have no idea how nobody's figured out that I'm only going through the motions of society and obeying the law. I have no idea why I haven't been thrown in a padded cell as a danger to society yet.

>>6579

>All that narcissism

But on the other hand, for all the people in this board:

I consider "personality dissorders", as specified in the DSM, a load of bullshit*. These are ways to pathologize personality traits, mostly from assholes such as >>6579, no offense intended. It's a way of saying: "you are a really fucked up fella, lucky we got meds for that!"

*An exception being borderline personality disorder.

>>6625

>>6626

Interesting read. Autism disgusts me and this sure disgusted me, so you may have managed to portray what you intended to portray. Regardless of what we may think, it was good that you wrote.

>>9920

Just don't an hero

>>6567

I would not recommend using caffeine. Had DP/DR (marijuana induced) several times for several months. Look up videos from Harris Harrington. Anxiety is a big part of DP/DR.. Use anti-anxiety (anxiolytica) supplements and herbs like Erythrina Mulungu as aid and supplements I will list in this post.

>Anxiety

Supplements and herbs that I used in personal order of effectiveness:

Erythrina Mulungu,

A combination of l-arginine/l-lysine,

l-theanine (you should get: suntheanine ®),

Scutellaria Galericulata (I used this in high doses, however expensive),

magnesium (400mg daily),

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ashwaganda,

passionflower,

california poppy,

valerian,

lemon balm,

lavender oil scent in room,

hops,

gingko biloba,

GABA

rhodolia rhodesia,

>Depression:

I use 5-HTP in the morning and l-tryptophan

at night. (Watch out with these two, they increase seratonin. don''t use them if you're on psych meds, talk to your psychiatrist/doctor first). Otherwise I don't really cope well bed ridden for 2 years now, have dep for 7 years now.

>Schizoid PD

Trying to accept I will never be part of the human species.

>Psychotic personality organization

Remind myself that I will die one day and existential nihilism keeps me sane.

>NLD

I forced and forced myself to do mathematics. Now I'm relatively good at it. Only thing that works is brutal force and really pushing yourself out of your comfort zone. But also acceptance is importance.

>ADD

No advice here.

>Nicotine withdrawal

5-HTP and l-tryptophan again

>>6567

>Anxiety.

>Depression.

>Derealization.

>Insomnia.(NSFW so spoiler text)

you just described the effects of a lack of exercise. go outside. if your a dood you should lift. get buff. fuck bitches.

>>9483

>Aspergers

>Schizotypal (Once they thought it was Schizophrenia)

>Narcissism

>Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

>Why does nobody believe me that I was born here to save the world?

"humanity"

were all killing machines narcassist bent on saving the world, try tinfoil and earplugs, schiz doesnt real (ask me how i know, i have it too)… also toss the metal matress its a radio coil array