Am I Mentally Ill?....?!


Question: Am I Mentally Ill?....?
i suffer from depression but mainly once a month where i go into deep depression once or twice maybe three times a month and i make no contact with anyone for a number of days could be up to a week i deactivate everything turn my phone off and dont sleep i just stay cooped up all day long and night and just think about bad things ive done and that i am capable of, also i just hate myself constantly and i know it coming at a certain time of the month its now the start of april and i know its coming and i hate it when it happens but cant avoid it, also when im not in deep depression i just switch in constant mood swings (its not hormonal) and im all nicey nicey then i go to being nasty and horrible and i dont know what this is just like swear and snappy then the next 5 mins im normal again and thinking sorry and guilty but sometimes i dont remember whats happened, some people think im attention seeking and im not people just dont understand...i always forget what im doing as well like the other day it was 2pm and i went downstairs to ask my family if we were going out (i wasnt hungover or had anything to drink the night before) and they said they had already come in around 2 hours ago and asked me but i said no and i dont remember it at all and it just makes me look stupid, can someone help please? thank you

Answers:

You could be bipolar,

The good news is, this is completely controllable with medication!

So, go see a doctor, tell him/her just what you have written here and ask for help.

I have a friend whom I have known for 20 years who is bipolar. She was not diagnosed when I met her and she had the same kinds of symptoms you are describing. About 8 years ago, after a huge row with her bf and he said some rude things about her mood swings and how they made him crazy (this kind of behaviour not only makes YOU unhappy, it can make the people around you unhappy too) she told her doctor and he started her on meds. It takes a little while for the meds to kick in, but once they do, she was a whole new person---herself but better, without the depression miseries and without the manic highs that made the rest of us exhausted and a little wary of her.

She has been on the meds now for 8 years and as the drugs are improved, she gets even better. In fact, if you met her, you'd never even guess she had ever had such a problem. She and her bf now have an alpaca ranch and she never gets those depressions anymore that would have prevented her from taking proper care of her animals. She is living her dream and doing well.

It cannot hurt you to speak with a doctor about the situation and it could do a world of good!



Well you do have chronic depressive symptoms. You should absolutely get help from a doctor, because it will get worse without intervention. Especially since you are taking time off once a month and locking yourself away from the world like that. That's debilitating.



ray is right. But something more suggestive 4m me. R u sexualy ok? If nt then go to the dok. And if it is then change to punk 4 nxt 1month. U will out of the circle. Am a phsycology student. U kan belive me.

froydian phycology, vol 6. Human phycology-a.p.khan.



Sounds hormonal to me - go and talk to your doctor about it.



It seems like there is something serious going on is time to meet your Dr



Hi! GREAT NEWS Mason! U're NOT mentally ill! U described someone who is too hard on SELF, lacks self love, feels lonely, angry & misunderstood (since u urself cannot understand what u're feeling or why).
I will speculate that @ some point in ur infancy or youth, u subconsciously learned/ became condition to think th@ unless everything was ideally right or perfect, it fell short of being acceptable(perhaps it came from school, a relative or someone close). @ some point, this way of seeing things black/white, good/bad, all or nothing, became a way of judging urself, what u expect of urself, mayB even what u expect of others. U r now preoccupied w/ all the things that r not "ideally" correct or right with u. U now meditate on things th@ u havn't even done yet (but you could or would do). U r trying to fit "someone's ideal standard" ask urself who set that standard for u?
Preoccupation/ meditation is the reason u r walking around like a zombie, on auto pilot & replying to answers but not fully aware of the reality that is around u, nor what you/ others are actually saying. It's like driving home, getting there but u don’t even remember redlights along the way, or any cops u may have passed because u were driving on auto pilot, thinking about the argument u just had, the things that need to get done or a comment someone made, etc..
It is said "we r what we eat & we are what we THINK". Habitually meditate on all the "BAD", it then becomes a mantra. U begin to believe & feel all the quiet conversations in ur mind, thinking even less of urself & disappointed in who u r NOT. When disappointments outweigh our expectations, we feel like a failure & get “tunnel vision” only seeing MORE things that are wrong, it can make us not love ourselves very much, if at all. We even imagine others cannot love us as we r cause we have so many faults and if they knew what we are capable of doing or found out our secrets they wouldn't stick around. These lies lead 2 ANGER cause now we think of all the things we coulda, shoulda, woulda done instead. Anger, depression, sadness, feeling lonely, isolation, not sleeping well or eaten correctly, or any combination of these, will make us irritable & snappy. We end up saying things we probably shouldn't say or mean & this only makes us feel worse than what we felt, so u see it is just a constant circle that only gets larger over time.
Good New is u already have everything within u 2 make it stop & only u CAN stop it!
Be kind to urself. No one is perfect. Every1 falls short of our own ideals @ times but u CAN be who U want to be, it’s a matter of practice. Live 2 your own standard(& DON’T make it so high that even those u most admire or love would not be able to reach them if you set those standards for them).
Did u messed up this morning, so what, I did too & the guy next to me as well! There is still the afternoon to do better & if u mess up this afternoon, well then there is still the rest of the day to be your best self & if you mess up the whole day there is still tomorrow & the next day & the day after that. We have a whole life to learn from these mistakes! Mason, life is about living it in short steps, for some it is day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute or even second by second. If u mess up just learn from it at TH@ moment & then immediately forgive urself 4 being human & LET IT GO. Mason, can u forgive others? Of course u can, we all can, it is a choice we make & when we DO forgive a person, we DON"T go around calling them up each day to remind them of what they did wrong! So u see, you DO have the ability to forgive YOURSELF as well, just do it in the same way and stop calling daily 2 remind urself of slip ups.
LOVE urself as U R. Do u know that GOD (Jesus) loves u just as u are @ this EXACT moment? Can u imagine God saying "Wow! It really surprises me that Mason just did that? I didn't know he would be this way when I created him, boy did I goof up on this one?" NO!! GOD is neither surprised by what you think, say or do. U can't escape from HIM or do anything thing in secret, not even poop! GOD knows ALL, sees ALL & honestly, HE is the only one we should worry about in terms of what someone may think of us or what we do or don't do in this life. Mason, from now on u will REMEMBER that to GOD you are excellent NOW just as you are, EVEN WITH all your human imperfections that make u uniquely u. Mason is GOD's creation, a perfect master piece made by HIM! He knows you are trying and He is up there cheering you on with even the smallest effort u make, but if you ask Him if any of it is good enough HE will reply, that what HE most desires of you is a place in your heart for HIM. If u don't forgive urself or someone does not forgive u, even though GOD has already done so, it is to say that we are more than GOD... everyone knows that NON of us is.
Jeramiah 29:11 & John 3:16.
Hugs & CHEERS! Soly. u can contact at: www.SolyCali.etsy.com



I too suffer from depression, and to be honest with you, what worries me about what you are saying is you not remembering things. You seem to have Alot of emotions going on in your head, or in general. It's nothing to be ashamed of, and I don't want you to think I am insinuating anything, because that isn't my intention. I think you should defiantly go and get checked out by your MD, and be completely honest with him.Chances are he will get you an appointment with a Psychiatrist, or Psychologist. Get an appointment set up, and then purchase a notebook, and journal. I've been through co uncling myself, and believe me, my councilor was thrilled to see that I had been journaling because it just helped him get into the issues that needed to be discussed. Don't be scared to bring up anything, no matter how little of an issue you think it is or how major, or stupid, or WHATEVER....It could get you to the source of what is going on. You'll have alot of different emotions while doing this, he may even suggest medications. My best advice is just to stay open minded..... Give it a chance, stick with it for a couple of sessions. Something I realized with me was I DID NOT get to where I was overnight, so why I ever expected a quick fix was beyond me. Again, this is for you, I hope you go through with it, and you'd be surprised how much better you feel when you walk out of his/her office. A word of advice, from one depressed person to another. Whether you feel your depressed, or not, or diagnosed with it, or not. NEVER, NEVER be ashamed to bring up how you are feeling about anything. It's the emotions that we feel we can't share, or think that others will think they are stupid that we keep in, then we sit and second guess our self's for what we are thinking about, and why. You'll get through this, I hope this wasn't to long, get ahold of me anytime you want. It has been so beneficial for me, that this fall I am going back to school, and my major is going to be Psychology. Good Luck My E-mail Jtdjn5@yahoo.com



One Hell of a roller coaster ride hey! You need to own it and recognize it for what it is and see a Doctor they may be able to recommend someone for you to talk to which to me sounds like you could really benefit from. Sounds like you have a pattern forming, would just walking around the block when you feel the emotions coming on help? Sometimes having something that you enjoy or feel passionate about can help, somewhere for you to direct your emotions in a positive light rather than a negative one.. All the best.



truthfully i am just like you. i get depressed, right now i am on the verge of an eating disorder because of my depression. i close off everything to be completely alone. i hate everything about myself too. i feel as if i am worthless and not special. but i want to change myself. since the beginning of the school year i have been writing "live it happy ? " everywhere. slowly i base everything off of that. make the best out of every situation and try to be happy. my biggest problem is that i am forcefully going to a charter school next year and i am not prepared at all. but if things get bad i am considering going to a psychiatrist. but to get my mind free i am self learning to dance. maybe you can find something to take your mind off of the world too.




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