disorder
The spectrum of Mental Health disorders is incredibly vast; we showcase the multitude of conditions that affect mood, thinking and behavior.
Living With Bipolar 1
Bipolar Disorder is such a touchy subject for me. I am not sure If I should start off with my first manic episode or my first severely depressing episode, but I will tell you about when I was diagnosed. I was freshly 21, just left my boyfriend that I've been with since 18, during the duration of our relationship it's been on and off and I could never understand why I would leave him then get back with him. my psych doctor knew something was up when she had me on stimulants for my combined type ADHD and I was still struggling severely in every aspect in my life. My therapist who had only known me for two years said I had (BPD) Borderline Personality Disorder. My doctor who knew me since age 16, said "no It's Bipolar disorder with (BPD) traits,". When my therapist told me I had (BPD) I wasn't afraid or upset it felt like (okay, not a big deal) even though that was the first time I ever heard of it. But when my psych doctor told me it was bipolar disorder, I cried and melted in her office in such embarrassment and shame. I went home and on my way, I was crying in the passenger side of my mother's car, she couldn't believe the tears that came pouring out of my eyes. I had felt like at that moment, my life was over, a part of me died over and over again. people from the outside do not know what it feels like when you're extremely happy and feel very confident and you start doing dangerous or reckless things that are living in the manic realm. then there goes the crash, the crash I didn't want but needed to calm me down and put me back on earth. the only thing is this crash is fine for a little but then I start to feel severely depressed and suicidal to the point that I forget to take a breath to release this energy. I feel suffocated during this period and unable to do anything. then I have those "normal" periods where I can feel my sanity comes back to me and I am not depressed or manic. Unfortunately, these moments do not last very long. I go back and forth into mania with delusions then severely depressed with more paranoid delusions believing that someone is after me and that I can not trust anyone, not even my own family. before medicated on my medicine, I was a reck my relationships always seemed to sink quickly then I would try to repair them but who would really want to be friends with a "crazy bitch". I lost so many people and even drove people away from me. Now that I am medicated and I can reflect on my past mistakes, my moods are more stabilized, I can think more clearly and have rational thoughts now. there are times I do still have hiccups of mania or depression but it's not that severe compared to when I'm off medication. I am not sure about having children or not naturally due to my mental health conditions. I did confide in my Psych doctor and she told me I would have to get completely off meds during my third trimester of pregnancy which really scares me. I might have to save up for gestational surrogacy to have children in my 30s. In the meantime, I'm going to do whatever it takes to keep the little bits of sanity I do have. I'm going to strive to have a positive life and not let my diagnosis get in the way of me living a flourishing life. I hope whoever else has this severe diagnosis or any other mental illness just know you're going to be just fine. It took me a while because I was in denial for a long time and now I have come to terms with it and made the best out of it and you can too!
By Angel Aguilar3 years ago in Psyche
How I make my ADHD work for me
I've grown up my entire life thinking I was odd. What others found as easy tasks, I found tedious, painful, boring, or nerve-wracking. Tasks that usually took only a short amount of time I would push off until I couldn't any longer. And every time I would tell myself the same line "I won't put that off again. I'm going to do this every week." And then undoubtedly I wouldn't. I couldn't get myself to stick to a routine or schedule. If this sounds like you then you may just be a fellow neurodivergent. And once I started to make efforts to figure out where I lost momentum and what got me active with activities I loved I started to realize that I can make my ADHD work for me.
By Shelbie Rodeman3 years ago in Psyche
Understanding Perceptions
Do you know that there is so much wisdom and knowledge in the world today that if we applied it in our daily life, we could solve all our problems in no time? But this knowledge is scattered and not integrated. You have to search for truth to find your way around.
By Mal Mohanlal3 years ago in Psyche
Some Ordinary Sleep Disorders and Their Treatment
What are the Sleeping disorder problems? Rest issues are conditions that debilitate your rest or keep you are now gone from getting tranquil rest and, in this way, can cause daytime drowsiness and different coincidental impacts. Everybody can encounter issues with rest once in a while. In any case for the best addiction treatment center in Karachi, you could have a rest issue if:
By Willing Ways4 years ago in Psyche
Mental Illness–A Disorder of Perception
Do you think the world is going crazy or going mad? If you do, then you are not the only one who thinks this way. Most people feel they are living in a world of confusion and chaos. If you look around you, that is the reality you will see. But what you see is the reflection of the individual's mind.
By Mal Mohanlal4 years ago in Psyche
Borderline Personality Disorder
As we come out of an era when mental health was not taken seriously or was overlooked, it is crucial that we now educate neurotypical individuals of society with newfound research and information. Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a personality disorder that is widely stigmatized. This stigma, like all stigmas are formed, comes from the fact that people don’t understand and are not educated on what they are stigmatizing. Sometimes, even psychologists are wrong in their diagnoses; they might overlap BPD with Axis 1 disorders, such as CPTSD. Additionally, psychologists also contribute to the stigma surrounding the name of BPD. Many opinions have been formed by psychologists on whether or not clinicians should disclose a diagnosis of BPD or not. The goal of diagnosing BPD is to give sufferers a solution to problems that have been a mystery to them, give patients a solution for future endeavors, and give them a sense of closure around the problems that they have been facing, this should not be a debate, and clinicians should without a doubt be disclosing BPD diagnoses to sufferers.
By Alexeus Ruland4 years ago in Psyche
A Letter to My Dad
Dear Dad, It has been almost forty years since you stepped out of my life in the most cliché-ridden manner possible. Not just a bad heart that attacked you; not just on the day that you were to be released from hospital; not just when all the signs were good for you and your health. It was the day itself that stays with me.
By Kendall Defoe 4 years ago in Psyche
Mental Illness and Schizophrenia
Mental illness is one of the most common causes of human suffering in society. Unlike a disease like cancer, it carries a huge burden of shame, stigma, discrimination and isolation. Generally people are apathetic when it comes to this sort of suffering, especially when one comes from a good home and has a good job. Common responses when asking a friend who does not understand mental illness are as follows: “What do you have to be depressed about?, or I’d kill to be in your position.” Rather then people getting close and trying to help, they move branch further away especially when the illness starts to erupt. I use the word erupt as it feels like a volcano has erupted inside and snatched whatever humanity you once had. The reactions you get can be fatal and many people have lost relationships due to lack of education regarding their mental state shifting. Getting back to more about mental illness, it usually occurs in adolescence to young adulthood, a time when finding one’s identity is critical. Due to this timing, many individuals are not diagnosed and the awkward behavior is thought to be caused by puberty and hormonal changes. Other times people are just dubbed as badly behaved or weak and oversensitive with difficulty coping. For this reason, many individuals remain in identity diffusion, and may suffer an identity crisis their whole life. Mental illness for the record, is treatable and is no way by any means a weakness. One of the most stigmatized mental illnesses is Schizophrenia which affects approximately 1% of the population.
By Sid Aaron Hirji4 years ago in Psyche
C'est La Vie (This is Life)
To put it honestly my favorite emotion is hypomania. This feeling is my drug of choice similar to feeling spun. During these mini episodes I barely sleep and hyper-focus on writing. It's common in these phases for me to have to be pried away from my desk by my husband after writing for more than 12 hours at a time.
By Katherine Nesbitt4 years ago in Psyche
