Mental Health

There are so many topics that come under the general heading of "mental health" (as with physical health too, actually), such as mood disorders, anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders, eating disorders, developmental disorders, personality disorders, etc.

I thought I'd make a thread for this so that people can come and share their thoughts and/or experiances.

Mental health problems are just as serious as physical health problems. Though it seems that even in this day and age not every one thinks so.

That is a real shame because it means that some people that need real help are still unable to get any because some people and indeed some doctors do not take them seriously enough.

Some people say I'm schizophrenic.

It may be true because my selective attention is really unstable. It's either really high or really low. Although all the other domains of attention (Like focused, divided or alternating attention) are amazingly developped x)
But I didn't think people around me could notice that. And I don't really want them to notice because they may treat me differently and I don't want that, either.

Lolz wrote:Mental health problems are just as serious as physical health problems. Though it seems that even in this day and age not every one thinks so.

I agree. Last year I was signed off work with depression and social stress/anxiety disorder but when I first went to the doctors about it they really did look down their nose at me, as if what I was going through didn't matter at all. I also think this was mainly down to my age, being 19 at the time - Although, this was the second time that I'd been diagnosed with depression (The first being when I was 17) and put on prozac (why prozac I have no idea as it is an outdated drug which takes too long to work in the first place ¬¬)
I also got sent to the psychiatrist for cognitive behaviour therapy which aims to change dysfunctional thinking, behaviour and emotional responses - I ended up quitting this after about 4 months as I found it completely useless and unhelpful.

They (The doctors and psychiatrists) refused to try any other methods with me as there was apparently not the funding or resources for that kind of thing in the area I was living =/

So yeah, I took myself out of the sessions and went through a really bad stage. I'm not so bad anymore and sometimes feel quite proud of how far i've come within the last 6 months especially i've tried to improve completely on my own.
The only problem with this I think is that when I do end up having a 'down' moment it can last for a long time as I never really know how to overcome it when I feel like that and suffer sometimes with complete hysteria but I don't really want to bore you with other things that I end up going through so yeah i'll leave it at that.

I just think it's a shame that it isn't taken seriously within society as if the people who are suffering make it up or something =/