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FlashHero

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Disgraphia and Dyslexia...my bad handwriting and spelling have english teachers against me on all my essays.
 

Lavi

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Lupus in fabula said:
I got blue balls by reading this list.

I'm not a Scientologist.
Don't worry, it ain't just scientologists who don't like psychology. I dislike it too. Neuroscience is taking over as it gets more in depth, which is good for obvious reasons. There was this one disorder that caused one man to say his mother wasn't his and psychologists went with Freud saying he was attracted to his mom after the damage was done to his brain and he thus didn't think it was his mom. Turned out the part of his brain that associated emotions to visual cues was damaged. That is like the best example of why neuroscience needs to step into psychology and rape it.

As for a real mental illness, dyscalculia. I mix up + and x mentally and visually (in my head I'll mix up the operations, on a calculator it is near luck to hit the right one though I do memorize the positions rather than the keys, which helps), flip numbers, read numbers in the wrong order, and it is hilarious to hear me try to read a number aloud. I just finished IB Calculus. If I didn't live in a small town in elementary, I'd have probably been labeled with Aspergers (or not, because they hardly ever diagnose females with it).

EDIT: Oh, and probably ADHD if I had been in a city. I get distracted by the smallest of noise, but so the fuck whut? I finished motherfucking IB!

I contend that Aspergers is natural variation in the structure of the brain. Seriously, there has to be a variety unless you are searching for the perfect brain, which you will never find. There are so many personality disorders and mental illnesses that the 'normal' of the population is no longer the normal (rather the small percentage of people who pass some arbitrary test dictated by social standards at the time).
 

Superior Mind

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It was weird, up until recently no-one had Aspergers Syndrome. Then all of a sudden it came out in the public eye, possibly because of the Boston Legal character Jerry Espensen or the film Adam, I don't know, either way suddenly everyone had Aspergers. I mean it's damn convenient right, especially for people who are a bit socially withdrawn, say, those who hang out on Internet forums a lot.

Not calling bullshit on anyone here since I don't know any of you, I'm thinking about a friend of mine. He's like a mental illness hypochondriac. He started with anxiety and depression which he probably has. I do feel that his anxiety is his own doing rather than an actual mental illness but whatever, he definitely has depression which he would have inherited from his mother's side.
Thing is he keeps adding new ones. A year or two ago he decided he has OCD and even though he showed no previous signs of it suddenly he seemed to be trying to show signs of it. Then he decided he had Aspergers which is when I started calling bullshit, mostly because Aspergers is an inherited condition and no-one in his family history has ever had anything resembling autism. Now he's decided he's a Hypochondirac which is probably the most annoying thing because he's convinced himself he has gum disease called peredontitis and keeps saying things like "my gums hurt", "my teeth feel like they're about to fall out," "man I hope I don't have peredontitis it would ruin my life," etc. etc. ad nauseum.

I've got nothing against people with mental illnesses, in fact it's been suggested on numerous occasions that I have depression as my grandfather on my mother's side has it as does my mother and I have shown signs of it on numerous occasions. I don't want to give it much attention though - I find that your troubles don't really seem so bad if you don't pay attention to them.
My mate though, he uses the fact that he has a few issues as an excuse for every single thing in his life and the more illnesses he adds to his repetoir to happier he seems. Thing is he's incredibly intelligent, a good looking tall bloke who's incredibly interesting and funny. He has his passions which is great and he has the ability to follow them - basically he has the world going for him but instead he's chosen to be this big pile of neurosies which pisses me off.

My point is I understand mental illness but I HATE seeing it be used an excuse. I mean it can be a burdan but so many people push through it and so many people even use it to their advantage; realising that they have this "disability" and using it to make themselves try even harder.
 

Macgyvercas

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Asperger's Syndrome, OCD, and ADHD.

I wish I didn't have them sometimes. I'm conviced there is some sort of social stigma against dating someone with mental conditions
 

PixieFace

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I have severe anxiety issues that I have to take medication for. Without it, I will get excruciatingly painful panic attacks, pass out in public, vomit from sheer nervousness, spend all night tossing and turning and worrying and over thinking, and suffer from intense nightmares.

I don't like this odd knee-jerk reaction that ALL MEDICATION IS BAD FOREVER. It's helped me more than I could say.

And I used to have prevalent mood swings every single hour of every single day, too, until I started on birth control. Ever since, I've only had the occasional bout of depression. That's it. Thank fucking god, most people have no idea how maddening it was to constantly swing up and down like that. I had PMDD without even realizing it, thinking I was bipolar or something. I empathize with ANYONE who suffers from anything like it.
 

Anticitizen_Two

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I have relatively minor OCD. I say relatively minor because it's not as bad as some people have it, but I've been diagnosed and have had to see a therapist about it, so it's a serious case. Luckily, it's not as bad as some other cases.
 

Claptrap

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Asperger's Syndrome, Was told i had it when i was 14 after a ton of tests, Baiscley im an un social ****, Yay me.
 

KimberlyGoreHound

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Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Schizoid Personality Disorder
Paranoid Delusional Tendencies
Psychopathy
Obsessive Compulsive Behaviours
Dissociative Behaviour (sorta like multiple personalities)
Hallucinations sort of like Schizophrenia

That's just about it. Maybe one or two more.

And yes, these are all diagnosed. I am, in fact, currently residing in a psychiatrist hospital. As we speak, a nurse just walked by to give another patient medication. Mine should be coming soon.
 

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real or self-diagnosed?

then i might have ocd, arachnophobia (only animals i fear. strangely, i really love snakes) and schizophrenia, but that one's on purpose.

also a hell of a lot of traumas, some involving dark alleyways and creepy stalkers.
 

Wardnath

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Asperger's Syndrome. Even if I didn't have it, everyone IRL's convinced that I do. So.... yeah.
 

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Hopeless Bastard said:
During elementary school every time I showed interest in anything beyond what the curriculum taught, I was hand-waved and told "later." Eventually I got fed up with school and stopped paying attention at all. Diagnosis: ADHD. Solution: Ritalin. I got off it by acting like a complete zombie (since I figured thats how they want kids to act), but by that time I was obese and accustomed to acting like a complete zombie. Never really grew out of that. Hooray.
Lol, those teachers must be absolutely terrible.
 

TheFacelessOne

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I have no mental illnesses I know of, but I can be OCD about things sometimes.

And I have several personalities (such as Trans Tracy), but those are mostly to get laughs, so I think I'm all clean.

No, shut up Steve!