Mental Disorders You Have (Or Think You May Have)

[Fetzenfisch]

None, and it's not edgy or cool to have one or several, sorry to say it!

Word!
Not everybody who is shy has is authistic, not every lazy gamer that has some energy to let out in between sitting around has adhd.
And neither is it cool to act as if it was so, nor is it not extremely stupid to run from one doctor to the nexst just to get the right diagnosis that pleases oneself and to get pumped with unnessecary dangerous medication.

 

[JoJo]

None, and it's not edgy or cool to have one or several, sorry to say it!

Word!
Not everybody who is shy has is authistic, not every lazy gamer that has some energy to let out in between sitting around has adhd.
And neither is it cool to act as if it was so, nor is it not extremely stupid to run from one doctor to the nexst just to get the right diagnosis that pleases oneself and to get pumped with unnessecary dangerous medication.

Agreed, as someone who actually has two real diagnosed mental disorders, I find it very frustating when some people online go: I'm shy, so I must have Aspergers! I feel down sometimes, so I must have depression! I like to eat my breakfast in a particular order, so I must have OCD! The truth is that real disorders aren't cool, or edgy, they affect your life negatively in a big way, in my case if I didn't keep myself in check I could end up seriously hurting myself or those close to me, so it isn't cool, sometimes it's fucking horrible.

 

[Mr Thin]

Asperger's, Asperger's, always with the Asperger's in this forum. I despise seeing that word, it just seems so easy to diagnose someone with it, like ADHD. Still, I've no medical or psychological experience, so if they say they've been diagnosed by a licensed professional, I won't argue.

OT: No mental health issues here. Just wibbly wobbly self-esteem, shyness, the usual teenage stuff.

The closest I'd say I came to exhibiting signs of mental sickness was the period of time when I washed my hands so often my knuckles bled; but even when I was doing it I knew I wasn't crazy, I'd just fallen into a habit, like chewing your fingernails.

 

[Hiikuro]

I'm pretty confident I have an avoidant personality. Which I think is one of the most horrendous mental disorders a human can have.

I'm also very sure I am a highly sensitive person (likely the high sensation seeking type), which is just as much a curse as a blessing. Makes things more interesting at least, and it has a few features that are rewarding. For example, I have very clear visual representations of sounds, which allows me to look at pretty patterns in music while I listen to it (and I prefer music with clear and distinguishable patterns). It is also of great benefit to have high emotional acuity, which allows me to easily distinguish and isolate different feelings I have at the same time.

 

[Alkaline]

About the only thing more trendy than people self-diagnosing is people going full white-knight mode and accusing people of self-diagnosing, regardless of whether or not that person's actually got the bloody documents to say so.

It's no surprise either, to see that many of the people doing this have "nothing wrong" with them.

 

[E.Blackadder]

I worry about things that don't need worrying about, can't be bothered googling it. Of course I'm going through puberty so it may just be hormones etc. And I may be a very mild hyperchondriac (did I spell that right?)
And for those that are interested, my i-Pod corrected (or tried to) hypochondriac to hypo Hindi.

 

[Brandon237]

Just to cut this off at the pass (I'm already a little late)

Please keep in mind the difference between OCD and OCPD

Obsessing over neatness and orderliness is OCPD, not OCD

OCD is having anxiety due to obsessive thoughts, that you relieve by performing behaviors (after which the anxiety returns, creating a cycle of obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors).

In that case, OPCD. Damnit, when I am editing an image in Gimp and it is not symmetrical and whatnot when it should be... Hell. When someone leaves my door open, when my stuff is moved (it is always in a mess, but one I recognise)... I will bite something's head off Wait... I mean But the head-biting can be fun.

On the bright side my projects on the computer are incredibly well formatted. Not that it always helps.

 

[Esotera]

Psychosis, pretty much entirely in remission now. But most if not all mental disorders are spectrums - everyone has a depressive quality to some degree. So these labels are sort of meaningless..

 

[Gardenia]

I had social phobia and severe clinical depression, both professionally diagnosed.
I'm much better now, though I still find it hard to answer the phone when it's a hidden number, and talk to authority persons.

 

[The Virgo]

I have to eat the same amount of things (like pretzels, crackers, etc.) on both sides of my mouth so I don't feel off-balance.

Hahaha, I have that one too. It feels weird when there is only enough for oe side to feel...missed out of...?

I don't know when it started, but only in the last five or so years (Am currently 21) in which I say 'telephone' whenever a phone rings. Just about all the time, it's out of my mouth before I even realise I said it. I occasionally have full out conversations with myself, in which I use about two different accents as well as my own. I'm pretty certain I have some form of depression, and some other mental issues that I don't entirely know the symptoms of. Damn all that time spent playing video games instead of anything else. Now I'm a social person with broken-arse social skills.....and yet people always like me for my quirkiness.

Sometimes I'll be walking and I'll feel like I'm favoring one leg more than the other, so I have to stop and start walking again favoring the other leg.

Also, don't feel bad about your social skills, because mine are probably worse. XD I was home-schooled and an only child on top of that, so I never had much social interaction outside of my parents. Besides, I think that everybody (even people who don't know me) secretly hates me. :-(

 

[Togs]

Was diagnosed with social anxiety disorder 2 years ago, its quite neatly under my control now.
Also apparently I bear all the symptoms of Aspergers Syndrome but dont have an official diagnosis.

 

[UlytimateDestruction]

Umm... Does Autism count?. I also have an OCD obsession with being the best at everything I do.

 

[T.D.]

Dyslexia if that counts as one, but when I was diagnosed they said it was an unusual kind of dyslexia.
The report I got on it gave me an IQ score on certain areas of thinking. e.g. Processing Speed was in the 80's but my Visual Reasoning was 148. To explain, Visual Reasoning represents how well I can work something out if its a physical problem, meaning I'm very good at fixing things. However my Processing Speed is severely lacking, meaning reaction time, speed at solving puzzles is severely effected.
Dyslexia is generally seen as a difficulty in reading and writing. But because of my Visual Reasoning I don't have difficulty, I'm just slower to read and write.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

ADD and Aspergers.

My Aspergers I actually like. It gives me an overactive imagination, and stuff.

My ADD...Yeah, I could do without that. It makes focusing on difficult Subjects like Calculus 2 a pain in the ass.

 

[winter2]

I'm easily amused.

 

[The Virgo]

I'm easily amused.

Hardly a mental disorder.

 

[let's rock]

I have bipolar, aspergers, and OCD, I'm pretty sure I have skitsophrenia, and I'm completly certain that was spelled wrong

 

[Moeez]

I thought I had ADD, went to the GP, apparently I don't. I just have distractions from studying.

 

[HerbertTheHamster]

Not a single one.

I love all these people trying to justify failures by self-diagnosing themselves "mental disabilities" or some shit like that

you're like people who think obesity is a disease.

 

[mireko]

Nothing, probably. Self-diagnosis is masturbation.