Mental Disorders You Have (Or Think You May Have)

[Roofstone]

Deadly afraid of crowds, I cant really be around, maybe five or more people. Beyond that I am pretty much healthy.. Though it is a large problem when going to town when I need to buy groceries. But I can handle. =)

 

[prince_xedar]

i think i have DID (Dis-associative Identity Disorder(Multiple Personalities)) and slight OCD

 

[JoJo]

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.

To be fair if I think if you had suffered and still suffer due to real mental disorders then you too would be annoyed by people claiming that little character traits make them Austisic or OCD or something. Still considering apparently mental illness affects 1/4 people some time in their life there's good reason to believe that most the users here are telling the truth, since far more regular people won't bother going on or posting on the thread only to say "nothing diagnosed".

Just because someone thinks they have a disorder without a professional diagnosis doesn't mean they don't have that disorder. I think I'm schizotypal. Doesn't mean I DO have it, but it doesn't mean that DON'T have it either.

I can't judge in your situation personally since I don't know you so this is only general stuff, but the whole point of a mental disorder is that it is "generally associated with subjective distress or disability that occurs in an individual, and which is not a part of normal development or culture". In other words, it must have a serious detrimental effect on the sufferer's life, so it strikes me how many people could remain undiagnosed for a disorder which supposedly has evidently negative effects of that person's life.

Personally though I was diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome at the age of 9 or 10, it wasn't like it was a sudden shock or anything, even from the age of 1 or 2 my parents had realised there was something very different about me and it severely impacted my life. Now thankfully as I've grown older I've managed to overcome many of the difficulties associated with that disorder, though perhaps ironically it was just as I was overcoming that that my second more serious disorder manifested itself, which I don't want to go into details for privacy reasons but I can say it's not something minor like OCD or depression and there's no drugs or cure available. Fun. Anyway, my long and rambling point is that real mental disorders are usually very obvious in their sufferers and so I find it hard to believe that someone could really have a mental disorder if it's tolerable enough for them to never need to go to a doctor for it.

I never said it wasn't bad enough that seeing a psychiatrist, but they are merely drug-pushers who get paid by drug companies to diagnose people with a problem that can ONLY be solved with ... DRUGS! It's called a kick-back.

I don't enjoy feeling like the air around me is constricting when I'm around a crowd of people. I don't enjoy that I have to date Virgo women only because I feel that everybody under all the other signs is totally incapable of being faithful to their partners. I don't enjoy feeling like everybody is a government agent that's trying to do whatever they can to drive me to suicide or everybody is working for some corporation and are only trying to get close to me to steal my ideas. I don't enjoy feeling like God has people avoiding me because he's angry I discovered that the meaning of life is simply reproduction and that everything is pointless and no matter what anybody does it will eventually be forgotten by the ravage of time.

Besides, there's no cure for schizotypal personality disorder anyway. Not like some legalized-drug pusher trying to pay off his mortgage and student loan is gonna want me actually cured. All these people want is money, not your well-being! There's no money is healthy people ...

Maybe you are, maybe you aren't, there's no way for me to be able to judge that. What I would recommend is trying to find a doctor who won't sell you any drugs, I don't take any drugs for either of mine, then again I do live in the UK so there's no incentive for medical professionals to sell drugs unless they really do benefit the patient as they don't see any profit from it. You'd be surprised at what can be achieved solely through behavioural changes and a bit of effort. If it really is as bad as you make out then you'll be glad of anything that can help.

 

[sam42ification]

What mental disorders do you think you have or have been diagnosed with?

I'm pretty sure I'm schizotypal. And I'm somewhat OCD. 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.

I do the same sort of thing. If accedently touch somthing with one hand i will have to touch it in the same way with the other. And if i touch it harder with the other hand then i have to try and touch it just as hard as i did but with the original hand (I just realised that could be taken out of context). I also make paterns in my walking and i usually avoid cracks (when i say patterns i don't mean like 2 steps foward one step back 3 steps foward or anything i mean like a long step on the right a short on the left a short on the right and a long on the left. Or somthing involving the legths of my steps). I don't really chew my food like that but somtimes i will grind my teeth like that. So i self diognosed myself with OCD but it doesn't bother me. I got really depressed and angry when i tried to stop so now i just let it happen.

 

[yjchung]

Trichotillomania - not too sure if that's classified as a "mental disorder", but it is an anxiety thing. Whenever I get stressed, I start pulling out my hair. It's gotten a lot better, but it once got to the point where I had the entire left side of my head bald.

 

[The Virgo]

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.

To be fair if I think if you had suffered and still suffer due to real mental disorders then you too would be annoyed by people claiming that little character traits make them Austisic or OCD or something. Still considering apparently mental illness affects 1/4 people some time in their life there's good reason to believe that most the users here are telling the truth, since far more regular people won't bother going on or posting on the thread only to say "nothing diagnosed".

Just because someone thinks they have a disorder without a professional diagnosis doesn't mean they don't have that disorder. I think I'm schizotypal. Doesn't mean I DO have it, but it doesn't mean that DON'T have it either.

I can't judge in your situation personally since I don't know you so this is only general stuff, but the whole point of a mental disorder is that it is "generally associated with subjective distress or disability that occurs in an individual, and which is not a part of normal development or culture". In other words, it must have a serious detrimental effect on the sufferer's life, so it strikes me how many people could remain undiagnosed for a disorder which supposedly has evidently negative effects of that person's life.

Personally though I was diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome at the age of 9 or 10, it wasn't like it was a sudden shock or anything, even from the age of 1 or 2 my parents had realised there was something very different about me and it severely impacted my life. Now thankfully as I've grown older I've managed to overcome many of the difficulties associated with that disorder, though perhaps ironically it was just as I was overcoming that that my second more serious disorder manifested itself, which I don't want to go into details for privacy reasons but I can say it's not something minor like OCD or depression and there's no drugs or cure available. Fun. Anyway, my long and rambling point is that real mental disorders are usually very obvious in their sufferers and so I find it hard to believe that someone could really have a mental disorder if it's tolerable enough for them to never need to go to a doctor for it.

I never said it wasn't bad enough that seeing a psychiatrist, but they are merely drug-pushers who get paid by drug companies to diagnose people with a problem that can ONLY be solved with ... DRUGS! It's called a kick-back.

I don't enjoy feeling like the air around me is constricting when I'm around a crowd of people. I don't enjoy that I have to date Virgo women only because I feel that everybody under all the other signs is totally incapable of being faithful to their partners. I don't enjoy feeling like everybody is a government agent that's trying to do whatever they can to drive me to suicide or everybody is working for some corporation and are only trying to get close to me to steal my ideas. I don't enjoy feeling like God has people avoiding me because he's angry I discovered that the meaning of life is simply reproduction and that everything is pointless and no matter what anybody does it will eventually be forgotten by the ravage of time.

Besides, there's no cure for schizotypal personality disorder anyway. Not like some legalized-drug pusher trying to pay off his mortgage and student loan is gonna want me actually cured. All these people want is money, not your well-being! There's no money is healthy people ...

Maybe you are, maybe you aren't, there's no way for me to be able to judge that. What I would recommend is trying to find a doctor who won't sell you any drugs, I don't take any drugs for either of mine, then again I do live in the UK so there's no incentive for medical professionals to sell drugs unless they really do benefit the patient as they don't see any profit from it. You'd be surprised at what can be achieved solely through behavioural changes and a bit of effort. If it really is as bad as you make out then you'll be glad of anything that can help.

Your doctors don't get kick-backs from the drug companies for prescribing different drugs to patients? Wow, the British medical system is a lot different than ours!

One of my older sisters had a concussion and was given some kind of drug to help her stay focused (I forget the name), and she was saying that if she knew that taking the drug would kill her in 24 hours and that, if she stopped, she would live 20 years, she would much rather live 24 hours than stop taking it. Jesus Christ! O_e

I never trust medical "professionals". The only different between them and some guy selling drugs on the street is that the doctor has an office and (hopefully) a diploma on the wall.

 

[TheKruzdawg]

There are some days where I think I'm a little bit of an insomniac, as I often stay up until 4 or 5 in the morning for no apparent reason other than I wasn't tired and had nothing better to do.

But from what I know of insomnia, it's a lot worse than that and stretches on for longer periods of time. I only get bouts that that every now and then. It's usually like every night, isn't it?

 

[Ashz0r]

Generalised Anxiety Disorder, POCD (Purely Obsessional Compulsive Disorder) and Mild Depression with minor Psychotic Tendencies, things like mild hallucinations and uncontrollable thoughts, coupled with hypochondriacal anxieties. Fun fun fun.

 

[Mister_moi]

Uhm, you guys tell me what I have. o.o

-I'm hard to motivate
-I think about suicide every now and then, just too lazy to actually do it. I rather just randomly drop dead.
-I don't trust people easily, I always consider possible hidden intentions.
-I hate, or really dislike, humans in general. >.>
-Little things can make me feel great or terrible, but that's probably cause my life is really average.
-There's probably more,

But in all honesty, I think I'm fine, just an ass-hole to some people.
And also, I think allot of people THINK they have certain things just because they notice things that resemble symptoms. And it's pretty popular to label things as disorders these days. Like lets say you randomly feel shit for a while every now and then, doesn't make you depressed. Just suck it up and do something about it besides taking drugs. -obviously this doesn't apply to those with professional help and such-

 

[ShindoL Shill]

i have symptoms similar to OCD, like my family on my mothers side... christmas is an incredibly organised time for us. and i have signs of intermittent-explosive disorder, which unfortunately does not mean i can make things blow up with my mind. it basically means that when i get angered its like punching a bear in the dick probably would be like: murderous rage.

 

[drbarno]

the only mental condition I think I may have is the one that makes it so I can't pee when I think somebody may be watching.

 

[buhee]

/facepalm

OCD is not ordering things neatly or eating stuff in a certain way, thats just being particular. OCD - OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER, is where you have an anxiety disorder, such as you may have inappropriate sexual thoughts or over worry about the saftey of your house, to the point you go through a particular set of actions in order to offset the feeling of anxiety/ or to stop yourself acting out the thoughts in your head, such as go back to your house 5 times on the way to the bus stop to recheck all windows and door locks and to make triply sure that you really did turn the gas hob off. As with most disorders, it is only officailly considered a disorder if it impacts your daily life to the point that you feel the need to see a doctor about it (such as regularly being late to work or not leaving you house at all, to make sure that it's safe).

Aspergers is a mild form of autism and is a social disorder. If you believe you have some amazing ability to remember numbers or something, that does not make you autistic, or aspergers. What you are refering to there is savantism, which is seen in a minute portion of being with this disorder (and you probably don't have it, look at savant abilites, compare them to your own). Autism/aspergers is a social disorder that affects a person?s communication skills, social development, limits their imagination, causes repetitive behaviour and is often linked to having very strong narrow interests. Please note that exhibiting some of the traits of autism, is actually normal, and most people do. It does not mean you have the disorder.

Depression is another anxiety disorder, that biological theories show is to do with a lack of serotonin being released (which is why the doctors give you SSRI's), and cognitive theories say how people who suffer from depression have a warped cognition (internal attribution of blame, but external attribution to good things "its my fault i failed the exam because i am stupid and useless" / "I only passed the exam because the examiner went easy on me". Again, many people can exhibit symptoms of depression without actually being depressed. Believe it or not 'feeling down' is not even necessary for being diagnosed, you can suffer from depression without having a depressive mood. So just because you feel crappy a lot, does not mean you suffer from this disorder. And like OCD, you are not depressed until you have been diagnosed, as part of depression is that it is bad enough to affect your daily life to a point you need help.

In summary, topics like this are stupid. If you think you have a disorder based on symptoms you read on the internet or based on your friend 'expert' opinions, then go to a doctor about it, don't just assume you must clearly have this illness because so and so said so.

 

[Fwee]

Lifelong depression, bipolar-schizophrenia with ADD and PTSD.

 

[FllippinIDIOT]

i have slight OCD.

 

[kloiberin_time]

I am pretty sure I could be diagnosed as an asshole.

Symptoms include:
~Telling people WHY they are WRONG.
~Feeling morally superior to someone who is WRONG.
~Making sarcastic replies to meaningless threads.

"He's not wrong, he's just an asshole."

(In actuality I think I have a case of... hey what's that over there. Let's go ride bikes.)

 

[Kevlar Eater]

I'm pretty sure I have Social Anxiety Disorder and/or Avoidant Personality Disorder. Either way, talking to people stresses me out.

 

[Stammer]

I'm a little bit obsessive-compulsive... I always have to have labels on things facing towards me and everything must be symmetrical always.

I think I've also got a little bit of schizophrenia. I've had completely detached conversations with people who weren't even there (though I snap myself out of it very suddenly), and I have premonitions that either get me to do things or prevent me from doing things.

That's right people, I'm a crazy sum'bish!