somem mental issue

Well, My friend and family member think I have this promblem that I am happy and optimistic then the next moment I am all quiet, sad and don't want people to talk to me.My friend told me it was common and said what it was called but, I forget. Anyways, They said I should go to a doctor or some physcolocial help before it gets worse and out of control and I can't bring myself to go? what should I do?

Sounds like you're bi-polar.

Then again it might just be depression. That happens to me a lot.

As for help, I don't know, sorry.

it does sound like depression, i could be wrong

if it is depression, i think you should have it look at

cause it is classified and a illness, like heart disease and what not

so get some professional help, what would be my advice

let us know how it goes

Songs like bi-polar (type 2 i think. not sure though)....or just depression. Depends on other stuff. I'd suggest just to go to the psychologists. It can't hurt. The worse they'll do is put you on meds or something.

i am just like that. id like help too

i am too..

i asked help once from a professional psychiatrist.our session only made me more confused..i don't want to freak you out guys, but i suggest that before you ask help or anything,make sure first that you really know you want to accept help aside from only advises, and that you will go your path and not that w/c is dictated to you by other people. i was too much depressed that day, i drank and smoked on my way home and all night, and then no one wants to talk to me.i just felt more paranoid and left out,and of course, more depressed..

1 question, how old are u?

 

if your 12 - 17 the chances are its hormonal inbalance and you will recover from it naturally as you age.

yeah, i hope so...i've been suffering this since i was mentally abused and tortured by my classmates..ever since that time,i've been walking through hell...maybe stenners is right, beautywithanaxe...

Both my mother and my grandmother are suffers of Bi-Polar disorder. It is hereditary and I have it aswell.

 

This might help:

 

Bipolar disorder causes dramatic mood swings—from overly "high" and/or

irritable to sad and hopeless, and then back again, often with periods of normal mood in between. Severe changes in energy and behavior go along with these changes in mood. The periods of highs and lows are called episodes of mania and depression.

 

Signs and symptoms of mania (or a manic episode) include:

 

-Increased energy, activity, and restlessness

-Excessively "high," overly good, euphoric mood

-Extreme irritability

-Racing thoughts and talking very fast, jumping from one idea to another

-Distractibility, can't concentrate well

-Little sleep needed

-Unrealistic beliefs in one's abilities and powers

-Poor judgment

-Spending sprees

-A lasting period of behavior that is different from usual

-Increased sexual drive

-Abuse of drugs, particularly cocaine, alcohol, and sleeping medications

-Provocative, intrusive, or aggressive behavior

-Denial that anything is wrong

 

A manic episode is diagnosed if elevated mood occurs with three or more of the other symptoms most of the day, nearly every day, for 1 week or longer. If the mood is irritable, four additional symptoms must be present.

 

Signs and symptoms of depression (or a depressive episode) include:

 

-Lasting sad, anxious, or empty mood

-Feelings of hopelessness or pessimism

-Feelings of guilt, worthlessness, or helplessness

-Loss of interest or pleasure in activities once enjoyed, including sex

-Decreased energy, a feeling of fatigue or of being "slowed down"

-Difficulty concentrating, remembering, making decisions

-Restlessness or irritability

-Sleeping too much, or can't sleep

-Change in appetite and/or unintended weight loss or gain

-Chronic pain or other persistent bodily symptoms that are not caused by physical illness or injury

-Thoughts of death or suicide, or suicide attempts

-A depressive episode is diagnosed if five or more of these symptoms last most of the day, nearly every day, for a period of 2 weeks or longer.

 

A mild to moderate level of mania is called hypomania. Hypomania may feel good to the person who experiences it and may even be associated with good functioning and enhanced productivity. Thus even when family and friends learn to recognize the mood swings as possible bipolar disorder, the person may deny that anything is wrong. Without proper treatment, however, hypomania can become severe mania in some people or can switch into depression.

 

Sometimes, severe episodes of mania or depression include symptoms of psychosis (or psychotic symptoms). Common psychotic symptoms are hallucinations (hearing, seeing, or otherwise sensing the presence of things not actually there) and delusions (false, strongly held beliefs not influenced by logical reasoning or explained by a person's usual cultural concepts). Psychotic symptoms in bipolar disorder tend to reflect the extreme mood state at the time. For example, delusions of grandiosity, such as believing one is the President or has special powers or wealth, may occur during mania; delusions of guilt or worthlessness, such as believing that one is ruined and penniless or has committed some terrible crime, may appear during depression. People with bipolar disorder who have these symptoms are sometimes incorrectly diagnosed as having schizophrenia, another severe mental illness.

 

It may be helpful to think of the various mood states in bipolar disorder as a spectrum or continuous range. At one end is severe depression, above which is moderate depression and then mild low mood, which many people call "the blues" when it is short-lived but is termed "dysthymia" when it is chronic. Then there is normal or balanced mood, above which comes hypomania (mild to moderate mania), and then severe mania.

 

more can be found at http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/bipolar.cfm

 

Hope that helps. I too know what is like to have Bi - Polar and also to live with people that have it. If you have any questions either post them, or PM me!! Dont be afraid though.

I guess I should go see help. However, I am afraid to go. I am finally convinced. I would go with someone but, no one in town is here that I trust the most. I am very scared. Scared half to death.

Im scared to. I need couselling. My past is very dark.

But no one understands that I'd breakdown.

no one around me understands me...

[HP], how about we both go at the same date and time?

::.']Both my mother and my grandmother are suffers of Bi-Polar disorder. It is hereditary and I have it aswell.

Some with me. My great-grandmother, grandmother, and dad all have it & I take after my dad. Yeah my parents haven't taken me to anyone though. Wow I didn't think it was that common.

 

Well good luck to you if you end up going. Just have your parents take you or something. :thumbsup:

Bi-polar isnt such a bad thing, its more how ppl deal with u wen ur in ur moods, if ur happy, theyre happy, wen ur sombre, they shood jus leve u be, u know?

im not sure i suffer bi-polar, but i com pretty close, as in im all pepped one min, deflated the next for n apparent reason.

 

in any case, if its not bi-polar,ie u find out ur family has not history of it, it cood just be wen ur happy, u go over the top, and u expend ur energy out, thus leaving u tired, sombre, quiet and irritated, so if its that, things are alirhg,t jus dont over do things.

i doubt its bi-polar by accounts that since its hereditary, som1 else in ur family shood hav it too, ask ur parents if they suffer like u do. coz u cant jus GET bi-polar, u need to get it from ur parents

[HP]' date=' how about we both go at the same date and time?[/quote']

 

Yeah we could, sorry I took ages to reply. Been having troubles. Ummm, I have an appointment to see a doctor on thursday the 30th of March...at 9:10 am...

i also ve same problem... i also want to go for my checkup.. but i cannot go

...all i do is that i start writing poems nd songs it helps me a lot

u can also try this..

well i went to the doctors.

Results not good.

They want to put me in an institution.

I write songs and poems too.

It does help.

its good that writing helps u

my advice is that leave doctor... they make u more pathetic..

u can get good on ur own

i never go to these doctors

but tell me i got this problem... when i talking to people i m normal... but in front of few people... like my dad ,my tutor.. nd others i started rubbing my hand sooooo hard.. that it starts bleeding

help me

i m confused in it

is ur tutor male?

ya he is male nd he is young age between 21 to 28

nd i m 17

tell me what to do

hmmm i dont know....

are you nervous around them?

no... but sometimes i get nervous.. when i m totally depressed..