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Posted on 1/28/16 at 11:06 am to Macintosh
Kys
Posted on 1/28/16 at 11:07 am to Paige
Proving my point you psycho
Posted on 1/28/16 at 11:08 am to Hog on the Hill
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Which murderer did the OT take down? I know all about the judge
Brandon Lavergne.
Posted on 1/28/16 at 11:10 am to Paige
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See douches like ryno still exist. There's definitely still stigma
Yep.
Mental illness is looked upon like the Salem witch trials. It is infuriating to me how thoughtless, cruel, and ignorant people are towards mentally ill people.
IT'S NOT LIKE THEY DID SOMETHING TERRIBLE AND MENTAL ILLNESS WAS THEIR PUNISHMENT.
Just imagine how people react when they find out someone is BP. They are shocked, horrified, avoid them, make jokes, etc. Now substitute BP with pancreatic cancer. That person did no more to deserve having BP than they did to deserve pancreatic cancer. Yet people will come out of the woodwork to support a cancer patient. There are millions of dollars raised to fight cancer, walks, runs, bike rides, parades, on and on and on. Meanwhile, mental illness is spoken of in hushed tones, with disapproving scowls.
Shitty sitcoms will make jokes about some character or another being bipolar. Swap that with cancer and see if the FCA lets it on screen. Or MS, or diabetes, or AIDS even.
My cousin is bipolar and I've watched him struggle with it his whole life. He's a successful, intelligent, professional who has to guard his illness like a Superman hides that he's Clark Kent. He works in the medical field and he worries that if it were found out he's BP, he'd lose his job. He's never had anything happen at work during one of his episodes. He has found a good combo of meds, sleep, and exercise that keeps him "normal" 90% of his life. His wife is very supportive and can tell when he's off his game, and they immediately go in to action to get him out of his mania or depression.
Yet, he could lose his job if his employer knew. And he works in the medical field, the ONE place you'd think would be less neanderthal in their thinking towards mental illness.
"Crazy people" are all around you, and they're no more deserving of your ignorance, shame, and flippant remarks than someone with a terminal disease.
Posted on 1/28/16 at 11:15 am to Paige
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Yeah because people who go to the dr to prove their wife wrong are never in denial and are super honest with great insight into their behavior
Yea you clearly don't know shite. I was there to save my marriage. Not prove her wrong at that point. Laid it out there for the Doc and he sent me away saying "be single or don't get caught but meds ain't for cheaters."
Posted on 1/28/16 at 11:22 am to High C
My ex-wife has Borderline Personality Trait Disorder.
We were together 11 years. Married 10. And it was horrific. She's been on tons of medications.
The best way to describe her -- a mess-maker, very impulsive, super-defensive, extreme highs and lows, mood swings, doesn't follow rules, irrational.... and has feelings of false abandonment.
I've watched her turn on everyone that's supposed to be important in her life.
At one point, she had worked 23 jobs over 10 years. Before our custody trial, I made a list of the jobs and named the individual(s) she had a difficult time getting along with at each one. Seriously. It was absurd.
The last 4 or 5 years of our marriage she got into pills heavily. There were many nights that she went to bed messed up, or woke up hung-over.
I was so entrenched into my daily grind of being the one stable thing in our house, that I didn't really keep score until May 2013. I was aware that she was a total train-wreck, but I felt as though it was my responsibility to "love her through it".
I've been called every name in the book.... sometimes for something so simple as saying "no" to her about one of her off the wall ideas, or educational ideas that I knew she wouldn't finish.
The good news is, I have custody of our 9 and 5 year old boys, and she is in North Louisiana still making messes. She's been to drug rehab and I think she's had some counseling.... but she is currently unemployed, AGAIN... and chasing new boyfriend #265.
The names and places may change, but the results never do.....
We were together 11 years. Married 10. And it was horrific. She's been on tons of medications.
The best way to describe her -- a mess-maker, very impulsive, super-defensive, extreme highs and lows, mood swings, doesn't follow rules, irrational.... and has feelings of false abandonment.
I've watched her turn on everyone that's supposed to be important in her life.
At one point, she had worked 23 jobs over 10 years. Before our custody trial, I made a list of the jobs and named the individual(s) she had a difficult time getting along with at each one. Seriously. It was absurd.
The last 4 or 5 years of our marriage she got into pills heavily. There were many nights that she went to bed messed up, or woke up hung-over.
I was so entrenched into my daily grind of being the one stable thing in our house, that I didn't really keep score until May 2013. I was aware that she was a total train-wreck, but I felt as though it was my responsibility to "love her through it".
I've been called every name in the book.... sometimes for something so simple as saying "no" to her about one of her off the wall ideas, or educational ideas that I knew she wouldn't finish.
The good news is, I have custody of our 9 and 5 year old boys, and she is in North Louisiana still making messes. She's been to drug rehab and I think she's had some counseling.... but she is currently unemployed, AGAIN... and chasing new boyfriend #265.
The names and places may change, but the results never do.....
Posted on 1/28/16 at 11:24 am to Paige
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Abilify is an atypical antipsychotic that's being given in smaller doses along to augment ssri's in people with intractable depression
A friend of mine got on it with her Effexor and finally wasn't depressed after years. It also helps with anxiety and wirks quickly
I'll check into this. Thanks.
Posted on 1/28/16 at 11:28 am to High C
as a child: peotillomania
1988 hexametromania
1995 rhinotillexomania
2004 arachibutyrophobia
(definitions below)
#1: obsession with pulling on one's penis
#2: excessive enthusiasm for hexameter
#3: obsessive nose picking
#4: fear of peanut butter sticking to roof of mouth
1988 hexametromania
1995 rhinotillexomania
2004 arachibutyrophobia
(definitions below)
#1: obsession with pulling on one's penis
#2: excessive enthusiasm for hexameter
#3: obsessive nose picking
#4: fear of peanut butter sticking to roof of mouth
This post was edited on 1/28/16 at 11:30 am
Posted on 1/28/16 at 11:32 am to High C
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I'd rather not do much outside of work. I'm not very social and would prefer to just stay home.
I don't suffer drom depression and I am like this as well. It is more common than you think. The media and society have conditioned us to think that you have to be out doing something or spending money on something at all times or there is something wrong with you. They create these bullshite commercials showing people leading these so-called epic lives of fulfillment that you can have as well if you just buy this or that. It's a created illusion to make you a sheep like conformist and consumer.
Posted on 1/28/16 at 11:37 am to Hog on the Hill
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and cope with the shift in my 5-year plan.
Your five year plan? I'm not sure how old you are but one of the maxims of life is that life happens while you are making other plans. Start living in the moment and tear up any five year, one year, six months or even two week plans you may have. You aren't going to need them.
Posted on 1/28/16 at 11:42 am to High C
When I was 18, but I've gotten over it after six months of counseling.
Posted on 1/28/16 at 11:42 am to sleepytime
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I'm a white Christian heterosexual male that likes guns and freedom. Some people claim that's enough to declare me crazy
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck.
Posted on 1/28/16 at 11:44 am to itawambadog
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My ex was bipolar and took 3 different meds. God that was a nightmare. Scary thought is she's a lawyer as well.
Makes perfect sense to me. Throw in sociopathic tendencies and you pretty much are describing just about every lawyer I have ever used or met.
Posted on 1/28/16 at 11:48 am to genuineLSUtiger
quote:I'm 30. We were planning on having children after my wife finished school, relocating to another city, buying a house, and getting my wife established in her career (which required some thought if she was going to have children... how to balance those things). So yeah I was making plans. It was reasonable.
Your five year plan? I'm not sure how old you are but one of the maxims of life is that life happens while you are making other plans. Start living in the moment and tear up any five year, one year, six months or even two week plans you may have. You aren't going to need them.
The thing my therapist helped me with was the change in state of mind that I experienced, and the anxiety and sense of loss associated with realizing that things weren't going to work out the way I thought. Marriage usually provides the kind of stability that makes that kind of planning very reasonable, not to mention responsible. But obviously that changed.
Posted on 1/28/16 at 11:49 am to wheelz007
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My ex-wife has Borderline Personality Trait Disorder....
How long was it before all of that stuff reared its ugly head? 11 years seems like an extraordinarily long time to live with that type of person.
This post was edited on 1/28/16 at 11:51 am
Posted on 1/28/16 at 11:53 am to Goldrush25
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How long was it before all of that stuff reared its ugly head? 11 years seems like an extraordinary long tome to live with that type of person.
It never goes away really. It affects everyday life, decision-making, etc.
She can only "behave" for a short period of time. two weeks maybe. And then she's back to her tricks again.
Posted on 1/28/16 at 11:54 am to TygerTyger
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Douches like ryno still exist
I'm a douche for recommending they seek help from professional experts rather than admitted mentally ill patients?
Posted on 1/28/16 at 11:59 am to Hog on the Hill
Two books that I read are helpful regarding watching your thoughts and emotions and staying in the present moment. Eckart Tolle's The Power of Now and A New Heaven and A New Earth. Both life changing books with spiritual and practical application. They take your focus off past regrets and future worries and provide a framework for keeping you grounded in the present moment which is all that ever exists. It's where you live and create your life. 
Posted on 1/28/16 at 12:06 pm to High C
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it once took me over 30 minutes to eat one scrambled egg. I couldn't make myself swallow it. Had to chew until it was practically liquid.
In the last year I started having panic attacks and extreme anxiety out of nowhere. It got so bad, I didn't sleep for 3 days (that was fricked up). It was like I was scared to go to sleep for fear that I wouldn't wake up. I also had the swallowing issue. I felt like I was going to choke.
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