Mental Health

[Danny]

That thing no one wants to talk about, I'll start.

I have OCD and have suffered with depression and anxiety at different stages, would say the anxiety has never gone away though I have managed it to be sporadic at times.

I'm currently researching Aspergers/looking into seeing someone as I can relate to a lot the symptoms; argumentative, pedantic, little interest in what others have to say, cut people off to be centre of conversation, just talk about me, lack eye contact, not great with dealing with people's emotions, short attention span and jump from one interest to another. Just not sure how to go about a professional opinion in Oz without paying an arm and a leg.

[Devil-Dick Willie]

Not sure this is the place. Hold your existential crisis in check while out holidaying and when you get home seek help

[Danny]

Fortunately I'm not in crisis, I have a good handle of my OCD and I haven't been majorly depressed since I had cancer and began treatment for my OCD. I have a good grip on my mental health but there are aspects of my personality that hold me back and they're all related to symptoms of aspergers.

And for the record telling someone with mental health issues to "hold the crisis" is as useful as playing tennis with an egg.

[Guest Cannabis]

Making a thread about something "nobody wants to talk about". Should be interesting .

Seriously though its good that you can manage and keep a lid on your issues and are intelligent enough to seek help if need be. That's the first step to defeating anything like this.

[Berserker]

54 minutes ago, Danny said:

That thing no one wants to talk about, I'll start.

I have OCD and have suffered with depression and anxiety at different stages, would say the anxiety has never gone away though I have managed it to be sporadic at times.

I'm currently researching Aspergers/looking into seeing someone as I can relate to a lot the symptoms; argumentative, pedantic, little interest in what others have to say, cut people off to be centre of conversation, just talk about me, lack eye contact, not great with dealing with people's emotions, short attention span and jump from one interest to another. Just not sure how to go about a professional opinion in Oz without paying an arm and a leg.

I know a guy on another forum that has Aspergers, he says he has no empathy at all towards others, not even his family. And from the many times i've talked with you, you don't struck me as the type. Although the symptoms you described are completely different to the ones he talked about and that you'd find on google.

[Devil-Dick Willie]

23 minutes ago, Berserker said:

I know a guy on another forum that has Aspergers, he says he has no empathy at all towards others, not even his family. And from the many times i've talked with you, you don't struck me as the type. Although the symptoms you described are completely different to the ones he talked about and that you'd find on google.

 

We have Aspergers.

[Guest Cannabis]

2 minutes ago, Tanksie said:

 

We have Aspergers.

Isn't Asperger's one of the side effects from eating human remains?

[Devil-Dick Willie]

Bitch, I make burgers from human remains.

[Berserker]

21 minutes ago, Tanksie said:

 

We have Aspergers.

Nah we don't, you just have a bizarre taste for food.

[Danny]

42 minutes ago, Berserker said:

I know a guy on another forum that has Aspergers, he says he has no empathy at all towards others, not even his family. And from the many times i've talked with you, you don't struck me as the type. Although the symptoms you described are completely different to the ones he talked about and that you'd find on google.

It is a symptom and I can approach things like that to an extent before my empathy kicks in but no ones symptoms are exactly the same. It's similar to OCD, I don't need to clean myself or my house obsessively and I don't need to touch everything a million times but I still have OCD.

[Berserker]

1 minute ago, Danny said:

It is a symptom and I can approach things like that to an extent before my empathy kicks in but no ones symptoms are exactly the same. It's similar to OCD, I don't need to clean myself or my house obsessively and I don't need to touch everything a million times but I still have OCD.

I think you may've killed a witch in one of your past lives Danny, OCD, Aspergers, lost and egg, what more?

[Guest Cannabis]

5 minutes ago, Berserker said:

I think you may've killed a witch in one of your past lives Danny, OCD, Aspergers, lost and egg, what more?

Didn't Danny have an argument with that Nigerian witch doctor from the last forum? Might be more than just an internet troll it seems...

[Happy Blue]

I have Aspergers, or ASD as it's now called  ..i don't play well with others 

[Smiley Culture]

Don't mean to be offensive but isn't shit how some people claim to have OCD? I see it all the time on Facebook with stuff like "Just cleaned the whole house. My OCD is happy now lols" and the like when in reality, this isn't OCD at all. It's just "cool" to say you have it and that must be shit for people who genuinely do suffer from OCD , who've been diagnosed and know what living with OCD is really like. I sympathise with real OCD sufferers immensely on this subject. 

Funny that a mental health thread has popped up on here. I was on Facebook last night and a lad I went to Primary School with "come out" so to speak about his experiences of mental health and opened up about his manic depression and suicide attempts that are visible apparently. It come as a shock as I always thought of him as a happy kid who come from a very good home and had a bit of money around him. His Facebook is not an indicator into the "dark side" of his life either, just pictures of him following Watford, travelling and enjoying life with his girlfriend. It just goes to show that mental health really is a silent illness that could be affecting absolutely anyone. 

[Danny]

1 minute ago, Smiley Culture said:

Don't mean to be offensive but isn't shit how some people claim to have OCD? I see it all the time on Facebook with stuff like "Just cleaned the whole house. My OCD is happy now lols" and the like when in reality, this isn't OCD at all. It's just "cool" to say you have it and that must be shit for people who genuinely do suffer from OCD , who've been diagnosed and know what living with OCD is really like. I sympathise with real OCD sufferers immensely on this subject. 

Funny that a mental health thread has popped up on here. I was on Facebook last night and a lad I went to Primary School with "come out" so to speak about his experiences of mental health and opened up about his manic depression and suicide attempts that are visible apparently. It come as a shock as I always thought of him as a happy kid who come from a very good home and had a bit of money around him. His Facebook is not an indicator into the "dark side" of his life either, just pictures of him following Watford, travelling and enjoying life with his girlfriend. It just goes to show that mental health really is a silent illness that could be affecting absolutely anyone. 

Definitely not offensive, those people are. OCD can ruin a persons life and drive them towards self harm and suicide, even before then it can cause crippling anxiety and self hatred. It's just pure ignorance because they think OCD is just being organised.

[Honey Honey]

My advice would be to ask yourself if you think a diagnosis would help. What would it mean for the way you approach things? With high functioning autism the symptoms you mention probably don't need a specialist but could be worked at with any decent therapist. But if it puts your mind at rest then find out.

[Danny]

15 minutes ago, HoneyNUFC said:

My advice would be to ask yourself if you think a diagnosis would help. What would it mean for the way you approach things? With high functioning autism the symptoms you mention probably don't need a specialist but could be worked at with any decent therapist. But if it puts your mind at rest then find out.

I'm not necessarily after a specialist but generally the difference between a private psychologist and a state one is in the diagnosis.

I would never have been on my OCD course if it wasn't for seeking professional help and a diagnosis.

[Honey Honey]

8 minutes ago, Danny said:

I'm not necessarily after a specialist but generally the difference between a private psychologist and a state one is in the diagnosis.

I would never have been on my OCD course if it wasn't for seeking professional help and a diagnosis.

Fair do's. At least with OCD diagnosis the door is opened to programmes designed for that. I'd be surprised if there is anything for high functioning autism, a diagnosis would probably help someone understand themselves better or give them a narrative to do so. But people who don't have autism can also have social difficulties so there's enough overlap for support.

Adult diagnosis of high functioning autism is extremely hard to make and usually requires accounts of what you were like as a child from other people. So you might want to make sure a diagnosis can be made in Australia if for example your mother is on the other side of the planet. 

[DeadLinesman]

To be fair, I could have diagnosed him with obnoxious cunt disorder years ago.

[God is Haaland]

Asking for psychiatric help in this forum is like asking your prison inmates for legal advice.

[Spike]

Medications can be very fucked up with the side-affects you don't realise. I was taking anti-depressant for a while when I was a teenager, the doctor thought ti was time to stop, so I did just that. I had never felt so sick over the following week and a half, I felt like my brain was being spun around like an album and the nausea was almost unbearable.

A few years later I was apparently diagnosed with 'manic depression' (I still think I was misdiagnosed) and I've been on a cocktail the last few years. If I even miss a day, I feel like I'm going to pass out, blurred vision, nausea, loss of balance, etc. Drugs can be great but most people don't realise the full repercussions till it's too late.

[Danny]

11 hours ago, HoneyNUFC said:

Fair do's. At least with OCD diagnosis the door is opened to programmes designed for that. I'd be surprised if there is anything for high functioning autism, a diagnosis would probably help someone understand themselves better or give them a narrative to do so. But people who don't have autism can also have social difficulties so there's enough overlap for support.

Adult diagnosis of high functioning autism is extremely hard to make and usually requires accounts of what you were like as a child from other people. So you might want to make sure a diagnosis can be made in Australia if for example your mother is on the other side of the planet. 

Yeah I'm not sure what sort of help is on offer, when I spoke about my OCD they out me in a group CBT session which did and didn't have it's benefits and I don't necessarily expect there to be an equivalent with aspergers.

10 hours ago, DeadLinesman said:

To be fair, I could have diagnosed him with obnoxious cunt disorder years ago.

I love you too

9 hours ago, True Bender said:

Asking for psychiatric help in this forum is like asking your prison inmates for legal advice.

Good thing no one has asked for psychiatric help then 

9 hours ago, Spike said:

Medications can be very fucked up with the side-affects you don't realise. I was taking anti-depressant for a while when I was a teenager, the doctor thought ti was time to stop, so I did just that. I had never felt so sick over the following week and a half, I felt like my brain was being spun around like an album and the nausea was almost unbearable.

A few years later I was apparently diagnosed with 'manic depression' (I still think I was misdiagnosed) and I've been on a cocktail the last few years. If I even miss a day, I feel like I'm going to pass out, blurred vision, nausea, loss of balance, etc. Drugs can be great but most people don't realise the full repercussions till it's too late.

I've never been on medication but tbh my issues have mostly happened in silence so no one would really know.

I had a doctor that suggested medicine because he couldn't refer me to anywhere which was strange.

[Toinho]

Are those really some of the symptoms for Aspergers? None of those really match any of the students I've ever taught who have been diagnosed.  I often do a lot of those though! I've got better about not cutting people off, and not talking about me as much. I just thought I was really self centred. The lack of eye contact is interesting too... *off to google*

[Danny]

On 30/03/2017 at 7:08 PM, Anton said:

Are those really some of the symptoms for Aspergers? None of those really match any of the students I've ever taught who have been diagnosed.  I often do a lot of those though! I've got better about not cutting people off, and not talking about me as much. I just thought I was really self centred. The lack of eye contact is interesting too... *off to google*

According to da NHS and other Asperger charities they are

[I8allthepies]

On March 29, 2017 at 1:39 AM, Danny said:

That thing no one wants to talk about, I'll start.

I have OCD and have suffered with depression and anxiety at different stages, would say the anxiety has never gone away though I have managed it to be sporadic at times.

I'm currently researching Aspergers/looking into seeing someone as I can relate to a lot the symptoms; argumentative, pedantic, little interest in what others have to say, cut people off to be centre of conversation, just talk about me, lack eye contact, not great with dealing with people's emotions, short attention span and jump from one interest to another. Just not sure how to go about a professional opinion in Oz without paying an arm and a leg.

You should try anxiety, coffee, and university (obligations with studying, and that shit) its really bad.