Read This Before Looking Up Mental Health

if you think you have some kind of disorder it is a BAD idea to look it up. what starts to hapen is what you do not have gets in to your subconscious and later you have what you imagine to be the effects. if you need to look something up do this. make a list of what you KNOW you are haveing troble with. if in middle of reaserch you experence a something not on the list it could vary well be that it is something you do not have. i am still experenceing "manic episodes" from when i did my reaserch on bipolar to see if i had it.

in short if it is affecting your life you have a problem

 

That's a way decent post for someone your age. Thanks.

 

thank you

 

very good advice. I recently wrote a paper on borderline personality disorder and now i think i have it. No one else does, so I think it's my subconscious. haha Don't look that stuff up. Just see a shrink/psychiatrist.

 

so true.

 

Yes. I guess this is how therapists get their patients/ clients... It's a living.

 

think you

 

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That is a smart thing to say. I completley agree. I know I have issues but I feel as if they were blown out of proportion when I went to therapy. Instead my initial instinct of accepting my past, moving on and forgiving myself and others for peace of mind therapists have always advised me to express emotions, which they try to translate into being angry at the world, questioning my way of thinking that has always worked for me...etc...ultimatley they did this by handing out weird 'diagnosisis'...oh and pills...the pills were so worth the bullshit therapy though.
I def needed to go to therapy, but my intention was to get things off my chest, not come out a pill popper who felt angry at the world. I am so lucky I am getting back to my old happy self. I really just needed a break from work, school, relationships and a chance to get to know my adult self...I just needed to breathe not have a label ya know?

 

I know.

 

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Great thread Hobes. The mind/body connection is often overlooked by many if not most in the mental health/medical field. Thoughts create reality, or the illusion of reality. One should never underestimate the power of the mind.

 

I was worried that researching bi-polar disorder may subcounciously leave me acting bi-polar. Then a day like today comes around. Last night I was energized, happy, and extremly outgoing. Today i woke up and during breakfast I felt de-energized, depressed, and hopeless. I completly agree with what you said, but I am sitting here and yearn to feel normal. I only want to feel extremly happy or sad when something warrents such extreme moods. That si not the case.

Good adbice and a good thread anyhow tho.

 

that is smart, but i looked up before reading this....
But hey, ive had all the symptoms i looked up before i read about them, so i guess i can't really image them or think i might have them if i previously knew i did.
but yea,that is good advice.

 

i gotta give some props to youngin. Never thought of that. Thanks for the tips.

 

I agree with u there Hobes.
I mean I was diagnosed as being a homicidal maniac.
When really all Im doing is the work of the Lord- just as Im told to by the voice in my lampshade.

I mean its only an illness if I see it as one.
Best to look at it this way.What harms it doing - other than to the guy who's buying my house when he peels back the last layer of wallpaper...

Ressoaspiks Man.
Insane and proud.

 

Mm, right.
The mind is an insane thing..
it can make you believe the
strangest things.

 

good post..
yea i did some reading on wiki for certain kinds of disorders and that.. it's only natural i think to try to find false positives, even for negative things for some strange reason haha..

 

I'm sorry, but I think that this is terrible advice.

The mind can work in both ways. Most people would much rather deny having a disorder at all than seeing a shrink for it. Not researching the symptoms you are feeling in order to correlate them with what could possibly be a medical condition can lead to terrible results.

This is very flawed logic, especially because you are assuming that the human mind is extremely weak... which is true is some cases, and not in others.

You watch a movie about how the mind of a serial killer works, but that doesn't mean that you start acting like a serial killer?

You read an article about pedophilia, but that doesn't mean that you start analyzing you mind for possible attraction to 8 year olds.

Catch my drift?

Most people do not start acting depressed because they are diagnosed with depression, they are diagnosed with depression because they are acting depressed.

Ignorance is never the key to anything. Being unaware of mental disorders can do much much much more harm than good. It amazes me to see so many people supporting something like this.

 

I know for a fact that the mind is
powerful enough
to make a person believe they have a
mental disorder.
I used to have a severe hypochondria problem..
I literally MADE myself feel awfully sick with my mind.
I really do believe that the post has substance.
I agree with your statement that
"Ignorance is never the key to anything."
but that certainly doesn't mean
that a person can't convince themselves
insane.