News of Living With Mental Illness Forum

For most of my life, I have felt numb, empty and surrounded by darkness. The only times I feel alive are when I am involved with my husband who is BPD. He sparks emotion in me like nobody/nothing else can do. But the emotions cycle between highs (love, exhilaration, passion) and lows (anger, despondency, terror). These lows break me down to the point of suicide because I cannot cope. My only somewhat safe avenue is ...

I look through the topics on here & see people with issues that make mine look so insignificant I feel embarrassed about how I am feeling & that my problems are just so small & really not worth talking about.

Really in the great scheme of things my problems or perceived problems are trivial & insignificant so bear with me.

I apologise f the narration goes off in tangents, I really didn't ever put this ...

I'm not exactly sure what's going on with me. I'm working on getting to a doctor and trying to get a hold of my old therapist but I'm hoping for something to reassure me I'm not going crazy.

Everything came up about a week and a half ago. I was visiting my sister in Sacramento when I started to feel strange. It's hard for me to explain - almost a combination of being high/not sleeping ...

I hate job applications. I hate it that I have to be scrutinized on a behavior that is not normally me. I'm a person who really gets nervous on interviews and can't really sell myself. I hate the person behind the Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey. Why should I be judged on a generalizing survey?

I had to take this test among others and it's really long so I totally forgot my whole plan of lying and ...

Can sleep affect you, can it give you a split personality? can it give you paranoia? can it give you depression?

If its not lack of sleep, what is it? perhaps bullying, abuse?

Can sleep effect your capabilities, can it effect your mental concious? does lack of sleep make you depressed?

Hey, i dont get much sleep, very little. and i think about suicide, attempted on sometimes.
I have paranoia, very deep thought into what someone is doing, is someone planning something against me, even if i dont know them, anything.

I will be making an appointment to see a psycaitrist soon, but wanted to write this first to get an idea if I can even be helped. I think there is something wrong with me, like seriously wrong with me. I am experiencing several symptoms that I have never told anyone about. I have had a psycaitrist before, but I even lied to her and tried to keep up apperances. I want people to think ...

Hi, first post with lots of problems but this is what I'm worried about right now. Since I have no idea what it is I'm posting it here because my counselor and I are pretty sure I have BPD though I doubt this is a symptom of BDP. I also have clinical depression.

First let me explain what these outbursts are like. I get lost in thought all the time, and if I'm not thinking ...

What exactly are the behavioral differences between being paranoid and being anxious? Do they have to coincide? What are some examples?

im brand new to this forum, ima get to my point.

for as long as i have known (im 17) ive felt as though ill never be as happy as others are. i tend to blame myself for the way i am, and i dont even know who i am inside. im a smart person, at least thats what others tell meh.. yet i fall behind in school, and cant seem to get back to ...