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I'm so lost.....I have nothing keeping me together anymore.....I can't talk to the only person who gave me hope, I can't cut which was the only release I had, and finals start tomorrow......so basically I'm ###$......I have nothing to live for anymore.......

I'm italian boy and i suffer mainly of major depression. I'm here to try information on my problem.

Hey :)

Allmost the day I turned eighteen, everything in my life seemed to change. I’m not sad anymore ( had been for a long time, 3 years maybe). Actually I don’t get sad about anything. My grandma died, we were really close, but I didn’t felt that sad. Point is, I’m not sad, but I’m defiantly not happy either. I feel extremely angry. Always! I used ...

My dear HPD fellows, when I read about our diagnosis, I find the old school entries about hysteria that make me angry. I identify with the people formerly called hysterics, I recognize a pattern. I think Hysteria is about failed rebellion. 

Now I am no longer called hysteric but histrionic. The very same thing.  They do no longer claim there is somerhing wrong with my uterus (excuse me WHAT?), but they say I am an ...

I've been diagnosed with autism (higher functioning), attention deficit disorder, severe depression (had that a while) and dyspraxia.
I spent the last year recovering from paranoid delusions and moderate psychosis.

On top of that I've also developed anorexia. Not anorexia nervosa; I could care less for my weight, I just don't want to eat. I enjoy the taste, but it makes me feel like vomiting and I don't feel the urge to eat.

I don't ...

I was talking about this with my psychologist yesterday, and would love to hear a few more opinions.

Basically I was telling her that I'm a horrible selfish person etc. because even when I do good things my intentions/motivations are often entirely selfish.

She told me that it's irrelevant what your intentions are if something good comes from it. She used the example of feeding the homeless. If you're feeding the homeless simply because it's ...

Went to see the psychiatrist the other day. She said I may still be cycling and that we need to increase my Epilim dose. So what she did was give me the prescription for the higher dose (1300mg), but I had to get blood tests first, to check liver and pancreas function, and sodium valproate levels. The idea to do it this way round, was so that as soon as the test results come back, ...

Yesterday evening could not even view this website; first there was some sort of error, then my browser said this site could not be found. Was it just some sort of maintainance or...?

This subject is so important... I don't see it. It should be here.

All of you suffer from Psychiatric disorders or want to understand them. Some of you are wanting to learn what to expect?

I am going to explain a "normal" psychiatric" stay at a hospital so you know what to expect, how you will be treated and what will happen.

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OK... here we go.

Let's say you are depressed.

1. You have ...

What vibe have you been told you give off by people? What's the first impression people get from you?

And what vibe do you think you give off?

What people say:

Angry, stiff, tense, depressed, asocial, non-chalant, unemotional, mysterious and intimedating

What I think:

Stiff, tense, social retard, depressed, angry, asocial