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Hello everyone, I'm went looking for a forum out desperation for answers and found this. Ok so I know someone who is a phd in physocology and has suggested that me my dad and my 2 brothers have it. I have been looking into it and what I've been reading relates alot to my symptoms. I am 21 living at home no job, no girlfriend, and very few friends. This gets me very upset especially ...

I've been pulling hair since my teenage years, probably about 14 or 15 years old. I came across the word trichotillomania several years ago but never tried to get help because I was too embarrassed. I'm not too extreme in my hair pulling - my vanity keeps me from letting it get to bald spots or anything. I'm female and that kind of embarrassment would be more horrific than any kind of anxiety that makes ...

Not sure if this is the right section of the forum, i'm 19
Pretty much all of my life i have never eaten normal food
i only eat scrap food like crisps pot noodle wheatabix
if i go to a restaurant i can't eat anything apart from ice cream or chips..
i used to have help for it, but theres not much anyone can really do because i just don't like food that i should ...

Now that I/we've established that I'm an Aspie, could I get some advice, please?

My mum likes to have a go at me every now and then. Today she's mad at me because of the events that unfolded:

Last night, I came home very drunk. I'm probably a bit of an alcoholic. My mum's been asking me to bring a drill home from work to put up a blind, since Monday. I keep forgetting to ...

I can't seem to keep friends for anything. Every time I try, I usually end up getting either subtley 'pushed out', or I do something wrong (that I have no idea I did) and end up getting screamed at.

This is the fifth time , and was with someone whom I was planning to date(whom for the time geing I'll call girl A{no offense to anyone here who is a female. I just don't want ...

I wake up numb in the morning and then move on to cycles of anger, depression, worthlessness and so on. I've started to carry around razor blades. I think about killing myself all the time but I'm too much of a chicken to do it. Last night I even took out one of the blades and held it. I was just going to cut myself but my hand was shaking too much and I started ...

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mental disease can make a person act in a way that when afterwards he thinks of it, he feels shame about it

I am not talking about mental illnesses that create illusions/delussions and make you act without consciousness, but any mental illness that can distort the reality, your true desires, your true identity, make you act under the influence of severe stress and fear, and that with other mechanisms they make you behave or ...

This is my first post here, and I will admit that I have not read through all the previous threads to see if someone has already written a similar one. I ask you to please excuse my ignorance and laziness at the moment.

For a while now I have been experiencing weird sensations. I am unable to concentrate and have very poor control over my impulses. I experience strange highs and racing thoughts quite often, ...

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