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Does anyone here occasionally wake up to a seemingly less stable mental state? That happens to me on occasion, usually after mildly distressing dreams right before slipping from sleep to nominal wakefulness.

This morning, particularly marked. Not wanting to get up today. Want to stay curled up, not face anything. Least of all my decrepit self. Even more least of all my responsibilities. I am weak, lazy, and generally dense. Also my mind is showing ...

The urges to hurt myself are so strong. It’s so hard to keep asking for help. Life is too hard at present. Sorry

Hello, I’ve never written anything in this forum before, but I’m entering a very dark era in my life and I don’t know what to do about it. I have never even uttered the things I am about to share in here so please if anyone sees this, tell me your honest and raw opinion. I feel like I can’t live with myself any longer if I don’t let these things out.
When I was ...

Hello all, this is my first post. I'm Italian so my English is not perfect.

I'll try to be as concise as I can describing my 6 months long relationship with what I highly suspect being a person with HPD (she is not diagnosed). I would love to hear your opinions on this situation, if it's similar to something you already experienced.

I broke up with her recently and I'm feeling exhausted, this post also ...

Psychiatry was founded on the assumption that among other things same-sex attraction, religion, handicaps and even culture, were mental illnesses and curable. Ergo, they don't know what mental illnesses are.

I don't believe they can improve, it's the same old bigotry... I'm tired of them.

I'm looking to make friends with people who share my views on psychiatry. My own experiences with them are as follows.
It all started in 2011, when my mother brought me into the emergency room in a depressed and starved state.
First, they threatened me with electric shock treatment. When I started crying, they wrote in the charts that I was "psychotic without insight", and scared. I wasn't that scared, I just wanted to be ...

Hello,
my name is Mike. I am a 72-year-old senior citizen.
I have been suffering from bipolar disorder since I was 14.

Also having suffered from bibliomania, lately I am being plagued by terrible bouts of regret & remorse vis-a-vis my wife on account of having spent inordinate amounts of money on my collection of books.

I wish I could turn back time and live a different life, but unfortunately you only have one go! ...

I know this is a long submission. But I'm recounting what I remembered of relationship I had with someone that has always baffled me. My hope is that by giving as much detail as I can, it will resonate with some readers, so that I can get some insight on the perspective and motivations of someone I tried to get to know so long ago.

Part 1

When I was a younger man, and in ...

I think the last 7-8 years of my life my depression has turned me into an abusive monster sometimes. Mainly verbally and emotionally.. sometimes I get a little physical.

I am hurting emotionally inside and so I seem to snap at family members, my wife, and friends over nothing. I will say very hurtful things to them to hurt them emotionally. I will yell, scream, show anger, destroy objects, push things and sometimes push people. ...

Why is there so much stigma in mental illness but not in physical diseases? If someone has Cancer, they receive support, sympathy, care, love, etc. But when someone has a mental illness, they get bullied, targeted, shamed, ostracized, deprecated, etc. It makes ZERO sense. Something REALLY does NOT add up in this defacto standard of the way things are.