News of Mood Disorders

Hi, this is my first post. I found my way to this site through sheer determination to find some type of support from people who have BP. There aren't any support groups close to where I live and the only one remotely accessible is on a Sunday afternoon, which is out of the question because I'm a mother of 2 young kids and a wife and this is very much our "family time".

I'm 30 ...

MANY with depression also have learning disabilities

4-6% of the world population is said to have dyscalculia, but it is extremely unknown. Most dyscalculics don’t even know that this exists - even fever gets the help they need to succeed, in school, job situations and life.

Dyscalculia is in the WHO International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) - and that means, that this is an approved disability.

Here’s a list of common dyscalculia symptoms;

- Normal ...

I have a question about suicide. I know that if someone has a bad disease such as cancer, and they are in more pain that they can take, and they kill themselves, it's not a result of mental illness. It just means that they were feeling so much physical pain that they didn't think they could stand it anymore. But if someone kills themself because they were in so much emotional pain that they didn't ...

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I'll try to make this as compact as possible. I just need advice from people who have been or are where she is now.

I won't go into background on the two of us, as there isnt much: I met her, I fell in love damn near immediately. I could tell her feelings were likewise as strong. After 2 months, in the span of one day, all communication was cut off. I freaked. We ...

I have at least one question for you guys; maybe more.

Okay so here it is. Have any of you ever been treated for depression with that thing that shocks you or whatever? I think that sounds really scary. I couldn't believe they'd do that to people. How could it help. If anyone here was treated with that, did it hurt really bad and did it help you mentally?

Another thing. I'm constantly hearing bad ...

I've been on and off of several different types of depression and anxiety meds for over 6 years. As angry as it makes me to have to have a "crutch", I've never been a stranger to mental disorders... I can't remember a time when I did not have some kind of phobia or severe frustration where others did just fine. I am more angry right now, in fact, than depressed... but I know it will ...

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The Poll on this posting is to help me understand bipolar a little better. Everything I have read only seems to deal with people who have either equal spells of mania and depression, or mainly depression with very little mania. Neither of these relate to me even minutely.

Thanks For Your Time,

Mitccy :roll:

Hi,
I was wondering if I could get some information or help....

My mother has suffered from depression most of her adult life. She is now 58.

For the last 8 months she's been having weird episodes where she "looses time", she blacksout and wakes up in a weird place, doesn't remember how she got there, doesn't remember who she is while this happens, says things that do not make any sense.... stuff like that. ...

For quite awhile (over a year) since taking bipolar meds, I haven't slept well. Then about a month ago I started almost like passing out as opposed to sleeping at movies, during my daughter's christmas recital, and worse at work! So I went to my psych and he suspected a sleep disorder, reduced my lithium, neurontin, added provigil. He referred me to a sleep dr. I've had a night study where I never hit level ...

I have been there myself. And i have felt the anxiety like my head would
explode. I had nowhere to hide from myself.
Recognice that?

The more we hate these feelings and try to stop them, the more anxiety we
will feed them with and they grow stronger. We can only beat darkness with
light, hate with love and so on.

We as humans are kind of trapped for a while inside this body. We ...