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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get.  Level: 73  Posts: 103/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Bleh, I'm sure I thought I was on this road two years ago, but I'm still depressed and whatnot, after all that time, so I guess I have to try to make more of an effort or something.  Anyways, now that Ben and I have broken up (because he's an arsehole), I get a little more time to myself to tackle this problem (and I don't have a certain arsehole calling me "useless" all the time and compounding the problem) So, I've booked an appointment with a hypnotherapist, who I will see on Tuesday. I'm terrified, but... I have to do SOMETHING. I'm also starting to exercise more, just cause I've gained a shitload of weight recently and now I feel pretty bad about myself Course, I hate exercise, so I've bought myself a dance mat and game and I'm just bouncing around in the back shed trying to master the fugging game... (I have two left feet). works up a sweat though, and my legs are a little sore, so it must be doing some good  ... I'm feeling a little better than I did this time last week. I can't tell if I've lost any weight or anything yet though, Mum's scales must be broken -- they insist I'm only 50kg!  I haven't been THAT light since high school......  I'm still on my stupid medication (Zoloft) but me no thinkie that workie anymore. But I get side effects in droves. Anyways, anybody else with a emotional disorder or such here, and what are you guys doing to try to get better? |
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Ran-chan Moldorm eek, when are they going to stop growing... Level: 143  Posts: 206/12781 EXP: 35293588 For next: 538220 Since: 03-15-04 From: Nerima District, Tokyo - Japan Since last post: 12 hours Last activity: 12 hours |
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Destiny Smasher Red Cheep-cheep Level: 24  Posts: 60/216 EXP: 77554 For next: 571 Since: 03-15-04 From: NOT HERE, thank the Star Spirits. Since last post: 368 days Last activity: 43 days |
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| Being a person in and of itself counts as a mental mess up. I can't say I've got a disease, but I've been through some awful crap lately that I don't think I deserve, as everyone else agrees- except, obviously, the people DOING it. Anyway, the first and biggest stepof mental wellness is simple- yet very hard to achieve, and most people never do. You have to discover yourself for who YOU are, not who others want you to be. Once you open your heart and let your insid outside, things will get better- trust me. |
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Ambigore Shyguy Level: 17 Posts: 2/95 EXP: 22388 For next: 2355 Since: 03-27-04 Since last post: 208 days Last activity: 10 days |
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| Heh heh, it's good to know your exercising. It's one of the best methods of releasing endorphins. I try not to get depressed nowadays. It's a fight to the bitter end, you know? We're all going to die anyway, so try not to get pre-occupied with silly things like the past. It's about letting go and giving up any aspirations of immortality. You're getting older, your youth is vanishing with every second, so make the most of it before it disappears. Like, NOW. As for emotional disorders... I believe I am becoming VERY prone to anxiety, which is something very new. For me, my progress over the years: depression -> aggression -> anxiety. I can't help but fathom what comes next. |
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Dracoon Zelda The temp ban/forum ban bypasser! Level: 84  Posts: 248/3727 EXP: 5514391 For next: 147561 Since: 03-25-04 From: At home Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 5 hours |
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| Hey that dance game is helping too. Can't remember where i heard this but studies show people who play vidoe games are happier. I have a really really horrible temper that scares me so i keep everything inside more than usual. since i do that it goes off and I have hurt someone. So I don't know if that qualifies, but good luck. Oh as for mental wellness there is no such thing there is you are happy with who you are on the inside and happy with who you are on the outside. I can easily say i am very happy with who I am on the inside and hopefully you are too. Hypnosist I personally think is crap never worked on me never will. (Maybe because the doctors only thought there was something wrong with me in their standerds.) Don't be what people want you to be. Only be what you want to be. Example My dad wants me to be an engineer and I thought about it then I decided no engeeniering sucks. I have no idea what I am going to be and I am glad because right ow i have no ristrictions. |
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Valentine Revolution Leever Level: 24  Posts: 92/199 EXP: 68616 For next: 9509 Since: 03-15-04 From: UK Since last post: 103 days Last activity: 59 days |
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| Well I'm waiting for a reply from the psychotherapist. I haven't had a panic attack for a while, but I'm getting bad chest pains. My doctor said that's anxiety as well. The first therapist I saw for my initial analysis said I was in an 'unusual situation' and that my depression wasn't so much an illness but more of a way of life for me. Apparently I'm angry, which I am, but I haven't quite figured out what at yet. I guess I just have to keep going, and hope everything will work out. I have a dance mat too for when I'm not awash with apathy, and this new PC is keepin me pretty occupied with getiing new skins and such  |
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alte Hexe Star Mario I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night Alive as you and me "But Joe you're ten years dead!" "I never died" said he "I never died!" said he Level: 99  Posts: 411/5458 EXP: 9854489 For next: 145511 Since: 03-15-04 From: ... Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Zoloft is BS older generation anti-depressants. The medication dosage has to be constantly bumped, and it isn't for clinical chemical depression. It rarely ever makes a dent in serious depressions. | |||
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 106/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| It might be an older generation SSRI, but SSRI's in general are new generation anti depressants and the safest. But yeah, they do fuck all for me, except give me numerous side effects. Course, I can't seem to convince my doctor to let me try anything else anyways. The guy's pretty damned incompetent when it comes to depression, he just tells me to keep taking my medication, and that's it. I just thank my lucky stars I'm not on an MAOI antidepressant... those things have so many drug and food interatctions it's not funny.. you can't eat anything, or take anything, or you risk a psychotic episode Well, I haven't lost any bloody weight yet from the exercise/dance game, but I have made my legs BLOODY sore! Shows how out of shape I am, I guess. I've been walking a little too, walking Mum's dogs and such. And TRYING to eat better, but... I spoke to Ben recently and he managed to make me feel pretty shit again, and I ate a bunch of "Sherbies" lollies afterwards.  I see the hypnotherapist tomorrow. I'm terrified. However, Mum would rather I see a hypnotherapist than a psychologist for some stupid reason (she reckons cause hypnotherapy will just "fix my subconscious" and psychology won't... Like everybody else I know, she just wants a quick fix.) But a psychologist scares me less. The idea of cognitive therapy makes more sense to me than the idea of hypnotherapy. But it may just be that I'm terrified of hypnosis. |
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Ran-chan Moldorm eek, when are they going to stop growing... Level: 143 Posts: 238/12781 EXP: 35293588 For next: 538220 Since: 03-15-04 From: Nerima District, Tokyo - Japan Since last post: 12 hours Last activity: 12 hours |
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Kario In Possession of a Stolen Shovel Level: 65 Posts: 160/2082 EXP: 2321379 For next: 14249 Since: 03-15-04 From: Texas... Yeehaw! Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 17 hours |
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| I went to a psychologist for help with suicidal thoughts once. He said "We need to run some tests and have a few more decisions, but I think the safest thing to do would be to have you comitted for a while. It will heal your mind" Yeah, didnt see him ever again. Talked with some friends, got some encouragement. Okay now. |
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Destiny Smasher Red Cheep-cheep Level: 24 Posts: 63/216 EXP: 77554 For next: 571 Since: 03-15-04 From: NOT HERE, thank the Star Spirits. Since last post: 368 days Last activity: 43 days |
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| *sigh* Oh, boy...Problem is with psychologists is that no one KNOWS for sure what the problem is. Even if they're right, often times the paient will reject it and think the psychologist/psychiatrist is the crazy one...  Um...Whoever said all that 'Don't go changing for other people' stuff ripped words from my mouth. |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 108/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Well, hypnotherapy was interesting, but he didn't put me under hypnosis this time. He got some background info on me, and talked about stuff and said that next time, we'll start. o.o It was pretty interesting, he says that all the things that have happened in my 23 years of being on this earth have pretty well taught me to have a low opinion of myself, and thus the depression. My subconscious is also the reason I've been gaining weight (that and Zoloft messes up the metabolism) As for me wanting to do hypnotherapy, I didn't, but my control freak mother insists. The hypnotherapist thinks my control freak mother is part of the problem |
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Destiny Smasher Red Cheep-cheep Level: 24 Posts: 95/216 EXP: 77554 For next: 571 Since: 03-15-04 From: NOT HERE, thank the Star Spirits. Since last post: 368 days Last activity: 43 days |
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Haha. Yea... Ya know, that kind of thing makes perfect sense. I don't know about the actual HYPNOSIS, but... Well, the psychiatrist sounds decent. |
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Dracoon Zelda The temp ban/forum ban bypasser! Level: 84 Posts: 279/3727 EXP: 5514391 For next: 147561 Since: 03-25-04 From: At home Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 5 hours |
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| I think everyone that doesn't know for sure a hundred precent is just kind of stupid. Sure we don't know barely anything about thte human mind ,so why do people say there is something wrong. I am glad that you phychitrist is cool all the ones i ever talk to have the answer to all your problems. Drugs. Your control freak mother need to calm down. I broke a control freak mother once it was fun. Not my mother someone elses. The great thing was they became more errr a better person and not doubting themself. Now I just have to deal with my aunt. Anyways I am not sure if hypnosis works in real life. I wouldn't try it (again), bt I dont know much about these things. Make sure you tell us how thing are going. Heheheh anti depresants can't do anything but make you a little high.  |
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Destiny Smasher Red Cheep-cheep Level: 24 Posts: 98/216 EXP: 77554 For next: 571 Since: 03-15-04 From: NOT HERE, thank the Star Spirits. Since last post: 368 days Last activity: 43 days |
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| I'm sure drugs work on some people- you're just not one of them. Regardless, it would be nice if drugs weren't needed. We'll NEVER have all the answers to everything, but that doesn't mean we should just give up and toss it away, does it? In the great words of the Oracle, Know thyself. A lesson the Matrix Trilogy teaches that I totally agree with. If you don't fully and completely know yourself, how can you ever expect to make yourself happy? |
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kiwibonga Double metal axe Level: 27  Posts: 37/266 EXP: 106040 For next: 10119 Since: 03-15-04 From: Montreal, QC, Canada Since last post: 126 days Last activity: 3 days |
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| Hey Taryn make sure you keep us posted on this, I saw a couple documentaries about hypnotherapy and it's pretty interesting! It's pretty expensive but it can be extremely fun. With hypnotherapy some people start telling stories about someone else's life while unconscious, and it's believed that these people describe their past lives. How it works is the guy asks you while you're unconscious to go backwards in time and tell him what's going on... for instance he'll tell you "Go back to school, do you remember that time? What are you wearing? Who's that with you?" -- he'll be able to extract any part of your life as it was recorded by your brain second by second. What's scary is that if he makes you believe that you're at age 2, you'll start behaving like if you were 2 years old, babbling and whatnot, if you go even further, that's supposedly your previous lives... The 30 year old woman on TV went from talking like a little girl to crying, telling the story of her rape and subsequent death in a concentration camp -- They checked the name she mentioned, and indeed, the person had died in a concentration camp, just before she was born. (kinda morbid, heh) Also you shouldn't worry, I don't think there are any reports of hypnotherapy gone wrong, where people stay in a hypnotized state  So anyhow... best of luck to you, hypnotherapy, while not really medically recognized as a good substitute for psychotherapy, is probably a good thing to try, let us know how it turns out |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 128/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Well, my appointment is Tuesday, and that is when I will go under hypnosis for the first time, I believe. I have a homework task to complete before then. I have to think good and hard about what it is that I think is "wrong" with the way I think, and how I'd rather think. Sorta... who I want to be, and such. He says the problem is that I have these "absolute truths" in my mind that are negative. Like everybody knows that 1 + 1 = 2, and such, I also have these truths in my mind that I'm not good enough, etc. It may not be true to anybody else but in my mind, it's just as true as 1 + 1... because I learned from others throughout my life that I'm not good enough, that's the only way I can feel. I think he wants me to come up with new truths; and he will make them become real. And then maybe I won't think that I'm not good enough anymore. |
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The Wrong 'Un Red Paragoomba Level: 14 Posts: 8/64 EXP: 12415 For next: 656 Since: 03-24-04 Since last post: 116 days Last activity: 79 days |
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| Taryn, I hope things are starting out well. It might end up being a long road but don't lose heart along the way - a long road is ok if you only have to walk it once. Exercise is great. Do you swim? I remember you had an interest in surf lifesaving. That would be perfect! Exercise and heaps of fun. And, as Ambi said, heaps of endorphins As for Zoloft...I'm not a pharmacist, but what are you like without them? Side effects can be worse than the condition itself sometime. Maybe run it by your GP or hypno about trying to wean off them? The only advice I can say is that in the end, it's on you. No one else can solve the problem of depression, they can help, but you're the one who does the work. You already know this, but no matter how you feel like you're walking in circles it stands true. And there's a heap of people who really want to see you well. So please take care. Tristan |
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