What Mental Health/Disorders/Struggle Issues Do You Have?
Aspergers
ADHD
PTSD
I'm pretty high functioning in regards to my aspergers, but I had a lot of good early intervention since I was diagnosed when I was 7 or 8. The ADHD was also diagnosed back then, and isn't really much of a problem with medication. I developed PTSD after years of bone breaking abuse in a domestic relationship.
Related to my PTSD I've also experienced psychosis for one 3-4 week period, so that is another "diagnosis" that had been put on me at one point. It was a pretty extreme experience I would never want to repeat, though I don't think I'll ever repeat it. I was hallucinating pretty strongly at the end of it, mainly auditory hallucinations but also some visual hallucinations. It felt like an eternity.
I also have experienced a lot of dissociation in relation to my PTSD. Whenever I'm in a high stress situation and my adrenaline really starts flowing, I dissociate and it's like I'm watching a movie of myself being in the situation, from first person view, and I'm just sitting there watching myself do whatever it is I wind up doing. Occasionally I will dissociate when I'm thinking of certain events, as well, or when triggered by things that remind me of the past, or I'll kind of just be in my own little world totally oblivious to the outside world.
Occasionally (every day but not too often) I will see things that aren't there in my peripheral vision, mainly just something moving, or I will for a short time visually recognize things incorrectly - for example, sometimes someone will have an object in their hand like a stick, and for a few moments I will see a knife in their hand, like outright hallucinate a realistic knife in their hand instead of whatever it is they're really holding.
I have felt depressed and even suicidal in the past, but I've never been able to commit acts of self-harm, or attempt suicide. I don't think I'm capable of either, or I probably wouldn't be typing this post right now. No depression before or after the trauma, only during.
The only drug I take every day is bupropion. I do also have diazepam (valium) for emergencies.
Asperger Syndrome + Sensory Processing Disorder
OCD - Instrusive thoughts of harming others and myself, they come in shape of mental images and I can see them happening. Relatively milder compulsions. Compulsions used to be a lot worse growing up.
Social Phobia - I'm diagnosed with it but I don't think I have it. It's just the social problems that come with ASD.
Depression with psychotic features - hearing voices
Selective mutism
Synaesthesia - I can see the smells.
Isn't hearing voices one of the weirdest things? It wasn't until after I had stopped experiencing psychosis that I figured out (through asking people who were around me at the time) whether the voices were real. I heard a lot of people behind me (not real) going "shhhhhh" when I was talking, I heard people talking about me who weren't, I heard people say things like "interesting, it looks like she can't read lips" and I heard all sorts of other things, which I totally thought were actually real, at the time. It all sounded 100% real, and it was really scary to learn that it was all hallucinated, after the fact.
Aspergers
Being social in a group of more than 2 people.
Understanding people in noisy crowds. Unsure if this is an Audio Processing issue.
Bad short term memory, particularly for numbers.
Inconsistent sleep pattern.
Nylon/Spandex (Zentai suit) Fetishism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandex_fetishism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zentai
I don't even know how or why my brain latched onto this. It is a bizarre part of my life, but I get so much pleasure out of it I'll never give it up. As a sensory experience, I think it has a therapeutic effect on me to. I sleep in these suits every night.
Isn't hearing voices one of the weirdest things? It wasn't until after I had stopped experiencing psychosis that I figured out (through asking people who were around me at the time) whether the voices were real. I heard a lot of people behind me (not real) going "shhhhhh" when I was talking, I heard people talking about me who weren't, I heard people say things like "interesting, it looks like she can't read lips" and I heard all sorts of other things, which I totally thought were actually real, at the time. It all sounded 100% real, and it was really scary to learn that it was all hallucinated, after the fact.
Most of the time I know the voices can't be real. Because the person that a voice belongs to is far away from where I am and I'm mostly alone. But sometimes in public places I hear voices that I think are real but end up not. Like this one time when I was at the airport and there was an announcement calling me to the information desk because I dropped my passport. When I checked, I had my passport with me and the information desk told me there hadn't been such an announcement.
Isn't hearing voices one of the weirdest things? It wasn't until after I had stopped experiencing psychosis that I figured out (through asking people who were around me at the time) whether the voices were real. I heard a lot of people behind me (not real) going "shhhhhh" when I was talking, I heard people talking about me who weren't, I heard people say things like "interesting, it looks like she can't read lips" and I heard all sorts of other things, which I totally thought were actually real, at the time. It all sounded 100% real, and it was really scary to learn that it was all hallucinated, after the fact.
Most of the time I know the voices can't be real. Because the person that a voice belongs to is far away from where I am and I'm mostly alone. But sometimes in public places I hear voices that I think are real but end up not. Like this one time when I was at the airport and there was an announcement calling me to the information desk because I dropped my passport. When I checked, I had my passport with me and the information desk told me there hadn't been such an announcement.
Ahh, for me it only happened when I was around other people. That said, I spent very little time alone during the acute stage of psychosis.
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I don't think I have some of the things I was diagnosed with & I have some things that weren't diagnosed. I'll just list what I believe I have
~Aspergers
~ADD(inattentive ADHD nowadays or something like that)
~Dyslexia, Dysgraphia & Dyscalculia(told the issues of the ladder two were symptoms of my dyslexia)
~OCD
~Generalized Anxiety Disorder
~Panic Disorder(not quite sure I have this)
~Depression
My General Practitioner diagnosed me with Agoraphobia too but I'm not sure if I have it. It may be Social Anxiety or Avoidant Personality Disorder. It may also really be my GAD & Panic Disorder or it may be some combination of the things I listed here.
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Aspergers, depression, psychosis (unspecified non-organic).
I've overcome my depression and have my psychosis under control after 7 years of chaos. Am here to learn more about my Aspergers, since I have to live with it. I don't quite qualify for schizophrenia, at least not since the voices recently disappeared. Going in the right direction.
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I forgot to mention that I may have a possible delusional disorder. I've also been through a bad psychotic depression & I've had lots of symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder & Codependency but I don't think I would qualify for those diagnoses now thou I was diagnosed with em in the past.
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