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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Are Antisocial and Schizoid polar opposites? |
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Posted: 20 Oct 2012, 11:43 am
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| I guess Freud's model of the psyche is over simplified. There are probably more than ten parts of the mind, most of which can influence each other. He simplified the mind down to desire, rationalization, and conscience, but the mind has many other parts including emotion, knowledge, cognition, conf... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: rapid mood cycling, depression and extreme emotions... |
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Posted: 20 Oct 2012, 9:57 am
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| It's called "ultradian" or ultra ultra rapid cycling, and it's real because I've been diagnosed with it. You can have up to several episodes in one day. Did you get a "real scientific" diagnosis for this or did your psychiatrist just look at your symptoms? (No, I don't mean to offend you.) Those ep... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Does anyone else get this or is it just me? |
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Posted: 19 Oct 2012, 1:37 pm
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| I think it is ADD - usually goes with Autism. Happens to me all the time. I recommend caffeine (coffee, soft drink, etc.) which might help to put a rein on things. But will not actually make them go away. Does this work? My first thought would be that a stimulant like caffeine should decrease the f... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Are Antisocial and Schizoid polar opposites? |
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Posted: 19 Oct 2012, 1:26 pm
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| Yes, the main rule is to always ignore Freud. :) I really don't like Freud and his pseudo-psychiatry. I don't see how those two conditions would be opposites. Wouldn't Histrionic Personality Disorder be more closely the opposite of Schizoid? ( Histrionic ) If I understand correctly, both schizoid an... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Lithium Carbonate |
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Posted: 19 Oct 2012, 1:00 pm
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| This is my area of specialty. Maybe you could help me out then. Do you know if the mechanism of action for lithium is known or if those studies are still theories? The last time I tried to figure out the mechanism it was a bit tricky. The voltage-gated sodium channel mechanism is most likely not im... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I know what I got to do in life, go to school and get a job? |
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Posted: 18 Oct 2012, 6:03 pm
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| Going to school and getting a job is pointless if it won't increase your happiness nor make you survive any better. A bachelors pretty much guarantees you the same pay as if you work in a damned warehouse nowadays Going to school and getting a job is pointless only if you don't use your degree (or ... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: rapid mood cycling, depression and extreme emotions... |
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Posted: 18 Oct 2012, 5:55 pm
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| I consider complex PTSD as something different than BPD, especially because not all ppl dx with BPD had a trauma. Some even come from loving families. So there seems some overlapping, but also differences. There are even trauma experts, claiming that you could clearly distinguish between BPD and PT... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: rapid mood cycling, depression and extreme emotions... |
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Posted: 18 Oct 2012, 4:36 pm
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| I'm not sure about the exact brain pattern, I just know that BPD, Bipolar, ADHD (and also some other conditions acutually) go along with too less activity in the fronal lobe. But than it's still the question what the exact differences are and so on. So there seem to be some neurological connections... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: rapid mood cycling, depression and extreme emotions... |
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Posted: 18 Oct 2012, 4:24 pm
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| Bipolar is a lot more scary, becaus it's more of a lifelong condition and can't be treated with behavioural therapy like BPD. Shouldn't BPD be a life-long condition too? I don't think it can be cured, the persons are only able to overcome their symptoms and problems. (Which in a way seems like the ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I know what I got to do in life, go to school and get a job? |
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Posted: 18 Oct 2012, 3:41 pm
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| Living like a normal person is overrated. You don't need to know how to function in the world like a neurotypical to be able to do your job (unless your job is to act like a neurotypical). I don't really know how the social world works, but I don't really care to think too much about it. I used to f... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: rapid mood cycling, depression and extreme emotions... |
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Posted: 18 Oct 2012, 2:20 pm
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StevieC wrote: someone else has suggested it may be BPD, which really scares me
Why is this scaring you? BPD is not a horrible condition. It's only as bad as you experience it. |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: rapid mood cycling, depression and extreme emotions... |
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Posted: 18 Oct 2012, 1:47 pm
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| It also depends how you diagnose them. I would trust only scientific studies that show concrete signs of these conditions. E.g. You may have bipolar disorder with hypomania and you experience an episode once a year ---> condition A E.g. You may have bipolar disorder with hypomania and you experience... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Pychosis |
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Posted: 18 Oct 2012, 12:46 pm
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| I've never heard of weed causing psychosis. In people with a genetic predisposition to psychotic disorders, any illicit drug, including marijuana, can spark the onset of the psychosis. These are often cases where, had the particular substance not be used, it is unknown whether the individual would ... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: rapid mood cycling, depression and extreme emotions... |
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Posted: 18 Oct 2012, 12:28 pm
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| It is also not that important how you call something, as long as you know how to treat it. :wink: Often the medical health care doesn't know how to treat it. That is the problem. You may have many different diagnosis but the treatment is still the same for every one of those. Raziel, I would think ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I know what I got to do in life, go to school and get a job? |
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Posted: 18 Oct 2012, 12:18 pm
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| Just because you hate what you are doing doesn't mean you lack motivation. If there were no pressure, would children even go to school and learn something? Negative motivation, i.e., doing something in order to avoid disadvantages, is still better than no motivation at all. Negative motivation is ve... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: rapid mood cycling, depression and extreme emotions... |
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Posted: 18 Oct 2012, 12:02 pm
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| Do you think it's possible that your head injury would cause the mood swings? That may happen after serious head trauma, but in your case it wasn't that serious, I presume? But you did blackout, so it could be something related to that? (But that is not really my area of expertise, so I don't know.)... |
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