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31 Dec 2006, 5:19 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stimming

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31 Dec 2006, 7:17 pm

Pica can also have a physical cause...anemia...iron def anemia will cause symptoms of pica.

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01 Jan 2007, 4:59 pm

Beenthere wrote:

Pica can also have a physical cause...anemia...iron def anemia will cause symptoms of pica.

O.o now that is interesting! I can see how this works though.

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01 Jan 2007, 4:59 pm

tinky wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stimming

Thanks for the article!

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01 Jan 2007, 5:31 pm

Never met a person wtih Pica but I once met a woman with Ganser's.

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01 Jan 2007, 6:12 pm

1)I used to chew on my clothes and hair when I was a kid, but I don't think that counts.
2)I would advise against taking anti-psychotics.

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01 Jan 2007, 6:28 pm

I'm not entirely sure why someone would think to prescribe an antipsychotic in the first place for someone that is only diagnosed with aspergers. If you're bipolar or schizphrenic, if you have a disorder that would normally be treated with an antipsychotic, then sure. I'd figure anti-anxiety medications and medications normally used for depression would be more common.

Then again, I'm against pills altogether. Took various ones to try and take care of anxiety and depression, or at least help with them, felt like all of them were effectively giving me a placebo effect. I'd stop taking them after around six months because the effects would taper off. Either my body was getting accustomed to them, or I was realizing the effects were imagined. At this point I have a hard time taking any pills, even migraine stuff like Excedrin if I get a migraine. Just don't trust pills much any more.

(Don't get me wrong, I don't trust pills for me. I've seen cases where the same medications that were tried on me did a lot of good with others, everyone reacts differently to the medication, don't take this as an anti-medication rant.)

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03 Jan 2007, 4:21 pm

shadexiii wrote:

I had two bouts of severe acute schizophrenia March '05 and Nov '05 - Feb '06.

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03 Jan 2007, 4:51 pm

meh... deleted.

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03 Jan 2007, 5:01 pm

shadexiii wrote:

That clears that up then.

I was trying to make a point:
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03 Jan 2007, 5:02 pm

SteelMaiden wrote:

I was trying to make a point:

sorry, didn't mean it in a negative way or anything, or to offend you.

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03 Jan 2007, 5:06 pm

shadexiii wrote:

sorry, didn't mean it in a negative way or anything, or to offend you.

Its fine. I was just re-counting an in-joke between my friend and I. Anything to give me a little joy.

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03 Jan 2007, 5:08 pm

SteelMaiden wrote:

shadexiii wrote:

sorry, didn't mean it in a negative way or anything, or to offend you.

Its fine. I was just re-counting an in-joke between my friend and I. Anything to give me a little joy.

bleh...sorry again, not trying to take away from that either.

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03 Jan 2007, 5:18 pm

shadexiii wrote:

bleh...sorry again, not trying to take away from that either.

Please do not be offended by me. I am dying inside. Ignore my crap.

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03 Jan 2007, 6:08 pm

SteelMaiden wrote:

shadexiii wrote:

bleh...sorry again, not trying to take away from that either.

Please do not be offended by me. I am dying inside. Ignore my crap.

I would have responded sooner, but I felt like an a**hole so I went outside, smoked a couple cancer sticks, and drank a few shots of vodka mixed with coke zero.

I'm not just going to ignore your "crap." That would be ignoring you, and I don't feel like you've responded inappropriately. And dying inside, as you put it, isn't something that most people here will be comfortable with just letting happen. I'm not offended by you, I feel like I may have offended you. I know I've said it twice now, and I have a bad tendency (from what I'm told, people say saying it "too much"makes it meaningless, though I feel like I haven't said it enough) but I apologize if I have.

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03 Jan 2007, 6:14 pm

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No, no, I am very thankful for your help. It is just that it is 23:13 and I am still on the internet. I wake up at 5:30am every morning, yet I am not tired. My mind is buzzing with memories of hospital past in my head and I find myself trying to find the consultant's e-mail address on the internet so I can attack him/hack him/hack the NHS Mental Health Trust via e-mail.

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