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If you want to share your disorder or troubles, feel free to.
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This is CE. Yes - should be the only answer.

ocd

as in the real thing, not "omg that tile is slightly crooked, I'm so ocd lol"
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Not too much.
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Nope. Not that I haven't been, but I got my anxiety and manic depression under control.
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Some form of depression is all I know so far from my doctor

Generalized anxiety disorder.

:u
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Officially diagnosed with Asperger's, an unspecified anxiety disorder, massive depression, and intermittent explosive disorder.
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@The_Admiral

:o come on now Captain, fess up.
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Schizophrenia
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DawkinsNumber4 posted...

Not too much.

Got a chuckle out of me.
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No.
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OCD, which is so bad i can't even maintain sleeping schedule. Time i go to sleep gets pushed few hours ahead almost everyday, and days i need to take a shower it goes like 6 hours ahead.

I also get really bad anxiety over smallest of things. And depression follows all of that.
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lots of anxiety problems. but its much better than it used to be.
the worst was ocd and panic disorder.

chill02 posted...

ocd

as in the real thing, not "omg that tile is slightly crooked, I'm so ocd lol"

Sami1000 posted...

OCD, which is so bad i can't even maintain sleeping schedule. Time i go to sleep gets pushed few hours ahead almost everyday, and days i need to take a shower it goes like 6 hours ahead.

did you do a YBOCs test?
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Yes I have mild aspergers or so they say

K181 posted...

Schizophrenia

Me three.
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eh what counts as a mental illness?

I've been diagnosed with tourettes but that's really all i've been diagnosed with. idk if depression counts, prolly not

oh yeah social anxiety as well.

probably other shit but idk i have this thing where if something spins a certain way i have to spin it back to how it was first. in video games and in real life it's fuckin weird im twirling about all the time and shit
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Yes. I have ADHD and social anxiety, with depression that comes and goes.

Just started Ritalin on Sunday and Effexor today. The Ritalin felt like it's working miracles, helping me relax again, giving me the energy and concentration to stay at the library for 3 hours after class, and making feel a little more comfortable socially. The Effexor made me a little tired today and has already been making me yawn more than usual, making my jaw feel tense. May have to start taking it at night or switch to something else entirely.

DocileOrangeCup posted...

eh what counts as a mental illness?

I've been diagnosed with tourettes but that's really all i've been diagnosed with. idk if depression counts, prolly not

oh yeah social anxiety as well.

probably other shit but idk i have this thing where if something spins a certain way i have to spin it back to how it was first. in video games and in real life it's fuckin weird im twirling about all the time and shit

Just to make it easy, lets go with if you can find it in the DSM-V, it's a mental illness. I'd definitely count depression and social anxiety, as well as personality disorders although I doubt we'll have many on here who have been diagnosed besides maybe a borderline or a schizoid.
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DeathVelvien posted...

Officially diagnosed with Asperger's, an unspecified anxiety disorder, massive depression, and intermittent explosive disorder.

Sounds like me but I don't have depression.
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times of paranoia :(. the future doesn't look favorable to me.
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General anxiety disorder, and depression

Kineth posted...

Nope. Not that I haven't been, but I got my anxiety and manic depression under control.

@Kineth Do you mind if I asked how you got it under control? As in depth or basic as you care to go?

I'd really appreciate it for a number of reasons if it isn't too personal.
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There's definitely something wrong with me
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Suffer from clinical depression. I used to self-medicate when I was a pre-teen/teenager, but a couple of years ago I started getting serious about seeking treatment. I've been ... better? I don't know, I keep adjusting my medicine to try and find a nice balance between feeling like killing myself and feeling like a robot, but it's a challenge. I think I was starting to do better, but stress has put me in a downward spiral for the last couple months, and I honestly don't see it ever getting any better.

At this point, I can barely leave the house and I can't imagine anyway that is going to get better.

I've been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome and depression. I used to take anti-depressants, but not anymore.
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i've been diagnosed with clinical depression, but also dysthymia, and social phobia

i'm pretty sure i'm actually on the autistic scale LMOA

but who cares

edit: also bipolar in a hospital, but they're a joke.
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No
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Depression and social anxiety. They're both pretty bad, I was in therapy and on medication last year, but I stopped.
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Zeeak4444 posted...

Kineth posted...

Nope. Not that I haven't been, but I got my anxiety and manic depression under control.

@Kineth Do you mind if I asked how you got it under control? As in depth or basic as you care to go?

I'd really appreciate it for a number of reasons if it isn't too personal.

I'll try and give detailed enough answers, but yeah, it may be brief. Some of that deals with the fact that I started fighting back about 11 to 12 years ago and some of it has to do with not being comfortable given some of the troll population that this board has.

It's a continuous struggle, obviously, but a lot of it came from challenging my preconceptions and my fears, for sure. The first effort I tried that gave me great gains was focusing on not averting my gaze, more simply stated as looking people in the eyes. Actively doing that erased a lot of the anxiety I had as it opened up a myriad of possibilities that I would be less anxious about pursuing. It also showed me some things that I had failed to observe in others, as well as myself. Finding people that had similar struggles also made me feel less fucked because there were others who had similar problems to my own.

From there, I started be able to better participate in conversation and better observe myself from seeing how others exist and how they dealt with the situations that were complete conundrums to me. After I had accepted that other people were able to see the universe, somewhat like, how I saw it, I started being able to understand and accept how they reacted and participated in life.

I did neglect to mention that throughout all this I had been regularly drinking loose leaf tea (which increases base serotonin and dopamine levels) daily and had been exercising regularly, which also has similar effects.

About 3-4 years ago, I eventually started going out to bars and singing karaoke, oddly enough, because of a user here who invited me out to a movie theater in the area, who never revealed who he was. Anyway, being out in a social setting with people and being able to generate conversation, which is made easier by finding common interests, has definitely helped me get past the plateau that happenstance had left me with.

Not sure if that exactly answered your question since I started rambling. I know I may have left out some details or deceptively important minutia, but that's how I subdued it. It definitely involves a lot of trial and error.

Feel free to ask any questions and describe your situation if there's something that may not be working out.
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I don't have anything. Though two years I was definitely getting drowned by anxiety because I got paranoid thinking the als my dad died from could be genetic. Despite many times being told it was from 9/11 I kept thinking I was getting it. I started losing weight and stopped working out. I just wanted to sleep but I couldn't. Till I just looked myself in the mirror and went to a doctor. Figured they'd help me talk about it. But they just gave me pills which I refused. So I told myself to accept this. Almost like I tried to take myself out of my body and see it in 3rd person. Started listing steps on how to fix it and thankfully I did. It was miserable. I feel for folks who aren't as lucky as I was in being able to break it. Even though sometimes it isn't breakable cause it's a chemical imbalance.
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Bipolar, OCD and anxiety.
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I've not an official diagnosis, but I'd say it's almost certain I have clinical depression between everything (e.g. waning/nonexistent motivation, losing interest in everything, being pretty down most of the time, my self-esteem is always shit, I generally feel things are pretty hopeless, and there's the suicidal tendencies, among other things, and it's persisted for quite a number of years now).
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Depression, severe anxiety, and OCD.
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I was once told I had asperger's by some "doctors" but I think the tests they gave me were completely BS. It was a lot of fill-in-the-bubble true/false stuff, along with that nonsense rorschach inkblot test and some IQ test type stuff.
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Major depressive disorder, severe, recurrent w/o psychotic tendencies as well as panic disorder w/o agoraphobia
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Asperger's, generalized anxiety
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Hypomania (non-irritable), I'm high functioning and dont experience depression (luckily) so it usually benefits me in social settings. I love being around people I just don't like people if that makes sense.
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Clinical depression. I definitely have OCD as well but that one hasn't been officially diagnosed.
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80% sure I have autism
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No.
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Probably, but it's never been bad enough to make me seek help. Its only the last few years I've finally figured out how to work through it though.
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Lmao no
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I also have a weird paranoid thing where I'm constantly afraid that people can hear my thoughts
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I want to have myself sent to Dignitas, so I assume I am.
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I post on CE
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A full 75% of CE (or at least the people who voted) either are diagnosed with a mental illness or think they have one? Wooooow. That explains so much about this place. That's not to make fun of anyone here by the way. But the trolling and the nitpicking over tiny details and the trouble putting yourselves in anyones shoes but your own and so on. It makes sense.
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That_Happened posted...

DawkinsNumber4 posted...

Not too much.

Got a chuckle out of me.

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Anxiety, Depression, NLD, ADHD
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