How Rampant Do You Think Mental Disease Is On These Forums?

[selfinflikted]

I do not have OCD, but I do have an obsession with getting sticky price tags off of purchased goods.

Thank Science I am not the only one. I thought I was alone in this. Stickers on DVD/BluRay containers really grind my gears.

 

[ihavefoundgod951]

If these people make sense and there opinions make sense, and especially if there opinion is backed up by scripture. Why should we not take them serious?

If we didn't engage with these people wouldn't this be discrimination?

1 in 4 suffer from mental health problems, do you think we should ignore 1/4 of the population?

Most suffer with emotional problems, depression, anxiety, stress ect some with more serious mental conditions such as schizophrenia ect

everybody should be entitled to there opinion (freedom of speech)


LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR!

 

[ihavefoundgod951]

Love Your Neighbor

 

[Rubiks]

I don't see how that was implied at all. You're inferring it, which says more about you than him.

I've met a lot of "village atheist" types. Just go to yahoo answer's religion board and you'll know exactly what I'm taking about. *Shivers*

*Yes, I realize he identifies as a deist

 

[Athene]

How rampant do you think mental disease is on these forums? And do you find it ethical that we often engage online individuals who demonstrate mental disease as if they are normal people who can think logically?

I'm confused by your terminology, are you talking about mental illness like depression or OCD? Or are you talking about mental disabilities which result in learning difficulties?

 

[keith99]

We should shun all the mentally ill, especially those suffering from depression.

Well we should if we admire pre conversion E. Scrooge and want to do all we can to decrease the excess population.

I however prefer to treat such as human beings.

Still I'm not going to defer to or excuse those who may be disturbed who seem to think they are superior to the rest of us and/or are exceedingly rude.

I don't think I fall that far from most here, Christian or otherwise.

 

[ihavefoundgod951]

We should shun all the mentally ill, especially those suffering from depression.

Well we should if we admire pre conversion E. Scrooge and want to do all we can to decrease the excess population.

I however prefer to treat such as human beings.

Still I'm not going to defer to or excuse those who may be disturbed who seem to think they are superior to the rest of us and/or are exceedingly rude.

I don't think I fall that far from most here, Christian or otherwise.

Do you think we should shun 1/4 of the population?
That's on the same level as saying people of a different race are inferior and should live in segregation.

What you are saying is discrimination. Prejudice.

People with depression still think rationally, they are just really unhappy (sad, depressed)

Why do you see these people as inferior?

 

[MehGuy]

I don't think he's being serious..

 

[ihavefoundgod951]

I don't think he's being serious..

I should hope not

 

[MehGuy]

*slaps both hands on chest*

*then says with a shortness of breath..*

I've .. been told.. that I suffer from mental illness..

I have no idea what they're talking about..

 

[redblue22]

*slaps both hands on chest*

*then says with a shortness of breath..*

I've .. been told.. that I suffer from mental illness..

I have no idea what they're talking about..

I see you have shortness of breath. Have you considered that you might be asthmatic? I keep away from such people. Always making excuses and coughing. I don't want some disease coughed on me all the time. Asthmatics do not trust God. If they did, they wouldn't constantly use inhalers. Asthma doesn't really exist. Show me asthmatics in the bible. They just want out of physical labor because it supposedly makes breathing difficult.

 

[LadyJaden]

I have a mental disorder: Bipolar Type 2, Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Panic Disorder. My thinking is not normally impaired. Bipolar is a MOOD disorder. When I am depressed, I do have a negative attitude. I cannot see good in anything. I hurt all over and feel hopeless. When I am manic (it is mild mania because I have Bipolar Type 2), I think very positively, can clean the house from top to bottom, and am very talkative. But I am rational no matter what my mood it.

I despise the stigma of people with mental illness. If you met me on the street you would not know I was sick. I take medicines to help balance the hormones in my brain that are out of whack. I have conquered many of my phobias. I fight hard and I am proud of the person I am becoming. My meds and therapy over the past 12 years have helped me climb out of the hole I was in and has allowed me to change from a bitter and judgmental person who had to have control of everything around me to the gentle loving and nonjudgmental Christian that I am today. Medicine is 50% of the help. If I do not work hard on myself, the meds will help, but the changes in my life would not be so drastic. So please do not fear me or judge me. I am a good person, I love everyone and I am easy to talk to. Do not let a mood disorder cause you to fear me.

 

[Skaloop]

I have a mental disorder: Bipolar Type 2, Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Panic Disorder. My thinking is not normally impaired. Bipolar is a MOOD disorder. When I am depressed, I do have a negative attitude. I cannot see good in anything. I hurt all over and feel hopeless. When I am manic (it is mild mania because I have Bipolar Type 2), I think very positively, can clean the house from top to bottom, and am very talkative. But I am rational no matter what my mood it.

I despise the stigma of people with mental illness. If you met me on the street you would not know I was sick. I take medicines to help balance the hormones in my brain that are out of whack. I have conquered many of my phobias. I fight hard and I am proud of the person I am becoming. My meds and therapy over the past 12 years have helped me climb out of the hole I was in and has allowed me to change from a bitter and judgmental person who had to have control of everything around me to the gentle loving and nonjudgmental Christian that I am today. Medicine is 50% of the help. If I do not work hard on myself, the meds will help, but the changes in my life would not be so drastic. So please do not fear me or judge me. I am a good person, I love everyone and I am easy to talk to. Do not let a mood disorder cause you to fear me.

Good job and congratulations! I am dealing with similar issues (not bipolar, but GAD, depression, and panic) and I am still working on which meds will work best for me. In conjunction with therapy, I am hoping to get off meds if I can but it will take a lot of other personal changes.

 

[LadyJaden]

Good job and congratulations! I am dealing with similar issues (not bipolar, but GAD, depression, and panic) and I am still working on which meds will work best for me. In conjunction with therapy, I am hoping to get off meds if I can but it will take a lot of other personal changes.

I am still tweaking my meds. Bipolar 2 is weird. You have long term deep depression peppered with mild mania called hypomania. Most of the time hypomania is beneficial to me. I am productive, happy, positive and energetic. Right now I am actually stable. I hope to go into remission. That is my goal. But getting the right combo of meds for Bipolar 2 is like trying to shoot a fly in a dark room.

As far as the anxiety, the Panic attacks began when I was 9. I had them everyday until I was 16 and finally I went to my doctor and asked him about them. I did not know they were panic attacks. He put me on a mild antidepressant, which I took for 2 years, and the attacks almost disappeared completely. I got off the medicine and did fine. To this day I sometimes have attacks but it is rare. I have phobias too. I am afraid of heights. But I flew cross country to meet my inlaws in California from Tennessee. It was scary, but I have flown a few times since then. My goal is to conquer these fears. The Bible says that there is no fear in love and perfect love casts out all fear. That is one of my favorite verses. I strive for it.

I do not see myself getting off meds. When I do, my Bipolar rules me. It is not a spiritual thing. It is physiological like any illness of the body. Except the physiological problems in the brain cause mental issues. So I take meds to regulate the hormones (neurotransmitters) Serotonin and Norepinephrine (or Norardenaline), which transmits messages from braincell to braincell. I pray for a full cure from God. I believe God can cure me. But I also know he may not want to. It may be like Paul's thorn in his side, something to help me stay close to God.

 

[Skaloop]

I am still tweaking my meds. Bipolar 2 is weird. You have long term deep depression peppered with mild mania called hypomania. Most of the time hypomania is beneficial to me. I am productive, happy, positive and energetic. Right now I am actually stable. I hope to go into remission. That is my goal. But getting the right combo of meds for Bipolar 2 is like trying to shoot a fly in a dark room.

As far as the anxiety, the Panic attacks began when I was 9. I had them everyday until I was 16 and finally I went to my doctor and asked him about them. I did not know they were panic attacks. He put me on a mild antidepressant, which I took for 2 years, and the attacks almost disappeared completely. I got off the medicine and did fine. To this day I sometimes have attacks but it is rare. I have phobias too. I am afraid of heights. But I flew cross country to meet my inlaws in California from Tennessee. It was scary, but I have flown a few times since then. My goal is to conquer these fears. The Bible says that there is no fear in love and perfect love casts out all fear. That is one of my favorite verses. I strive for it.

I do not see myself getting off meds. When I do, my Bipolar rules me. It is not a spiritual thing. It is physiological like any illness of the body. Except the physiological problems in the brain cause mental issues. So I take meds to regulate the hormones (neurotransmitters) Serotonin and Norepinephrine (or Norardenaline), which transmits messages from braincell to braincell. I pray for a full cure from God. I believe God can cure me. But I also know he may not want to. It may be like Paul's thorn in his side, something to help me stay close to God.

Mine didn't start until earlier this year. I guess I always had anxiety issues, but they didn't manifest in a harmful way until recently. It's certainly a struggle to get the right treatment, either meds or therapy. Fortunately, I have a good doctor and a good therapist helping me out.

 

[LadyJaden]

I see you are an atheist, but I hope you do not mind if I pray for you.

 

[Skaloop]

I see you are an atheist, but I hope you do not mind if I pray for you.

I don't mind, and I appreciate the sentiment, but there's no need for you to do so. Direct your prayers to more important things than li'l ol' me.

 

[LadyJaden]

No, even though you do not believe, you are SO important to God. He loves you! To me, prayer is the best thing I can do for a person. You ARE important.

 

[Skaloop]

No, even though you do not believe, you are SO important to God. He loves you! To me, prayer is the best thing I can do for a person. You ARE important.

I never said I wasn't important. But don't waste your prayers on me when there are people who would need your prayers far more than I.

 

[now faith]

How rampant do you think mental disease is on these forums? And do you find it ethical that we often engage online individuals who demonstrate mental disease as if they are normal people who can think logically?

You know if I did not realize how logical your statement was; at a glance I would have thought a Narcissist had posted it.
You may not want to engage the forums if your idealism condemns engagements with the
Poor individuals.
After all it is not ethical to abuse the mentally ill,if you are normal and can think logically.

Good for you!