Archive for September, 2009

i dunno how to start this…..im a mess…do you have bipolar or ocd and still feel that u can live healthy like normal people do?….i have both ocd and bp and right now i have no one to talk to …or i just dont wanna talk to same ppl cuz i feel i bore them with the whole thing…i feel like every minute that passes by from my life i could be dead cuz i think of death a lot …i tried everything to make it right..i tried meds and didnt work out..i had about 7 drs who i end up fighting and never go back to again…i push ppl away who want to be friends with me cuz i get angry from the simplest things and i dont find jokes as jokes i usually find them insulting and i end up kicking somebody…only ones in my life that make me feel a lil better are my pets…have u ever felt that u actually dunno who u r or what u want ?…if anyone of u have something good to tell me or help me with then id apreciate that alot..and if u wanna start giving silly words then u rather not…thanks ..
im ocd and bp since birth

yeah im a mess too i feel the same way.. i constantly reminisce about death and how much better it would be.. i feel as if i have no one in the world and everyone sees me as a strong person but that’s because i dont show my emotions much.. i pretend as if everything’s okay when im really suffering and need help.. but i dont bother people with my problems bcuz life’s about being on your own.. why tell others when everyone else have their own problems? so yeah everytime you think "life’s a bitch," just think, MAYBE THE GOOD PART JUST HASNT ARRiVED YET.. and soemtimes i feel i just want to dieee. but hey you live, you live to see the next day and what better things are in store for you. so just hang on there =)

Please help my worrying mind - seriously! I am 26 in 2 months (some might still consider that young) but looking ahead, in 4 years time I will be 30! In 14 I will be 40!!

‘Getting old’ has never been an issue before but all of a sudden I am starting to panic. Now I appreciate that this might p*ss some people off (you probably think ‘oh shut up you moaning a$$hole!’) but I am starting to worry.

My youth is over for good now, I am at the a$$ end of my twenties.. so I am genuinely wondering how long of ‘being young’ I have left. 4 years? I feel like life has flown by and I haven’t done as much as I should have done - so I gotta make the most of what I’ve ‘got left’.

So… at what age do you officially stop being ‘young’ in societies eyes?

And please no ‘your only as old as you feel’ crap. Be realistic.

Thanks.

You’re officially no longer young when you have to stop and work it out from from your date of birth whenever someone asks how old you are.

Once you really do stop counting and just don’t care anymore, that’s it, you’re there. It’s not worth worrying about. When it happens, you don’t care anyway.

I watched a documentary of Nostradamus which indicated that there will be a serious event that will happen in 2012 where it either restarts all of life as we know it today and start anew, an ice age will come, and other talks of world disasters and food shortages. From what I can see I think it is already starting. People are in panic now from the economy, many countries are starving, global warming, a lot of people are homeless, recent disasters such as the katrina, also an outbreak of the the swine flu. It gets you to start thinking it Nostradamus was right, these events are occurring close to the time 2012 where we will see the product of today’s events. It gets you into thinking are we really coming to an end so soon.

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Where were all the "Predictions" BEFORE 9/11?

What about all the hype of Y2K?

2012 is nothing but BULLSHIT and NONSENSE!

Nothing will happen in 2012 that didn’t happen in 2011 and won’t happen in 2013. IT IS A SCAM… A HOAX… Bullshit used to sell books and movie ticket! NOTHING will happen in 2012 that won’t happen in 2011 and 2013. Stupid, gullible people will believe anything… This is another Y2K and Bible Code.

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???????? Penn & Teller: The End Of The World:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=9182939

???????? Penn & Teller: The Apocalypse
Official Sho.com Video Preview: http://www.sho.com/site/video/brightcove/series/title.do?bcpid=14033851001&bclid=28919763001&bctid=28992656001

???????? A Brief History of the Apocalypse
2800 BC - today…
http://www.abhota.info/end1.htm

???????? World to End in 2012 (Check Back for Updates)
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/080508-bad-doomsday.html

???????? World to End in 2012: A Hoax Gone Too Far?
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/090614-end-of-the-world-hoax.html

???????? End of the World in 2012 (Cont.)
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/090615-earth-doomsday-2012.html

The End Is Coming in ‘2012′?
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/2012-roland-emmerich.html
Few people have destroyed the world more than Roland Emmerich. In his mega-hit "Independence Day," aliens laid waste to pretty much every metropolitan center on the planet, and in his eco-thriller "The Day After Tomorrow," much of the northern hemisphere finds itself buried under ice. In his third crack at presenting the apocalypse, this fall’s "2012," Emmerich taps into the angst of thousands of astrologers, doomsday enthusiasts, and conspiracy theorists who fear that a massive cataclysm will strike the earth on December 21 of that year. Yet unlike previous dates tied to the Earth’s expiration, this one has its roots in various sources throughout history including interpretations of the Mayan calendar, astrology, and the ancient Chinese fortune-telling text the "I-Ching."

???????? Nibiru and Doomsday 2012: Questions and Answers
http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/ask-an-astrobiologist/intro/nibiru-and-doomsday-2012-questions-and-answers

???????? The End is Nigh — Again: Scientists Say ‘No Way’ to Solar Tidal Doom
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/planet_alignment_000309.html

???????? The Planet X Saga: Introduction
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/planetx/

???????? ‘Parowan Prophet’ Predicts U.S. Will Be Nuked by Christmas
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/081215-parowan-prophet.html
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CHECK THE DATE…

???????? 06/06/06: Another Date with Para-Science
http://www.livescience.com/history/060525_numbers_game.html

???????? The Psychology of ‘Knowing’
http://www.livescience.com/culture/090319-bad-movie-knowing.html
Though the plot is fictional, this scenario has occurred many times in the real world. In 1997 Michael Drosnin published a best-selling book titled "The Bible Code," in which he claimed that the Bible contained a code (hidden in numbers and letters) accurately predicting past world events. Drosnin’s work was later refuted, with critics demonstrating that the "meanings" he found were simply the result of selectively choosing data sets from a vast sea of random letters.

Similar "hidden codes" were found in other books such as "Moby Dick" and "War and Peace," demonstrating that any sizeable text can produce such codes if you look long enough.

In psychology, the tendency for the human mind to find coincidences, patterns, and connections in random data is called apophenia.

???????? Apophenia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia
Apophenia is the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data. The term was coined in 1958 by Klaus Conrad,[1] who defined it as the "unmotivated seeing of connections" accompanied by a "specific experience of an abnormal meaningfulness".

???????? Open-mindedness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T69TOuqaqXI&feature=channel_page

???????? The problem with anecdotes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPqerbz8KDc&feature=channel_page

???????? The Superstitious Pigeon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f15PNrk94kg&feature=channel_page

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I’ve had OCD for about 5 years now. I obsess over everything, girls, things that cause me pain, stupid things about myself (the way I look) how my friends are, and too many things to mention. It really drives me crazy, it’s like I don’t have a minutes peace in my mind… I end up focussing on things that really are stupid and pointless, but they carry on for weeks on end. I am going to see a counsilor about a few of my issues, and the doc did perscribe me some medication… all that did was alter my personality and made it worse! So I’m off that!

I’m almost depressed to the point of not knowing whats reality any more… I’ve completely changed as a person and everything seems to knock me back… even minor things that when I was younger I would’nt care about.

Is mental OCD just a trap you get yourself into, and is it possible to get through to the other side?

Part of OCD is "a trap you get yourself into" in that it is patterned behavior that can be changed by developing new patterns. But I would recommend you give the medication, or another one that is, another chance because part of OCD can be a chemical imbalance, and that is certainly true of the depression that you are experiencing. The counselor is a very good idea. He/she can help you come up with new behaviors to replace the old obsessive patterns and also with time get to the bottom of why you need to feel this much control over every detail of your life. It is entirely possible to "get through to the other side" so take heart and have hope. Just remember that you are the creator of your own reality and you can create a new one.

I’m being treated for depression and anxiety with pills that just make me implusive as well x.x Some days are better than others. Yesterday must have been pretty bad, because I woke up this morning on the bathroom floor with a sewing needle stuck through my lower lip. It wasn’t through the skin you’d pierce if you wanted a lip ring, it was through the actual lip, and the other end was resting on my teeth. I guess it went through about 1.5cm of flesh, so it wasn’t that bad. I took it out again, and to my surprise it didn’t really hurt or even bleed, just felt a bit bruised.

I’m panicking now though because I realised this was a needle I’d been using for all sorts of things, including popping ink cartridges, wax sculpting, and cleaning the crud out of my Xbox controller. I’m pretty sure I didn’t have the sense to sterilize it last night. The lip’s swollen to about twice the size and it’s sore, and I can still just about feel the hole/channel that the needle made. How can I try and prevent this wound from getting infected? Also, how can I get the swelling down, cos I can barely talk or eat at the moment?

Please don’t say ‘go to the doctor’ because that’s not an option for me
Well, I know it’s kinda differant, but when I got my lip pierced, I cleaned it with surgical spirit, apparently it’s too strong, but I would advise cleaning the whole with it to prevent infection.
If you have no surgical spirit, then anything antiseptic, like tea tree oil will do.
To stop the swelling, try an ice pack or a bag of frozen peas, even just cotton wool with very cold water on.
Good Luck, and I hope this helped =)

I suffer from reoccurring depression, now anxiety, and have never been unable to fall asleep normally. Usually, I am up til all hours of the night, until my body has no choice but to fall asleep. Lately, I’ve been catching myself, just when I’m about to fall asleep, and wake up. I have this fear that I am not going to wake up. I sleep better during the day, as if the sun is going to protect me. I don’t know what I’m going to do. I need my benefits, and have 4 years on the job. I am always late, cause I’m always tired in the a.m. Which is a clear source of the anxiety. Now the depression is setting in cause I have to go back to work, but I am no better today, than before. I know I need help because I am having thoughts of ending it all. I have to do something and need serious help. My doc would not sign FMLA papers for me to be off work and prescribes med, which I can’t take because either I think I will choke, or fear of being a zombie. Please help!!!

Uhm, I suppose you could call in sick and say you had some sort of stomach flu, but you shouldn’t be getting a ton of time off work for this and if you try and continue to refuse treatment, you’ll probably get fired. If you won’t take medication, why not invest in some cognitive behavioral therapy or something like it? CBT has the exact same success rate for treating depression and anxiety as antidepressant medication without all the side effects or the high relapse rate. Depression is not strictly a physical ailment and definitely has psychological roots.

Sometimes people do get disability for mood issues, but only if they are severe and often will get rejected the first time around. Going on welfare and attempting to get disability is certainly not a path you want to go down when you are able to seek out the treatment that you need, heal and have a normal life. Consider the medication and definitely try therapy. A lot of insurance companies will cover CBT (for the reason that I stated above, success rates and it’s not a long term therapy, often only lasting a few weeks to a couple of months).

Don’t you think people will end up with OCD for washing hands if they are extra extra cautious of hand washing etc? even after the pandemic, people might get used it too much and it might cause ocd. i hate it when ppl do extras extremely.

you need to do more research on OCD before your assoicate it washing hands everyone seems to always attach it washing hands and being clean theres several types of OCD out there that you could not even imagine but to answer your question NO i dont think people can get OCD because there being cautious about Swine flu

Religion and OCD really don’t mix?
This stuff, like in this question is over the top. Now every time I scratch myself I can obsess about scratching 666 into my body and going to hell. I just shouldn’t look this religious crap up b/c now I have another OCD thing to worry about and you know what, I’m not obsessing about whether I did it on purpose or not becuz it’s driving me crazy. This religious extremism has to stop. I believe in God but this extremism is not right or Godly. How is this supposed to help you???

This was the question I’m referring to:
Religion and the mark of the beast?
I’m just asking a question- no need for over the top comments or reactions.
Some people believe that if you are given the mark of the beast in the end of days that you are in trouble. What if you are devout follower of God and the mark is forced upon you. Does that mean you are forever damned? What if you draw or tattoo it as just a joke or whatnot. Are you going to hell for that? I don’t understand why a symbol should punish someone.
I’m on meds for OCD just so u kno

Hint: The mark of the beast is not a physical mark, it is an attribute.
What are the attributes of the devil?
Pride and wickedness.
Think about it. The Bible often speaks in metaphor. I suggest to you this is a metaphor.

I feel like the bottom is falling out of my world. I haven’t had steady employment for most of this past year. I’m trying to sell my house to get out of the mortgage and move back in with my parents, but it’s been months and the only buyer I could find had such bad credit that she couldn’t get a mortgage. I’m having a very hard time finding tenants even at this point.

The anxiety’s so bad that I couldn’t handle my crappy part-time retail job; I got fired and now I’m back to sitting at home all day. I’m having a hard time handling job-searching either; I just question my ability to handle a job right now.

I really really really just want to buy a plane ticket somewhere far far away and disappear for a while, even if it’s only for a month or two, but how can I do that if I can’t dump the house?

I’ve worked 60+ hour weeks for most of the past five years, sacrificed most of my 20s with no social life or anything, and feel like it was for naught and I will now lose everything I worked so very hard for. My stomach’s constantly in knots and I feel like I’m going to end up with ulcers, a heart attack, or both of I don’t learn to mellow out.

http://www.earth.org/travel-guide/Antarctica-World/plane-and-cheap-airline-tickets

I just started high school, after spending an entire summer getting over a messy break up, and now I keep seeing my ex in the halls. Plus I have a horrible phobia of crowds and I have to fight just to keep from having panic attacks in the hallways. I’m always so exhausted and worn down by the end of the day. I have no classes with any of my friends either. So I’m basically completely alone the entire day.

Christians make better friends than hedonistic bloodsuckers. Also they’re not the homo bashers that the slavemaster corporations want you to think. Only old-fashioned Darth Vaders been trying to incriminate the god people as a hateful "race" so that humans can go back to the ways of unequality, war, and slavery. The bad economy is just an excuse to make the oil companies richer. The world is possessed by judgemental cliquey followers. You need to find positive, caring people that want to change this hell.