Anyone dealing with mental health discorders?

I have mental health discorders such as autism(high functioning self diagnosed), generalized anxiety discorder, social anxiety discorder and OCD I also grew up getting bullied and got a lot of all kind of traumatic experiences. I'm corious how many people here have mental health discorders

Yes, I have womanphobia

seksbog34slqto said:

I have mental health discorders such as autism(high functioning self diagnosed), generalized anxiety discorder, social anxiety discorder and OCD I also grew up getting bullied and got a lot of all kind of traumatic experiences. I'm corious how many people here have mental health discorders

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I am not ashamed to say I grew up with depression, GAD, and learning disabilities with OCD.
You are not alone!!!!!
Please realize it's a battle each day, but know that you are not alone as a lot of us may not have the same diagnosis, but we still have the day-to-day struggle.

I am proud to say I see a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist every two weeks+ Meds, which significantly helps. I am and will be a work in progress, but that doesn't mean you or I or anyone else can't have a happy life or something close to that. Keep fighting, and I am very proud of you for admitting it, as it takes a lot and shows your great character.

If you ever need to kick things around, I am always here.

Lastly, I am going to say this no matter what anyone thinks. I think the more we talk about it, the less people suffer. I know some will say we are milking something, but many of us have been born with this. I don't want to get into the debate, but let us support one another, as I think that's what would make this forum different from all the rest.

Exchanger said:

Yes, I have womanphobia

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What symptoms you're experiencing? I think I might have womanphobia too

Mrnewbie said:

I am not ashamed to say I grew up with depression, GAD, and learning disabilities with OCD.
You are not alone!!!!!
Please realize it's a battle each day, but know that you are not alone as a lot of us may not have the same diagnosis, but we still have the day-to-day struggle.

I am proud to say I see a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist every two weeks+ Meds, which significantly helps. I am and will be a work in progress, but that doesn't mean you or I or anyone else can't have a happy life or something close to that. Keep fighting, and I am very proud of you for admitting it, as it takes a lot and shows your great character.

If you ever need to kick things around, I am always here.

Lastly, I am going to say this no matter what anyone thinks. I think the more we talk about it, the less people suffer. I know some will say we are milking something, but many of us have been born with this. I don't want to get into the debate, but let us support one another, as I think that's what would make this forum different from all the rest.

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Thank you for answer I agree with you and wish you all the best in improving. For me dealing with mental health discorders forced me to adapt because it's almost impossible for me to work normal jobs and now I managed to get self employed, but I'm living very isolated life I never learned to socialize properly I'm just staying all the time in home I have 0 friends or anyone to talk to, but I'm used to do this is how mainly I grew up. I haven't got any therapy yet and I'm 19 I plan to live on my own soon and do my best to improve my anxiety I'm always optimistic, but it's undeniable that having mental health discorders caused me severe traumas and I'm not sure if would manage to overcome them I'll try therapy and maybe medication. My mental health significantly improved over the years even without therapy. I used to have extreme social anxiety and was not able even to leave my house without getting severe symptoms of anxiety and now is more of a mild and is easily manageable most of the time. I'm not ashamed either of having mental health discorders I'm even proud that managed to survive and get some little success in some areas of my life regardless of my bad childhood experiences and being treated like I'm less capable by almost everyone.

Mrnewbie said:

I am not ashamed to say I grew up with depression, GAD, and learning disabilities with OCD.
You are not alone!!!!!
Please realize it's a battle each day, but know that you are not alone as a lot of us may not have the same diagnosis, but we still have the day-to-day struggle.

I am proud to say I see a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist every two weeks+ Meds, which significantly helps. I am and will be a work in progress, but that doesn't mean you or I or anyone else can't have a happy life or something close to that. Keep fighting, and I am very proud of you for admitting it, as it takes a lot and shows your great character.

If you ever need to kick things around, I am always here.

Lastly, I am going to say this no matter what anyone thinks. I think the more we talk about it, the less people suffer. I know some will say we are milking something, but many of us have been born with this. I don't want to get into the debate, but let us support one another, as I think that's what would make this forum different from all the rest.

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Thank you.

seksbog34slqto said:

I have mental health discorders such as autism(high functioning self diagnosed), generalized anxiety discorder, social anxiety discorder and OCD I also grew up getting bullied and got a lot of all kind of traumatic experiences. I'm corious how many people here have mental health discorders

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I like everyone has a label for everything, labels labels labels this is not right, this is right, this is the way things should be.

who's to fucking say?????
who is to say what is a disease, what is not healthy and what needs "fixing"? we're all living on a rock floating in infinite nothingness circling a giant ball of fire, just live your life man, you do you, what works for you and don't pay too much attention for "issues".

do what YOU enjoy and focus on what makes YOU a better person every day

I personally don't believe in mental health issues, I think there's a huge spectrum in this world and it's all part of nature.

seksbog34slqto said:

Thank you for answer I agree with you and wish you all the best in improving. For me dealing with mental health discorders forced me to adapt because it's almost impossible for me to work normal jobs and now I managed to get self employed, but I'm living very isolated life I never learned to socialize properly I'm just staying all the time in home I have 0 friends or anyone to talk to, but I'm used to do this is how mainly I grew up. I haven't got any therapy yet and I'm 19 I plan to live on my own soon and do my best to improve my anxiety I'm always optimistic, but it's undeniable that having mental health discorders caused me severe traumas and I'm not sure if would manage to overcome them I'll try therapy and maybe medication. My mental health significantly improved over the years even without therapy. I used to have extreme social anxiety and was not able even to leave my house without getting severe symptoms of anxiety and now is more of a mild and is easily manageable most of the time. I'm not ashamed either of having mental health discorders I'm even proud that managed to survive and get some little success in some areas of my life regardless of my bad childhood experiences and being treated like I'm less capable by almost everyone.

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I would suggest you try shrooms

seksbog34slqto said:

Thank you for answer I agree with you and wish you all the best in improving. For me dealing with mental health discorders forced me to adapt because it's almost impossible for me to work normal jobs and now I managed to get self employed, but I'm living very isolated life I never learned to socialize properly I'm just staying all the time in home I have 0 friends or anyone to talk to, but I'm used to do this is how mainly I grew up. I haven't got any therapy yet and I'm 19 I plan to live on my own soon and do my best to improve my anxiety I'm always optimistic, but it's undeniable that having mental health discorders caused me severe traumas and I'm not sure if would manage to overcome them I'll try therapy and maybe medication. My mental health significantly improved over the years even without therapy. I used to have extreme social anxiety and was not able even to leave my house without getting severe symptoms of anxiety and now is more of a mild and is easily manageable most of the time. I'm not ashamed either of having mental health discorders I'm even proud that managed to survive and get some little success in some areas of my life regardless of my bad childhood experiences and being treated like I'm less capable by almost everyone.

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Stop doing that to yourself, bro. I've never had any mental disorder, so I can't speak on how it is, but I recommend you eat just healthy food for the beginning, as what you eat heavily affects your mod and how you feel. Trust me, start going to the gym it will change your life. Start hanging out, maybe start first going into discord servers and talking with strangers on either discord or Omegle, then maybe try dating apps or travel to some countries, and change yourself for the better; there is just one life; you don't have time to feel anxious or bad you need to try new things and enjoy life, i believe in you, you can do it, please take the going to the gym and eating healthy seriously since it can really change your life for the better! Also try taking ashwagandha it helps a lot about stress, garlic as well, i drink ashwagandha and eat garlic every day.

I think you just label yourself without any evidence you have a real problems. All we have issues but that dont mean we have mental disorders

seksbog34slqto said:

I have mental health discorders such as autism(high functioning self diagnosed),

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You need to do an MRI scan and such to find out. Autism means your brain is built in a different way than of an average person. You can have a lot of autism related behaviors and not be on the spectrum at all.

So you may suffer from anxiety and depression, but that's pretty common.

All I can say is that don't aim too high and be ready to live frugally / below someone's expectations to achieve peace of mind.

Emit said:

I like everyone has a label for everything, labels labels labels this is not right, this is right, this is the way things should be.

who's to fucking say?????
who is to say what is a disease, what is not healthy and what needs "fixing"? we're all living on a rock floating in infinite nothingness circling a giant ball of fire, just live your life man, you do you, what works for you and don't pay too much attention for "issues".

do what YOU enjoy and focus on what makes YOU a better person every day

I personally don't believe in mental health issues, I think there's a huge spectrum in this world and it's all part of nature.

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Dealing with mental health discorders is really interesting and confusing and unless you're expiriencing at the moment you can't really understand it's complex I can't understand myself 5 years ago when I had severe social anxiety and I'd say similar things to myself because I'm not expiriencing the symptoms now. I don't like labeling and using it as excuses, but unfortunately mental health discorders are real for example 5 years ago I used to get symptoms such as when I go in public my face was getting paralyzed my muscles were getting tight, really fast heartbeat, fatigue, I couldn't focus at anything I was in survival mod all the time like I'm chased by bear and because of my symptoms I got bullied and never learned to socialize also I'm likely autistic, but I kinda agree with you and I don't want to use these labels as excuses I'd do my best and try to achieve everything I want regardless of my situation

reaaski said:

You need to do an MRI scan and such to find out. Autism means your brain is built in a different way than of an average person. You can have a lot of autism related behaviors and not be on the spectrum at all.

So you may suffer from anxiety and depression, but that's pretty common.

All I can say is that don't aim too high and be ready to live frugally / below someone's expectations to achieve peace of mind.

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The funny thing is anyone I ever told I have autism never believed me. If I have autism it is high functioning which means my iq is average or above average and don't have any learning disabilities, but still having the rest of autism symptoms. No one knows I have autism or mental health discorders not even my family because I thought it's better to not share these things because they won't understand me they think I'm just shy.
I really hope I'm not autistic that thought is getting me so sad because autism have a lot of DNA components and if I have kids unless there's technology to remove it they can get autism too which I don't thinks is right because 99% of autistic are suffering. Unfortunately I show almost all symptoms of autism even from young age. I never socialized with anyone never I didn't even knew I was supposed I didn't talk to anyone at 1st grade and I graduated 12th grade not talking to anyone just sitting in the corner. Does that sound like a normal person hahahah? I struggle to make things such as facial expressions, tone of voice , body language, making eye contact, I have obsessive interests. But it is what it is I can't change most of that but can improve for sure

sscaz said:

Stop doing that to yourself, bro. I've never had any mental disorder, so I can't speak on how it is, but I recommend you eat just healthy food for the beginning, as what you eat heavily affects your mod and how you feel. Trust me, start going to the gym it will change your life. Start hanging out, maybe start first going into discord servers and talking with strangers on either discord or Omegle, then maybe try dating apps or travel to some countries, and change yourself for the better; there is just one life; you don't have time to feel anxious or bad you need to try new things and enjoy life, i believe in you, you can do it, please take the going to the gym and eating healthy seriously since it can really change your life for the better! Also try taking ashwagandha it helps a lot about stress, garlic as well, i drink ashwagandha and eat garlic every day.

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Thank you for your advice I appreciate it. I already do most of these things. I train weightlifting and boxing also eat healthy and have healthy lifestyle in general I don't smoke drink or do any drugs. But still I have mental health discorders and even tho these things helps a lot they can't cure them, but I believe in myself that I'd eventually overcome my anxiety which is my main problem. I'll try to do dopamine detox and reading books I have problems with social media addiction and procastinaing and that is making my mental health worse

seksbog34slqto said:

Thank you for your advice I appreciate it. I already do most of these things. I train weightlifting and boxing also eat healthy and have healthy lifestyle in general I don't smoke drink or do any drugs. But still I have mental health discorders and even tho these things helps a lot they can't cure them, but I believe in myself that I'd eventually overcome my anxiety which is my main problem. I'll try to do dopamine detox and reading books I have problems with social media addiction and procastinaing and that is making my mental health worse

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What helped me is jut stop your brain for five seconds and whatever way of procrastination you're doing jut stop it and get back to work/productivity

Stop reading the nonsense that internet commentators spout and see a professional.

I just read some of the comments above and there's a lot of stupid bullshit, "I don't believe in mental problems", as if it were something abstract like a mythological creature that needed your belief to exist in practice. Mental illness is as real as trees or rocks.

Anyway, not everything can be solved by growing muscles, keeping your mind busy, drinking water and eating vitamins... there are people who have been severely abused for years and have a lot of mental problems, or have simply inherited these problems and these suggestions from Youtubers and self-help writers are just stupid, inconvenient and inappropriate.

This is a forum where people generally look down on those who have studied because in general, the world is like that, there are a lot of CPA spammers and people who just flood casino links and make more money than doctors, teachers or engineers. But about your mental health, you need someone who is a professional, someone who has studied, not a bunch of bullshit from Youtubers and incels.

See a professional, stop labeling yourself and giving yourself diagnoses based on Google...and above all, don't listen to what internet experts say, seek professional help.

Yeah, get those damn pills for anxiety!

I'm diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). I was diagnosed with PTSD when I was 13, and I go over it more in my 10 year thread here. It's unfortunately what causes me the bulk of my issues.

I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome when I was around 19 years old. It started off with a friend of my mother who asked my mother if I have that, because I behaved very similarly to her autistic sons. At first, I just thought it was a funny remark, although it got pointed out again by other people who have experience with autism. I went in to see a psychologist (for other reasons I'll get to in a bit), and after 7 or so sessions, I was properly diagnosed. If you want me to be honest, I don't experience very many issues from ASD these days. Yeah, I have all of the typical symptoms you'd expect, although I learnt to manage them better as I got older.

Iuzzu said:

Stop reading the nonsense that internet commentators spout and see a professional.

I just read some of the comments above and there's a lot of stupid bullshit, "I don't believe in mental problems", as if it were something abstract like a mythological creature that needed your belief to exist in practice. Mental illness is as real as trees or rocks.

Anyway, not everything can be solved by growing muscles, keeping your mind busy, drinking water and eating vitamins... there are people who have been severely abused for years and have a lot of mental problems, or have simply inherited these problems and these suggestions from Youtubers and self-help writers are just stupid, inconvenient and inappropriate.

This is a forum where people generally look down on those who have studied because in general, the world is like that, there are a lot of CPA spammers and people who just flood casino links and make more money than doctors, teachers or engineers. But about your mental health, you need someone who is a professional, someone who has studied, not a bunch of bullshit from Youtubers and incels.

See a professional, stop labeling yourself and giving yourself diagnoses based on Google...and above all, don't listen to what internet experts say, seek professional help.

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You worded it harsher than I would've, but I agree with what you said here.

@seksbog34slqto, I understand feeling like you might have a specific disorder and wanting to find others to relate to online, but it is important to get it properly diagnosed. The reason I stress getting it properly diagnosed is because there's a lot of overlap between various mental health disorders. For example, many symptoms of autism spectrum disorder can overlap with ADHD or schizoid personality disorder. Knowing which disorder it is (if any) will help you get the right treatment.

Mrnewbie said:

Lastly, I am going to say this no matter what anyone thinks. I think the more we talk about it, the less people suffer. I know some will say we are milking something, but many of us have been born with this. I don't want to get into the debate, but let us support one another, as I think that's what would make this forum different from all the rest.

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Talking about it is important. Many people, including myself, refused to talk about it for a long time. In my case, I just wanted to feel like everything was fine. I didn't want to hear there was something wrong with me or that I would experience worse issues as I got older. These days, I do try to talk about it when I can just in case it helps someone.

seksbog34slqto said:

I have mental health discorders such as autism(high functioning self diagnosed), generalized anxiety discorder, social anxiety discorder and OCD I also grew up getting bullied and got a lot of all kind of traumatic experiences. I'm corious how many people here have mental health discorders

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No worries man. Millions of people suffer some sought of mental illness. They are scared and embarrassed to talk about it. I suffered from general anxiety/social anxiety for many years. What helped me was exercising and unfortunately going on meds to stabilize the symptoms. I cut back on coffee which triggered anxiety. Also, I do acupuncture which really helps. I know a lot of entrepreneurs including myself who suffer from mental illness. Good Luck!

If you are an entrepreneur then .....

Nonused said:

If you are an entrepreneur then .....

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build a company around it, and make that company profitable.

Have had my own struggles with mental health. I've come to realize that there is no real cure. You can only manage it, in whatever way you want, medication and counseling or spirituality.

Mrnewbie said:

I am not ashamed to say I grew up with depression, GAD, and learning disabilities with OCD.
You are not alone!!!!!
Please realize it's a battle each day, but know that you are not alone as a lot of us may not have the same diagnosis, but we still have the day-to-day struggle.

I am proud to say I see a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist every two weeks+ Meds, which significantly helps. I am and will be a work in progress, but that doesn't mean you or I or anyone else can't have a happy life or something close to that. Keep fighting, and I am very proud of you for admitting it, as it takes a lot and shows your great character.

If you ever need to kick things around, I am always here.

Lastly, I am going to say this no matter what anyone thinks. I think the more we talk about it, the less people suffer. I know some will say we are milking something, but many of us have been born with this. I don't want to get into the debate, but let us support one another, as I think that's what would make this forum different from all the rest.

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Adhd, porn addiction, some gross childhood trauma that f*cked me up pretty bad. I was a very cheerfull kid and now I battle and struggle every day and I don't trust pretty nobody, lots of anxiety, low self esteem.

OCD...