pondering

[Aweena]

been playing for a long time and have noticed a big chunk of players have some sort of mental disorders or other problems

my self i have add atencive desessive disorder (or somthing like that)
and a depresive personality disorder

pondering if any of you have somthing aswell added the poll to let you be annonymous as not evryone is as open with things like that as i am



edited for more options for you all mainia and

As mania said be respectfull to eatchother this is a delicate matter for some and its still tabu in some countries to be open about it.

[Mania]

I think you should have let us pick multiple choices!

I've mentioned here and there that I was recently diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome (which is an autism spectrum disorder) and bipolar disorder (a personality disorder).

I've struggled with depression for most of my life, but until recently my doctors had missed the upswings of bipolar disorder. (To be fair, so had I. I thought that intense rages with short spurts of giggling was normal. *cough*)

Oddly, I am a lot more comfortable talking about bipolar disorder than I was talking about my depression. Perhaps it's because I feel like talking about my bipolar disorder might help others recognize the symptoms. *shrug*

(By the way, it should go without saying, but please be extra careful in this thread to be respectful of others. This community is amazingly inclusive -- I am very proud of you all for that! -- but sometimes it's easy to put our feet in our mouths.)

[Tahlian]

As I have said in a different thread...I have type 1 diabetes, and have been dealing with it since shortly before my eighth birthday. I'm now 37, so that's most of my life. I used to take insulin shots, but now I control my blood sugar with an insulin pump. I'm amazingly lucky in that to date, I have not had any massive complications from living with this disease for as long as I have.

Studies have shown that people with diabetes are prone to clinical depression, and sadly, I am no exception. At the moment, I do not need medication to control it, but I am aware of what signs to look for in case I do need to go back on medication.

Every day is a challenge for me, just like everyone else...and every day, I'm glad to be alive.

[Ungoro]

I don't think i have any disorders or problems...Although my sister has Asperger's Syndrome and one of my friends whom i hang around with at school has autism. Also in middle school the school actually had a building built for people with mental disorders and when i was at that school there must have been around 10 or so kids that used to have lessons taught in there (The friend i mentioned before used to go there). I used to go to the A Unit (Which is what everyone named it. I s'pose it stands for Autism Unit) every lunch and break and swap Pokémon cards, play games and talk about Runescape...Was a shame though, because the friend i've mentioned many a time threw a doorstop at a teacher and when i walked in late to school two teachers were carrying him from the legs and arms back to the A Unit, and when he saw me he was thrashing and asking me to help him and when i replied back saying i can't get him out of this one he called me a traitor...Two hours later at break time though, he was completely fine and didn't care i didn't help him.

[Ryno]

Everyone, due to humans being bred into so many generations, with all the mutations going rampant, cannot even begin to have a standard called "normal."

That's just my uninformed opinion...

[Karathyriel]

And what if those, who set the standards, are not normal themselves?

[Kamalia]

I would probably consider myself to be rather "normal", I have no heath issues or disorders (That I know of, at least), with the exception of being stressed out fairly easily, but I'm sure that is nothing more than hormones and me overreacting.

And Tahlian, I certainly understand, at least a bit, of what you've gone through and are going through. You see, my younger sister was also diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes about a year ago when she was 11, about right before Christmas. We understood almost much nothing about the illness, and it was quite scary for us. The members in my immediate family are all very close, and it's still hard for all of us seeing her having to take shots every day. She's such a tough cookie, and has accepted it and dealt with it in a way I never could have. I'm so proud of her. She's most likely getting a pump very soon, so hopefully it will help as well.

[Tahlian]

Tell your sister to hang in there, Kamalia. There are times when it's going to suck, yes...but once you get a bit in the swing of things, your life just keeps going on. One day, there will be a cure. *crosses fingers hopefully*

[Emowin]

Heh don't mind me if I take up the whole thread by all the crud I gotta deal with.

Mental Stuff:
ADHD
Depression
Bi-polor
Anxiety
Suicidel tendencys

Phisical Stuff:
Asthma (excersice induced and allergy induced)
Lose joints
Allergys (mostly to assorted animals and some plants)
Overweight (due to #1 on phisical stuff list)
Undiagnosed female issues
Very bad eye sight

But amazingly I have no troubles with high blood pressure, cholesterol, or sugar. Heh I go to the doctors or to donate blood (wich I do on a regular basis) and the person who takes me blood pressure says "hmmm eather my scope is broken or you should be dead." When I ask "why is it high?" The most ansuer is "No...to low. Especially for one who is over weight like you." Diabetes and cancer both run in my family but so far I have doged that bullet. *sigh* And bad bad me none of my issues are medicated, the most I take is a pain killer when I sprian my ancles because they are so sloppy.

[Mania]

Ooh, I have exercise-induced asthma also! In school people always thought I was making that up, but once my blood gets pumping I ... can't breathe and pass out from lack of oxygen. I also have extremely low blood pressure, and an abnormally low body temperature as well. I hate it when I have a fever, because no one wants to believe that 98.6F is a fever.

*high fives Emowin*

[Saturo]

Oh, depression counts.

Seasonally induced depression, on winters. Damn cold month.

[Chrizesu]

I have many personality disorders but you would never notice.

BTW, why do they use the word 'disorder'? Sometimes it's not a bad thing, just like a different flavor.

The 'list':

• Seasonal depression
  Chronic anxiety
  Chronic social anxiety
  tendinitis
  social neglect as a child
  minor compulsiveness
  prone to digestive illnesses
  lactose intolerant (inability to digest the sugar in milk)
  minor illiac sprew (inability to digest wheat gluten)
  possible exercise related asma
  mold allergy
  allergy to alfalfa (stupid grass)

[Mania]

*nods at Chrizesu* I am especially confused as the why Asperger's Syndrome is an Autism Spectrum Disorder. My guess is that it's a political thing more than a scientific thing.

[Chrizesu]

*nods at Chrizesu* I am especially confused as the why Asperger's Syndrome is an Autism Spectrum Disorder. My guess is that it's a political thing more than a scientific thing.

Odd, I have had friends with autism and it was under my belief it is a biological issue as there are Asperger cases that handle themselves very well compared to some sever cases of autism.

[Dulanie]

The are many factors as to what is normal and why people aren't. IMO most of it is just BS. Genetic mutation has increased severalfold over the last 200 years mainly because of increased travel and chemical usage around the world. i.e. everyone is radioactive since the 1950's because of a sattalite that had plutonium on it that burned up on re-entry. So if anyone wants to know "why" you can point to any one of 100's of things. Now that that is taken care of here's my list =)

mental
neurotic with psycopathic and sociopathic tendancies, and a trend toward the criminally insane
Basicly that means I think it'd be a good thing for 90%+ of humanity to die, and would gladly help.
"Genius syndrome" - the same reason Einstien had 7 changes of the same outfit, and couldn't tie his shoes.
And some other things which I am unsure if they are actual "disorders" since I haven't seen a shrink in a few years.

Physical
Arthritis, siezures(which sucks since I wanted to join the military), ulcer, no gall bladder, heart murmur, and migraines(which my neuro meds only made worse >.<)

[Mania]

Odd, I have had friends with autism and it was under my belief it is a biological issue as there are Asperger cases that handle themselves very well compared to some sever cases of autism.

In the US right now, they are working on the next major version of the DSM (Diagnostic & Statistics Manual) -- the book that describes a lot of psychological and mental syndromes and disorders. One of the big controversies (big at least in the circles I run in) is whether or not they will place Asperger's on the autism spectrum or not. Some research goes one way, some the other, and most of the research I've looked into myself is complete bunk. *grin* That's one reason I say that it strikes me as very political rather than scientific.

Suffice it to say that I had a lot of symptoms and behaviors when I was very young that would have gotten me classified with autism had I been young now instead of then, and that I had a lot of symptoms and behaviors when I was an adolescent that would have gotten me classified with Asperger's had I been an adolescent now instead of then, and that I have learned to mask all of those behaviors so completely that only about 50% of my doctors now will accept that there is any credence to any of this.

Arthritis, siezures(which sucks since I wanted to join the military), ulcer, no gall bladder, heart murmur, and migraines(which my neuro meds only made worse >.<)

That's rough -- especially the seizures keeping you out of the military. And I sympathize entirely with the migraines -- my depression meds helped with mine, but not so much with the depression, and now they are switching me to mood levelers that make the migraines worse.

[Vephriel]

I suffered from a severe clinical depression when I was in high school. Not many knew about it, even some of my closest friends still have no idea that I was dealing with that. There wasn't any rhyme or reason to it either - it would affect me at the most random times, and at some points it was bad enough where I was self-harming myself. It wasn't an attention-seeking behavior as I did my best to cover it from everyone. Only 2 or 3 people knew about it, one being my boyfriend who was one of the biggest factors to me climbing out of that dark period in my life.

Anyways, I don't like to dwell on it as it's mostly in the past. I still get periods where I'll slip back into a depressed state of mind, or my mood can go sour at the turn of a coin. Though I've never been diagnosed as bi-polar, sometimes I have strong suspicions that I have a mild case of it. I never took medications for my depression. I have nothing against people who do, but for myself I just didn't want to rely on drugs or pills to make me happy. I don't want that to come across as all self-righteous or anything, I was just very strongly against that for me, so I struggled through it the hard way.

The only real physical disability is a heart murmur I've had since birth. I get worn out very quickly as one of the valves in my heart is 'lazy', it doesn't pump blood at a normal speed therefore I have a lower blood circulation. It got me a doctor's note out of gym when I was in school which was thrilling as I hated P.E.

[Dragonpuff]

Normal is in the eye of the beholder, yeah?

Well, maybe I get to be the first with this one? In grade 10, I was diagnosed as OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). I was doing some very weird things at that time in my life. But, in retrospect, I did things as a kid that I now know were very weird too, so I suspect I've been OCD all my life. Though, I personally don't think I'm actually OCD; I don't seem to fit the profile very well. There's definitely something not 'right' with me, and my doctor says it's OCD, so I roll with that. ;D
I was on medication to help control it for 6 years, but I weaned off of them a year ago, and I've been pretty good so far. Here's hoping I can keep it up!

On the 'disorder' note, I actually prefer it. All it really means is that there is something different about you. Most people think it means 'bad' different, but we know better. The reason I like the term disorder is because I prefer it to 'disease'. I am not diseased, I am not sick, and I am not ill. I am different. That is all.

I'm kinda overweight too, but meh, I don't care. I still kick ass playing soccer. ^-^

[Striv]

I have depression though I haven't seen a doctor for it even though my friends and mom insist I do. I just don't have the time. Otherwise that's it.

[Kalasha]

What my psychologist calls "Depression coupled with Narcisstic personalty disorder"

Which if you get to the core of it means that whenever I get confronted by morons, I go out of my way to make sure they know I think they're morons. Lost quite a few jobs because of that.

It's not that I think I'm better then everyone else, but I can't stand the hypocisy of most people, which fuels my anger and makes me say things I tend to regret later on. Though mind you, some of my best friends love my way of putting douchebags in their place.

For example, at a party some girls I hardly knew told me in hushed tones that they thought a dear friend of mine was a ugly, mean-spirited bitch. So naturally I turn around and shout across the crowded room: "Hey Sandra, this girl here says you're a ugly, mean-spirited bitch!" Everyone heard me ofcourse. So the girls leave all red-faced and humiliated and Sandra and me are laughing our asses off. But it's not like I planned it. The words came out before I really thought of the potential consequences. I just can't stand people bitching about someone I know and it's like my brain refuses to keep it a secret for them. Hypocrisy always sets me off.

My depression (though hard to compare to others) has recently become more manageble, thanks to better medication. You'll still won't see me do backflips down Main Street or anything. But at least a 12 storey jump into oblivion doesnt appeal to me anymore. It's not like I found some wonderful new reason to live, or think the world is such a nice place. I didn't, and it isn't... But at least I know I have some decent people in my life, who care about what happens to me. It's good to know that, even if I can't really feel it like that. But if I start making decisions based on the what I feel, rather than what I know, it would all go down-hill from there.