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What's wrong with you?; The rampant hypochondria thread!
Topic Started: Feb 22 2007, 09:55 AM (887 Views)
Monkey
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I don't want to be diagnosed, though, because then they'll want to treat it, and honestly I just want to feel my natural, bad emotions rather than fake, happy ones.


I also suffer from depression from time to time. It seems to come and go in cycles. I went through a really bad bout of it about ten years ago that had consequences that I won't even go into. I have a nice tattoo for my troubles, though. And some really good writing came out of it, particularly my poetry. :D

But anyways, another cycle of it that happened maybe 5 years ago made it so that I went through four days and nights with absolutely no sleep. I kid you not, I didn't shut down for a minute. I was a zombie. It was so bad I went to the doctor. He put me on Prozac.

Bad stuff :( First of all, I think he way overprescribed me (I know this by comparing my dose to what other people said they were taking. One person I spoke to said she took one pill every other day, and I was taking two daily). I went from not sleeping at all to wanting to do nothing but sleep. I wouldn't clean house, I wouldn't go anywhere, I missed a lot of my college classes (and got low grades that quarter. That's when I failed my one and only class. I was a 4.0 before that) I also gained about 50 pounds which I've never completely lost. I'm not exaggerating.

When I had finally had enough, I tried to stop cold turkey, twice. Big mistake. After a few days, I would get violently angry at the drop of a hat. When it got to the point that I was behaving that way around my kids, it scared me and I went back on the meds. I was able to wean myself off of it eventually, but I'll never take that again.

Besides, it doesn't really change anything. I just went from "I hate my life, and I want to die," to "I hate life, but I don't give a crap."

Right now I'm in a good spell. In fact, I don't know if I've ever felt better. I hope it stays this way, but who knows? Like I said: cycles.
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Taryn Sparrow
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I am undiagnosed of course, but at the beginning of the year I had symptoms consistent with depression, GAD (generalized anxiety disorder), PTSD, (post-traumatic stress disorder), and bipolar disorder. I've also noticed I fit the profile for borderline personality disorder and a narcissistic personality disorder.

The only ones of these I think are actually valid are the depression and GAD. PTSD fades with time as you deal with the fears, and it's been almost 8 months since the accident, (my father rear-ended a car and it got to me because I saw the crash coming but couldn't say anything to stop it). The personality disorders I feel should be diagnosed by a proper doctor before I think they're valid. Bipolar disorder...I took a test for it, and it said I tested with concurrent symptoms. No idea what the hell that means.

But I do know that I have cycles of depression, much like Monkey, and I am fairly sure that feeling worried and scared constantly about little things - and big things - to the point that I sometimes can't sleep at night or think straight...seems to be right there for GAD.

My suitemates in my apartment call me OCD but that's simply because I actually wash my dishes instead of letting them pile up over a period of a week. I clean old food off of my pans instead of letting them sit for days. I dump grease in a can instead of leaving it on the for weeks on end. (True stories).

So yeah, depression and GAD, with possible personality disorders. I'm a hypochondriac, but it's not like I don't fit the profiles. We'll see.
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It's a pity CB closed, because someone (I think Rulz) once posted a really interesting quiz that tested you for all sorts of mental illnesses, and always gave you a good percentage for some of them. It was enough to make everyone seem crazy. I googled trying to find it, but couldn't... I did, however, find another one - not nearly as good, though. My mental illness was... insomnia. :mellow: Really, I had no idea that was a mental illness. And it's one of those things that you can be pretty sure you have, when you sleep three, maybe four hours a night. No test needed for it. :rolleyes:
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will_k_williams
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According to that test, my disorder is anxiety. I'm not sure how true to life that is although I will admit to worrying and over analysing things.

Will
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Not sure how accurate it is but the test says I have Anxiety. Although it might be off because I was too busy laughing at some of the answers for the questions......what they were funny! Well at least to me.....

Anyway I have had my moments of hypochondria, a lot of which happened while I was doing my A-Level in Psychology and we were studying Depression ("The symptoms are this this and this..." "OMG I have those!!! *flail*"). Well there's also the general "I'm going crazy" feeling but that's probably nothing.

Besides that I do sometimes worry that the soft dent patch thing on my head (which ISN'T hypochondria talking, there really is this slight dent towards the back of my head where it's slightly soft, I have to be careful when washing my hair so I don't hit it and give myself a headache) is affecting my mind somehow but I'm probably just over-reacting.
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Well, I took the quiz, and here's what it said for me.

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Trichotillomania
My mental illness is...Trichotillomania, (pronounced: trick-oh-till-oh-may-nee-ah), People with trichotillomania repetitively pull their hair out at the root from places like the scalp, eyebrows, or eyelashes, sometimes causing baldness.

What. the. frick.

I answered only one of those questions with the hair answer! How does the fact that I like to play with my hair translate into me pulling my hair out? :angry: That's so not right, yo!

Although, my cousin does have that, she pulled her eyelashes so much that now she can't grow them anymore. :(
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Here's me:

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Trichotillomania
My mental illness is...Trichotillomania, (pronounced: trick-oh-till-oh-may-nee-ah), People with trichotillomania repetitively pull their hair out at the root from places like the scalp, eyebrows, or eyelashes, sometimes causing baldness.


:angry: I feel like you Tomb. And the worst part is I didn't even answer anything about hair! :o

I noticed the following though:

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Borderline Personality Disorder (376 total) (You scored 2)
42%

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (68 total) (You scored 1)
7%

Schizophrenia (48 total) (You scored 0)
5%

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (45 total) (You scored 0)
5%

Anxiety (73 total) (You scored 2)
8%

Anorexia (27 total) (You scored 1)
3%

Bulimia (35 total) (You scored 1)
3%

Bipolar Disorder (83 total) (You scored 0)
9%

Insomnia (51 total) (You scored 1)
5%

Trichotillomania (51 total) (You scored 3)
5%

Pyromania (16 total) (You scored 0)
1%

Munchausen Syndrome (10 total) (You scored 0)
1%


Pyromania? As in fire stuff, right? Well, when I was younger (right before I went to England) I almost had my room on fire because I was lighting up tissues. :innocent: I don't do that anymore, and I scored 0 there.
But you would think that a mental thingy would stay with a person. :unsure:

And they said I scored 0 with OCD, that's not true. With some things I can be very OCD. :yes:
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I saw this the other day but didn't finish it due to laughing so much, but my result... that's so wrong.

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My mental illness is...Bulimia, Bulimia is an illness that is most commonly found in girls of later adolescence and early adulthood. It is very rarely found in men. It is characterised by episodes of binge eating; eating large quantities of food in a short time. This behaviour may be very severe with enormous quantities of food, most typically carbohydrates being consumed. To prevent the otherwise inevitable consequence of weight gain there are periods of food restriction and often vomiting, laxative abuse or excessive exercising


Nuh-uh, I just can't gain weight, I wish I could, but I don't try to lose it. :blink:

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Borderline Personality Disorder (376 total) (You scored 1)
42%
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (68 total) (You scored 0)
7%
Schizophrenia (48 total) (You scored 0)
5%
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (45 total) (You scored 0)
5%
Anxiety (73 total) (You scored 2)
8%
Anorexia (27 total) (You scored 0)
3%
Bulimia (36 total) (You scored 3)
4%
Bipolar Disorder (83 total) (You scored 1)
9%
Insomnia (51 total) (You scored 2)
5%
Trichotillomania (51 total) (You scored 2)
5%
Pyromania (16 total) (You scored 0)
1%
Munchausen Syndrome (10 total) (You scored 0)
1%


Anxiety I can see, I have been a bit that way in the past, and insomnia, I guess my sleep's often a bit over the place so I can see why it might have said that, I wonder if there's a more accurate test, one which doesn't seem to have been created for laughs. :o
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Mine was Anxiety which can be associated with depression. (Scored a 3 on that)
Yeah, that makes sense to me.

I scored 0 in OCD, which surprised me.

And I scored 2 in anorexia and 3 in bulimia.
Okay, which is it? And can someone be as heavy as I am and have either one of those? :blink:

And I also scored 3 on bipolar disorder, just for good measure.

Tomb
 
Although, my cousin does have that, she pulled her eyelashes so much that now she can't grow them anymore.

:unsure: I do that sometimes. In fact, I caught myself doing it just now. I hope I never get where I can't grow them again.
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I was just going back through this thread again and saw Adam's post suggesting Raynauds as an explanation for the circulatory problem with my hands. Someone suggested this a while ago and so I checked it out on raynauds.org. I don't suffer any of the symptoms other than the lack of circulation and very cold hands.

I've never actually been to a doctor about this as I don't really want to waste their time on something so trivial. It could, at least partially, be attributed to my almost total lack of exercise and the fact that I've been smoking for over a decade.

My father has always had cold hands too but to a lesser degree. I've never noticed his become grey or purple (but again I've not really seen him a great deal in the last couple of decades and when I do we're usually somewhere warm).

I do have a friend and close neighbour who is a doctor so I might ask him the next time I see him.

Will
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Mine was anxiety. (I got a 3.) That is no lie. I didn't need to take that quiz to know that. I worry about stuff all the time. But I don't consider it a debilitating disease.

And the other stuff, I scored:

1-Borderline Personality Disorder
1-OCD
2-Bulimia
1-Bipolar Disorder
3-Trichotillomania

Yeah, I definitely didn't pick any hair ones either, so don't know where that came from. I thought it was interesting that I came up with bulimia. If I ever had an eating disorder (which I never would, I believe), I would think it would be anorexia because I hate to throw up. :blech: It makes me sad when I do, so I don't see how I would do it on purpose.

It doesn't surprise me that I scored in the OCD category. If I had to pick anything off the list besides anxiety that I felt applied to me, I probably would have picked OCD.
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