What's Your Mental Malfunction

[arcthemonkey]

I thought I might point out that in the process of doing a research paper on ADHD, I learned that it's not ever called ADD anymore.

ADD is an archaic term for ADHD predominantly inattentive type. It may seem strange that you can have ADHD and not actually be hyperactive, but it's a step up from the days when you could have ADD, ADD-H, ADDP (I think), so on and so forth. It's even better than the days before those when ADHD was called "Minimal Brain Damage."

So yeah, there are three types of ADHD:
ADHD predominantly inattentive type
ADHD predominantly hyperactive/impulsive type
and
ADHD combined type

All of them are called simply ADHD.

Also, Hyperactivity doesn't mean you are bouncing off the walls. Fidgiting and other nervous habits like nail biting can be symptoms of hyperactivitiy, and as implied by the three types, hyperactivity and impulsivity go hand in hand.

In other words (even I was wrong about this long ago in my earlier post in here), nobody here has ADD, because ADD doesn't exist.

ADHD.

In other news, I went back on ritalin for a bit, and while it helped my hyperactive symptoms (I stopped fidgiting entirely) for a week and a half, it did almost nothing for my inattention. After that week and a half, the fidgeting came back and I was left with nothing but side effects of mild sedation and insomnia. Now I'm on Adderall (Amphetamine Salts) and while it does pretty much diddly for my fidgeting, I'm much more focused and I have no negative side-effects! Joy!

 

[Roman Candle]

Every six months I think I'm going totally mad, but then realise that it's my prescription for my glasses going out of date. My wonderful brain, full of those yummy teenage paranoias, keeps implying that I'm seeing people chasing me and animals running around at the sides of my vision, because apparently it doesn't accept the possibility of me seeing a blur. Thanks brain, (anyone who's ever been in a sensory deprivation tank will know what I mean ).

While this isn't particularly relevent to my actual 'mental disfunctions', (tourettes and dyslexia), it does have a strong message. And that message is, be careful with self-diagnosis.

Edit:
Ironically, I spelt dyslexia wrong while writing this :p

 

[Zodiac]

I HAVE BIPOLAR DISORDER AND NO ONE UNDERSTANDS ME!!1

I'M ON 9999 MEDS AND NOTHING WORKS

LOOK AT ME PLZ

^ bane of a loving God (that no one believes in, lolz)

 

[Grandor]

I can't say I have any disorders however what people think about me bears down on me a lot. Negative thoughts by others can ruin my whole day or week.

 

[Ratty524]

When I was very young I had this hearing infection. It caused me to mumble a lot since that is all I heard. Other than that... I don't really know if I have any other "disorders".

 

[Erichermit]

I have been officially diagnosed with ADD, but Im not sure if I truly have it. I find I function just fine without my medicine, though a bit distracted yes, but I mean.. Not everyone is supposed to have a superfocuessed superattention mind, right? The medicine DOES make me pay more attention, but Its like I turn into a robot.. Which I feel probably shouldnt happen? I also have a big fidgeting problem, but nothing really big. I just tap my foot or play with things that are around me.

So Uh... Maybe I do or dont? I dont know =P I only take my medicine on the days where I have a super hard test and try to avoid it in other cases.

 

[clive owen's secret identity]

I have babyshakin' disorder and Dog kickin disorder.

 

[Bogus]

I'm surprised you want to go into psychiatry after your comments about the medication, though. Wouldn't psychology and therapy be more suited to you? Psychiatrists don't do much nowadays aside from prescribing medication and making big wads of money, therapists do all the good stuff. (There are still psychiatrists who do their own therapy, but they're a dying breed and almost exclusively have private practices.)

Edit: Lithium is old school, it apparently has all sorts of bad side effects. They don't use it anymore, but there are other drugs that do the same thing that they use now.

I completely forgot about this thread, so this is a bit late(and probably repetitive as I tend to forget things right after I've said/written them and end up saying it again, so I'm sorry if I've said it already.)

I'm a silly mook, that's why. I said Psychiatry, I meant Psychology. Apparently there is little difference in the education however, as I seem to have to take the same classes either way. I want to stay far away from the meds. I want to be the one that talks to patients and helps them through their issues via friendly discussion and such.

Lithium is old school, but was still used when I had these issues. A seven year old that was in the same facility as I was (I was fifteen at the time), was on it. After learning he was on it I was surprised that my doctor told my mother I was too young to be on it. She had researched it (half-assed, but still) and told him that's what I should be on. After much arguing with her, he obliged and that is one of the many "meds" I mentioned in my previous post. I was also on Wellbutrin and another that's name escapes me, it was an anti-psychotic I was told.

All of those combined and I was actually worse. At one point during the time I was on Lithium, I blacked out and when I woke up I was in my bathtub bleeding heavily from my wrist. No one was home, so I cleaned myself up and went to sleep, the next day I stopped taking the pills and told my doctor to shove it. I haven't been to a doctor since.

This was of course quite a few years ago, I'm hoping they've stopped giving patients Lithium, especially those under eighteen. It's been proven that these medication actually make depression worse when given to minors. I think I just ran across one of the worst Psychiatrists in medicine...but that was then, I'm fine now.

 

[Chiyo Osaka]

EDIT: Nevermind...

 

[Neopilos]

A massive inablity to get laid. Which is probably linked to: playing animal crossing, spending 50+ hours watching tv a week(in an average school week) and sucking at relationships. I also have central orditary process dissorder and I through up every time I eat or smell ANY sea food.

 

[Megadeth425]

So far I've gotten
-ADD, because apparently I have no attention span, rather than just not caring
-anti-social personality disorder, as I rarely feel remorse for telling people off and I can't be bored
-OCD, for a myrdiad of things
-oppositional defiant disorder, because I have a short fuse, aren't unquestioningly subservient to adults, and am an anarchist.
-misanthropy, because I prefer quiet and don't get along with most people
Mind you, the second, fourth, and fifth are just pure bull.

 

[WeAreSuperhero]

Well, I'm absolutely fine, at least compared to you lot. I occasionally suffer from paranoia. Which in no way means that I'm a paranoid person, or that I have some sort of a disorder.I just occasionally think the worst of people.

I've had relationship issues in the past O dear lord, hes socially isolated and must be kept in a little cage) but that doesnt mean that I'm some sort of isolationist hates-relationships weirdo who snogs his pillow because he cant get any because he hits his girlfriend whenever shes nearer another boy than me. I swear down people are over reacting with regard to these mental conditions.

Of course, I'm probably biased because I've heard people talk about stuff like 'Oh, yeah i have x disorder and y disorder' when they clearly dont, so its made me a bit skeptical of the whole matter, and personally I dont have any weird disorders which again makes me biased, I suppose O hes not very sure, thats obviously a disorder? :O)

 

[Torik]

I have serious relationship issues... Every girl I date turns out to be a slut or a little too crazy for me, and ends up leaving or freaking the hell out of me... I wish I had better luck...

 

[Kraft]

Pyromaniac,
A bad habit of Procrastination,
And some weird habit of thinking that everyone hates me...

I mean, on this forum even, if anyone was to say anything to me, about me, what I might of said, one of my maps, or title screens, I just automatically think that everyone hates me, even though it was just that one persons opinion... (yes, I am looking straight at you Myonosken (or Silent Alarm) :D)

I have gotten mostly over that problem, just by getting exposed to it so much, but still... Sometimes...

I also have an annoying habit of thinking about something that I did wrong that day. Over and over again, that is all that I can think about!

Man, I really messed up that question on that test... Oh man, I am thinking about it again, think of something else... My computer... the internet... the right answer to the question on the test... the wrong question on the test... Man, I sure sucked that one up...

I get that a lot, but only for major mistakes. I just can stop thinking about them!


Anyway, yeah. I really dont have any mental problems, just a few bad habits...

 

[sixtyandaquarter]

Kraft, don't worry - not everyone hates you, I'm sure someone likes you somewhere.
Obviously I'm joking. I'm sure there's not really someone out there... again bad joke.

I'm the same way, I often think people think less of me - but usually only online. In real life the interactions are far different for me, and it doesn't leave that void of something - personality? - that leads to this feeling of distance cold resentment.

And since I started this thread, and already posted two or more times, I'll add that I have problems with expression. I can't really express myself or thoughts to people I know, if I'm really stressed out I can't go and turn to a friend. I'll do so, but it's escapism - I'm not confronting my thoughts. I can do it with a complete stranger, but not someone I know.

This works with goals and positive things too, like if something happens I feel very good about. I'll tell a near stranger, in passing conversation on the bus if ever, but not a friend I've had for years and knows me better than I do myself.

I've been told, back when I was forced into therapy, that it was a condition I needed desperately to over come. But, then again, it has kept my social life fairly active at times. Constantly meeting new people when the ones I've become to acquainted with someone to open up.

 

[sahrs]

I have light auditory processing difficulties...

 

[Cheeze]

I'm not sure what all I have. I know that I'm afraid of hights, and Every now and then i just get the feeling someone is stareing at me (But I do think my house is haunted...A lot of people do.) sometimes i just stop and totally forget everything that I was doing and i have to back track and then i end up remebering. Atleast I'm not like my cousin.

He is an Alchoholic (He says He is a Drunk, Alchoholic's go to meetings). He fell off of the 9th story of a building and landed on the first or third story balcony (It stuck out further than the other ones) He survived and it messed with his brain alittle, Shatterd his arm, Collapsed one (Or both) Lungs, and messed up his ankle. When he gets bored he sits there talking to himself outloud. He says he talks to all of us in his head and we are talking to him in our heads, He thinks everyone can read his mind. He is a good man. Just let him get bored for awhile and he will come up with some good ideas. He makes up alot of words and names ( Dick Dickerson, Mike Suck C**kerton and stuff like that) It is better when he is drunk though. He doesn't talk to himself as much.

 

[Dawne]

I mean, on this forum even, if anyone was to say anything to me, about me, what I might of said, one of my maps, or title screens, I just automatically think that everyone hates me, even though it was just that one persons opinion... (yes, I am looking straight at you Myonosken (or Silent Alarm) :D)

Yeah I can relate COMPLETELY!
I've been a member here for over a year now and I'm on pretty much everyday, but have only posted like 10 times

Why? because I'm afraid people will hate me for posting

LOL! Typing that makes it sound SO much more lame':|

 

[The Cry of Fallen Angels]

Besides a very "eccentric" point of view on the world, I don't think I have actual mental malfunctions. Have been times that I had mood swings as if I were pregnant though, for which I credit drugs.

 

[SPN]

In my head, I've come to realize that at times, I am a very sick and cruel person. it's weird...usually I act nice to everyone (was brought up good *highfives Mom*) but in my head, if personal gain is out of the question, then I find myself thinking rather indifferent thoughts towards basically everything.

Also, as someone mentioned on the first page I believe, I too suffer from very random, chaotic thoughts. I would be thinking one thing, then something would catch my eye and I'd be lost in new strands of thought. I guess that also makes me a visual thinker; seeing the big picture, but never being able to figure out the steps to get there. This also makes every dream I have very chaotic, with scenes remaining "consistent" for no more than a minute.

Sort of bonded with the cruel mindset, for lack of a better word, I'm an attention whore. If I'm doing something, I better make sure that half the world knows about it. This leads me to act nicer towards people, and to try to humble myself severely when posting things like maps or game demos, only finding out that deep down, I don't realize that I'm acting that way to get attention.

Those two things also bond very well, I guess, with my bad case of perfectionism. Everything I see looks good at the time, but as I continue to look at it, my thought process, plus my chaotic thinking, plus my perfectionism immediately picks out things that don't quite look right to me, but that the average Joe and Sally wouldn't really notice.