I love tripping balls once in a blue moon but I have dysthymia and my uncle has bipolar depression. Big fear of mine is going crazy(schizophrenia, heavy onset depression or anxiety, or psychosis). I may have gone through some kind of psychosis when I was at my peak psychedelic use but I also might have just been super depressed already and paranoid that the drugs would make me go crazy. Psychedelics have helped me get through a lot in my life. I would like to keep using proactively. Are my concerns valid? What are your thoughts on the topic in general? 21m if it makes a difference
Hi everyone
This is my first time visiting here. I recently hopped off the fence as I started to realize that I do want children with my boyfriend, but my severe anxiety had been forcing me into denial and fear. I have very bad adhd and anxiety. Sometimes this leads to depression too. I'm doing well right now which is what started to make me feel maybe I'm capable of handling pregnancy and being a parent, but I'm still terrified. Now this would be years down the road so I do have time to prepare.
First, I'm in a good place with my body right now. But I'm really really unhappy at heavier weights. I would say I no longer have an eating disorder but still struggle to a degree. I am so scared that pregnancy body changes will trigger me or I would relapse. I'm terrified of belly pouches, extra skin etc. I realize it's natural, it's not bad, but i still feel this way.
I'm working as hard as I can to reduce my anxiety but it's very intense. I get it generally over everything. Mostly things in the future I worry about.
My adhd is also so bad. I'm incredibly forgetful, absent-minded and struggle to get chores and tasks done. I know most women also don't take adhd meds either during pregnancy or breastfeeding.
So what I want to ask if what is your experience- was it better/worse than expected- how are you handling it?
Full disclosure, both of our parents are Chinese, and I am my parents' only son.
My girlfriend and my family both immigrated to our country when we were 10 years old. In her case, the language barrier, change in environment, and familial pressure caused her to develop depression and anxiety. I don't know the exact detail, but she was at least officially diagnosed since the beginning of high school and has been on medication since then until the last three months. She was never suicidal and never had to be hospitalized. She and I both attended the most prestigious university in the country and got a degree out of our times there. Her illness negatively affected her grades in high school and university, although she was still one of the top students in highschool and she had a mediocre grade in university. After graduating, she basically took it easy for the next several years to recover from her mental illness. During that time, she went into college and took lessons in art, held temporary jobs here and there, sold paintings, and in the past two years she has been working on being a life coach. She still exhibits some symptoms of mental illness: I discussed them in two of my recent posts. However, ever since we moved in together four months ago, she has been improving in pretty much every issue that I had with her. She now holds a full-time job as a retail clerk, and is hoping to get accepted into a one-year full-time college program that will land her a job that more aligns with her interests.
My parents are conservative Chinese, they still see mental illness as a massive stigma. They don't want to take the risk of their future generation afflicted by mental illness. When they found out about my girlfriend's history, they basically freaked. To be fair, I should have told them about her problems sooner. I failed to communicate to them about it because I just didn't think my girlfriend's illness was that big of a deal and because my parents caused the breakup of my previous relationship. They told me straight up that the chances of them accepting my girlfriend as a future partner is extremely low, and that they wouldn't attend our wedding if we end up getting married. They told me to break up with her when I get the chance to. They tried to convince me by telling me that if we have kids, most of them will be afflicted with some form of mental illness.
Of course I defended my girlfriend, because I found their reasonings to be fuelled primarily by paranoia,
... keep reading on reddit ➡I'm wondering what the influence of having a history of mental health problems would be on a psychiatrist. What effect would have on practicing psychiatry.
I have a history of mental health issues, especially with ADHD( but not limited to), and I'm considering taking the psychiatry specialty.
One of the reasons I'm considering specializing in psychiatry is because I think my experiences with the mental health problems I've had may help me help my patients better. Especially in the field of ADHD, i think this may help me relate with my patients and be a better psychiatrist, although I think there is possibilities of this backfiring and barring me from understanding my patients properly by projecting my experiences or the way I've seen things into what they tell me...
I'm also wondering what the effect of other disorders suffered by a psychiatrist could have on their practice, could disorders like depression, psychotic behavior, or others be worsened by the close contact to patients suffering these?
It seems like it could be quite straightforward with things like anxiety disorders or phobias, where having suffered them may help you treat better other patients, but i wonder if my assumptions are real and if it correlates properly with other disorders...
TLDR: Is it a good idea to practice psychiatry if you have had psychiatric issues? Can you expect it to worsen or improve your work?
Have you ever used any drugs, including alcohol or cannabis? Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham are particularly interested in understanding more about the association between substance use and mental health in people with a personal or family history of psychotic disorders. We are also interested in understanding more about the impact of various substances on mental health in the general population as well. We would deeply appreciate it if you could take between 25 to 40 minutes to participate in our online anonymous survey-based study. The study varies in duration depending on your answers to questions about your drug use and your participation in a writing task section.
We do not collect identifying information such as your name, email address, or IP address. Questions include items related to basic demographics, drug use, psychiatric diagnoses, and mental health measures as well as opportunities to tell us more about a significant life experience in your own words.
To participate, you must be at least 18 years old and fluently read and write English. You are not required to have experience with illegal drugs or to have a family or personal history of psychotic disorders to participate. If you have any questions, please contact Haley Dourron (hdourron@uab.edu)
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Principal Investigator: Haley Dourron, B.S.
Sponsor: UAB Department of Health Behavior
We are undertaking our final year psychology project and are looking into interoception and how it can affect an individual's personality.
We would highly appreciate it if you can spare up to 45 minutes (at the most) of your time to fill out our questionnaires.
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I knew that taking psychedelics if you have a family history of mental disorders can be risky, but I took LSD and mushrooms several times while I was unaware that my late grandmother was bi-polar. If I had known that prior, I might have been more careful.
Only this week after sinking into one of the worst depressive periods of my life, did my family inform me of my late grandmother's condition.
This might explain why my last few trips turned out so negative despite being in a calm and safe setting; I may simply have a genetic predisposition to averse reactions to psychedelic substances; but it's also possible that I simply took too many substances in a quick succession, and that perhaps my setting wasn't as calm as I felt at the time. You can judge for yourself, I described my psychedelic experiences in detail below.
It makes me incredibly sad that I am probably going to have to abstain from psychedelics for the rest of my life, but that seems like the only reasonable choice I have.
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Three years ago I took LSD and MDMA within a day of each other, and it was a wonderful experience; I cried tears of euphoria, and I had an afterglow that lasted a month during which life felt colorful and passionate and full of potential.
In that same year, I tried shrooms twice, and both times the experience was very positive, and one time it left me in an afterglow, enveloped with feelings of calm and fulfillment.
I also participated in two ayahuasca ceremonies that year, but strangely, it caused me nothing but nausea.
During that same year, I also underwent several traumas, which caused my anxiety disorder to peak; for the first time in my life I started suffering from panic attacks.
I started seeing a therapist, and a psychotherapist prescribed me Escitalopram (which didn't work) and later Venlafaxine, which got rid of my anxiety almost entirely, but it reduced my libido considerably, and I longed to get off of psychiatric meds because I couldn't take psychedelics at the same time.
I was convinced that if I tried microdosing, or doing one macrodose a handful of times every year, I would experience a more impactful, wholesome, and permanent solution to my anxiety and depression.
So after 9 months of taking Venlafaxine, I tapered off it, and tried microdosing LSD.
After (only) 3 weeks of microdosing and not feeling any meaningful change from it, I arranged for myself a regular trip.
3 years have elapsed since my first
... keep reading on reddit ➡Hello third wives -
I spent 2 hours today finding and documenting all the medical and mental disorders tricia has claimed to have. Please click this link to view the entire document of what I have so far.
IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE TO ADD - PLEASE COMMENT ON THIS POST OR MESSAGE ME SO I CAN ADD IT. I have also been putting sources with all of my findings - so if you could include that as well that would be AMAZING!
Edit : spellcheck & fixed link
Like if I had adhd or bipolar or anything else, I’m sure life would be still hard but I wouldn’t be ashamed of my mental disorder as much as I am now. Does that make sense?
In particular, I'm wondering when the conception of mental disorders as static, objectively classifiable aberrations from "normal" behavior transitioned to a more relativistic/sentimental approach wherein the question isn't "is this normal?" but rather "is the patient happy/unhappy with the state they find themselves in?"
I think a major turning point in this debate was in 1973 when the APA no longer classified homosexuality as a mental disorder. But I don't know much else.
My picks would include Taxi Driver, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and Memento. And on a lighter, more underrated film, Park Chank-Wook's I'm a Cyborg, But That's Okay. What are some your choices? Please elaborate why if possible.
Title of Research: Investigating Drug Use & Mental Health in People with a Family History of Psychotic Disorders UAB IRB Protocol #: IRB-300006240 Principal Investigator: Haley Dourron, B.S. Sponsor: UAB Department of Health Behavior
Have you ever used any drugs, including alcohol or cannabis? Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham are particularly interested in understanding more about the association between substance use and mental health in people with a personal or family history of psychotic disorders. We are also interested in understanding more about the impact of various substances on mental health in the general population as well. We would deeply appreciate it if you could take between 25 to 40 minutes to participate in our online anonymous survey-based study. The study varies in duration depending on your answers to questions about your drug use and your participation in a writing task section.
We do not collect identifying information such as your name, email address, or IP address. Questions include items related to basic demographics, drug use, psychiatric diagnoses, and mental health measures as well as opportunities to tell us more about a significant life experience in your own words.
To participate, you must be at least 18 years old and fluently read and write English. You are not required to have experience with illegal drugs or to have a family or personal history of psychotic disorders to participate. If you have any questions, please contact Haley Dourron (hdourron@uab.edu)
Please see the survey link for more information https://uab.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1zRkr9dg1g1flEp
We are undertaking our final year psychology project and are looking into interoception and how it can affect an individual's personality.
We would highly appreciate it if you can spare up to 45 minutes (at the most) of your time to fill out our questionnaires.
All participation is entirely voluntary. If you are happy to take part, follow the link below: https://brunellifesc.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_54ng4ogvWRgm68Z
For further information email Hadia Jawed: 1839739@brunel.ac.uk
(DM if you want to do a survey exchange)
We are undertaking our final year psychology project and are looking into interoception and how it can affect an individual's personality.
We would highly appreciate it if you can spare up to 45 minutes (at the most) of your time to fill out our questionnaires.
All participation is entirely voluntary. If you are happy to take part, follow the link below: https://brunellifesc.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_54ng4ogvWRgm68Z
For further information email Hadia Jawed: 1839739@brunel.ac.uk
Thank you in advance :)
We are undertaking our final year psychology project and are looking into interoception and how it can affect an individual's personality.
We would highly appreciate it if you can spare up to 45 minutes (at the most) of your time to fill out our questionnaires.
All participation is entirely voluntary. If you are happy to take part, follow the link below: https://brunellifesc.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_54ng4ogvWRgm68Z
For further information email Hadia Jawed: 1839739@brunel.ac.uk
Thank you in advance :)
