My thought is that it would be an externalizing disorder because it is an overt behavior... but I'm not sure.
EDIT: We’re now off for today! Will check back in tomorrow to answer a couple other questions, and have included our goodbyes below!
PROOF: https://www.instagram.com/p/CTwtSfNAT0w/
In 2003, I found myself surrounded by friends and family who came to tell me they were worried about my cocaine use. I had changed: I was irresponsible, unreliable, and absent. When I look back now, the word I always think of is “drowning”. Yet somehow, the fear of change was less than the fear staying the same.
I was admitted to treatment shortly after and my road to recovery began. Once I graduated, I knew I wanted to give back. So I began volunteering at a Toronto treatment centre. Seventeen years later, I’ve had experience dealing with process addictions (i.e. gambling, eating disorders, sex addictions, PTSD) and substance addictions. I’ve lectured at universities and in communities across Ontario. The ongoing problem of addiction and recidivism in jails lead me to write and facilitate a recovery program pro-bono for clients at Ontario Correctional Institute. In 2017, I was elected to the Renascent Foundation Board of Directors, where I advise on CPQ (client programming quality), business development, and fund-raising initiatives.
I also have two Great Danes because I’m not allowed to have horses in the city.
I have gone from addict to sitting on the board of director at one of Canada’s leading non-profit treatment centres for 50 years. To anyone reading this struggling with addiction or know someone who is, it is never too late to recover. Addiction is a disease. Having it is not your fault, But treatment is your responsibility.
September is National Recovery Month, so I’m more than happy to answer questions about how addictions are formed, how to identify signs of struggle, crisis management, how to find help in your community or within your peer group, and how to tell others that you need help.
But of course, you may ask me anything!
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... keep reading on reddit ➡Folks, somehow when I first encountered this community I did not see the links in the sidebar titled "New to ADHD?" when u go to r/ADHD.
The third one is very good.
The article is detailed, scientific and long. It doesn't sum things up in a paragraph. It requires you to read it. However, I went to the specific sections that were interesting to me and it really was enlightening.
I was diagnosed with ADHD as a kid, but now I'm not sure I even have ADHD after reading it.
In any case, I just wanted to recommend everyone who hasn't read it yet to do so. It was eye opening for me.
We were wondering if there are other disorders that involve internal voices/personalities that can explain us, or is OSDD/DID the only good fit.
We never knowingly switched before now, but we have been here for years.
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To put this super briefly, I've always had a super high metabolism and have struggled to put on weight because I oftentimes don't really feel like I'm hungry. As of recently, I've been putting more thought into that and why it could be, and I've come up with the inquiry: Did I internalize an eating disorder at some point and it's just become a part of my eating process so much that I can't recognize it?
I've tried to keep a monitor on myself as of late, and I've noticed that more than a few times, I've felt very slightly hungry, but almost always try to "distract" myself from eating by occupying my brain with some other task, like playing games or watching youtube videos. As a result of this behavior, I've oftentimes ended up not eating a proper amount at all, at least according to "normal" people standards. I know I don't get hungry as much as other people, but I've had days like today where all I've had to eat is a cupcake and a shot of fireball that I had at a birthday party. I don't feel especially hungry, but I feel like I should be. I could eat, certainly, but I'm not hungry like someone who hasn't eaten a proper meal in over 24 hours should be, in my mind.
Any help or input regarding this from anyone with more expertise with EDs would be greatly appreciated
Hey, we have a disorder which essentially means that we are multiple people in one body. We only recently found out about conlangs but have been thinking for a while about how emotionally limiting English (the only language we speak) is as a language. We think it would help us a lot to be able to more easily express our emotions to one another by talking to each other both in our head or writing it out with a regular qwerty keyboard. Are there any conlangs similar to English that only use characters that are on a qwerty keyboard? Or maybe an "add-on" or something to English that just adds more intuitive emotional elements and allows you to more easily express basic and more complex emotions? It wouldn't have to be able to be spoken as we primarily want it for writing and talking to each other or ourselves in our head.
Does anyone have any ideas for this? Do you think we could fairly easily alter English a bit to suite our needs or is there already something like this that exists?
Here's the article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014976342100049X
Edit: the studies have been made on every continent, including Africa (they forgot it in the summary)
Summed-up in 14 points:
- The syndrome we now call ADHD has been described in the medical literature since 1775.
- When made by a licensed clinician, the diagnosis of ADHD is well-defined and valid at all ages, even in the presence of other psychiatric disorders, which is common.
- ADHD is more common in males and occurs in 5.9 % of youth and 2.5 % of adults. It has been found in studies from Europe, Scandinavia, Australia, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, South America, and North America.
- ADHD is rarely caused by a single genetic or environmental risk factor but most cases of ADHD are caused by the combined effects of many genetic and environmental risks each having a very small effect.
- People with ADHD often show impaired performance on psychological tests of brain functioning, but these tests cannot be used to diagnose ADHD.
- Neuroimaging studies find small differences in the structure and functioning of the brain between people with and without ADHD. These differences cannot be used to diagnose ADHD.
- People with ADHD are at increased risk for obesity, asthma, allergies, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, sleep problems, psoriasis, epilepsy, sexually transmitted infections, abnormalities of the eye, immune disorders, and metabolic disorders.
- People with ADHD are at increased risk for low quality of life, substance use disorders, accidental injuries, educational underachievement, unemployment, gambling, teenage pregnancy, difficulties socializing, delinquency, suicide, and premature death.
- Studies of economic burden show that ADHD costs society hundreds of billions of dollars each year, worldwide.
- Regulatory agencies around the world have determined that several medications are safe and effective for reducing the symptoms of ADHD as shown by randomized controlled clinical trials.
- Treatment with ADHD medications reduces accidental injuries, traumatic brain injury, substance abuse, cigarette smoking, educational underachievement, bone fractures, sexually transmitted infections, depression, suicide, criminal activity and teenage pregnancy.
- **The adverse effects of medications for ADHD are typically mild and can be addressed by
Not sure if I can post here, especially since I’m technically recovered for a few years now. Just a late night thought while I was changing.
First of all, I will say I’ll touch on my shame with my thighs and very specific eating disorder thoughts, so just a heads up in case you’re sensitive to that. There’s a lot of me body shaming myself as well. Also what I mean by an “eating disorder mindset” is basically the anxiety and obsession of weight, rather that be the physical appearance of weight or the numbers on a scale.
I guess to keep it simple since I’m really tired but does anyone have any thoughts that sort of connect asexuality and the insecurities that come with eating disorders? Like today, while changing, I noticed I had bigger thighs (runs in the family) and one of my internal comments was that “people want to f*** girls with those kind of thighs” and it made me extremely uncomfortable, being that I’m extremely repulsed of the idea of me specifically having sex with someone else.
And it had me thinking that I kind of always been like this ever since I’ve been made aware of what people are sexually attracted to in AFAB people. It’s one of the factors that catapulted me into an eating disorder (albeit a minor factor) back in the beginning of high school, and it’s one of the things I was deeply insecure about, and still am, although to a lesser degree.
I guess I think like that because it shifts the blame from the uncontrollable nature of being sexualized to a controllable one, that being my weight and how I present myself. Suddenly, I can fix this. Suddenly, I have control of what and how they think of me, and that they can’t sexually desire me if I’m the one on the driver’s seat.
There’s also the fact that in the heteronormative society we live in, there’s this expectation for girls to be the ones being desired - the ones to sort of “check out” instead of being the ones “checking out”. As a girl myself, I feel like if I don’t minimize the traits that others typically check out - even if I have no control or say in how my body works or looks like - I’ll look “sexy” and thus be expected to act “sexy” and think “sexy”.
I did a quick google search and there’s really nothing talking about this. Maybe I missed something while googling, or maybe it’s a me thing, especially since no two people can have the same experience, but I don’t know. I guess I’m wondering if anyone has had this thought process before.
Hi everyone!
My name is Lorena Fernández de la Cruz and I am a researcher at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. About a year ago, I posted here asking for research participants for a study we wanted to conduct aiming to explore the driving experiences of people with TS. Many of you were kind enough to participate in our online survey and share your experiences, which was very valuable to us. Thank you!
I promised that I would come back with the results, so here I am! The scientific article has now been published and we have made it open access, which means that anyone can read it for free:
https://movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mdc3.13177
In brief, the study shows that the majority of surveyed participants with TS report minimal difficulties with driving. However, a minority of more severe cases struggle with driving or refrain from driving altogether and would benefit from additional support. We believe that these results are important both for clinicians and also for driving licensing agencies, which should be aware of these struggles and assess safety risks related to driving on an individual basis.
Again, thanks to those of you who took part.
Regards,
Lorena
Hi i am 28 yr old male from south korea. I had my endoscope l4~5 surgery when i was 20. And fortumately there has been no pain since this year. But this year right before my wedding march, my sciatica and back pain flared up again .. I quit my job and laid down in bed for 4 month but still i am not able to work, go out and do "any" workouts... The only activity i am able to do now is walking 30 minutes a day
So i visited two surgeons. One is the best nerosurgeon in south korea who did my back surgery 8 yrs ago and he says there is no severe nerve compression in my MRI so I need to lay down in bed for longer period of time. He said the only surgical option left is spinal fusion even though my disc height is still sufficient.. He also mentioned that my case is internal disc disorder which only exacerbates as time goes by..
The other doctor said another endoscopic back surgery would be enough and he recommended it strongly...because my back pain comes from unstable broken disc scraps inside my disc so decompressing by discectomy will lead to good results.
I am in such a horrible mental illness because of uncertainty lying ahead of my life. How long do i have to lie down in my bed...
So please share your experiance for me... If spinal fusion can save me from this hell, I would do that... Is there anyone with disc degeration with sufficient disc height got better with fusion?(my other discs except l4~5 are totally fine)
