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Posted on 4/22/17 at 11:45 pm to teamjackson
Posted on 4/22/17 at 11:45 pm to teamjackson
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This might sound silly and I don't doubt everything you said, but have you ever been tested for vertigo? What you said eerily correlates with vertigo symptoms
I have tinnitus, and while I'd agree with you I have audiovisual hallucinations in which I'm sure my hallucination is connected to my thoughts/psyche, so I'd liken it to psychosis rather than something physical.
I haven't been to a doctor in...six or seven years outside of receiving stitches, so when I get an evaluation set up I'll have my ears looked into.
To Cheese Grits:
I'll ask my girlfriend if she's ever noticed me having Tremors because as I said: I hadn't noticed them.
I also have never interacted with my hallucinations aside from trying to, and I know this sounds kind of silly, run away from them.
I had a particularly aggressive hallucination of a dead woman who I would, almost consistently, see out of the corner of my eye especially at night. Of course, a lot of my family members thought it was a little more sinister, but I've never spoken or anything of the nature.
The biggest thing I get are 'conversations', usually mundane and benign that I hear almost at a distance. It takes me a few seconds but I realize that it's all in my head, and it's never like ''Kill Cheese Grits, he's onto us''.
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Posted on 4/22/17 at 11:57 pm to StrawsDrawnAtRandom
Ok, good to know.
Ever thought about seeking out a psychiatrist?
What's good about what you are doing is that you are talking/writing about it.
Ever thought about seeking out a psychiatrist?
What's good about what you are doing is that you are talking/writing about it.
This post was edited on 4/23/17 at 12:10 am
Posted on 4/23/17 at 2:50 am to Cheese Grits
now anytime i see someone on drugs, someone who is acting out i think mental illness.
When i first got really clean, I mean i've always teetered towards the depressive side, but i was going down the rabbit hole like never before. sleeping until 7PM everyday have relapsed, if i cared eough to do so. i didn't care about anything. I was letting easy arse projects just go in the wind. What stuck out to me the most was, no one had my best interest in mind. My mom didn't want me to see a shrink or on meds because in her mind that would make it like she did something wrong. she told me to keep praying. Which I did but it did not help. My sponsor in AA didn't want me doing so because he didn't want me to think I could cure my problems myself without the help of AA. My PO (I was ind rug court) didn't want me taking meds because there is .0001% chance they can create a false positive for real drugs and she's a lazy bitch.
Man the day I graduated from drug court, told everyone else to let me do me for once and got on lexapro was literally the best day of my life. It was like a curtain had lifted.
Even when you want to get help it's hard. it's not like walking into an ER. I saw a pysc once a week and she agreed I probably needed to be medicated but unless it was life threatening it was a month long wait to just have a pre interview. You look through the phone book you don't know who to call. You go to the ER and tell them you need xanax they think you're a pill junkie.
Even when you want help, you don't know how to about getting it. I'm lucky that my step mom is a nurse or else iwould have given up after they told me it was a waiting list
When i first got really clean, I mean i've always teetered towards the depressive side, but i was going down the rabbit hole like never before. sleeping until 7PM everyday have relapsed, if i cared eough to do so. i didn't care about anything. I was letting easy arse projects just go in the wind. What stuck out to me the most was, no one had my best interest in mind. My mom didn't want me to see a shrink or on meds because in her mind that would make it like she did something wrong. she told me to keep praying. Which I did but it did not help. My sponsor in AA didn't want me doing so because he didn't want me to think I could cure my problems myself without the help of AA. My PO (I was ind rug court) didn't want me taking meds because there is .0001% chance they can create a false positive for real drugs and she's a lazy bitch.
Man the day I graduated from drug court, told everyone else to let me do me for once and got on lexapro was literally the best day of my life. It was like a curtain had lifted.
Even when you want to get help it's hard. it's not like walking into an ER. I saw a pysc once a week and she agreed I probably needed to be medicated but unless it was life threatening it was a month long wait to just have a pre interview. You look through the phone book you don't know who to call. You go to the ER and tell them you need xanax they think you're a pill junkie.
Even when you want help, you don't know how to about getting it. I'm lucky that my step mom is a nurse or else iwould have given up after they told me it was a waiting list
Posted on 4/23/17 at 5:25 am to vengeanceofrain
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now anytime i see someone on drugs, someone who is acting out i think mental illness.
The hardest part is the system. Too often we treat by police and a 24 to 72 hour hold in jail. Even if you are lucky enough to get meds it can take 2 to 6 weeks of daily meds to kick in. The worst example is "James Brown" (who was not the real James Brown, just danced like him) who holds the Guiness Book record for being arrested the most times (like 700 to 800 times). The guy had clear mental health issues but with Eastern State Mental Hospital shut down he had no long term locked facility to hold him for the month or two to get the correct meds in him and allow them to do their job.
Secondary is getting meds to folks who need them but may not be able to afford them. At this point many turn to self medicating with things they should not be medicating with. If you drink, the medicine will not work so you can't drink and take the meds thinking it will get better. This just reinforces that alcohol can be used as a substitute and the results can be tragic.
Third is the public perception that if you have mental issue they pull away. Like if you are near them they will "catch" your illness, Couple that with the GUNS (military spending) vs BUTTER (social spending) and it gets much worse. While I agree we need a sufficient military I am also skeptical when the numbers get so skewed. The F35 was budgeted at 223 billion but has ballooned to 400 billion (177 BILLION! difference). Imagine mental health care advances if just 10% of that over budget (roughly 18 billion) was but back into helping actual americans live better and more stable lives.
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