i have to agree with greenleaf, "tackle the problem before it snowballs....

i waited and thought mine would get better or stay the same at least...ha

got bad then it got worse and then it got unbearable....

if you arent ready to see a Dr. at least do a search on how to better handle OCD...you may feel fine now but dont take that for granted

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Originally posted by Greenleaf771:
Is that the one off the florida something or other? Or the OCDF? Tackle the problem before it snowballs, hub.

Psychcentral and ocfoundation.

I don't know. I don't really want to tackle it before it snowballs. I think it might just be easier to deal with it if I turn SUPER compulsive. I don't spend a lot of time obsessing and following compulsions, so I don't think it much matters at this time. If it becomes so that I can't live my life because I obsess about it too much, then I may worry.

Is that the one off the florida something or other? Or the OCDF? Tackle the problem before it snowballs, hub.

Yes, one of my friends was convinced of that, so she made me take an online OCD screening test. I got a maybe. So, she was convinced that even if I was, I wasn't having MAJOR problems with it, so not worth the bother at the current moment.

SCARY I just took it again, (last time was about 1-2 years ago) and this time I got a probably. That's slightly freaky. It said:

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You have indicated that you have several symptoms that fit the criteria for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Please talk to a healthcare provider about your symptoms and learn more about OCD below.

Anyways, I think I'm cool the way I am, at least for now.

hubbabaloo--- actually what you are describing sounds like you may have a bit of OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) but it sounds like you have the obsessive without the compulsive......you fret about things that are really out of your control, same as a person with OCD does. Guilt is a HUGE part of OCD.

do an OCD search and see if you can relate. it may help you.

Oh, I have this hyper-empathy thing. It's not technically a mental disorder (at least I don't think so), but my friends say that I'm a hyperempath. They made it up apparently.

Apparently a hyperempath is a person who sees a squished bug and feels like it's their fault (I can't deny that hasn't happened to me). I see pictures of starving children in Africa and suddenly I'm really, really, really hungry and I feel like it's my fault that the kid is starving.

Yes. I'm strange.

Oh, did you know that they are doing studies, and they're pretty positive that Thomas Edison and Thomas Jefferson both had Asperger's?

someone mentioned OCD or obsessive compulsive disorder, which i have.

it is just a disorder in which a person obsesses about something and does compulsions to make the obsession go away.....

i clean constantly cause i am afraid that my kids will get hurt i an unclean environment...... it is so crazy

i obsess about chemicals, and just about anything related to anything harmful.

sometimes i can really get wrapped up in compulsions, i have been today and it is making me crazy....just another day though.

this disorder is a blessing and a curse....it keeps you safe from harmful things in the world but doing all the things required to keep up with the obsession is insane.

I'm Bi-Polar.

Go to http://www.nami.org/
for some excellent info on mental disease.

Hey, everyone had their little weird things. I don't know how people can tell when it becomes a disorder and when it's just something you have to do to keep yourself happy.

Since I was little, I always seem to find things to hurt myself with. Bang my head against the wall, break things in my hands to make me bleed, burn myself, and etc. I don't know what was going on in my head when I was smaller but I know that when I feel bad now, I tend to hurt myself rather than hurt other people.

I feel like everything is my fault. I guess I am arrogant in a way. Instead of thinking I am the best person in the world, I think I am the worse person in the world. I don't know why I hurt myself when I was younger but I know why I do it now. I just feel like I need to punish myself.

Anyways, even though, I am like that, I do pretty well in acting normal in society. So I could do this but it doesn't affect me interacting with others.


I think I went to a therapist when I was little because of the banging of mt head and I just stopped talking altogether. However, one day I just stopped banging my head and started talking to the point that I couldn't shut up.

I picked up wasting my hands lot. I picked up sleeping a lot. I picked up staying awake a lot. I picked up not eating for days. I picked up an couple of things other the years over the years but I always stopped anything I picked up. The one thing I never stopped was hurting myself. I been doing it since I could remember. I think all the things that I picked up were just new ways of hurting myself.

I have major depression or whatever it's called. I cause self injury to myself, low self confidence, minor problems with sexual interactions. I think that's what my file says. Maybe a little bit more. I'm in therapy now but I am learning not to find creative ways to hurt myself.

Even if I have this, it doesn't define me. It's just what I have.

My great grandmother had Alzheimers and when I was born, and my parents brought me to see her, she glanced at me and then said,"Take it away!" I feel so loved. No, but more seriously, it would be terrible to have a serious mental illness.

i am dislexic and get things backwards a lot, and my spelling sucks

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Please dont think just because you have taken psych 101 that you are some clinical shrink or a professor on that subject matter. I hate those dilletantes. By the way not all mental illnesses are culturally based. Schizophrenia is found in equal porportions among all races, countries, and cultures.

Are you talking to me?

I believe aspergers disease is a mild form of autism, ion which the individual is withdrawn etc. but can still participate in society ect

What exactly is Asperger's? I met a girl with OCD this past week and she actually understood what I was talking about. Very interesting.

Please dont think just because you have taken psych 101 that you are some clinical shrink or a professor on that subject matter. I hate those dilletantes. By the way not all mental illnesses are culturally based. Schizophrenia is found in equal porportions among all races, countries, and cultures.

While you are correct, for the most part, Capitaine... your argument doesn't refute how culturally based 'disorders' would not spread and become more diverse, thereby making everyone the opposite of "normal".

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Originally posted by CelticNewAger:
I've come to a theory.

Every human thought or behaviour will one day be categorized as a disorder, so no actual medically "sane" person will exist.

And that is what is happening. Everyone, at the very least, has depression or fatigue or insomnia. It cannot occur to them that they may be just sad at a current situation, not being physically healthy, or not sleeping thanks to too much coffee or stress.

Again, I am a clinical psycopath. I honestly feel fine, if not that I'm better. The only thing I do that I consider "odd" is plan murders and lack worry/regret/care. And that I think is normal to a degree in everyone.

NOOOOO!!!! If anyone here has take psychology classes, they can back me up. First of all...psychological disorders are often cultural based (ie: what we find abnormal might be considered normal in China). Secondly, someone has a psychological disorder if their behaviors can be classified as perpetually abnormal (based on a specific culture's norms), uncaring, obnoxious (such as uncontrollable yelling), or lacking regret, guilt, emotions, etc. Also, classifying a person with a disorder can make hem have the syptoms of that disorder (assuming they did not already have them). We have to ponder the question of:
Are the "symptoms" of a psychological disorder the cause or the consequence of the classification of that disorder?

My sister's been diagnosed with depression (sorry everybody, not going to dwell on it too much) and anxiety. But for a while it was just plain depression, and they couldn't figure out why she wasn't going to school, so they kept switching her medications, and now she's been diagnosed with SADD. SADD is seasonal affective depression disorder, basically means she gets really depressed in the fall/winter months and happier in the spring/summer months. And sometimes I think she's just using her disorders as a way to not go to school. She's going to be 18 soon, and I think (or I hope) she realizes that she's not getting a free ride anymore. I ask her all the time why she missed so much school, and she blames it on the disorders. I'm really worried about her, because she's not in reality.

another teen with Asperger's here...

ampmaster - maybe it will become less prevalent according to your psych, but it became more prevalent for me as I got older.

it's not really mistaken for autism. it's on the autism spectrum (the spectrum is referred to as PDD or Pervasive Developmental Disorder). they just don't like to call a milder case of autism "autism" because of the negative stereotypes and implications.

DSM-IVR lesson for today is over!

Everyone is insane. It's just the really insane people that we call insane. The people we call sane, are simply safely sane. That's my theory.