Mental Health - My Experiences and Recovery

[Jazz]

I have such huge respect for you for posting this!
I myself have never been diagnosed with 'depression' (bracketed because so many people label depression as different things) but have suffered feelings that I would described as being depressed / mildly depressed. I had stages from around 11 years to about 16 years old where i would starve myself, be obsessed with my weight, leave school half way through the day just because i could no longer be around people, cry for no particular reason; as well as having suicidal thoughts and scratching and picking my arms, ribs and legs.
I never really 'came out' to anyone but my boyfriend found out and i eventually stopped.
it's hard - very hard, i still get times where go to scratch when i get stressed.

I have a few questions about your psychosis though - I don't really understand it or know much about it. you don't have to answer anything that you're not comfortable with
with psychosis is it caused by anything? were you born with it or did it develop (if so, what age?) and is there any way of gettn rid of it?

I don't mind answering your questions! Psychosis is usually underlying, it can be triggered by anything (in my case it was triggered by my family breaking apart) and also can be developed over time by the use of drugs and alcohol. psychosis is not actually classed under a disorder, it is infant a condition of the brain that is implemented from other disorders such as bipolar disorder. It develops with the condition it is linked to, in my case it is linked to my Clinical Depression and my CAD. I was first referred to the psychosis team when I was 15 and have been in the system for 2 years now, you can recover from it but usually the disorder linked to it is in the family or it can't be 'cured'.

Thanks for posting this, very informative and it's also very sweet that you're looking out for other people. Thanks so much for sharing

no worries, thanks for replying

[FlyingJesus]

Psychosis is the blanket term for any mental health issue or abnormality - depression is a psychosis, schizophrenia is a psychosis, eating disorders are psychoses, etc

I don't really like doing the whole diagnosis list since I think essentially (for me anyway) it's all linked to the base problem of anxiety, but to split it up from there it causes me to have depression, agoraphobia, body dysmorphia, binge eating disorder, mild OCD, and megalomania. It's fun.

Recently had a full-on nervous breakdown and been off uni because it made the agoraphobia so bad but trying to get back in on monday, tutors have been really supportive and that's extremely important. It can be ridiculously difficult to let other people know what you're going through especially considering how hard it is for others to understand what is essentially an invisible disease, but to any of you who are struggling if there's a specific area of your life that's particularly hard it really is a good idea to let someone with authority in that place (be it the home, school, work, social groups, whatever) know at least the basics so that you have some degree of support and understanding. Also of course your first port of call should be a doctor - as was quite rightly stated in the first post there is no value in internet medical help and self-diagnosing from that. Doctors are there to help and whatever you tell them is 100% confidential no matter what your age, and the only time they are ever allowed to tell anyone else what you've said to them is if you put yourself or someone else at risk of death.

[mrwoooooooo]

Would be interesting to know the ratio of people on hxf who seem to have a mental illness to those who dont

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[Cassiieee]

Very brave for posting this.

[Kardan]

Would be interesting to know the ratio of people on hxf who seem to have a mental illness to those who dont

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Would probably be very skewed like almost every other poll on here, for example, sexuality.

[Samantha]

Must have taken so long to compose this, glad you broke it down, what's a shame though is members have posted guides on other things that could appear different about them to say you or me but they dont get the respect you got, this is probably due to not knowing how to deal with such things. Also, with the breaking down it does show how some can believe theyre mentally I'll yet they're not so thanks for posting Jazz x.