Mental Disorderly Conduct: Brain Drain

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Brain Drain

It's been almost 2 years since I've been off medication, so I know I can do it, but the thing is it's not getting easier, it's getting harder. I don't want to be on medication, but I don't know how much longer I can survive like this. It's hard, every second of my day is hard. I don't know how to not be in my head so much. Being in my head is destructive; my brain, or at least a part of it, is a very dangerous & powerful enemy. It's not fun having to fight your own brain every single day. It's so exhausting. I don't know what to do, and I don't know how much more I can take. But I'll keep on taking it because I don't know what else to do.

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Depression

In the fields of psychology and psychiatry, the terms depression or depressed refer to sadness and other related emotions and behaviours. It can be thought of as either a disease or a syndrome.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) states that a depressed mood is often reported as feeling depressed, sad, helpless, and hopeless. In traditional colloquy, "depressed" is often synonymous with "sad," but both clinical and non-clinical depression can also refer to a conglomeration of more than one feeling.

Such a mixture can include (but is not limited to) anger, fear, anxiety, despair, guilt, apathy, perceived helplessness, loss of interest in pleasure, pain, and/or grief, in addition to what many people would describe as typical "sadness". Depressives sometimes engage in violence or excessive criticism of others. Many depressed people have obsessions, alcoholism or other addictions. Depression is harmful to the human body and can affect proper functioning of the brain. Extended depression can lead to suicidal tendencies.

Obsessive-compulsive Disorder

Obsessive compulsive disorder is a type of anxiety disorder primarily characterized by repetitive obsessions (distressing, persistent, and intrusive thoughts or images) and compulsions (urges to perform specific acts or rituals). The OCD thought pattern may be likened to superstitions insofar as it involves a belief in a causative relationship where, in reality, one does not exist. Often the process is entirely illogical; for example, the compulsion of walking in a certain pattern may be employed to alleviate the obsession of impending harm. And in many cases, the compulsion is entirely inexplicable, simply an urge to complete a ritual triggered by nervousness.

In a minority of cases, sufferers of OCD may only experience obsessions, with no overt compulsions; a much smaller number of sufferers experience only compulsions.

Mental Disorderly Conduct

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Brain Drain

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