Does anyone else on here have PMDD (premenstrual dysmorphic disorder)? It’s ruined my life for the past fifteen years. Or does anyone else have anorexia and/or binge eating disorder? I’d like to hear your story and how it makes you feel.
I finally went to the ER last Tuesday and let them check me into the psych center. The first two days, my anxiety, social phobia and agoraphobia prevented me from eating (no food allowed in patient rooms…everyone had to eat together in one of two designated rooms) or even from getting water. I stayed in my bed, reading Sherlock Holmes stories. After the meds started to kick in, I went out of my room more. I met a twenty-two year old boy with such bad anxiety, he cried and shook and picked at his fingertips almost constantly. I talked to […]
Maybe we should all just be having more sex and eating more chocolate. Really. (Unless you’re too young for the former in which case you should double up on the latter.) Sex releases endorphins, which are natural opiates, and chocolate contains several compounds that induce pleasure. Who needs Prozac?
You know what feels like it sucks the worst about depression and wanting to off yourself? It’s knowing that really, when you get right down to it, no amount of therapy, psychotropic pharmaceuticals or loving intervention-type talks with family and friends is going to “cure” you. You have to go through the pain of taking steps and accepting help and being receptive to the above to make yourself well when you really have stopped caring (or think you’ve stopped caring) whether you get well or don’t get well.
“Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.”
Does this strike anyone else as true? Staring hypnotically at NOTHING (which accurately describes the content of most shows) cripples us spiritually, mentally and emotionally in ways that most don’t realize.
Kill your TV!
When you’re admitted to a psych center, are you forced to take the drugs they give you, or are you allowed to decline?
I wonder why so many of us blame ourselves for depression and anxiety. If you really think about it, the real culprit, the real glaring reason (though it’s hidden in plain sight) is mass society and mass culture. Sociopathic, consumer-driven, maniacally cruel and relentless, zombie-creating, hive mentality, money/capital-obsessed mass society/culture. We go through life trying to fill the enormous hole inside of us that mass society creates…for some, it works, although usually not without the use of high doses of anti-depressants and benzos and other drugs like television (mass media and audio-video methamphetamine), sex, food, material objects that we “have†to have (most of it […]