Do You Seek Professional Help For Mental Illness?

[Dollardave]

My friend Brittney that I dance and make out with at city club is a schizophrenic like me and I was just wondering does anyone else on here seek counseling/therapy/psychiatric help with their mental disease or am I the only one. I see a psychotherapist weekly and a psychiatrist monthly to help with my illness. I have type 1 schizoaffective disorder(aka hearing auditory voices in my head) no command voices like telling u to kill or anything just swearing I hear aka fuck you, fuck you god, fuck u david. I take zyprexa and haldol to combat my illness. So anyways enough about me does anyone else seek help?

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[Rayne]

Not personally, but I've had my oldest daughter in treatment since she was three (she's 7 1/2 now) for various psychological issues. She sees her Psychologist weekly and her Psychiatrist monthly (sometimes more -- here recently she's been seeing her weekly too due to med changes).

[Dollardave]

Not personally, but I've had my oldest daughter in treatment since she was three (she's 7 1/2 now) for various psychological issues. She sees her Psychologist weekly and her Psychiatrist monthly (sometimes more -- here recently she's been seeing her weekly too due to med changes).

I feel for ya. Its all the more tragic that its a child. You seem to love your kids alot and thats cool. Seems like your happy with Phee too. What is her diagnosis?

[Rayne]

I feel for ya. Its all the more tragic that its a child. You seem to love your kids alot and thats cool. Seems like your happy with Phee too. What is her diagnosis?

There are several ...

*listed them, but then decided to erase the public post, pm me for list*

[Homicidalheathen]

Um, no. I wish I had this excuse. I have none. I just suck. Ha.

[Nienna]

Nope, but it's maybe not the best idea. Igo through periods of intense depression. They always lift on their own so I usually just ride it out. I've never found a shrink I could stand and drugs make me absolutely crazed so there's no point really.

[Draco1958]

Don't know why but I'm afraid to be put on drugs.

[Nienna]

Don't know why but I'm afraid to be put on drugs.

Ask me sometime about my experiences on them if you want to be even more afraid. They can really mess a person up. (They also can really help sometimes...)

[Msterbeau]

The first therapist I went to sucked. The next one was recommended by a friend and was excellent. Not everyone gets along with every therapist... you gotta shop around for the one that you have good rapport with. Otherwise, you're wasting your money.

[cptdeath]

i allways wanted to be a thearapist cause i'm good at it. it's like a hobby for me to talk like the ideal bartender like plato's ideal horse. small talk usually gets real hanibal lector with me an i don't allways know i'm doing it. i study alot in that field. froid was a big coke head one of the first ever actually so his stuff is usually crap. i try to avoid labels it's limiting to a solutions developmeant. i try to study feelings. i used to not have any so i'm still learning how they work. an now that i do they are all off an my heart is my biggest weakness. I try to do all my own shrink work.

a great book by a guy i trust alot more then froid but from the same time period is psycho-analysis by AA.Brill. written in the late therties toward the end of his life span. it's truely an example of science as art. all of it is based on observation an experimentation on one mans personel level, an he helped alot of people. it's when psychology imerged as a new scientific field. i'm sure his life was like being a ghost buster, something strange who you gonna call dr.brill. it goes over alot in a real simple way. no big tearms or definite labels just life experience shared with the readers. the life of someone who died from old age in the thirties is far different and entertaining to read about. and it's a thin book paperback easy read.

i worked real hard to avoid being labeled as sick or crazy through out countless persecution, witch hunt after witch hunt public school columbine trench coats. bomb threat lists gang lists. of course violence is the only answer. i've come a very long way. with no tattoes or identifying marks with no psychological profile with no criminal record. i don't want to jepordize that with a cry for help or sign of weakness that society will take personel. Ive got contacts in every corner or aspect of society i can think of. it doesn't matter if your crazy it's who knows about it.

no i don't look down on people cause there different. i think it's healthy. except in my experience witch is vast meds allways do harm and allways lead to a spiral of more meds. actual medical attention is unubtainable for me do to immense cost an my state of poverty. yeah i got stabbed pretty bad on devils night in my side through my gut under my ribs. it did not brake the skin but it caused massive intenal hemeraging probably ruptured an organ an my hole side feels like when the dentist sticks a needle in the nerve under a tooth. yes i walked it off yes i feel tougher then jesus an no i can not afford a 1200$ ultra sound just to find out if i need sugery i'll never afford. i won a tae kwon do tourney that way so i'll be fine.

yes it was a spear. yes it makes people turn pale when they see the wound.

so if you can afford help socially and financially it still might be a bad move. just think for yourself an realize the level of danger v.s. the cost. health wise physically as well with strange meds. i seen alot of bad come from xanex an nurontin in my community (as a scientist) oh and if you would like me to try to help on a personnel level i'm semi available to you but i'm just an enthusiast not a professional although i'd be lieing if i said iwas not better then the average grad student. i just can only devote so much time you know. plus what if i'm just some arragant self taught asswhole pompus know it all who wants to feel important. whatever

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