How is your mental health at the moment?

carraig2

HalloweenJack wrote: »

I'm in a good mood at the moment but I've had a lot of problems with depression in recent years and every few months I get stuck in a rut so we'll see how things are in a few weeks time.

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Renegade Mechanic

How is my mental health... Lemme just converse with the other voices and Ill get back to ye!

MonstaMash

Diagnosed with PTSD, it usually manifests itself as hyperarousal & aggressive defence that can eventually lead to immobility, in that I become withdrawn & dissociative.

I found the CBT programs I've been involved with helped me cope better than just plying me with meds...meds seemed to do nothing for me.

Mood stabilisers benefited me at first in that they reduced arousal symptoms as well as mood swings/aggression when they occured.

I went through the ringer with anti-psychotics/anti-depressants such as Risperdal etc., but eventually in the end I found exercise/physical activity to be more beneficial.

I know my triggers now & how to deal with them as they occur, all I can do is take it one day at a time & keep the sunny side up.

SamAK

Feeling pretty good...was quite lonely, frustrated and bored for ages but met a wonderful girl recently and am busy becoming smitten.

Also, summer is nearly here, college is nearly over, I have full use of all arms and legs, have a roof over my head, a fridge with food in it and a few quid in the pocket for things and stuff.

In short, I have no reason to complain about life right now.

Deleted User

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Really bad at the moment.
This week was a total write-off; I spent the past three or four days in bed, only getting up to use the bathroom and occasionally have something to eat. Anytime I heard my housemates I'd stay still as possible until I heard them go upstairs or saw the light switch off.
I have a deadline to meet this evening and I'm not gonna make it because I lost practically all the time I was supposed to be working this week.

Next week might be ok but right now I feel extremely crap.

Predictably, that deadline passed and I had nothing to show for myself. My supervisor was ok with postponing it until Monday morning, which was nice of him but it also means I have a very stressful weekend of catch-up ahead of me.

It's taken me longer than it should have to complete my Masters and I'm probably still only gonna scrape a pass in this dissertation. Final thing is due in two weeks, and the only thing more terrifying than the next two weeks is everything that happens after; unemployment, isolation, the continuing pattern of being a hopeless underachiever. If only my teachers at secondary school who thought I was bright and destined for good things could see me now.....

I bought a cheap bottle of wine tonight and drunk it while listening to music. I'm not even depressed as such right now, just very.......meh. To everything. I'm not gonna be going out anytime for the next few weeks so I'm justifying allowing myself one last night of self pity and semi-coherent online rambling.

cat_dog

Not great. Self medicating...

Claregirl

Feeling relatively ok at the moment but could be in bits tomorrow it can be very unpredictable and more often than not there's no rhyme or reason for the lows.

I've suffered from anxiety, stress and depression over the last few years but thankfully I'm off meds just over a year now, exercise, my dog and keeping booze to a minimum seems to be key for me maintaining a relatively good mood - one thing I've noticed is if I go out of a Sat night life doesn't seem worth living on the Tuesday for some reason

I've also given up smoking recently (now vaping) and I didn't realise until recently how much stress smoking caused - constantly broke, worrying about how I'd pay for smokes, did I have enough smokes etc it's kinda liberating.