August 19th, 2010
It is natural to experience brief anxiety caused by stressful situations and events like during job interviews, first date and speaking in public. However, any anxiety that lasts for at least 6 months is already a disorder. If not treated, it can get worse and can interfere with your daily life that is why treating anxiety disorder is important.
Anxiety disorder is a wide range mental disorder that includes panic disorder, social phobia or social anxiety disorder, OCD or obsessive-compulsive disorder, PTSD or post-traumatic stress disorder and GAD or generalized anxiety disorder. Although each anxiety disorder has different symptoms, all the symptoms cluster around extreme irrational fear without a real cause.
Sufferers may experience the feeling of being disconnected from reality or losing their minds accompanied by physical symptoms like shortness of breath, pounding heartbeat, excessive sweating, trembling, chest pain and nausea. It is important for sufferers to find the best ways of treating anxiety disorder before it can totally rule their lives.
You may avoid daily activities like talking to people, shopping and driving if you will continue to suffer from this mental disorder. This is an illness that can be treated. In treating anxiety disorder it is important to research about your disorder for you to know want you are dealing with.
In treating anxiety disorder, it is important to get a proper diagnosis from mental health doctors to be sure that your symptoms are caused by an anxiety disorder and not by other health problems.
In general, anxiety disorder can be treated with medication, psychotherapy or a combination of both. Medicines will not cure your mental disorder but can keep it under control while you are receiving psychotherapy. Common medications are anti-anxiety drugs, antidepressants and beta blockers. CBT or cognitive behavioral therapy is a common psychotherapy in treating anxiety disorder.
People with anxiety disorder may also benefit from joining self-help and support groups. Talking with family members and trusted friends can be very helpful in treating anxiety disorder. Friends and family should be supportive to help sufferers succeed on their treatment.
Stress management plays a very important role in treating anxiety disorder. Stress management techniques like meditation, yoga, deep breathing and exercises like aerobic exercise have calming effect.
In treating anxiety disorder it is important to find a treatment that will work for you. If everything else fails, do not lose hope because there are alternative treatments for anxiety attacks that are gaining popularity now because they are all natural and some people find them effective. To stop anxiety disorder once and for all visit Cure Anxiety and Panic Disorder.
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The best thing to do is to put yourself in positions that make you feel uncomfortable on a constant basis.
From Wikipedia,
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a term for certain severe psychological consequences of exposure to, or confrontation with, stressful experiences that the person experiences as highly traumatic.[1] Clinically, such experiences involve actual or threatened death, serious physical injury, or a threat to physical and/or psychological integrity, to a degree that usual psychological defences are incapable of coping with the impact. It is occasionally called post-traumatic stress reaction to emphasize that it is a routine result of traumatic experience rather than a manifestation of a pre-existing psychological weakness on the part of the patient. The presence of a PTSD response is influenced by the intensity of the experience, its duration, and the individual person involved.
It is possible for individuals to experience traumatic stress without manifesting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, as indicated in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and also for people to experience traumatic situations and not develop PTSD. In fact, most people who experience traumatic events will not develop PTSD. For most people, the emotional effects of traumatic events tends to subside after several months; if they last longer, then a psychiatric disorder may be diagnosed. PTSD is thought to be primarily an anxiety disorder and should not be confused with normal grief and adjustment after traumatic events.
Symptoms of PTSD can include the following: nightmares, flashbacks, emotional detachment or numbing of feelings (emotional self-mortification or dissociation), insomnia, avoidance of reminders and extreme distress when exposed to the reminders (“triggers”), irritability, hypervigilance, memory loss, and excessive startle response, clinical depression and anxiety, loss of appetite. It is also possible for a person suffering from PTSD to exhibit one or more other comorbid psychiatric disorders; these disorders often include clinical depression (or bipolar disorder), general anxiety disorder and a variety of addictions. PTSD may have a delayed onset of months, years or even decades and may be triggered by an external factor or factors. Some believe that panic disorder and PTSD are closely related, since panic disorders usually involve fear of a past panic attack.
Hello Greg,
As I told you before in a private correspondence, my recent interest on psychoanalysis was incited when I neurologist diagnosed that I was displaying some symptoms of General Anxiety Disorder. After that, I have decided to figure out the source of my anxiety rather than taking the pills that he prescribed since it is a minor disease. Lust like reading Marx has led me to question my illusions of social relations, mechanism of market and capital, their interaction with working class, false idealist conception of history, etc. psychoanalysis has gave me a ground to deal with my the illusions about myself and my subjectivity. Actually it is exactly what Jack Kerouac’s character in “On the Road” naively expects from Buddhist practices. On the contrary, the genuine path to deal with ego is to get the picture of how it is structured as an illusion about our subjectivity. There are two subtle encounters of Alice respectively with the Caterpillar and the Pigeon:
`What do you mean by that?' said the Caterpillar sternly. `Explain yourself!'
`I can't explain MYSELF, I'm afraid, sir' said Alice, `because I'm not myself, you see.'
And,
Well! WHAT are you?' said the Pigeon. `I can see you're trying to invent something!'
`I–I'm a little girl,' said Alice, rather doubtfully, as she remembered the number of changes she had gone through that day.
In fact, the Pigeon is right. My subjectivity is something that I invented along my adventure in the symbolic order. And my ego is a product of my fantasy about this order, which directly resists the restrictions of the internal reality of socio-symbolic order.
Here I fancied whether the famous quote from Sun Tzu, “Know thy self, know thy enemy” might be applicable to the game of poker. In my opinion, this would be a perfect advice for how to lose everything immediately in poker and in the battleground as well. We must undertake a necessary adjustment: Know thy table-image, know the table-image thy enemy. We should assign this statement to mediation too: Do not strive to know yourself in vein; there is no such a thing other than in the field of imagination.
There is a particular chapter in The German Ideology in which Marx accuses Young Hegelians for assigning self-determining existence to consciousness and thus ascribing the social relations and limitations of humankind as products of consciousness. However, the accurate pathway to understand the function of human consciousness is to decipher its relation with material reality of humankind.
As an obligatory confession, I have difficulties to understand Lacan. First of all, unlike Freud’s relatively direct and vivid narrative style, Lacan leaves readers in a jam of unintelligible expressions time and again. Secondly, I am deprived of the full access to his works as they are not available online thanks to copyright laws. I have no idea if they were translated in Turkish since making an effort to read Lacan in Turkish would be a waste of time anyway. I don’t even understand the Turkish translations of Marx, I have deserted this absurdity when I found myself in situations that I was continuously checking the English version to make sense of what our Turkish translator intended to say.
In spite of my semi-ignorance, there is an entertaining dimension in grappling with the ideas of Lacan. For instance, couple of days ago, in the farewell letter to a former intimate friend of mine (now she declines to respond my usual sterile and sensible letters), in a little bit sarcastic fashion, I declared that masturbation is the only authentic sexual activity since it is the only unmediated contact with our fantasies that renders the physical sexual intercourse possible. Then I concluded that, the genuine manifestation of sexual desire is not to make love with the person that we desire. Contrary, it is the act of masturbation while fantasizing the person with whom we made love just now.
My wife is an introvert, although it's a little worse than that. She's been diagnosed with Social Anxiety Disorder, which is funny (not funny?) because the acronym for that is SAD. She has made great strides though in the 10 years we've been together, and having the little fella kicked in her Mama Bear instinct which has helped her to overcome a lot.
She still has days she doesn't want to be around people…but it's getting better.
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Trust me you are not alone and I watched the first and last part till the end btw lol and I understand everything completely. I actually plan on making another social anxiety disorder video too. I'm just not sure when, but soon. I'm taking medication right now, but none of them have worked so far in the slightest way
I just started school too and I HATE IT. We had our first 2 half days Thursday and Friday and our first full day is tomorrow DX I HATE P.E. class though cause there is NO1 2talk2
easy said than is done
I suffer from panic/anxiety attacks. I have General Anxiety Disorder and Social Anxiety Disorder. I have a two pronged approach. I have a psychiatrist who prescribes medication and a therapist who treats me cognitively Both work when used appropriately.
My most recent panic attack was just a few days ago, when my husband left to fly his helicopter. It's something he does but this time, it put me in panic mode. It was a full blown attack. The closed in feeling. The tightening chest, and sense of heart attack. That “tunnel sensation” where I can only focus on what's in front of me, nothing else surrounding me. Somewhere in my mind, I heard myself say “panic attack, get your pills.” I took an Ativan. Then I called my mom and told her what I was going through and asked her to talk to me about anything until the pill took affect.
Other things you can do is listen to soothing meditation music. That helps. Reading a book or watching a movie also helps to distract your mind from the anxiety.
Pam, thanks for such a timely article and for understanding so much about panic attacks.
Sometimes i think life pushes one to insanity and then has the audacity to question ones madness!Its just life running us down and we racting like normal human beings, maybe they call it 'Schizophrenia, 'Dablee depression' and 'Social Anxiety Disorder'.But we know, calling Life names is not gonna let us get our way!! So we just gotta live it,lump it and fight it our way no matter what new fangled eponym we inspire !!
amazing song!
From psychotherapy to medications, from alternative medicine to lifestyle modifications and self-help strategies, there is a wide range of options when it comes to treating anxiety disorder. These so-called anxiety cures all try to do one thing – reduce the symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder and eventually eliminate the condition.
Can you go to a family doctor/general practitioner for anxiety disorder/depression?
In Scotland they regard the figures for 5 to 10 year olds as the most indicative of true prevalence and the available figures for older populations are less indicative the older the population. Another interesting anomoly in Scotland – reported rates of autism in post 16 year olds who stay on at school are significantly higher than in those who leave school at 16. Leaving school certainly did a lot to “cure” my son's autism, if you measure autism by the extent of his symptoms of severe social anxiety disorder.
Buspirone (Buspar) is a medication prescribed in generalized anxiety disorder and in resistant depression.
From Wikipedia,
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a term for certain severe psychological consequences of exposure to, or confrontation with, stressful experiences that the person experiences as highly traumatic.[1] Clinically, such experiences involve actual or threatened death, serious physical injury, or a threat to physical and/or psychological integrity, to a degree that usual psychological defences are incapable of coping with the impact. It is occasionally called post-traumatic stress reaction to emphasize that it is a routine result of traumatic experience rather than a manifestation of a pre-existing psychological weakness on the part of the patient. The presence of a PTSD response is influenced by the intensity of the experience, its duration, and the individual person involved.
It is possible for individuals to experience traumatic stress without manifesting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, as indicated in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and also for people to experience traumatic situations and not develop PTSD. In fact, most people who experience traumatic events will not develop PTSD. For most people, the emotional effects of traumatic events tends to subside after several months; if they last longer, then a psychiatric disorder may be diagnosed. PTSD is thought to be primarily an anxiety disorder and should not be confused with normal grief and adjustment after traumatic events.
Symptoms of PTSD can include the following: nightmares, flashbacks, emotional detachment or numbing of feelings (emotional self-mortification or dissociation), insomnia, avoidance of reminders and extreme distress when exposed to the reminders (“triggers”), irritability, hypervigilance, memory loss, and excessive startle response, clinical depression and anxiety, loss of appetite. It is also possible for a person suffering from PTSD to exhibit one or more other comorbid psychiatric disorders; these disorders often include clinical depression (or bipolar disorder), general anxiety disorder and a variety of addictions. PTSD may have a delayed onset of months, years or even decades and may be triggered by an external factor or factors. Some believe that panic disorder and PTSD are closely related, since panic disorders usually involve fear of a past panic attack.
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Camera brings things out.
I really dont think shes crazy. Reasons why:
1. She is on camera so that is already nerve wrecking cuz your going to feel nervous in trying to make sure you get your point across verbally. So I think she just sucks at expressing herself in public speaking.When shes defending herself I think shes terribly intimidated when she has to confront them and she messes up what shes saying.Most people when theyre mad can make what they want to say come out perfectly but shes just not like that.
2. Just watching those women talk and the fights makes me feel sick to the stomach sometimes and I cant watch the negativeness so I would imagine actually having to be there would make you have a breakdown dealing with those loud characters.
If anything I would say she has social anxiety disorder..
A person with social anxiety disorder is afraid that he or she will make mistakes and be embarrassed or humiliated in front of others. The fear may be made worse by a lack of social skills or experience in social situations. The anxiety can build into a panic attack. As a result of the fear, the person endures certain social situations in extreme distress or may avoid them altogether. In addition, people with social anxiety disorder often suffer “anticipatory” anxiety — the fear of a situation before it even happens — for days or weeks before the event. In many cases, the person is aware that the fear is unreasonable, yet is unable to overcome it.
People with social anxiety disorder suffer from distorted thinking, including false beliefs about social situations and the negative opinions of others. Without treatment, social anxiety disorder can negatively interfere with the person's normal daily routine, including school, work, social activities, and relationships.
People with social anxiety disorder may be afraid of a specific situation, such as speaking in public. However, most people with social anxiety disorder fear more than one social situation. Other situations that commonly provoke anxiety include:
Eating or drinking in front of others.
Writing or working in front of others.
Being the center of attention.
I don't think you deservce the negative comments that are filled with curse words. You did say that it was you opinion and experience. My manias make me feel more normal except I start new things that I won't finish as well as shop to much. My depressions that are more prevalent.
Ricky Williams was high during that interview with Dan Patrick!!! OMG I couldn't stop laughing when I first heard this. Man I could of made one out of this, but you did a better job than I could. I need to jump in though and make one about Mike Vick or Pacman Jones & Strip Clubs. Before someone else does
I don't do drugs, just weed hahaha
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I'd like to have a word or three with your students, I admit! Did you ask them, would they accept taking random chemicals into their bodies that had common side effects that would make their quality of life less just because a doctor said so? I *WILL NOT* take anti-psychotics, at all. I do not need them. I *might* take valium for a time, but it would be coupled with intensive behavior modification therapy and other therapy. (Valium has been around long enough that I feel that the pros and cons of taking it into the system are fairly well known, unlike other medicines.)
I'm going to have to go in, when I find a psychiatrist I can trust that won't just shove scripts at me, and get help. I'm pretty sure I have GAD, (General Anxiety Disorder) I am not kidding, and I am not hypochondriac. While lookingon Wikipedia at various anxiety disorders the other day, (the day I wrote you) I came across that article, and said “Yeah. Oh, I've been there! Yeah, yeah, hey I felt like that just the other day but I call it waking up from anesthesia.” It was more than four symptoms that I had, and the Mr. agreed too.
Because that psychiatrist gave me the prescription for heavy duty medicines that I didn't need, that went against all my concerns as far as grogginess, weight gain, inability to exert myself for fear of overheating, and required me to get eye checkups every few months I've not felt I could trust anyone from that clinic since my counselor got promoted. (It was counter-indicated in patients with glaucoma, or diabetes in the family. Both are in my family, my first cousin has gone into diabetic comas before.)
I don't know if I ever will find someone I can trust, unless I find myself living in your area and you can give a nod or two for a door I can knock on. (I've spoken of this in another comment, I don't remember what it was he tried to fob off on me, and made me promise not to read the patient info sheet too. It was an anti-psychotic that I do remember. I went in due to sadness, inability to sleep, and anxiety from a seperation/divorce from my very abusive first husband.) Tell your students, that there are patients aware of their attitude, and that they do indeed stay home, and do not seek help. I certainly do. I don't want their help, they can keep their degrees until they can grow to be able to look at the individual and their needs and not try to use a “one size fits all” magical cure all. Harsh, but maybe it'll wake one or two of 'em up so they will grow.
Part of the problem, I sort of brought on myself. I thought the fellow would be able to have a reasoned debate as to religion. I made the mistake of telling him I don't practice the Christian religion anymore (I think he'd asked me about my Faith/Sprituality) and was researching other religions, and that as far as I could see, what Wiccans thought of as “magick” was really a form of prayer, and if Christian or Jewish prayer works, why not Wiccan prayer? (And I don't see why the Higher Power wouldn't answer a sincere plea from people even if they aren't using the Christian rituals do make the plea.) Then he tried to con me into taking the anti-psychotics. I am aware, that by the book belief in “magic” makes one psychotic. His mind closed and he didn't see that it wasn't magical thinking or loss of touch with reality, it was an open mind seeing there is more than one way to pray.
For now, I'm staying away from “triggers” for my anxiety (as in, mostly staying to myself/friends/family when offline, not exactly a hermit but not a social butterfly by any means.) and hanging in there until I can have more ability to shop around for a psychiatrist who will actually listen to me, and not knee jerk and apply a text book cure. I'll still have to be careful, right now I am on the Gov't medical insurance, so I don't much chance to tell the doctoro “No”. They can report me, or make me follow their instructions. (My friends are going through this right now, their doctor thinks they are allergic to cats, they aren't, he just hates cats. They are no better now they have had to give away their pets.) Even after I am off the Gov't medical coverage I will have to be careful. Doctors in this country “fire” patients who are difficult, and put black marks on patient records making it so other doctors will be prejudiced ahead of time, or not willing to take the patient on in the first place.
Patients wouldn't have to speak up so loudly, if the doctors (Not all doctors, I know, I do have some faith. But enough out there are deaf and blind to their patients, training the patients to be difficult just to get good quality care, then punishing htem for pursuing good quality care.) would unplug their ears, and take off the blinders and really SEE their patients! Print this comment, and my other comment out if you want, show your students, let them see things from the other side if you think it will help. Write me if you want other details, I very well may answer. If it will help this generation of doctors being raised to learn to do better by their patients, I'm up for a bit of letting the pain well forth to get my point across.
I Know How feel. But Don't what to do about it anxiety has taken over my life!
I suffer from panic/anxiety attacks. I have General Anxiety Disorder and Social Anxiety Disorder. I have a two pronged approach. I have a psychiatrist who prescribes medication and a therapist who treats me cognitively Both work when used appropriately.
My most recent panic attack was just a few days ago, when my husband left to fly his helicopter. It's something he does but this time, it put me in panic mode. It was a full blown attack. The closed in feeling. The tightening chest, and sense of heart attack. That “tunnel sensation” where I can only focus on what's in front of me, nothing else surrounding me. Somewhere in my mind, I heard myself say “panic attack, get your pills.” I took an Ativan. Then I called my mom and told her what I was going through and asked her to talk to me about anything until the pill took affect.
Other things you can do is listen to soothing meditation music. That helps. Reading a book or watching a movie also helps to distract your mind from the anxiety.
Pam, thanks for such a timely article and for understanding so much about panic attacks.
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I have self taught on how to keep my anxiety at bay.. I know everyone is different and everyone may have different ways of dealing with it. I believe that what I have learned can help many of people with anxiety I am tired and got to get to bed but if anyone has any questions or just would like to chat about your anxiety feel free to reply back and I will be happy to talk with anyone.Anxiety is nasty and it does not have to be.. we need to get you back to the way you were before anxiety.
Social Anxiety Disorder
Well awareness is the first step. So you have already started.
I recommend the first step is getting diagnosed as to what challenges you may be having depression / schizophrenia / agoraphobia / generalized anxiety disorder. Then there is a treatment plan which can include therapy, medications, herbals, working on social skills, meeting friends and more. There is hope and you have already taken the first step by reaching out.
Take care
I was reading an article from this women who was depressed. She had a son who had been diagnosed schizophrenic, and another who was suffering from generalized anxiety disorder.
I think that the way mental disorders become characterized as genetic is by families relying (I would call it over relying) on psychiatrists. You can just imagine that age of innocense that existed before the advent of psychiatry.
Ahha moment! [Dr. Sharyl] Balkin, who has worked with lawyers and doctors… Is it possible that Dr. Balkin bore a diagnosis of ADHD before she achieved her PhD? Just an afterthought anyway.
I think I went about 4 years of everybody just thinking I was depressed (or just a mean jackass) until I was finally diagnosed with Bipolar II and Generalized Anxiety Disorder. I agree- the more I talk about it with people, the more people I find that have similar experiences. I'm very open and honest with the teens at church, and I have told my story of depression, self-harm, Bipolar, etc. to several groups in attempts that others can learn and heal from my story.
As mentioned in the above post, having a social anxiety disorder during adolescence does present a unique problem that, for many youth, can be temporarily solved through the use of alcohol and/or marijuana. This may in part explain the correlation between social anxiety disorders and substance abuse, although it still does not explain the lack of correlation between other anxiety/mood disorders and substance abuse.
In order to further investigate the link between substance abuse and social anxiety disorder, Ham, Bonin & Hope (2006) studied college students and their anxiety and alcohol consumption. Despite some inconsistencies within the study groups, the researches concluded that the motivation for drinking may be one of the most important factors when it comes to substance abuse. Through their research, Thomas, Randall, and Carrigan (2003), also discovered that more socially anxious subjects turned to alcohol in order to cope with their disorders.
Since both alcohol and marijuana lower inhibitions, it is not surprising that a youth with a disorder that causes extreme shyness and an inability to function in normal social situations would turn to either substance.
Additionally, children with social anxiety disorder have an increased concern for the opinions of others. They often fear that others are constantly judging them and thinking negatively of them. In this case, it seems that conformity and peer pressure would also play a large role in the formation of an alcohol/drug habit.
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Stephanie, I had a look at that link, yes it is very upsetting, I am feeling quite sad to read of the “Dark Underside” of the Forest.
Do you think Pooh could really have (ADHD)?? And poor Piglet, is it really possible that he could have a “Generalized Anxiety Disorder”??? I have always felt an affinity with Piglet!! Do you thinkthis anxiety thing could be my underlying problem??
Oh my goodness me!! I never realised that the forest was a place where so many “neurodevelopmental and psychosocial problems go unrecognized and untreated”. Do you think this means I am an SPL, Stephanie??? What about Deb? She is probably one too!!
I'd like to have a word or three with your students, I admit! Did you ask them, would they accept taking random chemicals into their bodies that had common side effects that would make their quality of life less just because a doctor said so? I *WILL NOT* take anti-psychotics, at all. I do not need them. I *might* take valium for a time, but it would be coupled with intensive behavior modification therapy and other therapy. (Valium has been around long enough that I feel that the pros and cons of taking it into the system are fairly well known, unlike other medicines.)
I'm going to have to go in, when I find a psychiatrist I can trust that won't just shove scripts at me, and get help. I'm pretty sure I have GAD, (General Anxiety Disorder) I am not kidding, and I am not hypochondriac. While lookingon Wikipedia at various anxiety disorders the other day, (the day I wrote you) I came across that article, and said “Yeah. Oh, I've been there! Yeah, yeah, hey I felt like that just the other day but I call it waking up from anesthesia.” It was more than four symptoms that I had, and the Mr. agreed too.
Because that psychiatrist gave me the prescription for heavy duty medicines that I didn't need, that went against all my concerns as far as grogginess, weight gain, inability to exert myself for fear of overheating, and required me to get eye checkups every few months I've not felt I could trust anyone from that clinic since my counselor got promoted. (It was counter-indicated in patients with glaucoma, or diabetes in the family. Both are in my family, my first cousin has gone into diabetic comas before.)
I don't know if I ever will find someone I can trust, unless I find myself living in your area and you can give a nod or two for a door I can knock on. (I've spoken of this in another comment, I don't remember what it was he tried to fob off on me, and made me promise not to read the patient info sheet too. It was an anti-psychotic that I do remember. I went in due to sadness, inability to sleep, and anxiety from a seperation/divorce from my very abusive first husband.) Tell your students, that there are patients aware of their attitude, and that they do indeed stay home, and do not seek help. I certainly do. I don't want their help, they can keep their degrees until they can grow to be able to look at the individual and their needs and not try to use a “one size fits all” magical cure all. Harsh, but maybe it'll wake one or two of 'em up so they will grow.
Part of the problem, I sort of brought on myself. I thought the fellow would be able to have a reasoned debate as to religion. I made the mistake of telling him I don't practice the Christian religion anymore (I think he'd asked me about my Faith/Sprituality) and was researching other religions, and that as far as I could see, what Wiccans thought of as “magick” was really a form of prayer, and if Christian or Jewish prayer works, why not Wiccan prayer? (And I don't see why the Higher Power wouldn't answer a sincere plea from people even if they aren't using the Christian rituals do make the plea.) Then he tried to con me into taking the anti-psychotics. I am aware, that by the book belief in “magic” makes one psychotic. His mind closed and he didn't see that it wasn't magical thinking or loss of touch with reality, it was an open mind seeing there is more than one way to pray.
For now, I'm staying away from “triggers” for my anxiety (as in, mostly staying to myself/friends/family when offline, not exactly a hermit but not a social butterfly by any means.) and hanging in there until I can have more ability to shop around for a psychiatrist who will actually listen to me, and not knee jerk and apply a text book cure. I'll still have to be careful, right now I am on the Gov't medical insurance, so I don't much chance to tell the doctoro “No”. They can report me, or make me follow their instructions. (My friends are going through this right now, their doctor thinks they are allergic to cats, they aren't, he just hates cats. They are no better now they have had to give away their pets.) Even after I am off the Gov't medical coverage I will have to be careful. Doctors in this country “fire” patients who are difficult, and put black marks on patient records making it so other doctors will be prejudiced ahead of time, or not willing to take the patient on in the first place.
Patients wouldn't have to speak up so loudly, if the doctors (Not all doctors, I know, I do have some faith. But enough out there are deaf and blind to their patients, training the patients to be difficult just to get good quality care, then punishing htem for pursuing good quality care.) would unplug their ears, and take off the blinders and really SEE their patients! Print this comment, and my other comment out if you want, show your students, let them see things from the other side if you think it will help. Write me if you want other details, I very well may answer. If it will help this generation of doctors being raised to learn to do better by their patients, I'm up for a bit of letting the pain well forth to get my point across.
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Sometimes i think life pushes one to insanity and then has the audacity to question ones madness!Its just life running us down and we racting like normal human beings, maybe they call it 'Schizophrenia, 'Dablee depression' and 'Social Anxiety Disorder'.But we know, calling Life names is not gonna let us get our way!! So we just gotta live it,lump it and fight it our way no matter what new fangled eponym we inspire !!