When you're sad ...
... do you actually eat ice cream out of the gallon? This is inspired by a thread in the Sam and Max forum, but do you actually do different "things" when you're depressed than when you're happy, or "okay" even? I'll talk less than normal, but I still do all the normal stuff I usually do. I eat, cook, play games, work, waste hours upon hours on the internet, but I don't suddenly pig out on sweets, pour my heart out to my local bartender or meet up for coffee with my best friend only to sigh and stare out the window until she finally says, "Lena, you seem different today; is anything wrong?"
Does anybody actually do that?
Does anybody actually do that?
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Somebody's too lazy to look for a deeper meaning. :P
Why do you think I always go for the "easy" joke? Also, I was so shocked that you answered logically to a thread that it kind of threw me off my game a little.
My job is not to be off topic; it is to surprise; to keep people on their toes.
Wow! Two semicolons in one sentence!
Or playing videogames.
No. That's physically impossible. Think about it.
Now, if I have a non-chemical bout of depression, then that's a whole other can o' worms. I'll tune out everything and "live inside my mind", for the lack of a better term.
Shagge do you get manic episodes and how are u aware u are manic? (Im a grad student in psychology)
(Or I could suggest just playing Telltale Texas Hold-Em whenever you feel sad, but I guess that would only go so far when someone runs over your puppy.)
I do tend to like comfort food when I'm sad, yes. That can be chips, or chocolate, or chocolate chips (see what I did?) or lots of stuff, really.
But if I'm really, really sad then I can't eat at all, and instead I fetch a cat or my husband, depending which is most readily available, and hug them.
I prefer the cats because they purr >.>
I don't usually eat ice-cream (or, most of the time, sorbet) out of the box though. My parents were pretty freaky about how if some of your saliva gets in there and then is frozen, the next person who eats from the box (including if it's you again) could get an intoxication.
Plus if you eat in a bowl, the bowl isn't cold, so it's more comfortable.
Aye. I become aware of my manic episodes when I either
A) Become extremely energetic for no reason
or
Now, how much of that is from the bipolar, and how much is from the myriad list of other disorders I've been diagnosed with, I couldn't say. Especially since some of it seems more like a mild psychotic episode than mania. But then, as the old saying goes, you can't make a diagnosis with the organ that has the disease.
You can control it w/ medicine more easier and also working to be more aware of every symptom, and making a strategy to avoid doing social stuff that might put you in trouble.
Grammar mistakes make me sad... But oh well.
I just wanted to post something. -shame-
And when that happens, I usually don't have an appetite so to answer your question: no, I don't gobble down a gallon of ice cream then.
Besides, I usually don't have ANY ice cream in the freezer these days
I usually have chocolate on me though, but that gets gobbled down during my snack attacks, which typically happen when I'm stressed or generally happy ><
Heh, believe me, I spent the majority of my formative years heavily medicated and tossed around from facility to facility. I stopped taking the meds when I turned 20, and I haven't used them in over three years since. I find I'm doing better now that I'm off them than I ever did back then.
Although I would never advise anyone to just stop taking their medication, I do agree that from one person to the next, meds range from very useful to superfluous to doing more harm than good.
This. It was extremely dangerous to do what I did, seeing as how I was on Lithium, which can kill you if you suddenly stop taking it. But I was honestly willing to take the chance, since one of the meds I used to take gave me seizures and blackouts (the blackouts continue to this day, albeit much less often and much shorter in length), and I would have rather been dead than risk suffering that again.
I mean, it's not fun living by the whim of my brain's chemical secretions (which is why few things anger me more than people feigning mental illness for attention, as seems to be the trend these days), but I'll take this over being a vegetable any day.
Shagge, I suffer from manic depression, and PTSD. It is not a fun place in my in mind at times, but you know what I agree with you 100%.
I have to lose myself in music, gaming or doing whatever I feel like is going to focus away from anything, that focuses on myself. Probably why I'm the forums so much allways updating my twitter, and facebook.
Cheers, I was hoping that somebody here could relate. Every time I meet a new person with MH issues, it makes it that much easier to deal with my own. Strength in numbers, and all of that.
Ouch, OCD and dyslexia together? That cannot be fun. I have OCD as well, and one of my compulsions is perfect spelling. If I had dyslexia on top of it, I'd be in the fetal position all day.
Let's see... I have suffered from depression (although not at the moment, yay!), I'm dysnumberic, I have agoraphobia (fear of public places, not open spaces), panic troubles and several other phobias, I'm allergic to antibiotics, milk (hey, maybe that's why I'm allergic to milk, come to think of it >.>), dust mites and some other stuff, I have asthma that can be triggered by heat, cold, effort, humidity, and by milk (see above, allergic to milk), I have chronic lung infection and ear infection (due to not being able to heal them properly since I'm allergic to antibiotics) and... er... I'm sure there was more.
Okay, I cheated, I listed lots of stuff that are physical, not psychological/emotional.
Oh, I almost forgot, I also have a hypothyroid thingie.
And bad teeth and eyes. But I wear glasses and two surgeries and 7 years of braces solved the tooth problems.
I think my parents didn't think it through when they decided to have kids >.> I have 3 brothers and I'm the healthiest one, for the record. At least physically.
Do I win something? If so, I want a cookie. Without milk, please.
Ohhh... Sorry, the prize was ʞ1ıɯ... So sorry. (Why is the 'l' a '1'? That is killing me!)
That's okay, I'm not allergic to it when it's spelt upside-down :P
Good. That's a relief.
Anybody remember the show "Queen For A Day"? This thread is now that.
No, but am I the queen?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_for_a_Day
We are ALL the Queen! As long as we don't mind being publicly humiliated.
ADD without hyperactivity but w/ impulsivity here! When i took the class of Psychopathology on of the things they said its that you will find yourselve eventually in the DSM IV.
Also about the OCD w/ grammar, man my main language is spanish. So its kinda harder to speak it in the accorded sense and same goes for writing.
Also someone said about medicines and the range of effectiveness. It is true but its always worth the try. Shagge has a point and he has felt better. But i always add that for better copping in life with a pathology such as bipolar its continued psychotherapy.
Agoraphobia and OCD are anxiety disorders that must require attention because they can get worst if left unattended.
I also have my bouts of depression but im well aware that mine is more like shorter than a week and can be for 1 or 2 days. But nonetheless life is a battle for reaching to our goals and getting along with others.
Also, I'm not a huge fan of ice cream to begin with so eating something I don't like when I'm sad would probably just make things worse...
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