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Post by Tay Sachs on Oct 27, 2003 17:38:06 GMT -5
I'm OCD (hooray for the OCDers!) and it doesn't offend me when people use it as an adjective. I do it myself. I never say retarded though, maybe because I'm not retarded I don't feel ok using it as a word, I don't know.
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Post by its a me a mario! on Oct 27, 2003 17:38:23 GMT -5
oh okay!! ;D
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Post by J on Oct 27, 2003 18:20:04 GMT -5
"Retarded" is just like using "gay". People ue them as insults even if they're not.
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Post by Anne A Gram on Oct 27, 2003 18:52:10 GMT -5
I'm slightly paranoid.
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Post by Vacuum Pot on Oct 27, 2003 20:55:40 GMT -5
I'm a little O.C.D., although no doctors have ever really diagnosed me... I mean, I'll be washing the dishes, and for a five minute sinkload it may take me an hour, for I must get everything spotless... and when I see my Mother or Sister washing the dishes, and they zip through everything, I'll stand and look through all the dishes that she's already cleaned, and pull some out and put them back in the dish water... My room is the messiest thing on Earth, though when I get my own arpartment it will be spotless... and with some things, I organize like crazy, like the Monopoly game set, I order the money and the title deeds, put all the movers, houses and hotels in different sorted areas... I think you get what I mean. I also have Hypoglycemia, which is a low blood sugar disorder... if I get too hungry, I'll find myself extra nervous and sensitive, as I'll weep and get angry really easily. Oh, back on topic! ^_^ I don't like it when people call things "retarted," as I don't see how everything they call retarted is "held back." My 7 year old best friend, Dakota, often calls things stupid, although he means silly. I don't have a problem with that. P.S. I do the thing with backspace a lot to, Fancy.
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Post by Fancy on Nov 2, 2003 2:05:20 GMT -5
I'm a little O.C.D., although no doctors have ever really diagnosed me... I mean, I'll be washing the dishes, and for a five minute sinkload it may take me an hour, for I must get everything spotless... and when I see my Mother or Sister washing the dishes, and they zip through everything, I'll stand and look through all the dishes that she's already cleaned, and pull some out and put them back in the dish water... My room is the messiest thing on Earth, though when I get my own arpartment it will be spotless... and with some things, I organize like crazy, like the Monopoly game set, I order the money and the title deeds, put all the movers, houses and hotels in different sorted areas... I think you get what I mean. I also have Hypoglycemia, which is a low blood sugar disorder... if I get too hungry, I'll find myself extra nervous and sensitive, as I'll weep and get angry really easily. Oh, back on topic! ^_^ I don't like it when people call things "retarted," as I don't see how everything they call retarted is "held back." My 7 year old best friend, Dakota, often calls things stupid, although he means silly. I don't have a problem with that. P.S. I do the thing with backspace a lot to, Fancy. Yar. It takes me forever to do the dishes as well, which is why I always get in trouble for not washing them. [prepare for a rant about OCD] Also, to get a drink of water I fill a cup, then dump it out, then keep doing that for awhile, and half the time I end up having to get a new one. Then there's the bit where if I feel any sort of twinge or pain on my arm or something, I have to sort of jab at/scratch it. (There's about a zillion other things.) The OCD's definitely in its less severe phase, though. When I was eleven if I stepped on a crack I had to recite a certain number of prayers, and it took forever to convince myself that I indeed not broken my mother's back. And saying the word 'cancer' around me (except in reference to the astrological symbol) is like setting off a mental bomb. Done with rant now.
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Post by Colton on Nov 2, 2003 2:48:02 GMT -5
meh. i ahve A.D.D. and im a leftie, so im screwed. i have bad handwriting cuz im a leftie and i bounce around all the itme and make typos cuz i have A.D.D.
perosnally, i like retarded people. they are fun. as long as they dont touch me, im ok with them. i got pissed at one one time at Dollywood ( an amusement park dedicated to a lousy country singer ) cuz she got to skip int he line and ride 3 times while the rest of us were waiting to get on a ride....
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Post by J on Nov 2, 2003 17:42:47 GMT -5
Is it possible to be "cured" of paranoia without...doing anything? Like sweating it out?
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Post by Pester, Rumormonger on Nov 2, 2003 20:53:19 GMT -5
I've been diagnosed Obstructive Defiance Disorder, (which they probably made up) but naturally I think that's something to be sort of proud of. No one can tell me what to do without regretting they hadn't! Or so I believe. I'd rather not just accept whatever people tell me than let adults think that kids are just robots to be ordered around.
I'm a leftie too, and I was diagnosed (incorrectly) with ADD when I was a kid, but I refused to take any pills for it. Heh, maybe that was my ODD acting up.
I know many people with behavoioral disorders because I was put into a special ed class with people who mostly had those after I sort of refused to do any homework in order to make a point. I prefer to think of those "behavioral disorders" as personal idiosynchrosies. Although they may be inconveniant at times, I don't think a person should be forced to take action to correct those idiosynchrosies even if they are a child.
See what I meant about people with mental disorder on the internet? I think that everybody has been (or could be) diagnosed with something or other.
Edit: Oh, and now that I've read this thread more carefully, I'm glad to see a first hand account of OCD. I've always wondered about it. When you say that it's in a less severe phase, do you mean that you have bad days, or bad years, or that it's worse in childhood than in adulthood? Can't you take something for it if you choose to?
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Post by DariaSquagromie on Nov 21, 2003 17:03:46 GMT -5
Man, this may sound stupid, but what constitutes a mental illness? I'm borderline schizophrenic, former cutter (former), with sudden waves of unexplainable paranoia, so is that mentally ill? Anway, I guess it doesn't really matter.
All of my relatives on my dad's side have tendencies for clinical depression, so I'm just sort of waiting for that, I suppose . . . Anyroad, I guess I've taken up too much space here. Sorry.
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Post by ice on Nov 21, 2003 22:41:45 GMT -5
My friend's got ADD or something like that...at a day where we just headed off to a little mini-fun-park type place. (Anybody in CT, it's called Holiday Hill) Apparently he didn't hear the announcement for him to head to the nurse's station to get his medication. Another friend of mine had to hold me back from having a go at him on the bus home. When he's on whatever medication he takes you can't tell the difference. I think he's borderline ADD. Also, I wonder if I'm slightly OCD sometimes...like when trying to sleep in a room where there's something with an LED dot, (like the sleep mode LED on a TV) I insist on covering up the dot because it'll bother me all night. Last time I was in a hotel room and said this to my roommate he asked if I was OCD, which is what got me thinking about if I am slightly. I also wonder if that has to do with my spelling and grammar slowly going down the tubes. (Or it could be Adam's posts I read in the archives.)
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Post by Vince Noir on Nov 26, 2003 16:11:40 GMT -5
I kind of have obsessive compulsive dissorder. I have to do something a certain amount of times and say certain things at cretain times or ill hit myself.
I've got better now though. I'm trying really hard not to do it and im doing really well but i think its to do with things that are happening at that time. Like when my parents split up, it got worse but im doing great at the moment.
I try to talk to my Mum about it. If any one else has it, Talk to someone to help you stop.
Thankyou for reading!!!! Luv Phoebe
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Post by Amphagorey on Dec 4, 2003 23:28:50 GMT -5
Well, heres my list; I am anxious, I see a councellor, and I am about to go into group therapy. I have depression tendencys. I am on medication, and I am stressed out about everything. I am also a pyro.
My grandpa was depressed, and had similar symptoms to me.
My good friend is depressed, another one of my good friends is depressed and another one of my friends has ADD(hyperactive as well) depression, and a whole lotta other things.
My moms good friend is a salsazophrenic, and my mom herself has mild depression.
My brother has autisim. That is not easy.
One of my moms co-workers eldest son also has autisim.
and my grandma is deaf.
But, despite all this, we all get along just fine. Some people assume that just because you have a mental imbalance, your nuts. None of you guys though, some people I know think that. And swans, that story about your granmother is really sad. I feel really bad for her. And you having to deal with that.
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Post by Rikku on Dec 5, 2003 15:03:30 GMT -5
It's not a real serious problem, but I get paranoid sometimes. like when I'm home alone at night. or if I wake up in the middle of the night, and I'm trying to go back to sleep. if I hear the slightess noise, I freak out that some crazy guy is in the house going to get me or my family.
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Post by DariaSquagromie on Dec 5, 2003 15:19:19 GMT -5
I used to do that, too . . . the freaking-out-at-small-sounds bit. Actually, it was that and walking around corners. I always thought there would be something-er-other waiting to attack me when I went around. Sometimes, when I see two people talking in the hall and they're whispering and look at me, I think they're talking about me-- not too kindly. I also have a lot of symptoms of depression, (my family has ver strong history of clinical depression) but only for periods of time, often interspersed with periods of intense joy and creativity, also for no real reason. So maybe I'm manic-depressive. It would explain a heluva lot. Anywho . . . I used to be mildy schizophrenic, in addition to being SI . . . That's it. Ta-da.
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