Psychiatry, psychology, mental, mind matters

Not sure if this is relevant here, it's also a bit of an epic WTF.

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/i-went-to-naked-therapy?utm_source=vicefbuk

I'm a big fan of Vice. It seems lovely to me^.

I did a bit of research, here. 250$ for an hour is too much though.

It's so WTF I had to read it twice :-))

This thread needs less doctors and at least one patient. I can do that. Is there an entry form?

Relapsing is grim no matter what the drug. :(

This is proving to be a pretty engaging documentary - http://www.channel4.com/programmes/addicts-symphony

I wonder what percentage of high-achievers and talented individuals develop addictions and/or mental health issues. It's certainly rife in the film and music industries. Sad how many really gifted people sabotage their own lives...

Oh dear. That article just gets worse! She hasn't sold it to me anyway.

And that last photo/sentence is extra WTF!

Some of these individuals use drugs, no matter of which substance we talk, as an octane.. booster.
It boost the talents as the problems as well. No everyone can afford that…

Others, still talented, prefers to stay clean from drugs, and they're doing good on that.
Obviously, if then they spend all their time stirring on their problems, sometime teaching about it too, but then what they do it's only to get addicted to it… oh well, I dunno

I dunno either. It's all so obvious when looking objectively at others, yet quite baffling at the same time....

So, better to work on the forgetting… and when you can't, embrace the thing.. with the only purpose of silent it!

I would have thought it's better to remember but learn to accept, than actively try to forget that which you cannot change? Better in the long term, though not easy.

That is doctors talking… I prefer forget and kill it or kill it and forget. The quicker you can the better. I'm not accepting it, when I embrace it it's only a trick for then kill it.

But you don't know what I'm talking about.

A Dutch football coach replaced cigarettes with lollypops. I guess not ideal teeth-wise (though these days there's sugar free...) perhaps others use chewing gum, so they keep the ritual but ditch the chemicals :)

. nvrmnd

That is doctors talking… I prefer forget and kill it or kill it and forget. The quicker you can the better. I'm not accepting it, when I embrace it it's only a trick for then kill it.

You're right, I don't know what specifically you're talking about :) Sounds serious when you put it like that :/ You wont convince me that it's possible to consciously kill and forget thoughts/memories though. I think it's possible to deeply bury stuff and shift one's focus (I guess that's part of survival) but imho, it would involve total mind control or more drastic brain intervention to achieve erradication of thoughts.

Unless...your real name's not Richard Bandler or John Grinder, is it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming

I was speaking about mental malaises, I won't go in the specific first of all for don't break my first rule, but not only for that. I'm also talking about unconscious and very sporadical symptoms which tent to paralyse(among other things…)metaphorically speaking.

You can't kill memories, they are not mental illness, in some case I guess they can cause it though.

The bad memories I have, and not too bad anyway, are just useful in that moments that I need to trow out bad energy and I can't find the right place in the right moment…

But for serious bad memories, because I don't have it, I just dunno :)

Sounds tough :(

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Has anyone any good recommendations for reading material regarding personality disorders for the laymen. Preferably books not web pages and on main topic of unstable/boarderline disorders. Sorry if I sound a little blasé but I am a patient not a doctor.

I have been recommended Hallucinations and The Minds Eye by Oliver Sacks. Apparently the books are more general but written in an interesting and compassionate way. I haven't read them though. I did read An Unquiet Mind which was somehow comforting. I think it was just nice to hear from someone going through a similar thing and writing about it in a technical way. It was more to my side of crazy though. Good luck to you.

I would recommend anything written by Oliver Sacks. Can't put it better than interesting and compassionate

Did the team who diagnosed you recommend anything? There are so many types of psychological disorders and so many symptom overlaps between bi-polar, depression, borderline personality disorder etc. which is why it's never a good ideal to self-diagnose. The Internet is obviously a fantastic resource but also a minefield for the vulnerable layman, as are so many self-help books, imho.

That said, I second Oliver Sacks - not for any specific advice but because of his unique approach. He is simultaneously neurological/scientific and accessible/humorous/full of narrative/characterful. I remember being amazed by the bizarreness and the sheer diversity between the patients he saw.

I saw a BBC interview with mental health campaigner Marion Janner this week - she is one of the contributors of this new book

Incredible how much her dog Buddy has helped her manage her borderline personality disorder for the last 10 years.

Oh and just in case we didn't already know, a dog does wonders for your mental health: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/02/dog-positive-impact-mental-health?CMP=twt_gu

Yes...the care plan I received stated 'unstable personality disorder' which when I google comes back with 'boarderline personality disorder' but I dunno if that's the same. Unfortunately my dog died a few weeks backs and like the author was the most wonderful med I have ever had in my life, in fact I think it may have been you who commented on my 'loss of a pet' thread I recently started.

The dog book looks like a must so I shall be getting that as animals are the most wonderful therapy anyone could wish for. Fortunately I have been blessed with a new little dog, a rescued one this time and she seems very special. So special in fact I am considering getting involved in some kind of dogs for therapy work.

Anyway back to topic...I have a new doctor and this was his new diagnosis. Moving from Generalized Anxiety Disorder to the above. The new diagnosis is far more like me as I have all the symptoms I guess and TBH I have never thought of my self as over anxious.

I guess I just wanna get my head around all this as life at times can be pretty awful at times for me and my friends and family and I am one of those people that like to have an understanding of things.