COPE help: Does anyone here have a mental illness?

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Does anyone here have a mental illness?

How do you cope?

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Sans 57 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (1 minute after post)

A better question would be, “Does anyone not?”

jcd 1 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (3 minutes after post)

sansceriph wrote:
A better question would be, “Does anyone not?”

I don’t. Not yet, anyway.

Help me with: Umm..

Godfather 11 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (4 minutes after post)

I suffer from PTSD. Went to alot of therapy, have good and supportive friends. After a while life just adjusts to it.

Help me with: Why is a hug so comforting?

fuh_q #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (17 minutes after post)

i am bipolar, is that a mental illness?

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fuh_q #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (19 minutes after post)

GODfather66 wrote:
I suffer from PTSD. Went to alot of therapy, have good and supportive friends. After a while life just adjusts to it.

ptsd is a stress disorder right?

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Anonymous #
1 year, 4 months ago (20 minutes after post)

so what do you take for your illness fuh-q? and does it help you?

fuh_q #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (23 minutes after post)

i dont take any meds, i refuse to.

i just go to therapy twice a week.

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Anonymous #
1 year, 4 months ago (24 minutes after post)

does that really help you?

fuh_q #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (25 minutes after post)

sometimes it helps so i can vent to someone but then there are other times when i just lose it.

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Anonymous #
1 year, 4 months ago (26 minutes after post)

why do you choose not to take meds?

fuh_q #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (28 minutes after post)

i feel if i take meds then im a freak like i cant go through a normal day without taking a pill first.
its just not for me.

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Anonymous #
1 year, 4 months ago (29 minutes after post)

if i don’t take meds i go off the deep end.

fuh_q #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (33 minutes after post)

what illness do you have?

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Anonymous #
1 year, 4 months ago (39 minutes after post)

bi polar

fuh_q #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (41 minutes after post)

oh, what are you on?

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Anonymous #
1 year, 4 months ago (42 minutes after post)

abilify, and it works quite well. if i am not on any meds i cant handle it, but i would like to learn how

fuh_q #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (45 minutes after post)

there is this site that will explain to how to handle the disorder without medication.

go here and click on the self care section.

http://www.bipolar.com/treatment_opti…

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Anonymous #
1 year, 4 months ago (46 minutes after post)

thanks

fuh_q #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (47 minutes after post)

no problem, if you have any other questions you can shout me for my e-mail.

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jetza 0 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 3 months ago (1 month, 1 week after post)

i have:

PTSD
Depression
Anxiety in many dif. forms
selfharming (not really an illness but rather a symptom)
and a-typical eating dissorder.

so yeah im messed up :P

Takes one medication right now… was on 3 but have cutted two of them out this summer, and im doing great! Also goes to teraphy.

Help me with: When u feel blue, have anxiety, traumas from ur childhood gets to u, and u just want it all to stop.

babacup 14 #
Indianapolis, IN, US | 1 year, 3 months ago (1 month, 1 week after post)

sansceriph wrote:
A better question would be, “Does anyone not?”

You make smile.

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babacup 14 #
Indianapolis, IN, US | 1 year, 3 months ago (1 month, 1 week after post)

You make me smile. Is what I meant.

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babacup 14 #
Indianapolis, IN, US | 1 year, 3 months ago (1 month, 1 week after post)

I have depression and use positive thinking, meditation, prayer, occasionally Saint Johns Wort, and talking about how I am feeling.

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