Depression, Anxiety, or other Mental Health Conditions

It sounds like you might be resigned to being essentially disabled. It sucks, but the only way to live is to work with what you have. If you are depressive it's paramount everything you do is focused towards trying to achieve a balance while taking care of yourself and accepting your limitations. I say this with a lifelong disability and I'm not currently unhappy. I don't know how painful your condition is but my experience living with my disabled mother is that it doesn't really matter how your pain compares to anyone else. You can only talk to your pain and strive to succeed by simply living. It might help to look towards someone you find inspiring. I hope your diagnosis isn't too serious. I just found out one of my role models, a rock sessions drummer I knew growing up and would gig most days of the year (literally back to back) has been diagnosed with colon cancer. Even the most massive, energetic people get hit with roadblocks when it's least expected. I was doing quite well when I fell down the strawberry floating stairs.

As for bloating, I've been awful while I was on tonnes of pain medication after fracturing my spine. I had to wake up at 4am like clockwork with a giant burp. Sometimes I felt like throwing up.

My girlfriend has IBS. I drank liquid gaviscon, you get it in giant bottles. Effervescent paracetamol powder in water also helps (the fizzy stuff, you can get it in Tescos for nothing). Ginger tea also seemed to help a bit. It's subsided since I came off the pain meds (thank god, the last thing I wanted was to be addicted to opioids), but it worked for me. You might also want to investigate allergies. You can get blood tests, but I hear they are expensive and can sometimes be a load of bullshit. Gluten free made a huge difference to my wellbeing 10 years ago now. I wasn't passing out after eating a big baguette or pie or whatever and getting painful indigestion all the time. There aren't necessarily any symptoms of coeliacs disease. Doctors only treat symptoms. If they don't physically observe any it's just dunno lol. My blood tests came back negative (something they neglected to tell me for several years) but at that time I'd already cut out gluten entirely so there weren't going to be any signs of inflammation.

Scans showed up nothing conclusive so I have to move to next steps with cameras up arse and all that shot probably. It’s a relief but a massive pain there is no silver bullet yet.

I’ve just kept quiet to everyone really because the last thing I want is people thinking I’m a dramatic baby. Ooh I’ve got a tummy ache give me paid leave etc.

It’s whatever, gonna try and get on with things without any unnecessary moaning.

Thanks for the tips

I’m already gluten free, sugar free, caffeine free, additive free etc without a single bead of improvement and I’ve been tested for coeliacs bee tee dubs

Well, a colonoscopy will confirm for sure. But no symptoms of no cause like I say. The diet made an almost immediate difference for me. I was literally over the moon the day I ate a salad for lunch and had a really enjoyable session with my band. I was telling everyone about it. So that's probably not it.

Good idea to cut stuff out though. IBS is a gooseberry fool, it may be particularly bad. It seems to come on worse in your late twenties.

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Pics of wife?

Tragic is awesome cause of his boner skillz

Wait, tragic is undepressed because he discovered his giant boner? This is marvellous news.

srs post if you need to talk bro

Disclaimer: I only actually refer to my brothers as "bro". I'm not Barney Stintson.

I deleted my post because I spoke to my Dad about it and I feel a little bit better again.

Qikz wrote:I deleted my post because I spoke to my Dad about it and I feel a little bit better again.

Glad you spoke to your father, dude. I guess it was a little bit a a burden feeling like you couldn't talk to anyone?

Short version, I felt absolutely strawberry floating terrible, like the worst in months. So today I bought a compound mitre circular saw to chop stuff up with.

Family was sprung upon me today, told my mum to shut up "if I could at least say hello" and ran upstairs to go back to bed.

I'm gonna build a bench with the saw, put the saw on that, and build a dining table.

I almost fell down on the stairs AGAIN into the cellar this time dragging it into my cave.

That's my story, I hope you enjoyed it.

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So i started group cbt a few weeks ago. It is a bit weird seeing other mental health sufferers sit around you, but makes you realise that people have issues and many are worse than yours.

I’ve had enough of citalopram and medication in general. Without them i am quite agitated and hopeless, but i can focus on my work and get things done, which is most important to me, being self employed.

Need to get back into exercising, which will negate the need to even take medication, but feel no motivation at all.

So how does one find a good therapist then? In Birmingham, say?

I feel like I might benefit.

deathofcows wrote:So how does one find a good therapist then? In Birmingham, say?

I feel like I might benefit.

First step is to go to your doctor's who will tell you to talk to Birmingham healthy minds. They'll give you an assessment to what kind of therapy you may need and will give you a choice of what you can do.

Trying out an app on my phone called offtime. It's basically parental controls for yourself. You set up profiles for allowed apps and it blocks the blacklisted ones from running during the time period you select.

You can install it at the device administrator level on Android which makes it a hassle to get rid of (on purpose) and if you quit mid session there's still a 1 minute cool down to make sure you're certain. So yeah of course anything you put on your phone you can take off but the point is to nag you into a single focus and keep you from pointless distraction.

Got a profile for social media, one for sleep that only allows music and podcasts and one that switches everything off and turns my phone into a dumbphone.

I used to think smart phones were amazing but I'm not important enough to need to check my email at every notification, I'm turning the social filter on now for two hours to go read and whatever messages I get in that time will still be there after.

Best decision I've made in a while I think, sometimes it's good not to be instantly reachable if you're feeling antsy.

Johnny Ryall wrote:Trying out an app on my phone called offtime. It's basically parental controls for yourself. You set up profiles for allowed apps and it blocks the blacklisted ones from running during the time period you select.

You can install it at the device administrator level on Android which makes it a hassle to get rid of (on purpose) and if you quit mid session there's still a 1 minute cool down to make sure you're certain. So yeah of course anything you put on your phone you can take off but the point is to nag you into a single focus and keep you from pointless distraction.

Got a profile for social media, one for sleep that only allows music and podcasts and one that switches everything off and turns my phone into a dumbphone.

I used to think smart phones were amazing but I'm not important enough to need to check my email at every notification, I'm turning the social filter on now for two hours to go read and whatever messages I get in that time will still be there after.

Best decision I've made in a while I think, sometimes it's good not to be instantly reachable if you're feeling antsy.

An app to cure... apps. Still, good luck with it.

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Johnny Ryall wrote:Trying out an app on my phone called offtime. It's basically parental controls for yourself. You set up profiles for allowed apps and it blocks the blacklisted ones from running during the time period you select.

You can install it at the device administrator level on Android which makes it a hassle to get rid of (on purpose) and if you quit mid session there's still a 1 minute cool down to make sure you're certain. So yeah of course anything you put on your phone you can take off but the point is to nag you into a single focus and keep you from pointless distraction.

Got a profile for social media, one for sleep that only allows music and podcasts and one that switches everything off and turns my phone into a dumbphone.

I used to think smart phones were amazing but I'm not important enough to need to check my email at every notification, I'm turning the social filter on now for two hours to go read and whatever messages I get in that time will still be there after.

Best decision I've made in a while I think, sometimes it's good not to be instantly reachable if you're feeling antsy.

An app to cure... apps. Still, good luck with it.

I know sounds ridiculous? But it's habit forming in the hope that maybe I'll read a long form article that has something to say instead of scrolling through FB and insta. I guess the sane thing to do would be delete permanently but I'm not ready for that. :shifty:

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I think it's a good shout mate, I'm getting pissed off with myself for not being able to watch a film or programme without getting the compulsion to look at my phone.

I don't use my smartphone at all. It's only on at the moment because my brother is over from Japan and he only uses data and Facebook messenger. Which is honestly quite annoying as it leaves me with no choice if I want to see him.

I recommend just going back to a normal, old phone. You simply do not need apps in your life. Check email once a day from a computer and on Mac I use SelfControl to block sites for 4 hours to an entire day.

Your moment to moment attention on other, present things is generally more valuable than your price to advertisers on deliberately addictive platforms. It's not very different to sugar.

I think it's important to ask when using any interactive media or social media sort of thing, what are you actually getting from this, how is this experience adding to your life?

Nah I couldn't switch to a feature phone when there are genuine useful applications like Spotify, pocket casts, my fitness Pal, etc. It's just nice to switch a few of the attention grabbing ones off for a while. Especially with one of my friends who likes to just message out of boredom, I love ya buddy but you can wait.

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