Disorder

Angela Hartlin's memoir, FOREVER MARKED: A Dermatillomania Diary has finally been released! Please join her Facebook Fan page to spread word about this skin picking disorder along with her experiences with it.

People with this disorder have traits of Body Dysmorphic Disorder and usually suffer from depression. It is an Impulse Control Disorder that is fueled by high levels of anxiety. The first few pages can be previewed at the Lulu.com site, which includes a better definition of Dermatillomania.

Even if you do not have Facebook, the prices are listed there for Canadian, American, and International buyers. If you do, please spread the word of the fan page to everyone on your friend's list, even if you have to tell them that you're spreading the word for a friend! We need to raise awareness about this silent disorder and help break the stigma on mental health in general. You never know who is suffering in isolation from having this condition.

Please e-mail forever.markedATyahoo.ca if you want to purchase from Angela directly; she offers a lower shipping price than Lulu.com does. Include the country that you live in and she can send you a quote. She ships the day she gets a payment (or the day after), then sends an e-mail to confirm that it was sent.

Thank you. <3

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Hi my names Lily, I'm 18 and I have been clinically diagnosed with:

Bipolar
General Anxiety
Social Anxiety
Separation Anxiety
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Scrupulosity
Agoraphobia

I'm would really like to talk to someone who has all or most of these disorders. I feel really alone because my parents don't have any of them.

Thanks xoxo

hay my name is jade im 21 years old, i live in the UK in bournemouth.
i have had a chronic pain condition for 7 years which was diegnosed as fibromyalgia about a year ago, for that condition i have been on many drugs such as:

ibeprofen
codeine
co-proxamol
co-codamol
amytripiline
remadine
remadine forte
dihydracodeine (df118s)
floxatine
zopiclone
diazepam
tamazepam
and no clonazepam.

i also suffer from insomnia because of my pain, but also because i am manic so i need less sleep
because i sleep like 3 hours a night i hear voices and see things, i have an imaginary friend called william.

for my bi-polar i am on floxatine, clonazepam and soon lithium.

i also self harm for when im in pain and need a destraction but also because i get bored and find the blood pretty to look at.

the weirdest things i have done is sleepwalk to the park, steel a bus and various other experiments i think would benifit mankind, like my one week of drinking dark liquid, a drink me and my friends made made out of
coke
coke concentrate
red bull
100+ tablets of caffeine tabs
doctor pepper
mix together and drink.
i drank 500mls a day for a week
i had chronic dyorea and could not sleep for a few days, now i know how stupid that was because that much caffeine can kill you, but im just saying these are the kinds of things manic ppl do

pls dont be afraid to talk to me im really a nice normal person.. most of the time :D

Hi everyone, Thru Hell here. I was just diagnosed the an adjustment disorder. I really don't know how to handle it. For the past week or so, I have found it extremely hard to sleep and haven't really had an appetite.  It was triggered by a break with my boyfriend over a stupid fight we had. I went out of control and drank half a bottle of vodka. I did a lot of things that I don't remember that may have harmed my relationship and apparently told on of my friends I wanted to die and had taken sleeping pills. Uni Police came and got me and sent me to the hospital. It was a real eye-opening moment for me when I had to call my mother and tell her where I was.

I really don't know what to expect. I'm in counselling now, trying to figure out how to handle this disorder. I just need some not biased people to talk to.

For everyone who has problems with the new HFA inhalers -- PLEASE file a complaint with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA): http://www.fda.gov/opacom/backgrounders/complain.html  

They really do take these complaints seriously, but only if everyone who has had problems files a complaint.  I have heard from several people who have problems and I am one of them. I cannot take the new inhalers and once December comes...

If everyone files a complaint with the FDA, the issue will be recognized. Please pass this along to other people. This issue will not be brought into the public eye until thousands take a stand and demand that they lift the ban.

Below I have a link to a cause I created through Facebook. Many people with BDD and/or OCD, along with myself, suffer from compulsive skin picking. Not a lot of people are joining the cause and for the people who have joined, they do not recruit others to the cause. I have a goal of raising a stink about this and being heard so that we feel more free, not as ashamed.

Psychogenic/ Neurotic Excoriation:

- Psychogenic Excoriation (Compulsive Skin Picking)

We need to break the stigma and speak out for ourselves, to get the chance to communicate with people who understand us instead of wasting our time with people who will forever condemn us. Be well, take care, and know that there really really isn't an oncoming train from the light at the end of the tunnel.

For other sufferers there is a Livejournal group called csp_support, just to spread the word around. It would be so much appreciated if you joined, and absolutely phenomenal if you could recruit others to the cause. I want sufferers out there to know that they aren't alone.

US Autism & Asperger Association, Inc.

NEWS RELEASE:

For Immediate Release - October 1, 2007

Urine Testing Confirms Autism is Mercury Poisoning

WASHINGTON, DC – A new peer-reviewed scientific/medical case study confirms that many children with autistic spectrum disorders (ASDs) suffer from mercury poisoning. The new study, “A Prospective Study of Mercury Toxicity Biomarkers in Autistic Spectrum Disorders” by Mr. David A. Geier and Dr. Mark R. Geier has been published in the most recent issue of the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A (volume 70, issue 20, pgs 1723-1730).

This study utilized urinary porphyrin profile analysis (UPPA) to assess body-burden and physiological effects of mercury in children diagnosed with ASDs.

Using UPPA, Geier and Geier (2007) examined 71 children diagnosed with ASDs, neurotypical siblings, and general population controls. The researchers studied urinary porphyrin patterns using results reported both by the US Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp) and the French Laboratoire Philippe Auguste.

Their findings demonstrated that:
* Only the non-chelated patients diagnosed with ASDs had porphyrin patterns indicative of clinical mercury toxicity.
* Treating ASD diagnosed patients with chelating agents resulted in lower mercury-specific urinary porphyrins.
* The UPPA patterns reported were consistent between the two labs used.

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My mind never shuts off. I am always thinking. I find it hard to concentrate and I often have trouble sleeping. I know I have above average intelligence (I was in the National Honor Society and I have a 3.1 GPA in college. I took college classes at age 16). Yet I can't concentrate, I hardly studied while getting my undergrad, yet passed nearly every class but two.
I sometimes get very depressed. I have had thoughts of suicide for at least ten years. I have never been serious about it, but those thoughts nagged me. I also sometimes get giddy and impulsive. I find it hard to organize tasks, ideas, or anything. I have been fired twice for being scatterbrained and unmotivated. I feel that I am losing it.

Who the fuck does that stupid bitch ass psychologist think she is, telling me that I am bringing my whole family down and destroying my life??? she doesn't know me, at all. She knows I have BPD, why would she say such things?? doesn't she know that, that would make me hate her fucking guts and never go back to her again??? Doesn't she know that saying shit like that to me, will make me injure myself??? I thought she wanted me to not do that. Fuck her. I hope she realized that when I stormed out of the office crying, that I was never, ever coming back.

I was literally in her office, grinding my teeth, trying so hard NOT TO EXPLODE into rage and throw a fucking chair at her.


my parents are trying to FORCE me to go back.
if they do, she is going to get a piece of my mind.




I used to love her.


now I hope she dies.