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10h ago

Me_irl
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dingus @lemmy.world 10h ago
Thing is sometimes I can't remember if I forgot to take it or if I forgot to log it in the app! I have an app too but it had only been so helpful lmao.

10h ago

Me_irl

Yes exactly lol! I have my watch set to go off but then I don't remember if I did it or forgot to check off the list!

Thankfully I take two pills per day rn and have a two well pill cutter. So I put a pill on each side. In the morning, there are two pills in the well. I take one pill from one well. In the evening, if I remembered to take the morning one, there is one pill left in the second well.

Then, at night, I fill up both wells so I start over with them full in the morning.

Sometimes I forget if I took the morning pill or the evening pill, but I never forget if I took both pills thankfully.

My goal is to move down to one pill though and that's going to be a lot trickier for me to remember. I don't want to go full old people with a weekly pill box, so I'm going to have to figure something out.

I'm thinking something like starting with two pills (one per well) on even days and starting with one pill on odd days. I'd just have to make sure I'd keep track of the end of the month. Idk.

11h ago

‘What I see in clinic is never a set of labels’: are we in danger of overdiagnosing mental illness?

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dingus @lemmy.world 11h ago

Do you have a source for that? I know the issues within homelessness are complex but I haven’t seen any data to suggest that a majority of homeless people are severely disabled.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8423293/

A peer reviewed article of a meta analysis of many studies shows a whopping 76% of all homeless people have a mental illness. The majority are alcohol or other substance abuse problems followed by schizophrenia. These can all be incredibly disabling conditions. Something like social anxiety disorder, for example, while can be very disabling on the extreme end, does not cause difficulty caring for basic functioning of yourself. Alcohol/substance abuse problems and/or untreated schizophrenia are incredibly significant conditions which are severely disabling.

I have a friend with schizophrenia which has been thankfully successfully managed. I have known her for a long time and it was very scary watching her develop it and at first and for professionals to struggle to help her treat it. She would also periodically do this thing where she felt she didn't need her medications because she felt better. So she would stop taking them periodically and go back to having severe issues before everyone managed to convince her to go back on them. It's actually an incredibly common phenomenon and one of the reasons why it's a difficult disorder to treat. She is one of the success stories because she has had a lot of help and support and access to very intensive mental health care. Many do not, unfortunately.

11h ago

‘What I see in clinic is never a set of labels’: are we in danger of overdiagnosing mental illness?

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dingus @lemmy.world 11h ago

I'll admit I only read the first several paragraphs. I do get a bit frustrated at times with the number of people nowadays that claim to have ADHD just because their house is messy or autistic because they have one thing they are passionate about.

The tricky part is that like the article states...yes, basically all mental illnesses are essentially a part of the normal human condition! So it actually really is a spectrum between "normal" and "mental illness". So where do we draw the line? That's the problem. It's blurry. It's not a binary.

Where the line is theoretically supposed to be drawn is when the issue is severe enough to have an impairment of functioning or severe distress in an area of your life. Do you have mild social anxiety where you get a little bit of butterflies in your stomach before an event but are able to attend and function just fine? You don't have a disorder. It's natural...some people just have more or less of this than others. Do you have anxiety so intense that you have a panic attack at the thought of ordering food at a restaurant so you never go out to eat? That is functional impairment. You have a diagnosable disorder.

But again, this line is blurry. What I will say is that even though the first example shouldn't technically be classed as having a disorder, it is always a good idea to try to improve your happiness in life by seeking out how to cope with things like therapy! That's always a good thing and we should strive for everyone to live their best life! But if the first person were to receive medication for that, I'd say they were overmedicated. The second person would heavily benefit from medication.

It's just dumb to me how people go around and are like "I have trouble paying attention to boring things. I am so quirky with my ADHD, guys"! Yet they have always been able to function just fine. People often get overmedicated this way and two other things happen. 1. They are pathologizing normal human reactions and 2. They almost "cheapen" (not the word I'm looking for) people who really really struggle with "actual" ADHD because they make it look "easy" to live with the condition, while those who "actually" have the condition struggle.

I will say that a lot of this in the US at least is insurance related. Often, a provider needs to tack on a diagnosis, even if not necessarily accurate, in order for insurance to pay for anything. If they just said that a patient was seeking help for "life improvement" (which is a good idea!), insurance is going to be like "fuck no, you're not getting any money". So like in my case, my providers immediately diagnosed me with both of your standard "anxiety and depression" for billing purposes, when really it's kind of innacurate.

Anyway goddamn I am always so wordy on the internet lol. Just my views is all.

tl;dr - I both agree and disagree with the artilce

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11h ago

‘What I see in clinic is never a set of labels’: are we in danger of overdiagnosing mental illness?

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dingus @lemmy.world 11h ago

literally just fix homelessness

Dude, I know everyone makes it out to be a simple thing, but it's really absolutely not. Homelessness and mental health issues are associated...usually a combination of addiction with one or more other mental illnesses that are severely disabling...be it PTSD, schizophrenia, etc. It is absolutely not as simple as just "give everyone some money" or "give everyone a place to live". Obviously that sort of stuff helps way a lot, but it is really not the easy fix people think it is. Many of these people even end up wandering away from housing that is given to them exactly because of their multiple overlapping severe mental illnesses.

Basically, the majority of homeless people are also severely disabled by often multiple overlapping mental illnesses which are difficult to treat even in people with stable housing. We should always always strive to find them food and shelter, but it is NOT the easy fix that people think it is. It's a multi-layered issue that requires an insane amount of different types of resources.

12h ago

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dingus @lemmy.world 12h ago

Right...the idea isn't to make it foolproof, it's just to make a barrier. People generally go for easier targets over ones with a small barrier. If you have two bikes next to each other in public, one with a bike lock and one with no lock at all, the casual thief is way more likely to steal the one without a lock. Bike locks can easily be broken, but they serve as a deterrent.

24h ago

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dingus @lemmy.world 24h ago

I deliberately use the print as image feature if I don't want someone to be able to select text or search the document (like if I'm sending something with sensitive info as an attachment to an email). Most of the time, I have that option disabled so the document can be searchable and text can be copied from it.

1d ago

Am I holding an unhealthy grudge?

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dingus @lemmy.world 1d ago

It's difficult, man. It will probably make you happier if you could just forget about it, but brains don't work that way. Plus some people just seem to be way better at it than others.

A mildly traumatic thing happened in my workplace. I have plenty of functional days, but other days things return to my brain without my inviting them and it makes it more difficult to function. Sometimes I get transported back into time like I'm there.

One thing I read about is the concept of mental "time traveling". When we remember these things, it's like we are literally back in that very moment. But that is not what is happening right at this very moment. You are "safe". You are not back in time being harmed right now.

Is it wise to not trust her anymore if she has proven herself to be untrustworthy? Absolutely.

But in order to free yourself better, you have to first notice that you are time traveling. Then look at things in your environment. Not her, but try to take in all of the sensory input around you. Remind yourself that you are here, not there. Recognize that the only time that exists is right now. Even one second in the past no longer exists and even one second in the future doesn't exist yet. Work with what is around you now.

Idk if that is at all helpful, just something that I have read about lately. Way fucking easier said than done because I still struggle.

Wishing you well.

1d ago

BASED?

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dingus @lemmy.world 1d ago

I thought this was a Mickey7 post until I read the username.

2d ago

I will be this old man for the rest of my life

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dingus @lemmy.world 2d ago

I don't have an office job, so it's all good haha. I work in the medical field and have not needed to touch anything like that in years lol.

2d ago

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dingus @lemmy.world 2d ago

I swear I clicked post on a comment here, but idk wtf happened to it. Doesn't look like it was removed in the modlog so I'm confused.

Couple of things...what type of therapy does your therapist use? Does it seem like it's more of a "talk therapy"? Most therapists I've encountered are like this and I have found it not overly helpful. While they are nice for a listening ear, it's hard to find enough substance for me to be able to help myself in practice. What has helped me was finding a therapy program with a specific therapy modality...so I have a way that I can apply it irl. I'd wager that the therapy type is probably less important than the structure. Many therapists claim to use CBT or DBT or whatever else, but when you actually get to the sessions, they don't. In my experience, many are just talk therapists that use vague concepts for these, which I have then had difficulty figuring out ways to help myself irl. Obviously easier said than done to find a therapist with more structure, but that is probably the first direction I'd go tbh. You also have to be very specific and explicit about what you need from therapy in order for them to be able to help you...what you wrote here is great.

Another thing is...have you tried any medications for anxiety by any chance? While therapy definitely is going to be able to do the most heavy lifting, sometimes you need just a little bit more help or a little bit more of a push with psychiatric medications. It's scary, but they are given to millions of people and are not a huge risk. You can always stop them (slowly, not cold turkey) if you feel like they are not helping you. It's not like someone is going in and permanently altering your brain like with surgery.

Best of luck, OP.

2d ago

Does anyone else here suffer from eisoptrophobia and/or spectrophobia?

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dingus @lemmy.world 2d ago

I had this to a mild degree as an older child, but slowly faded over time to where I haven't in a long long while. Do you know specifically why you have recently developed this fear? Figuring out why you are afraid is going to be the key to solving your issue.

2d ago

I will be this old man for the rest of my life

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dingus @lemmy.world 2d ago

Call me a shill, but that's why I always used Google Docs when I was in school. Things are instantly saved and I can easily access them on other devices. It was also always how we collaborated on group projects with the ability of multiple people to simultaneously edit power points in a collaborative project.

I don't have use for word processing anymore, but I used Google Docs from like 2012-2020.

Definitely helped a ton because my laptop in grad school would randomly blue screen a lot for no discernible reason. Did that when it was new too and Dell support was no help. I have a suspicion that the processor was actually faulty on a hardware level straight from the factory...as it would have problems both in Windows AND Linux that were "fixed" by dramatically underclocking the CPU. All hardware stress tests would always pass. :/

Anyway, sorry for the random tangent lol.

3d ago

A hero

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dingus @lemmy.world 3d ago

Good luck scooping up a motherfucking house centipede. They move at like five billion miles per hour.

3d ago

It's ok for there to be no obvious reason

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dingus @lemmy.world 3d ago

Yeah I was told that recently in therapy. Sometimes you are just going to have bad days. That's ok. That's part of being human, not a failing on your part.

3d ago

It's ok for there to be no obvious reason

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dingus @lemmy.world 3d ago

Yes and no. It's unrealistic to expect to only ever be happy. Ebbs and flows of mood and emotions are a completely natural and unavoidable process. It's for those more extreme ebbs and flows that are cause for concern.

3d ago

Anyone feeling like this right now?

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dingus @lemmy.world 3d ago

It's ok to be unstable. We just have to work on getting the right gear for when we fall. I'm trying to upgrade mine rn haha.

Mental Health @lemmy.world

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5d ago