>Be me >Be crazy (Bipolar 1) >Need help >Go to Psychiatrist A >Seventh Day Adventist pamphlets in waiting room + Jesus painting >That's OK I'm sure he doesn't let his religion supersede his medicine >Gives me pretty standard bipolar meds (Lithium, Lamictal, Wellbutrin) >Also tells me to read this book (Nutrient Power) and claims that all mental health conditions including bipolar, autism and schizophrenia can be cured by eating right. >Also tells me that meat is terrible, "health comes from plants." >It turns out that Seventh Day Adventists are huge on veganism and nutrition. >Transition over to new Psych that my insurance covers. >Diagnostic session, continues medicine regimen. >"You should try this mindfulness class I am running." >Well sure why not? There is some evidence that meditation can have positive psychological effects, and my insurance pays for it anyways. >Go. >It's really, really culty, for example psych having us circle together close on chairs with our kneels almost touching to "imitate early people huddling around fire for warmth." >Goes beyond using meditation as a psychological tool into Buddhist territory, talking about the nature of suffering etc. >He's also a certified Freudian psychoanalyst. >For two hours he just goes on all these different tangents that seems to mix Freudian nonsense with Buddhism Lite.
I still plan on finishing the 8 session course, but holy fucking shit, what the fuck? Is mental healthcare like this all over, or just in America? Also is this a failure of the underlying science, or a shitty translation from research to clinical?
Trying to figure out mental health treatment makes me pine for a suicide booth.
Alexander Walker
My experiences weren't remotely like yours, but your image and filename really brings me back. I never framed it that way, but I suppose it was a struggle for stability.
Ultimately I ignored "health" (psychological and otherwise) and focused strictly on functionality. The body was a tool, the mind was a tool, and I would engineer it to do what I wanted by force. That goddamn broken fucking thing.
It worked in a limited sense, but after I dragged myself back to sanity I realized I'd accumulated maladaptive behaviors and was incapable of connecting with other people or functioning for long amounts of time in a social environment. Or any environment, really. I had to let go of the shit I'd created and come to myopically cling to, and re-emerge. Focus on health as well.
The first dumb fuck you went to is partially correct though. Diet and lifestyle is more key than you'd like to admit, you just need to unravel how for your specific case. The rest is environment. Bipolar especially needs a change of environment such that it can find the means to discover sources of deep underlying mental conflict.
Think mechanically.
Camden Robinson
>it's just x shit and x Sure thing bud. Keep deluding yourself.
Also this guy is pretty based.Admit it, OP. You don't know shit about the human behavior. Don't be afraid to try what your Doc told you to do.
Thomas Robinson
You need to go to a practice that uses evidence-based medicine. Try to find one affiliated with your university psych/neuro department. Ideally you could find an MD-PhD who has publications related to your disorder.
Luis Ross
>Try to find one affiliated with your university psych/neuro department. Read FERPA and all relevant university privacy policies first.
Leo Morris
Guys what should you do if your circumcised and can't feel sex and its driving you insane even more than the trauma?
Michael Green
Please help me I am trying to regrow but I got to wait for foregen even if they do make it I'm chucking a ton of cash if I get it done. Sex feels like nothing. I stopped watching porn and jerking off and now I don't want relationships because I don't really feel completely satisfied so I just ask "What the fuck is the point of this bullshit?"
Gavin Wood
Kill yourself. Because the only thing worse than being a eurocuck, is trolling with the cut vs uncut arguement.
Brody Johnson
No seriously. I can't feel sex at all and I need it more than anything right now. I can't feel anything when I have sex and I go for 15-30 minutes or forever.
