Q. I was diagnosed with Borderline personality disorder-impulsive type with recurrent depressive episodes about 2 and a half years ago.I was started on DBT together with anti-depressants, but never really stuck to anythiing.Someone in my family was an alcoholic, and I always felt like I had to show that i was fine even when wasn't.I guess thats why my emotions just boiled over when I joined university.My problem was that once I had learnt I had the disorder, I proceeded to research upon it like it was an obsession.I spent more time than not reading up on everything about it,and saw symptoms in everything I did.Besides this, I have had 2 suicide attempts, which frankly,I never did with the intention of dying.its more like I ...  
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Q: I dont know what this would be considered, but its possibly hereditary: I was adopted as an infant, and my adoptive family took my birth mother and I in before adopting me a year later. My birth mother had a number of different mental health problems that seemed to have possibly ran in the family- because now my little sister and I are experiencing them. My adoptive parents tried to get my mom help while she lived with them by taking her to a crisis unit to be evaluated, and they told my adoptive father that she saw me more as a doll, than as a living person that she must take care of. They never heard her diagnoses, because they werent in the ...  
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Q: Currently my life is completely unmanageable. Im not in therapy at the moment, but do see a pdoc once in awhile for meds. I am on Luvox for OCD and my dose was just doubled. Im an alcoholic and currently not allowed to leave my house because my parents are attempting to control my drinking. Im also working on not drinking but not having too much success. I started drinking because I was depressed and wanted a way out. Now I drink a lot to try and help me function (even though it helps with some things, it makes others worse). I find that if I drink enough the night before, I can actually shower and get ready in the morning, otherwise, I cant ...  
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Q: My 8 year old son has been having "fits" whenever I leave the room when he is in the bathtub,or whenever I sit with his dad and not with him. He recently said that we hated him, he didn't deserve parents, he deserved to die, he was bad, we were going to leave him, cried for an hour until we let him sleep on the floor in our room. He is a model student at school but pushes every button of mine he can. He is fine when he is alone with his dad but not when he is with me or with both of us. I don't know what to do anymore. I am worried he is going to ...  
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Q: A friend's wife 34 had a affair with a 17 year old boy. She had been treated for depression for over a year before this and was taking paxil and xanax . When she got caught in the affair she tried to commit suicide and has since been placed in 2 psych wards. Was her judgement impaired due to the longterm depression? A: The best people to respond to this question are her doctors in the hospital who got to know her and treated her. I sincerely hope that there has been follow-up care. This woman has been struggling and needs support from her doctor, her husband, and her friends and family. The bast thing you can do as a friend to her ...  
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Q: My boyfriend is 56,has been divorced 15 yrs,has had 1 relationship 3yrs she lived 2 hrs away. She left one weekend, and never spoke to him again. When his wife left,he said he didn't know why. His next relationship,3yrs ago,they knew each other 6mos.,he wanted to marry her,stopped the wedding 1 week before. Then he tried to get back with her for 3yrs. 2nd woman also lived 2 hrs away. He asks me out, we've been together 13 mos.,no sex first 3 mos.(out of choice) H says he loves me, does not want me to leave him, and did go to a therapist every week for 2 mos. self pay.(I live 15 mins away) We are very happy when we are together. He said ...  
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Q: I just read a post where a gal is bored with her marriage. I feel the same way. My husband and I have been married for 16 years. I am bored with our sex life. I have been working at my fulltime job now for over a year and made friends. I work with a great group of guys and good friends with 2. I am the gal where I work. But friends with a few girls as well. One of the guys I work with are good friends, if not best friends. My hubby tells me I can hang out with my friends where I work. I understand he wants me to call him if I am doing that and I am ...  
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My granddaughter (7 years old, 1st grade) is having problems in school with behavior. She is extremely intelligent, reads numerous books each week on approximatly a fourth grade level. But, she has no self control, she talks (blurts out things) all the time and at inappropriate times. It's very hard to reign her in once she starts talking. She also can have a melt down if she is over stimulated, ie: the Mall with all the noise and people send her over the edge. She is in trouble at school most days. My son and his family just move back to our home town, the school she was in before moving was on the verge of expelling her (they refused to allow her to ...  
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Q. Both of my parents are mentally ill, my mother suffering from Schizophrenia and my father from Manic Depression. Both of my parents had regular auditory hallucinations and paranoia. At 21, I've yet to suffer from any of their symptoms, but have been struggling with PTSD and related anxiety. Since I was aware enough to know my parents were ill, I've constantly monitored myself to make sure I wasn't sick like they were. From reading on this site and others, it appears that Schizophrenia shows up in women later than men. Could someone please talk about this more? Since I'm a 21 year old woman, I'd like to know if it's possible for me to still develop Schizophrenia (though I show no signs of it now and ...  
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Q. I am 25 and been with my fiancée for eight years. She was my first girlfriend and I her boyfriend. In the 8 years we have broken up twice for short periods of a couple of months and dated other people. I love her very much and she wants to wait until married to have sex which I have respected for these years. Our wedding is three months away and the thought of it makes me feel ill. I recently met someone who made me feel alive — a 40 year old man! My fiancee doesnt wish to travel etc and is happy with what i see as a typical suburban life! Me too! But I am panicking that I'll never get to ...  
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Q. A year and a half ago my sister was hospitalized because she suffered from a mental break down. The doctors never gave her an exact diagnosis. They said that it appeared that she was suffering from schizoaffective disorder. She was released from the hospital and sent home with medication that was supposed to help her condition. 2 weeks later she stopped taking them and she was sent back to the hospital. Home again just a few weeks later she seemed to be more clear, not 100% but a huge improvement of how she was only weeks before. She began going to a Community Mental Health Center and was seeing therapists. She decided that she no longer wanted to take the meds that had stopped ...  
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I was with my ex for 5 months. It was the "first love" for me, so probably I was seeing more in that relationship than there really was. He left me for another girl a year ago. I should have stopped talking to him the same moment, but I was stupid and tried to make him come back to me. When the girl left him, I was by his side, but when he found another one I just couldn't stand it and told him I'd rather not see him again. I know that this sounds stupid, but my mind has no influence on how I feel. I love him, but I wasn't worth him. Everyone was telling me that time heals the wounds, but it's ...  
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