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Do I Have Dissociative/Multiple Personality Disorder?

I have recently become concerned with my mental health. I am twenty-one, and I realize that this is an age where people begin to often experience their psychosis, so I need to ask, am I losing it? As far as my history goes, my father had borderline personality disorder, and in his last days he completely lost it and shot himself. Also, when I was sixteen I was diagnosed with Anxiety Disorder. I have experienced several loved ones deaths and suicides, I was abused mentally, ...

When Does Sexual Maturity Arrive?

I have been masturbating for 3 or 4 years about once a day and have only reached orgasm twice. Even the very first time I masturbated I did not achieve orgasm. I usually masturbate laying on my back or sitting on the toilet. The only times I got orgasm was when I tried masturbating while standing up and only for the very first time. The second time was when I tried in the shower, and only the first time I masturbated in the shower did ...

Give Back the Guide Dog?

Hi. I wrote to you over a year ago about my loneliness, and being stuck by myself due to not having a driver's license because of a vision impairment. At the same time I let you know I did ride a bike around Sarasota for independence and to get places. I told you I had a septic knee at the time and could not ride my bike, could not get anywhere, and had no friends. I also had brain surgery for an AVM bleed many ...

Depressed, Lonely and Bored

Well, this is looking hopeless..but here goes nothing. I am 22 years old and I have been depressed my entire life. All I ever do is play video games so that I can escape my life and occupy my time. Sometimes I will get so depressed that I can't even do that, I'll just sit alone and stare at nothing until I have to go to work so that I can survive another day for a reason unknown to me. I never knew what I ...

Depressed and Highly Sensitive

I need help. Ill try to explain as best I can. I lost my self esteem due to a sad childhood I was held back in school after words I saw no way to save myself so I give everything to everyone else I get money for my dad passing away I was only 7 at the time. I want to get a job but its hard because I drop out of school. I didn't drop out because i was stupid it was mostly because ...

Can’t Get Over Girlfriend’s Past

I've been dating my girlfriend for several months now. I only new her a few months before we started dating, but things progressed and here we are. She's an absolutely amazing woman. She has everything I seek in a partner, except for her sexual past. I'd like to clarify that we are both 27 and both have been in relationships before. My problem is not that she's been with other people before me, but the actual number. I've always held myself to a certain ...

How to End an Inappropriate Relationship?

I developed an emotional attachment to a man at my gym after he showed a lot of interest in me and I eventually decided to return the interest. We became extremely attached to each other, he was very intense emotionally. We did not get to know each other slowly, the emotions drove our relationship. Over the weeks and months, as I saw him more often at the gym and interacted with him I noted that he was not making any move to take our relationship ...

Severe Depression

Hello I am 13. Years old and I think I have depression. I have taken 7 tests for depression and they all say I do have depression. I am not comfortable talking to my family about this. I need to talk to some one I don't know what to do. I am lost and confused. I have had thoughts about killing my self and it's scaring me. I have no be to talk to that won't freak out. I really need help ASAP I am ...

He Doesn’t Talk to Me Anymore

My boyfriend and me have been together a little under 3 years. I am 18 and he is 19 (almost 20). Lately I've been living with him and his family. We decided this because we never saw each other due to our job schedule. It was going really well, until recently. Now he won’t even talk to me. He's joked that he is addicted to his electronics, but it doesn't seem to be such a silly topic. Whenever he isn't on the computer, he's on ...

Is This a Panic Attack?

Hi, whenever i go to school, and walk through the hallways whether there are a ton of people or no one at all i feel like people can hear me breathing and then i start to feel like i cant breathe. My chest feels tight and i feel like im suffocating. Usually when this happens i have to take really deep breaths and im always afraid im breathing really loud and heavily. This happens randomly and suddenly, and very often. Am i having panic attacks ...

No Problems but Still Depressed

I've been depressed most of my life since I was a teenager. There were some times when I was happy but I always go back to being depressed. I have been to therapy three times. Now I haven't been feeling that depressed but I've been having a lot of anxiety so I started doing a workbook for anxiety and depression. However, this book tries to find a connection between your problems and your childhood and when I was doing therapy they always asked about it as well. But ...

My Guy Lives in Another State

I need advice on what I should do about a guy that lives in another state. We are in a very complicated situation. I am 16 years old and in a situation I can't figure out to do. I moved to Indiana this year, my junior year in high school. Among the fact of moving away from all my friends, starting at a new school where after about a semester and a half I haven't made any really good friends, but my mom made me move ...

 

 
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