disorder

The spectrum of Mental Health disorders is incredibly vast; we showcase the multitude of conditions that affect mood, thinking and behavior.

The OCD Itch
I have OCD! Some of you know it, some of you don’t, well now you do! When I say I have OCD, I mean I have Obsessive Compulsive DISORDER! Not that I get a little OCD about cleaning (I don’t by the way). Although I am bad when it comes to food hygiene and touching food. I mean I have a disorder, a disability, something that puts me at a disadvantage to others. I take medication to control this illness and I probably will for the rest of my life.
By Elizabeth Emery8 years ago in Psyche
OCD
Today is not a good day. Pretty much everyday is not a good day but today is one of those days where it just hits you and you break down. I struggle everyday with OCD, anxiety, fear, and stress, but at the same time also feel happiness, excitement, love... It's a constant tug of war in my head. Most days I just live with it because I have become so used to it but then there are other days when I just hide and avoid and I want to cry all day but I can't. I'm a mom and when you're a mom you can't hide, you can't avoid, and you can't cry all day.
By Carmen Loza8 years ago in Psyche
My Mental Health!
Mental Health. I have a lot to say about mental health but for now we are going to be discussing two mental health disorders. Anxiety and depression. I was always told that anxiety and depression go hand in hand.
By Graciela Pena8 years ago in Psyche
Living With Misophonia
Misophonia is not getting riled up and upset when you can hear the sound of people breathing or eating. This disorder is supposed to make you feel stronger and feel better about yourself because there's a scientific reason behind all the pain that is going on in my own body that I live with every day. That is not the case.
By :)8 years ago in Psyche
Winter Blues
Seasonal Affective Disorder, otherwise known as seasonal depression or S.A.D, is a mood disorder where those who are diagnosed experience depressive symptoms occurring around the same time every year. The majority of people who have this experience it during the colder months, but it does happen to some in the warmer months, as well. In order to get a proper diagnosis and/or self diagnosis, you need to experience depressive symptoms around the same time each year consecutively for two years. This is when you experience symptoms associated with depression which vary from person to person, as it does for Major Depressive Disorder or any other mental illness.
By K ➶8 years ago in Psyche
I Don’t Know What It IS Called, but I Know I Am Not Well in the Head
Breathe. Close your eyes. Everything is OK. Stop thinking. Now go to sleep. Breathe. Close your eyes. Everything is OK. Stop thinking. Now go to sleep.
By Judy Mae8 years ago in Psyche
Mirror Mirror
Compulsive Skin Picking, or CSP, or dermatillomania, or excoriation disorder, or whatever you may or may not know it as, is the weirdest thing to explain to someone that doesn't struggle with it. To the outside eye, why would anyone in their right mind rip open their skin, making it bleed, bruise, and swell? Why would anyone permanently scar themselves, wearing these marks for the whole world to see?
By Kat S.8 years ago in Psyche
My OCD and Me
Anyone who has ever had OCD knows just how cruel it can be. The way it robs you of your happiness and your time, the way it makes you feel like you're going mad and isolates you from the world. What I find the most unbearable, though, is knowing that your worst enemy is inside your head. You can't run away from something that is a part of you.
By Elizabeth Vogel8 years ago in Psyche
"Feeling Like I'm in a Dream"
I start to feel very "odd" when I turned 17. I never really paid much attention to it at first and wrote it off as my depression and anxiety getting worse. I'd been severely depressed since I was 10-years-old; a family death combined with bullying and abuse triggered it at a young age so I'd been living with it for 7 years and I was starting to learn how to cope with it in my own way.
By Briana Frederick8 years ago in Psyche
Get Real
WARNING: Content may be triggering for some. I encourage you to open up completely with all of the strangers of this world, and to help end the stigma around mental illnesses. I am not ashamed or embarrassed of my story, it is nothing but the harsh reality of how I've lived with bulimia nervosa for so long.
By Amy Mauger8 years ago in Psyche
Munchausen by Proxy
Munchausen by Proxy Munchausen syndrome and Munchausen by proxy are similar mental health problems. Munchausen syndrome is different from Munchausen by proxy in that Munchausen syndrome features a sufferer acting like they have a physical or mental illness when they do not. They lie about being ill to anybody who will listen, also making up outlandish stories. Munchausen by proxy means that a perpetrator will make a child or dependent adult ill through their caregiving, then they lie about the illness to doctors, also wanting to be the one who gets attention from the doctor. Munchausen by proxy sufferers make somebody else ill, step in and be the hero, and then lie about it to doctors as if the “ill” person has a real illness.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in Psyche
Too Skinny, Too Heavy
From a young age society implants an image in our heads of how we should behave, or what we should look like. But the thing about society is that it only portrays one side of things, a side that is often wrong, yet so many people still believe that it is right. Teenagers are flooded with images of models who are paper thin, with long, beautifully flowing hair, but what they don't realize is that this perception of perfection doesn't exist. Beauty is based on perception, and everyone, regardless of what pant size they wear, is beautiful in their own unique way. Just because you may not see it doesn't mean that everyone around doesn't.
By Carina Rose8 years ago in Psyche