Manic depression is mental disease where a patient experiences extreme high or low mood swings occur suddenly with any reason. Such mood fluctuation causes surprise and apprehension for people around that person suffering from Manic Depression. This is why Manic Depression is also commonly known as Bipolar Depression, for it can cause considerable mood swings where a person may feel good at one point of time and feel miserable or pathetic at next instance. Such mood changes are not viable for people and have potential to throw their life out of balance.

When he/she experience high end Symptoms it is known as Manic Symptoms and while low end is known as Hypo Symptoms or Depressive Symptoms. Manic Depression is hard to identify in a person as he/she may go back to normal state after they suffer a session of depression. Additionally, it is important to note signs of Manic Symptoms observed in patients that suffer either from Manic or high end illness.

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Physical Health Effects Of Alcoholism

Alcoholism disease and alcoholism physical symptoms should be understood if there’s a concern about alcohol abuse. Alcoholism disease can be defined as a drug addiction where alcohol consumption is at a level that interferes with the person’s physical and mental health and negatively impacts family, social or work responsibilities. Physical Health Effects Of Alcoholism

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Depression is a listed mental disorder which includes altered mood; it may occur daily associated with diminished interest or pleasure in most or all of the activities.Depression is considered to be a disorder. This is because it involves everything in the patient’s body, mood and thoughts.Anyone who has this won’t be able to eat properly, sleep well, think about oneself and practically do anything.Depression affects teenagers, pensioners and everyone in between; married people, single people, rich and poor.

Depression is an illness and has to be treated. It will not just go away. Depression can be cured by proper treatment. You are not alone. Millions of people across the world suffer from depression.

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Alcohol depression is very grave and should not be one’s state of living, however just how one can overcome this form of depression could be quite challenging as two factors are being addressed here: a substance abuse and an emotional disturbance.

Dealing with depression means at the moment you may not be feeling too good. What with low energy, poor sleep and a general feeling of helplessness, naturally finding a solution out of being depressed is a much expected step. Sadly, most people turn to either legal (e.g. Zoloft) and illegal (e.g. marijuana) drugs or the use of drinking alcoholic beverages in a quest to ease the pain, however, research has shown that both illegal drugs and alcohol are marked depressants. (in spite of the buzz they may temporarily give) and speaking of depression drugs from recent studies, these substances just may not be worth the side-effects.

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History: I have struggled with mental illness for the past eight years. Depression has been the primary issue, but at varying times, I’ve been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, ED-NOS, Anorexia Nervosa, and Generalized Anxiety Disorder. From ’02–’05, I cut myself; from ’08–present, I abused alcohol; in January of this year I took up self-injury again. I have been hospitalized eight times, six of which occurred last year. I have been on and off almost all currently marketed anti-depressants, and I underwent several months of (ultimately unsuccessful) electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Writing novels has been a part of my life since age eleven, and I have noticed a strong correlation between how much I work on writing and how well I am, mentally. Things were going better until very recently, when a traumatic incident shook me. Badly.

Now: I am currently taking Lithium, Celexa, and Remeron for depression and Lamictal for epilepsy. I see a psychiatrist about once a month and a therapist once a week. My therapist is very nice, but for whatever reason, I’m not completely honest with her. I feel disconnected from everything and avoid social interactions because they make me quite uncomfortable. I’m on constant edge, wary of everything. Sometimes at night, when I’m alone, I hear “phantom” music—it’s as if someone were playing loud rock at my neighbor’s house, although I’m virtually positive that isn’t the case. I also see “phantom” objects, or else movement; that is, I have the sense a book I’m reading is wobbling/tilting/sliding, but I can also tell that it isn’t, or I’ll see an invisible cube twisting in the air. (I realize that “invisible” means exactly that—not able to be seen—but it feels like I’m seeing it anyway.) I have constant dull aches in my head and stomach, sometimes my chest, and am always tired—like I have a slight flu that has lingered at ~30% strength since the incident. My self-respect has dissolved into nothing, as has my self-worth. I was once confident enough in my writing to be seeking in-depth criticism and even publication, but now, I can’t stand looking at the things I’ve written, much less writing new things, without feeling like a fraud, an impostor in the literary world. Because of the ECT, I have lost many memories from the near and far past, which makes me feel in some ways like an impostor in the person who is supposedly me. Given the way I’m withdrawing from the people around me, I’m beginning to consider the idea that it might be better for everyone if I just ended it cleanly here. I’ve been up and down so many times that it feels like I’m not meant to be really Okay, you know? And what’s the point in dragging it out if that’s the case? The fact is, some depression just isn’t treatable; I’m no longer a remotely productive member of society or a positive force in the lives of the people I theoretically love.

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If I don’t receive any pleasure from tobacco and alcohol, does this mean that my dopamine levels are very low (or very high)? p.s. i felt ADD symptoms all my life, plus i feel lack of emotions, apathy (not depressed, because i even wish i could cry more) I went to a psychiatrist and he prescribed rexetin (similar to paxil) But it is an ssri, i think it’s actually wellbutrin or zyban i need. And please no advises about healthy diet, sport, and good night sleep, cause i’ve tried it for 2 years. (i’ve been taking rexetin for 3 days now, and i definitely feel more energized physically, and i know that i should wait at least 2 weeks) I’m 19.

tegratol,lithium,prozac,paxil…i was also on many things for (supposed)ADHD…(can’t name them all, too many)i was later(14?) diagnosed w/PTSD(post traumatic stress disorder)which causes one to exhibit symptoms similar to ADD…anways lately (since my son,2, was born)i’ve noticed i cry a lot. even more recently like multiple times a day, for no real reason, comercials, songs, my husband and i just talking about an issue w/ our marriage. i hate going outside during the day( love going online tho! ) and am nervous when someone looks at me that there is something on my face, or they think i’m ugly or fat or whatever… i’m in korea (and will be for more than a year)and need help now but my husband is all weird about seeing a therapist and there aren’t any real ones(no psychotherapists, just counselors that deal with anger issues and alcohol abuse)around us anyway…so i guess my question is: anyone know any good books or websites in laymens (sp?) terms, they could recomend on how to
either better handle the stress of marriage(behavioral)or better understand depression ?(and the manic part too)(which would be more along the lines of psychotherapy?…)

Ahh. Depression.

Does anyone out there feel like this?
Nothing. There is nothing but failure. Every time something beautiful presents itself to me, I intentionally ruin it. Well, not intentionally, but more subconsciously, although I am aware I am doing it, I know, stupid right? Why wouldn’t I just “not” do it. Well, idfk, but that’s just how it happens. For the last two years of my life, I have been doing the worst ever. I cannot pick my head up it seems. Sure, I am socially graceful, sometimes, when not in the middle of some catastrophic event in my life.

Alcohol is ever present in what I do it seems, but the funny part is, even when I do manage to get sober, nothing really changes. To quote a good book, “Even if I remove the alcohol and drugs, I am still broken, alcoholism is just a symptom of the disease that is me” Why do I go out of my way to burn bridges? I’m going off the deep end a million miles an hour in a Toyota.

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I think I am getting a hard lesson in adulthood. For years I have avoided taking responsibility for the various aspects of my life and now I am paying the price. Getting fired from my job I think was the nail in the coffin of my immaturity so to speak. Now, I am facing things and situations that I don’t really know how to deal with. as in the past, I have asked others for help. As if I wanted them to try to solve the problem for me. I’ve never dealt with these difficult situations before. At 29 years old, I feel pretty ashamed of myself and my inability to take care of myself. I guess this is a culmination of the last 10 years. A culmination of not taking care of my ADHD and depression symptoms. A culmination of not taking responsibility for my life. A culmination of not having any direction in life. I guess I could blame my perents for this, but I dont want to get into the blame trap because this causes one to avoid taking responsibility. However, I cant help but think how different things would be if I had some kind of role model in life. Some person to look up to and kick me in the ass when I was younger. I think this is the pain of not having a father in my life. I dont think I ever dealt with this issue. has been right on some things about the way I have been. I’ve been oblivious to to my behaviors, but maybe I just didnt want to take responsibility. this is a hard pill to swallow, but maybe there is something to this. Looking back, I always sought an escape from my problems through video games, television, internet and alcohol. I’ve done this to the point where now I dont know how to handle things. this brings me back to what I was originaly writing about. I’m learning a really hard lesson in life.
When confronted with all these problems, my immediate reaction is to ignore it, to put it off and simply not worry about it or let register how serious the problem is. I seek escapes such as the internet, alcohol, or video games. I give up too easily. I have no self confidence, self esteem and asertiveness. All of this I also didn’t work on because I just felt that it was easier to isolate myself from people. I might have learned that as a defense mechanism while I was in high school. this however is not working for me anymore.

How do I make some honest change?

i have been experiencing a lot of different symptoms lately, with no answers from any tests. I have arthritis that gets worse, tingling in my head, gastrointestinal problems, behavior problems (anti-social, depression, irritability, ADHD, so on and so forth), and noticing that the mixing up of words and other letters associated with ADHD is getting worse. i had a bad speech impediment as a kid (i slurred my “s”s, and didn’t walk properly as a kid (i walked on the balls of my feet and was pigeon toed). I was always a small child, which was associated with the ADHD, since it wasn’t that severe, but have no other physical deformations. Doing research for school on FAS, I asked my mother if she ever drank when she was pregnant with me, to which she answered “yes”. As a kid, my symptoms were chalked up to ADHD, depression, and just weird feet. I was wondering if I could have FAS. I’ve been wondering lately about a mild case of autism, or some other developmental disorder because of these problems I had as a kid.

I really want an answer to my problems, and was wondering if it could possibly be a mild form of FAS that went ignored for so long.