Anyone else prone to Depression and Anxiety

Nathan said:
I do use Cannabis products, both medical and recreational Cannabis is legal in California. I use Indica for sleep....works grrrreat!

However, as far as PTSD is concerned, it's a day to day struggle, some good days and some not. I am self teaching CBT(Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) techniques and using meditative strategies as a remedy. Alcohol in moderation is a nice(but brief) respite, kind of old fashioned but effective.
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Good to hear. I've used Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as well. I think it is more effective long-term. My best to you!
 
Verisure said:
The good thing about not relying upon some "god" is that you (we) can more easily accept that there are unanswerable questions in this life and with that in mind be satisfied with what we've got and make the best of it. We'll know if the 7-Eleven is still open once we've turned the corner.
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I have tried the power of positive thinking to the point I am sick of it. I got angry today because I got sick from something that kicked off 2 days of IBS symptoms. I just quit trying to be positive and started thinking " i don't care anymore. I have had it!" If something hurts I yell at it inside and tell it to "Get thee behind me!!" ( really I cuss at it rather intensely ) It seems to be working better than nursing ( and maybe even nourishing ) ALL the pain. I am probably manic depressive also. I have read artistic and highly creative people are often sick, mental off balance, etc. I have been on the creative/intuitive side of navigating life my ever sense I can remember. I have always lept before I looked. So certain people are more prone to mental illness, and the causes are to complex to cover them all. I was thinking today that what I experience is like the reflections off a lake. If the weather is calm, I can see pretty clearly. If the weather is turbulent, I can't make out what is real.
 

Paco Dennis said:
I have tried the power of positive thinking to the point I am sick of it. I got angry today because I got sick from something that kicked off 2 days of IBS symptoms. I just quit trying to be positive and started thinking " i don't care anymore. I have had it!" If something hurts I yell at it inside and tell it to "Get thee behind me!!" ( really I cuss at it rather intensely ) It seems to be working better than nursing ( and maybe even nourishing ) ALL the pain. I am probably manic depressive also. I have read artistic and highly creative people are often sick, mental off balance, etc. I have been on the creative/intuitive side of navigating life my ever sense I can remember. I have always lept before I looked. So certain people are more prone to mental illness, and the causes are to complex to cover them all. I was thinking today that what I experience is like the reflections off a lake. If the weather is calm, I can see pretty clearly. If the weather is turbulent, I can't make out what is real.
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Welcome to the Twilight Zone. I often feel exactly as you but one thing that stands out is the philosophical contradiction with being "on the creative/intuitive side" yet "leaping before looking". They appear to be opposites. Do you see what I mean?
 
Paco Dennis said:
I have tried the power of positive thinking to the point I am sick of it. I got angry today because I got sick from something that kicked off 2 days of IBS symptoms. I just quit trying to be positive and started thinking " i don't care anymore. I have had it!" If something hurts I yell at it inside and tell it to "Get thee behind me!!" ( really I cuss at it rather intensely ) It seems to be working better than nursing ( and maybe even nourishing ) ALL the pain. I am probably manic depressive also. I have read artistic and highly creative people are often sick, mental off balance, etc. I have been on the creative/intuitive side of navigating life my ever sense I can remember. I have always lept before I looked. So certain people are more prone to mental illness, and the causes are to complex to cover them all. I was thinking today that what I experience is like the reflections off a lake. If the weather is calm, I can see pretty clearly. If the weather is turbulent, I can't make out what is real.
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"Everybody has problems" a very good friend of mine used to say, or mind me of when perhaps I was behaving as though only I had them, and of course she was right wasn't she, though its fair to say the magnitude, (or even ironically the inability to cope with the smallest of trifles!), comes into it as well.
 
Verisure said:
Welcome to the Twilight Zone. I often feel exactly as you but one thing that stands out is the philosophical contradiction with being "on the creative/intuitive side" yet "leaping before looking". They appear to be opposites. Do you see what I mean?
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I can understand how they can seem opposite, and not "everything" i have done was without careful consideration. I got through with my assignments in grade school so fast that I was bored to death and began to invent stuff to fill in the time. I also would play pranks on others and often got in trouble. What to do? The teachers tried to intervene and my mother tried to "groom me for success, and taught me how not to play the game." ( JT) Adventuring in my mind and for real has been my passion..."to go where no man has gone" kinda push. Sometimes that takes an unknown risk when you venture into unknown territory. That is how I have fallen of a cliff a few times. ( mostly figuratively...but I am very accident prone and have injured myself regularly all my life. Hyperactive is what they termed my behavior. "You think too much" my Dad would say. For me you can't find what your looking for if you don't have the will/desire to take chances.
 
Verisure said:
Both, particularly anxiety. I suffer from pnigophobia: fear of suffocating. It is similar to claustrophobia. I don't how long I've had it but the first sign was while scuba diving in 1981. I nearly drowned because my tank ran out of oxygen but on inspection, there was plenty of it. Then the following year I got a terrible attack while caving in Belgium. That's when I knew something was wrong. Since then the condition has spread to riding buses on warm days with all of the windows closed, being in the WC if the door won't open again easily, on aeroplanes, and during a root canal job with that rubber cloth covering your mouth. These days whenever I fly I take a good shot of whisky as soon as I board the aeroplane just to calm me down. Unfortunately, I now also suffer from sleep apnea and it requires using a CPAP respirator at night. I could take a shot of whiskey just before I lie down but I try to do without it. I usually put on the TV instead to try distracting myself until I am so tired that I can easily dose off but there was a problem with the TV reception yesterday and I ended up trying to sleep without the CPAP. I didn't get much sleep and I'm not feeling too well as I write this. In these circumstances why can't I just distract myself with other thoughts and get over this stupid ailment? 🥺

Is it?
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I'm very sorry to hear about your fear of suffocating. I have found that Cognitive Behavioral Therapy can be effective in overcoming certain fears and anxieties.

As for whether depression is genetic, looks like it is 50/50...

https://med.stanford.edu/depressiongenetics/mddandgenes.html
 
Paco Dennis said:
I can understand how they can seem opposite, and not "everything" i have done was without careful consideration. I got through with my assignments in grade school so fast that I was bored to death and began to invent stuff to fill in the time. I also would play pranks on others and often got in trouble. What to do? The teachers tried to intervene and my mother tried to "groom me for success, and taught me how not to play the game." ( JT) Adventuring in my mind and for real has been my passion..."to go where no man has gone" kinda push. Sometimes that takes an unknown risk when you venture into unknown territory. That is how I have fallen of a cliff a few times. ( mostly figuratively...but I am very accident prone and have injured myself regularly all my life. Hyperactive is what they termed my behavior. "You think too much" my Dad would say. For me you can't find what your looking for if you don't have the will/desire to take chances.
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I don't know if "hyperactive" is necessarily the right diagnosis. What about just plain "inquisitive"? :)
 
Verisure said:
I don't know if "hyperactive" is necessarily the right diagnosis. What about just plain "inquisitive"? :)
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Not sure what it is. I always got "A's" in school but never studied very hard. I always got bad Conduct grades because I was bored and chose to pull pranks on other students. I always got in trouble.
 
dseag2 said:
I'm very sorry to hear about your fear of suffocating. I have found that Cognitive Behavioral Therapy can be effective in overcoming certain fears and anxieties.
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This, I am, sure is good advice but for all the wonderful things I have to say about Sweden the medical and psychiatric departments are dismal. Just being allowed to see them is a Kafka-ish ordeal. And when you finally get to see them it's, "Take an Alvedon and come back in a couple of months."
dseag2 said:
As for whether depression is genetic, looks like it is 50/50...

https://med.stanford.edu/depressiongenetics/mddandgenes.html
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Could be. My mother would freak out over the slightest thing, When I was a child I found a tiny bird on my way home from school. Looking back on it I suppose it was too young to fly. So I took it with me as a pet. When I showed it to my mother she let out a blood-curdling scream and went frantic. Well, I'm not like that but maybe there is something genetic in my phobia.
 
dseag2 said:
Not sure what it is. I always got "A's" in school but never studied very hard. I always got bad Conduct grades because I was bored and chose to pull pranks on other students. I always got in trouble.
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Yep, "inquisitive" is the right diagnosis. Nothing wrong with you. Next patient!
 

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