Mental Health Corner

[Indos]

This is humble request to any one who reads this. For past few days I am suffering from severe attack of depression, I am trying my best to fight it back but it's getting really difficult now. Please do dua for me.

You said in previous post that the fear of being alone is one of your main problem. According to my opinion that should not be a big problem. I feel that being alone is not something negative as we will have luxury and huge freedom to our personal live. We have Allah anyway who is near us, so we shouldnt feel that way IMO.

There is also Indonesian man who can still have marry with young woman although he has reached 70. You are still in 30's, so you still have much time to find any woman for marriage.

Ahmad Albar with his wife

 

[El Sidd]

Let's use this thread

 

[Nilu Pule]

This is humble request to any one who reads this. For past few days I am suffering from severe attack of depression, I am trying my best to fight it back but it's getting really difficult now. Please do dua for me.

I was in the same boat like a year back. I ignored the signs and paid the price. This depression lead to a severe panic attack and hospitalization.

This is mainly due to low amounts of happy hormone 'serotonin' being produced in your body.

I would suggest visiting a good and experienced psychtriatist. He would recommend Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) for probably a month or two.

 

[Mangus Ortus Novem]

HeartMath!

 

[jaibi]

How is everyone doing?

 

[PDF]

How is everyone doing?

Better, tho can't visit the hosp as OPDs are closed...Still got around it and increased my dosage after which I am fine. I wanted to to discuss that perhaps I had another disorder to along with my OCD. Have compiled some observations of all family members along with brief history of treatment and opinion of previous doctors.

P.S: Hope everyone else is doing good. Best Wishes!

 

[jaibi]

Brother, how's about we chat or call after aftari?

Better, tho can't visit the hosp as OPDs are closed...Still got around it and increased my dosage after which I am fine. I wanted to to discuss that perhaps I had another disorder to along with my OCD. Have compiled some observations of all family members along with brief history of treatment and opinion of previous doctors.

P.S: Hope everyone else is doing good. Best Wishes!

 

[PDF]

Brother, how's about we chat or call after aftari?

Sure. Will be happy for that. Chatting is better cause I can express myself better while writing than talking. lol....but you wanna judge body language would with another thing.

 

[jaibi]

As you're comfortable, brother

Sure. Will be happy for that. Chatting is better cause I can express myself better while writing than talking. lol....but you wanna judge body language would with another thing.

 

[PDF]

man who can still have marry with young woman although he has reached 70.

for that we need to be rich to find a gold digger.
JK....Hope they have a good and contended life.

 

[Shehr Abbasi]

Past few days I have been feeling down. I do not feel like I have energy to do my hobbies. I can barely do a jog for 2 minutes. I have a situation where I have isolated myself. I don’t have a friend to talk to that can personally understand my issues.

I am tired and I have no motivation to do any activities to relief my self. There is a persistent discomfort that I am feeling every day. The cause of this issue isn’t relationship or similar. I think it is just having no purpose that keeps me motivated. I am missing a thrill in my life which keeps me happy. There is no emotional stimulator or soulful thing in my life. Everything seem so dull.

It probably correlate to my time on the Internet. Which is not too much but I can reduce it. I can back away then what should I do? I don’t want to indulge in impure things.

I am quite upset almost all the time. There is nothing to keep me happy. I don’t want any internet friends because it is regressive & make me less happy. I think I am going to take a step back from this web site and evaluate my situation deeply. I might check in once a day to see a response. Please don’t write any thing long, I don’t want you guys to spend too much time for me.

 

[El Sidd]

Married people should stop hogging space

 

[PDF]

Past few days I have been feeling down. I do not feel like I have energy to do my hobbies. I can barely do a jog for 2 minutes. I have a situation where I have isolated myself. I don’t have a friend to talk to that can personally understand my issues.

I am tired and I have no motivation to do any activities to relief my self. There is a persistent discomfort that I am feeling every day. The cause of this issue isn’t relationship or similar. I think it is just having no purpose that keeps me motivated. I am missing a thrill in my life which keeps me happy. There is no emotional stimulator or soulful thing in my life. Everything seem so dull.

It probably correlate to my time on the Internet. Which is not too much but I can reduce it. I can back away then what should I do? I don’t want to indulge in impure things.

I am quite upset almost all the time. There is nothing to keep me happy. I don’t want any internet friends because it is regressive & make me less happy. I think I am going to take a step back from this web site and evaluate my situation deeply. I might check in once a day to see a response. Please don’t write any thing long, I don’t want you guys to spend too much time for me.

Brother, it seems like you are experiencing a depressive episode. Just hold on, it gets better and improves. Yup, try to change your lifestyle and routine. Go out somewhere you usually don't hang out. and well I will let @jaibi take over from here.

 

[Moonlight]

Past few days I have been feeling down. I do not feel like I have energy to do my hobbies. I can barely do a jog for 2 minutes. I have a situation where I have isolated myself. I don’t have a friend to talk to that can personally understand my issues.

I am tired and I have no motivation to do any activities to relief my self. There is a persistent discomfort that I am feeling every day. The cause of this issue isn’t relationship or similar. I think it is just having no purpose that keeps me motivated. I am missing a thrill in my life which keeps me happy. There is no emotional stimulator or soulful thing in my life. Everything seem so dull.

It probably correlate to my time on the Internet. Which is not too much but I can reduce it. I can back away then what should I do? I don’t want to indulge in impure things.

I am quite upset almost all the time. There is nothing to keep me happy. I don’t want any internet friends because it is regressive & make me less happy. I think I am going to take a step back from this web site and evaluate my situation deeply. I might check in once a day to see a response. Please don’t write any thing long, I don’t want you guys to spend too much time for me.

Hi, if you’re facing it for more than two months, it’s depression. If you’re a student, every school, college, and university offer the help. And most of the organizations offer their employees free counselings so avail this opportunity.
To be honest, isolating yourself rarely helps, it’s better to take professional advice. Good luck.

 

[ps3linux]

Greetings everyone,

I'm creating this thread because I feel that there is a need for it on our lovely digital abode. Current affairs, local problems, life's miseries do leave us feeling drained and disturbed sometimes. Plus, there seems to be a stigma regarding addressing mental health issues or asking for counseling when it's felt in our region at least.

This thread is not intended to be a replacement of therapy (that needs to be done one on one) but a place to be at where you voice your concerns and be heard; hopefully end up being pointed in the right direction if you it is needed.

I humbly ask all members of the forum not to abuse this thread nor anyone in it.

I'm a Psychologist with half a decade of experience and I will personally respond as much as I can. Post whatever you feel like though if it's too traumatic then, ask for a private conversation.

Hope it helps, happy foruming and keep smiling.
PS kindly tag me so I get the notification. Thank you!

Dear @jaibi an excellent effort to try and help who require to vent their feelings have a need to exercise catharsis, the effort is appreciative in the sense that (I am sure you have realized) in our society with the exception of those having exposure of western society going to a psychologist is still a taboo. May be just may be people will feel comfortable in sharing their mind while having a degree of anonymity.

In North America its a taboo if you don't have a therapist we we are having a negative correlation in this matter.

I am not a psychologist, I did study psychology in the college as elective credit (during my computer engineering) and as part of my behavioral finance subject (during a very advanced degree in finance). Human mind is a very intriguing mystery which we are still exploring and may be will continue to do so.

Thanks... @jaibi
I am on meds for OCD and am doing pretty good... Never taken CBT though started recently but I don't think its addressing to my specific needs. Psychotherapy doesn't work for me also ( I am good at arguments and well its difficult to talk through me).
Anyway, I think ERP but more importantly hypotherapy will help me addressing a specific phobia but that is upto a psychologist to decide (but the problem is, I don't think there are any specialist here).
Anyway, so the thing is I am aware of myself and I even know what steps are necessary to improve myself....but my main problem is implementing. I don't act on things which I know I should and thus I reached out to psychologists again.

P.S: Anyway, Just stated my situation to ease other memebers to open up. Its again pointed out that this thread is just a general place to talk, ease up about your lives and connect with others familiarizing about their problems too. For your own benefit, please seek professional help if you are having mental problems or if the stresses in life becomes unbearable.

If we analyze ourselves we all have some sort of emotional challenge one way or the other most of the times it manifests in our action which do impact others.

For both of you I too have/had my demons there are multiple reasons for that but two things I found very effective in overcoming those demons were:

1. Meditation (think of me who has explored this to extremes) couple of my class fellows are practicing and good therapists upon my recommendations they encouraged their clients to explore this avenue (with a complete guideline given by me) and they found results to be more than effective.
2. listening to relaxing music

and an absolutely no no is listening to sad songs/ghazals/music during episodes of emotional downturns including matters of the heart.