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Medical Conditions?

Palkia

Palkia

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    What medical conditions do you have, both psychical and mental? Do you know someone with a serious medical disease?

    My sister has PCOS which means she is having issues conceiving a child and is having a operation this year to treat her condition.
     
    Physically nothing (yet), but psychically...
    ADHD
    Paranoid Schizophrenia
    Severe speaking anxiety
    ...
    But I don't really know anyone else with comparable conditions :/
     
    I have a slight heart condition called mitro valve prolapse(I think that is the medical term for it). Basically it's just where my heart doesn't function normally but there is really no danger from it. It's bothersome from time to time and I had to take special precautions before having surgery once but other than that my body is really healthy!
     
    I am very grateful that I have none. I've seen how certain ones can effect people's lives and I would hate to have another obstacle to overcome in this world.
     
    The only medical condition I have is ADHD. It's not as a severe case as some, but it definitely affects me and my ability to pay attention and learn. Such as today, we had partners for an activity in my Oral Communications class, and my partner had to repeat a few things for me. There's times where it takes me a while to get something. I have a short attention span and that can cause me to drift off in class or during a really long lecture and not understand everything that was said.
     
    I've never been diagnosed of anything, so obviously these may or not be completely accurate (self-diagnoses certainly aren't a substitute, but you'd think you know yourself). And they're more on the mental/psychological side, but when I was younger I'm pretty sure I had some mild form of OCD. I obsessed over completely irrational things and I remember it being a reoccurring presence in elementary in middle school. I think I grew out of that though, as I don't exhibit many signs of it anymore. The past few years the idea of gender dysphoria has been slowly driving me insane, but I haven't really ascertained anything.
     
    Medically:
    Really bad asthma. So bad that I almost died from it in my infancy. Thank goodness my mom brought me to the hospital just in time :)

    Mentally:
    Chronic depression.
     
    I have social anxiety, mild scoliosis, and have had clinical depression. Mental illness such as depression and schizophrenia run on my mom's side of the family. I also suspect myself of having a spectrum disorder that went under the radar, but I don't really know if I'd like to find out for sure.

    And they're more on the mental/psychological side, but when I was younger I'm pretty sure I had some mild form of OCD.
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    I had an obsession with organizing things as a child. I legitimately would reorganize my Pokemon cards everyday because I would constantly be unsatisfied with how I did them the day before and it just started to become routine. I even cleaned them with a Q-tip every Thursday afternoon at the same time. Every. Thursday. I did similar things with other stuff too, like the area I kept my games in or with my other collections. I still do this to some things, but not nearly as often as I did then. I don't suspect I have OCD, I just think it's more of a quirk I have.
     
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    I have both.

    My left knee is a little loose due to a bike wreck I had when I was 7.

    I have social anxiety, which, put easily, is a *****. Also, OCD. Not a fun mix (I'll explain in a just a sec.)

    The loose knee never bothers me, and I don't even notice it. But I can turn the bottom half of my leg upwards (So it sticks out to the left) up close to the point the it is parallel to the ground, but my other one only goes up at maybe a 50 degree angle. It's strange.

    Social anxiety is kinda hard to live with. It makes it hard to talk to anyone, and I get very self conscious about everything I do. Not an enjoyable condition, trust me, you don't want it.

    OCD isn't that hard to live with, and I only have it to the point that everything on my desk, both at home and school, has to be neatly arranged in a certain way. Anything my teacher writes on the board, I make sure that she/he knows that I want it nicely arranged.

    Why are these two not a good mix? Well, picture this:
    My teacher has something written on the board in a very messy fashion, and my OCD is going crazy. I want to speak out, but social anxiety starts to give me an anxiety attack, so I can't speak out. OCD keeps getting worse and worse, and my anxiety attack gets more and more noticeable until it comes to the point that I have my head covered with my hands, and my head is down on my desk. I start sweating out of control, and get very self conscious about. I then get self conscious about being self conscious. Eventually, the teacher notices and calls me out. You can see where this is going.
    Happened before. Horribly embarrassing moment.
    Only a couple of people in my class are respectful of my mental disorders. One of them being this girl, if anyone remembers my Heartbreaks..... thread a little while ago. Doesn't make anything that has to do with her easier on me, even though she does now not seem to have a boyfriend, my social anxiety has only gotten worse sense then, so I can't really talk to her anymore. I hate having this.
     
    I have eczema. A really bad one, in winter.
    If you don't know what that is, in my case, think of it as an allergy. Only it's 24/7. And it's not only itchy, but when yo do itch it's really painful. Skin is really dry and red. Oh, and the skin flakes and falls off occasionally. Wake up a LOT every night because of how itchy and painful it.

    That is, if I don't use my creams. Which I do thankfully. phew! Though, in winter, this only makes it less severe and agonizing. In other seasons though, if I use my creams, my eczema would be completely gone. Freaking dry weather, man. I also have some OCD. No, the tooth brush should be right where I left it, god dammit.


    I used to have slight asthma (I think anyway? I remember having small problems as a kid...but that was so long ago.) and...maybe autism? Do you grow out of autism? I don't know actually, as a kid I barely got along with other kids and was frequently bullied Not that I was alone though, I was really close to family and particularly cousins at my age. I also had some big imaginations. When I was bored, I used to make up stories or whatever in my mind to entertain myself. (I did this whenever I have no one to talk to and when I didn't have access to television.) I did that so often that I still do when I got nothing on my mind, actually, haha. Unless that's actually normal? Either way a quick search in google says you can't grow out of autism (easily anyway), so it was probably just some social anxiety that I had to face eventually (still just a bit socially awkward but nothing major. I can easily face myself and others now.).
     
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    Unfortunately yes, (Now I know this seems like a lot for one person, not that I am saying you won't believe me, jeez I am getting paranoid already.) Around 2nd grade I was diagnosed with o.c.d, then came a.d.d, then came severe depression then came disassociation and the latest is now seizures. Most of my meds can cause seizures(( As a side effect, though some of my other meds can counter that side effect )) it is not that common though but since my psychiatrist and I have tweaked with my meds so many times due to the fact of them not working or I didn't like how they made me feel, it finally caught up to me. And last but not least panic attacks.

    It has effected me greatly but I am aware of how it has affected those around me. I am grateful my parents are supportive of me and take care of me the way they do even though I have these issues. Some days are better then others. This is the most positive post I will most likely make about this topic.
     
    only thing i have is asthma, but i've never got tested for anything mental so i could have something (and some other physical conditions) and not even know.
     
    I have a congenital heart condition that causes palpitations, esp after certain triggers such as poor rest and a rapid change in blood pressure. I also get migraines with auras which occur after certain triggers such as poor rest and stimulation.

    I also have a lisp XD which you can hear in any recording of me and is also pretty annoying XD cuz I think it makes me sound younger than I am. Speech impediment yeah blah blah blah
     
    I have a lot of allergies. I'm allergic to my cats. Which makes it a 24/7 thing since they're indoor, most laundry soaps make me break out, I'm allergic to something in a lot of shampoos and don't know what yet. I'm also allergic to pollen.

    Then as a result of said allergies, I get a lot of bloody noses. Not fun.
     
    Physically, not much is going on with me. Mentally, though, I have mild Spectrum Disorder, classical bipolar, ADD, and mild Tourette's Syndrome - all diagnosed. Undiagnosed, though, I think I have traces of OCD with that.
     
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