Drastic Health Problems

[Kinetic]

I was just wondering. I saw the pet peeves thread and got to wondering what kind of actual problems people have relating to their health? Things like depression and cancer or whatnot. Such as my mother who has Kronic Depression and it's causing a chemical imbalance in her brain.

I, myself suffer from a case of obsessive compulsive disorder. It's kind of hard to explain for those of you that don't already know what it is. I guess you could say that if you do something, like turn off the lightswitch, you might feel that you have to do it again, but if your hand isn't in exactly the right position, you might feel that you have to do it yet again two more times and make them exactly like the other two. Like I said, hard to explain.

The problem I have with my obsessive compulsive disorder is that when I heard someone say something, like if I'm watching a movie, I might repeat the phrase in my head while breathing in and out, 1 breath per syllable. If I feel that I have to end and start with an outward breath, I might change the words some so that it comes out that way and it might take a few tries, and it's really hard to stop. I do it without thinking also, that's the problem, so I don't know exactly how to stop it.

Anyway, what are your serious health problems?

[Guest Taylor Hewitt]

OMG.
I think I have the same thing as you. I didn't know it was a disease or something. When I click on the mouse even if I did what I wanted to do I always have to like clikc harder on the mouse. That's freaky. I don't know if I have a disease or not. Maybe I cud talk with u.

[Kinetic]

Yeah that's exactly what it is. It's just little things like that. I used to have a problem with the wheel between the two buttons. But yes, that's pretty much the problem. It's not a disease, it's just a chemical imbalance I think, sort of like depression.

[Guest Taylor Hewitt]

Oh god - I think I got it. Well back to the topic.
My mother has cancer and one of my grandparents has cancer. My other grandpa just died of cancer last year, and another one of my grandparents had skin cancer. I get burned easily I hope I dont get skin cancer. ... O crap i went for a walk just now and forgot sunscreen
dammit

[Kinetic]

Cancer runs in my family as well. My grandmother had cancer a while back, and my mother had early signs of cancer, but I think they prevented it somehow. I was young, so I'm not very sure. But males in my family have also had a history of hernia's, so I don't look forward to getting one of those. But, other people can join in this conversation too, don't be scared :p

[Guest Taylor Hewitt]

Kinetic I'm sorry about posting this in this topic but ur not responding to my PMs can I talk to u on msn or email or something plz.
Again please excuse this.
Ok I'll throw something in so this doesnt get deleted.

So what's the deal with SARS huh? I live in Toronto (im in ottawa now) and I don't have it.
Blah sars.

That should do it.

[Sara]

[size=1]I've had problems with depression since I was thirteen.

I'm also a perfectionist...I don't know how serious you think that actually is.[/size]

[Mei]

[color=green]I myself also have OCD, or Obsessive Compulsive Dissorder. I've have it since around the 1st grade, and it in itself is a very large part of my life. Doing repetitave tasks, having those [i]feelings[/i], so on..

I also have depression, which is ALSO a large part of my life.Oo I take Prozac for both of these disorders, and it seems to be helping quite a bit.

Chemical Imbalances can be very frustrating, but there is medication and therapy to deal with it.^^()

Those are basically my "problems," though I've really no idea why I just shared them with you all.Oo[/color]

[Guest Taylor Hewitt]

I have dispression as well and am on some medication too but I don't think it is too serious. But are my diseases really serious? I mean they aren't physicle so they can't be life-threatening or anything.

[Fall]

My brother has a serious case of obsessive compulsive dissorder. Everything he does, he has to do it again. I understand he can't do anything about it, but damn, it gets so annoying sometimes.

I used to have asthma when I was little, though it went away. About 6 months ago, I got a re-occurance of it. It's much more severe. I've had about 4 asthma attacks in the time I've had it back, where-as when I was little I never had an asthma attack. It's crap when I'm going for a ride, and all of a sudden I need to take some Ventolin. -_-

[AzureWolf]

I think I lean on the edge of a perfectionist and obsessive compulsive. I mean, I've already gone through my "CLEAN CLEAN" phase, where you ridiculously try to sterilize yourself and keep everything of yours clean, not to mention cleaning yourself over and over if you touch something you "feel" is unclean. Haha, but like I said, I'm over that. What got me over it was learning that the human immune system is the most advanced/evolved/powerful of [I]ALL[/I] species.

However, I still have some obsessive compulsive tendencies, but only with my few, valued materialistic items. :) If it makes you all feel better (it makes me feel better :D), they say all geniuses had some degree of obsessive compulsive disorder.

Depression worries me (haha, that's ironic!) more than SARS. It's becoming an increasing problem, and no one seems to know why. I personally think it is because of the new generations' all-too-firm attachment/embrace to material items, but I digress...

[Guest Zeh]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by AzureWolf [/i]
[B]where you ridiculously try to sterilize yourself and keep everything of yours clean, not to mention cleaning yourself over and over if you touch something you "feel" is unclean. [/B][/QUOTE]

I was/am like that... I'm trying to stop doing it. It's only when i'm alone, in my house though. If i kill a bug with a fly swatter, i still have to wash my hands. Lately i haven't done it much, because i became aware of what i was doing, and i forcibly made myself stop o_O;;

The cool thing is, i'll never become depressed... it just won't happen to me, i've had an occurance of real bad things happen lately, but it doesn't seem to bother me much mentally. I just go and pat my chinchilla, lol.

[Sara]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Zeh [/i]
[B]I just go and pat my chinchilla, lol. [/B][/QUOTE] [SIZE=1]...I want a chinchilla.

Pfeh. Just had to let that out. [/SIZE]

[Red]

[color=002E55]My temper was classed as a 'serious mental health problem' for me when I was a bit younger. When I got angry, I would get [i]really[/i] angry, even over the smallest things. It flared up especially when I got into a fight and just couldn't stop myself from constantly beating someone, even after they had completely caved in. Afterwards I would normally break down because I couldn't understand why I was getting so angry or why I couldn't control myself.

Over the past few years I've learnt to control my temper very well, heh, even if I do get angry I can calm myself down very fast. There's always depression, too, which I've been experiencing since I was about 10, but bullying will do that to you. ;)[/color]

[Biida]

What I suffer/have suffered from? Oh boy, let me count the ways...
A slight case of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, emotional unstability, and I used to face depression. My OCD isn't that bad; it only "attacks" me every so often. Emotional unstability, on the other hand, is something I'm prone to. v.v I'm a very emotional person, and sometimes even the littlest things can set me off in the worst ways. As for depression, I went through it for two and a half years before getting out of it.

As for other diseases and health problems that have run through my family, the main one would be diabetes. Two of my uncles on my mom's side, my grandfather on my mom's side, my great-grandfather on my dad's side, and one of my (half) uncles on my dad's side. As much as I love sugar, I have to be very careful of how much I have.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and chronic depression, are two of the main disorders on my father's side. All of my sisters, one of my brothers, and my father, all suffer from OCD. As for depression, all my sisters, and the same brother, have it.

A tendancy to alcoholism, if that can count, is also a rather serious thing in my family.

Oh, and a few relatives very close to me have also been diagnosed with borderline personality disorders.

O_o; So basically, I'm more screwed/prone to be screwed mentally than really anything else.

[Corey]

Well when I was young, like three to ten, I used to get re-occuring earaches. It got so bad at one point that I would have one almost every week.
I would be fine one minute and then the next my ear would hurt like hell. And it would never be a flase alarm. I would always eaither have a single earache or a double earache.

As a drawback, I am now immune to most standard antibiotics.

That's about it other than my grandmother on my moms side had colon cancer.

[Solo Tremaine]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by KnightOfTheRose [/i]
[B]As a drawback, I am now immune to most standard antibiotics.[/B][/QUOTE]
That can happen if you rely on them too much- you need so much more to be able to get an effect because your body becomes immune to it.

In terms of problems for myself, I don't think I have anything too serious. Only broken bones for me, and they heal fairly nicely. Oh, apart from low blood pressure. If I get up from anywhere too quickly I pass out. Even if I just sat down o_o; I get head rushes fairly often and used to have a severe problem with nosebleeds, almost having two a day at some points. I don't get that now, though. I think it's a genetic thing, because my mum used to have really really bad ones when she was young, some of which she had to be hospitalised for.

I'm not depressed to the point of no return, and I don't think I ever have been. The only thing I could think of that I might have is an inferiority complex, but it'd only be minor and sporadic if I did.

In the family, there's coronary heart disease, bowel cancer (which I stand a high risk of getting in later life), diabetes, strokes, osteoporosis, high and low blood pressures and nosebleeds, but how many of these are due to circumstantial events isn't known. Needless to say, I do everything I can to lower my chances of getting them (eat well, lots of exercise, etc).

[Kinetic]

[quote][i]Posted by KOTR[/i]
[b]Well when I was young, like three to ten, I used to get re-occuring earaches. It got so bad at one point that I would have one almost every week.
I would be fine one minute and then the next my ear would hurt like hell. And it would never be a flase alarm. I would always eaither have a single earache or a double earache.

As a drawback, I am now immune to most standard antibiotics.

That's about it other than my grandmother on my moms side had colon cancer.[/b][/quote]

I forgot, I had to go in for surgery and get tubes put inside of my ears due to constant ear infections. I remember slightly, but I was merely a toddler.

[quote][i]Posted by Solo[/i]
[b]Oh, apart from low blood pressure. If I get up from anywhere too quickly I pass out.[/b][/quote]

So [i]that's[/i] what causes that. Any time I stand up to fast, I get a head rush, but I've never passed out. I almost did one time though. I got off of my bed and rush out of my room, being caught by a head rush and slamming into the wall and stumbling around my hallway, to slam back into my bed until it passed over. That's the worst I've ever had it I think.

I also have an ingrown toenail. I've gone in for surgery twice, but I try to keep it trimmed back now. It's kind of gross thinking about it, and it certainly doesn't make my feet look nice, but hey, if it keeps the pain away, I'm all for it.

[DeathKnight]

[color=crimson]Lets see. Physically I have NASH, or Non-Alcoholic Stato[Steto?]hepatitis. I'm overweight, so the fat cells in my liver are beginning to crush the "good" cells- thusly, killing me because you sort of need your liver, and your liver sort of needs its cells. To take care of this I am losing weight currently, and its getting pretty near normal now after a year of dieting and having no sugar.

High blood pressure was a problem, but it got better after the first few months of dieting/no sugar.

Does eyesight count as a disease? Well it is something "wrong" with me. Yea, i'm nearsighted. Nothing major, just blind without my contactts/glasses. lol.

I have flat feet.. last "wrong" thing I can think of for now.

Mentally, just presently [*has had alot of problems from his past, no need to get into that eh?*], I have depression problems and are prescribed medication for it- which i'm not takeing. -.-
I think I have alot more problems, I just dont want to get stuck with any more chemicals trying to make me what i'm not, lol.

I guess thats all I can think of for now.. [/color]

[Deedlit]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Kinetic [/i]
[B]I, myself suffer from a case of obsessive compulsive disorder. It's kind of hard to explain for those of you that don't already know what it is. I guess you could say that if you do something, like turn off the lightswitch, you might feel that you have to do it again, but if your hand isn't in exactly the right position, you might feel that you have to do it yet again two more times and make them exactly like the other two. Like I said, hard to explain. [/B][/QUOTE]

[color=009966]:wow: I had no idea that was a disease. I think I have that....o0;;

When I'm scrolling down pages with the wheel on the mouse, it [i][b]MUST[/i][/b] land on the line at the top of someone's post. If it's any shorter or any higher than that, I keep doing it over and over again. Then usually when I'm flipping through my yearbook and close the cover, it [i][b]MUST[/b][/i] make the "whump" sound, or I try to do it again. And when I'm playing little tunes on the piano, if I make one mistake, even if one finger hit two accidentally, I start over and wind up playing it about five more times, and if I make another mistake during those five times, I wind up playing it even more times! [/color]

[Tasrai]

[COLOR=red]I think I have a minor case of OCD but nothing that severe. Like with the mouse I have to click it in the same exact spot, and I have a problem with light switches and with fan chains, especially with fans. You know when you pull the chain on the fan to change the speed, I have to pull it over and over again ending up doing it four or five times. Which is annoying because my fan has four speeds then I'll have to do it again.

But my worst thing is

Oral Fixation: I always HAVE to have something in my mouth, always HAVE to be chewing on something. I used to didn't know what was wrong with me, anything I saw almost went in my mouth.
It was worse when I was little and had little plastic animals(all of them have teeth marks and are missing limbs), my pencils and pens at school looked like they went through saw mills, paper simply vanished. In sixth grade I was so determined to not chew on my nails, I chewed on my knuckles until they bled.
I'm going to High School now and am much better...so long as I have bubble gum with me. But every once in a while I'll realize I'm not chewing on gum but on plastic or paper or finger nails.(just the other day I noticed I was chewing on a plastic dog and to make my sister take it from me)

Well, now you know my problems, and don't be freaked out....[/COLOR]

[Shinobi]

Well i am overweight. I know that, but it isn't damadging me or anything like my good mate Ken. I'm just overweight for my age and hieght. When i saw the nurse about it, she said becuase of my build (Broad shoulders and heavy bones). So yeah all i need to do is loose some weight and i'll be fine, which i am currently in the proccess of doing. I hope to have lost some weight through this summer.

I am NEVER depressed, like my other good mate, Zeh, said: it just doesnt happen to me. Yeah i can be sad, but then after a while i will just see something funny, or make someone else laugh and it just dissapears. My Grampa died of fluid in his lungs (i can't remember the exact name for it.) that made a big impact in my life, he was very close to me but becuase he was in the British Navy he had sailed around the world 5 times. All of his hard work in the Navy lead to his whole left leg having to be put in a vast/holster becuase he could'nt bend it, then thing lead from bad to worse, he then began to "die" becuase of his lung.

A year later my aunt died suddenly in Malta on the night of her Anniversery with my uncle. She died of a Massive Heart Attack. It just popped out from the blue, there was no cause for it which i very mysterious.

For me however, there is'nt much wrong with me except the overweight thing, which i hope to cancel out soon ^_^.

Oh yeah does being ugly and no girl wanting to touch you with a barge pole (in a crush way, i have loads of girls who are my friends...good friends but no girl in the [i]other[/i] way.) count as being a desiese.

[Guest Taylor Hewitt]

Now that I think of it I have lots of problems... not too many but a few.
Well I am a bit overweight for my age I mean I am about 6 foot or so but anyways. I have a bad temper and I get hurt really easily. Like I get so pissed sometimes for the smallest things like my sister took my water hand gun and sprayed me so I sprayed her so bad and then I took it away and realized I'm 13 - it's a water gun - she's 10. So I have it to her. I get hurt like if someone yells at me even the slightest bit like my dad I get so hurt and start to cry a bit. I think I have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. My mom has colon cancer - cancer runs in the family. My sister has a learning difficulty. My whole family wears glasses - yet I don't. It's not a health problem but I have red hair and no one in my family does. (maybe i was adopted? :P nah lol). Oh yeah and I have depression and was in councelling for a while (years ago) I take medication for it but I don't think I need it. And I think I have a cleanliness problem as well. I killed a spider the other day and I didn't touch it but I still had to wash my hands. And I saw one in the sink and I turned on the water and it went down but I still had to wash my hands. My friends think I'm weird (and other people). Well that's about it.

On another note.
Doesn't it seem like everyone on this forum isn't perfect and has something wrong with them (well not "wrong" but u know). And we forum-users rely on online message boards because maybe we don't have many friends in real life because maybe of our "diseases". Just a thought.

[Tasrai]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Taylor Hewitt [/i]
[B]On another note.
Doesn't it seem like everyone on this forum isn't perfect and has something wrong with them (well not "wrong" but u know). And we forum-users rely on online message boards because maybe we don't have many friends in real life because maybe of our "diseases". Just a thought. [/B][/QUOTE]

[COLOR=blue]I don't think so, because I'm a net freak and still have plently of friends in the town I live in.

I thought of another thing that was wrong with me... I have very flat feet and are abnormally large. I mean you can't get any flater than mine, when I walk the whole bottom of my foot hits the floor, I know this because I dipped my foot in water and walked across cement. I can't tell you how weird my foot print is... anyways besides that fact my feet are also huge, I'm thirteen and I wear 11 1/2. You should see me swim though... I have natural flippers:D[/COLOR]

[Guest Taylor Hewitt]

I'm 13 and I'm size 13 sometimes it doesn't fit(other shoes).