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Most of my life I have not been good with names but is getting worse as I age. Name recall runs in family as a problem. My mother's father had problems and my father did also. I have assume, as suggested above, that it is something in my mind that does not work smoothly. Most interesting to find this info and try to understand it better

I do not think that abortion should be an option taken lightly, however I do not wish to see it illegal. And as mentioned above, this fight to end planned parenthood is so much more than an abortion issue. I used planned parenthood as a teenager in the early seventies to get birth control that my parents would not have allowed. I do not support abstinence only sex education WHICH WE CURRENTLY PAY FOR! It is unbelievable and ridiculous that this is still being touted - that people shouldn't have sex until married - especially since so many that tout this don't follow this! even our lovely president elect! I believe in adequate access to birth control - and that all babies should be wanted.

"Government funding of abstinence-only-until-marriage programs is not new. In fact, the federal government has poured tax-payer money into such programs for over a quarter century. Beginning in 1981 under the Reagan Administration, the federal government has consistently funded abstinence-only-until-marriage programs despite an overwhelming body of research proving they are ineffective and that this federal expenditure has failed to achieve its stated goals. Funding for these unproven programs grew exponentially from 1996 until 2006, particularly during the years of the George W. Bush Administration. The funding leveled out between 2006 and 2009 and then reduced significantly in 2010. Between 1996 and federal Fiscal Year 2010, Congress funneled a total of over one-and-a-half billion tax-payer dollars into abstinence-only-until-marriage programs and the funding continues today."

Yes, I got bullied for being short but let me tell you the whole story. Ok, kids started bullying me when I was 9 years old. They would try to push me in a locker and called me names. Then, when I was 11 years old things got really instance, they would try to pull all my clothes off of me and say "you look stupid and ugly in this outfit." So what I did I punched the girl and pulled her hair and stuff like that defending myself and I am the one that gets in trouble, they didn't get no punishment I was the one who got punished. I was so pissed, so my parents pulled me out of Public school and homechooled me and ever since then I have been free to be me.

Thanks for listening to me hope some of you have the same problem

Yours truly
-Miranda

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My 50 year old son Mark is diagnosed as bipolar 1 but he has never had a depressive state. Rather he gets negative for a day or two but he is mostly racing in speech so no one can get a word in edgewise. He has had 3 psychotic breaks from reality thus far but only the first one put him in the mental hospital for 32 days until he was fairly stable and drug diagnosed. He has fairly severe ADD. In his severe manias I can see how we could suspect ADHD although his physical health stops the exterior hyperactivity. He also has mild OCD. Will definitely try the ice pack to cool down the front on his brain. He takes Seroquel in 100 mg doses 3 separate times during the day and for bed he gets 400 mg of Seroquel and 500 mg of Lithium and when he is highly manic this hardly knocks him out. So I add at night to this mix 1 GABA, 1 Tryptothan, and 1 mcg of time released Melatonin all from the health food store. Finally he is sleeping fairly well again. Just found out from a recent study that he has sleep apnea and can stop breathing up to 58 seconds about 10-12 times per hour when he is sleeping. That isn't restful!! Sometimes we add ZZZ-Quil (by the Vicks company). That only works about 2-4 days in a row. Zoplikone (sleeping pill) only works 2 days in a row. Atavan only works 2 days in a row. If he sleeps he isn't so hyper. Figuring out how to relax him and make him sleep are vital to his health. He has Crohn's Disease, Ankylosing Spondylitis, he was osteoporotic starting at age 36, since he was on the biologic drug Remicade and suffered nearly every reaction in the order the company listed them, he is now covered head to toe with nummular dermatitis (namely coin eczema), and before I yanked him off that delightful piece of #@//! he was starting the myclonic jerking thing of MS. His physical health puts him in great stress and this leads to a shove into instability to his mental health. I can't imagine the stress his health keeps him in but I observe some of what he goes through. I like that term "unipolar" but from now on I will say he is bipolar 1 without any depression. His first shrink diagnosed him as bipolar but not classic. Now I understand - he didn't have the depression. He has other crap going on as well too lengthy to list here. The article and all the comments were most helpful and interesting. Thanks. Shirley

Well sometime around the age of 60 or so I lost the ability to sleep "normally". Actually since my late 20's "normally" meant either at first drinking until I passed out (TO SLEEP I must insist - I was never an alkie) or later someone showed me how I could "put myself under" with about 6 mg of melatonin combined with a couple of fake Benadryl. Anyway that stopped working and I really freaked out. I went to some "low-end" shrinks (I figured I knew what I needed, just needed the prescription) but they kept prescribing horrible things with really bad side effects and addictive tendencies. But the reason I knew what I was looking for was I was simultaneously getting psychotherapy and learned that I had (pick the name you like: complex PTSD, developmental trauma, attachment disorder) from growing up in a thoroughly dysfunctional family that was about 1000% in denial, and the stress I was under was colossal (and to boot I also was alexithymic and had other physical manifestations). So what I was looking for (and am still on today) is 50 mg/night of seroquel, this usage is "off-label" but the war vets with PTSD know how well this works on insomnia. The fact that I was alexithymic also meant that most of the "conventional" psychotherapy doesn't work on me. The problem winds up being related to your brain rhythms (EEG) are way off from all the stress and your amygdala has your body in full panic mode and is commanding your adrenal glands to just flood your bloodtstream with cortisol (most shrinks STILL don't understand this explanation but it's true) and you need infra-low neurofeedback therapy to start to fix it, THEN you might be able to accept other kinds of therapy. I mean sure you'd probably see some or all of these other issues and symptoms but if you've never been to therapy at all this COULD just hit you all at once like a ton of bricks. Anyway nobody came close to following this line of thought here so I figured someone might benefit from my two cents, this probably sounds "rare" but it's actually WAY more common than FFI or SFI and if you know what you're looking for some aspects or another of my story are almost in epidemic now that we know a lot more about the results of being a victim of familial narcissistic abuse.

I have the same issue. It started about 8 months ago but has gotten stronger the past month or two. I workout and play tennis and was hoping it was related to those and the coffee I drink but I've been doing all these activities for several years now. I still haven't read a good response in this thread. Anyone know a doctor here?

This post is not entirely correct nor is it the most up-to-date. When searching something on the internet I encourage people not to waste time posting negative comments, but using their time to further their research. While it is importamt to look at all sides and consider all opinions, too many people are bent on finding fault instead of offering support. Whether this author made mistakes is irrelevant. It is up to the reader to accumulate as much information from as many different primary resources as possible. Ergo, when you look up something online you must recognize it is not a primary source in most instances. Learn to read between the lines and extract pertinent facts, ideas, et. al. and then research those down to their core foundations and b;uild your understanding up from there. I think this author may be simply trying to say he hoped scientists could come up with a type of pain releif medication derived from serotonin in hopes that those in pain could alleviate their suffering without the possibility of forming addictions. That would be great wouldn't it? Problem there is that there is no way to eliminate addiction. Every human is addicted to something: drugs, alcohol, sex, lying, exercise, smoking, eating, spreading negativity, and on and on into infinity. We as humans simply trade one addiction for another throughout our lives. It's just life. It's unfortunate that in the hopes of improving quality of life by eliminating pain and suffering there is a dark side, and I wish society perceived things differently. However in the end we must remember that all of us, regardless of which side of the argument you take, are only human in the end. We choose to live in society and form government for our collective wellbeing, but there is a downside to that. In exchange for the benefits we must endure the drawbacks as well, and sometimes that means your neighbor is all up in your business. In a larger framework that means that the greater the society size the greater the number of neighbors. Eventually you have a society where the neighbors get together and form groups and in a collective democracy that means everyone (or every group) may interject their opinions into the discussion. If we are going to live together for collective benefit we must deal with listening to opinions that differ. Some people or groups take that to extremes unfortunately. In the end it's like anything else in the universe: for every action theie exists an opposite reaction. An opinion for or an opinion against; effects or side-effects; peace or disturbance; being together or being alone. In the very end it doesn't matter what government does or says or what the group or neighbor thinks or does because are born alone and die alone, and only we as individuals are the final arbiter deciding through our actions or inactions for what happens in between. We as intelligent beings will always find alternatives for everything. It's up to us to decide, hopefully after due consideration, how we live our lives. Pain, whether it be physical, emotional, or other, is part of life. We decide what we can and cannot tolerate, then we act according to our will. Fight or flight; fate or free will. (I will add that someone will certainly twist my words into something else--maybe that I am advocating for or against something. I am not. I am simply saying life is what we make it. I could've said when life gives you lemons you make lemonade or you go without vitamin C and deal with scurvy. Who knows! I know things get tough, I just think positivity rather than negativity makes all the difference--good or bad.)

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Not to worry, I've danced in nightclubs and bars, most often experiencing women trying to pick fights with me, and several men accusing me of being a faggot because of my relentless passion for dancing. everyone of those people were white (surprise surprise) and none of them had a clue about dance. I'm a male red headed 39 year old white man who loves music, and feels the disco groove with a slight Saturday night fever approach and a slight influence from mj and fred Astaire so to speak.

When I was at an event recently, however, when I danced alone to music, there were these black guys who were dancing, and within minutes, they invited me into their circle to dance with them, and really get down and move. to the point where I had a go at dancing some of their music aswell. I got so much praise from them and respect, which felt fantastic :) great memories to never let lie..

Not only that, but I danced in latin clubs too, and the Spanish loved me too. The greeks also showered me in white paper stuff twice in 1 of their greek latin bars last year. Those places put me on a high instantly. Talk about a huge contrast from this to typical white uk people or what!!! those people seem nothing more to me than just spiteful people who hate my guts because my face never really has fit into life which says more about them in all fairness. Yet I've been told that I really can dance, despite not having dance training. I do watch great dancers, gain influence, but you really need to make it your own dance also this is how I am coming into it, as my body is different to their bodies, but we all have different movements naturally anyway.

Anyway, believe me, if you're experiencing what I'm experiencing, it is pure spiteful jealousy as I get this often. and I find women are far more hostile to me than men, and I'm not a woman either. Infact, in some bars, ive experienced women deliberately pull their partners infront of me smooching all over them suddenly as if to make some kind of hostile statement towards me, totally clueless about the fact that dance is about feeling, passion, and love for music, not just a mating ritual for average joes and joestines!

My whole life I have had this problem with my left hand..
i dont even know what it's like to have 2 equally functioning hands let alone to feel in both hands..
I had adolescent epilepsy as a child and had nearly regular seizures where I'd fall to the floor and shakexceptional. Whilst taking medications for epilepsy until the age of 11 or 12 where my seizures have seized to exist..
I remember once during a seizure, I could actually stop the right side of my body such as my leg and arm from shaking for a short period but not able to stop the left side at all..
I have never had a explainable diagnosis for my hand while coming to the conclusion it was just nerve damage.. but I knew it was something else all along..
i found myself constantly trying to work around this..
Ivery even failed training courses and job trials where it involves use of my left hand not being able to explain to anyone why.. it has always effected my life. I am so glad to have found this article as i may now be able to properly diagnose the problem and try to fix this..

My left hands symptoms are:

Less sensation and feeling.
Less coordination.
Less strength aswell as in my left arm abd shoulder.
As a child I felt like it had an effect on my left leg slightly but has improved..
Stiffness in the left hand.
Wrist significantly weaker.
Cannot tell which fingers I am using without looking.
Can feel slight pressure and a slight sedation against carpet and other materials..
Cannot separate fingers well or at all without the help of using my other hand to force them apart.

As a child, I had alot of learning difficulties in school and generally found school very hard..
i remember being able to read fluently around the age of 5 but then somehow almost suffering from major enxiety and slow thought processing and difficulties reading after that.
This has improved greatly as i have gotten older.
I remember in 5th grade I was pulled aside for a reading test and was told that I was the best reader in the class which had shocked me.

I had always suffered from social and general anxiety my whole life along with severe depression as coming out as gay at 13. I have now greatly overcome depression.

Throughout my teenage years I fell into great depression and different phases where I'd smoke high amounts of marijuana and try other drugs along with a reckless attitude. I hated myself and the world. I used to harm myself. I ended up in hospital, and put myself into a psych ward for 2 weeks as i was going to kill myself..
I consider myself a different person as of today and looking back at my behaviour disgusts me greatly and choose to forget it..

I am now 24 years of age.
My left hand hasn't seemed to improved but I have just gotten used to and try to get on with it I suppose. We've ll got to live and support ourselves.. :/

These days I actually get called Smart and intelligent aswell as a highly social and bubbly being.
I am very spiritual and open minded as i feel i can understand greatly from wide range of perspectives..
i tend to have everyone coming to me for support and advise as i believe that is my soul purpose, to heal and love others..

Besides my life story..
I purely just want to help my left hand improve..
Does anyone relate?
Thankyou kindly for taking the time to read this.

I really appreciate reading this by the return to the Serendip as she has ADHD & achieved a lot & a brain injury I have never used my brain & had a few head injuries through being assaulted & always believing my brain was useless as I often heard this from my parents so growing up yes it wasn't good so Ive struggled & felt no reason to believe anything else I did badly in life & amounted to nothing even failed as a parent so until I was told iam not a nutjob by a professional I want to try to see what iam capable of but iam waiting to do some tests on my brain & to test my cognitive skills if any lol & have it on paper so its concluded once & for all then I will see what I can do with what little concentration I have but I don't want that to stop me from feeling im not stupid .

You absolutely can use drugs for years and years. I know people who have used for over 25 years. Its all depends on the amounts used, the duration of a binge and other lifestyle choices. I have friends who party every weekend but eat well and exercise and seem to manage... not saying they don't have serious problems because of the drug use and that they would not be happier and healthier is they didn't but they are functioning and alive. Please dot be so quick to judge and disrespect someones experience.

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