#anxiety disorder clinic

[empathyhealthclinic12]

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[panicattackresearch]

Can you help us with panic research?

We are researchers at the University of Oxford seeking UK-based participants who experience either:

- Panic attacks

- OCD

- or no current mental health difficulties

The study consists of a 15-minute phone call (or email if phone feels too difficult) and a 20-minute online questionnaire.

Through this research we hope to develop a better understanding of the relationship between fear of losing control and anxiety.

If you're interested, please contact Joel Lewin at joel.lewin@hmc.ox.ac.uk

You can also find more information on our website.

[fl0rescer8]

[nexus-nebulae]

me as a kid: i have all these problems

every adult around me: you're not old enough to know what's wrong with you, you're fine

me as an adult: i still have all these problems

my doctors after i finally got the opportunity to choose them myself: oh my fucking god why have you never gotten help for all these problems. you should have seen me 10 years ago

[themogaidragon]

Is there a flag for clinical phobias?

Clinical Phobia Pride Flag

PT: Clinical Phobia Pride Flag /end PT

ID: a flag with five horizontal stripes with the central one being bigger. Their colors are, from top to bottom, dark green, green, white, grey and dark purple. In the center of the flag there is a dark green symbol of a brain with two little screaming spectrums. END ID

I've made the flag green and purple since they are colors often associated with fear, terror and the like.

Phobia symbol under the cut.

ID: a dark green symbol of a brain with two little screaming spectrums. End ID

[spaghetticat3899]

I keep finding posts tagged BPD and mentally saying “oh, same” before looking at the tags and realizing “wait, this is meant for not me”

I don’t have borderline, I just have what I’ve dubbed “the infinity gauntlet of common mental disorders”, aka autism, ADHD, depression, anxiety, and OCD. Sometimes there’s symptom overlap, sometimes not. People get pissed I act one way or the other because, I don’t know, maybe I have disorders I’ve specifically stated will cause issue in departments you specifically get pissed at me about. I’m sorry my memory is bad, or that I fumble wording things, or get distracted easy, or don’t understand things right away, or overthink, or whatever else. It doesn’t matter if they’ve known me since birth and raised me, they’ll be mad anyway. I’ve worked on it the best I can, but some things are just out of my control, and I’m sorry.

[trannydykes]

ngl, self-diagnoses doesn't harm anyone.

"They're taking away resources from actually autistic people!" where. proof for that. Also, most resources that non-diagnosed autistic ppl can get are just DIY remedies(headphones, sensory toys, ect), how is that taking away from your remedies.

i think instead of saying "no you cant self-diagnose or can only under specific circumstances", we should be sharing resources to help people who are questioning if they really have a condition or not

if you want ppl to stop incorrectly thinking they have autism, maybe we can just make content where we talk abt what autism actually entails and what is/isn't an autistic trait. instead of saying all self-diagnosers are faking on purpose

Information is the best killer of misinformation actually if you didn't know

[walleffect]

depression is a serious medical condition actually

day 7876 of being annoyed that "mental health advocates" made depression and anxiety the "normal" mental illnesses- probably because it's easy to simplify them down to feeling "sad" or "scared".

A lot of the time, mental health advocacy takes the form of teenagers on the internet joking about their experiences or well-meaning people trying to explain conditions they don't have, but I'd honestly rather they didn't at this point.

It took me nearly dying from an overdose to realize that this condition that I'd been diagnosed with isn't a joke.

I have this memory of the night I got discharged from the hospital, staring at my last blood tests results, trying to listen to the ER doctor as he told me that he wanted me to come back here before I try to hurt myself again. I remember telling him that I felt like this whole thing was just me making a big deal out of nothing because I genuinely believed, at the time, that depression wasn't a big deal, that I needed a more debilitating set of symptoms to actually call myself ill.

He told me that he didn't care if it wasn't a big deal to me, but it was his job to make sure that I didn't die. It took a couple of days, but it sunk in.

The problem with most mental health advocacy these days is that it quite frankly trivializes depression. That word has a specific medical meaning, it's not something that should be taken lightly, and I hate that it's suddenly become normal for people to just take these medical words and use them with no regard for the weight they hold.

There's a broader point here about people bringing therapy speak into everyday language and how it erodes and invalidates the seriousness of what said words imply, but I'll let someone else make it.

[tana-draws]

my brain is so fucking stupid. I was bullied in fourth grade, my friends were like “actually erm we don’t want to be friends with you :/“ on the second to last day of eighth grade (even though we were all zoned for different high schools and would never see eachother anyway). And because of that my brain is, as my therapist and mother (two different people,) theorized, “hyper vigilant for any perceived social ostrichaztion”. The thing is it’s fucking stupid about it. Sure it has the generic “uwu your friends probably hate you secretly” thing.

But it also. Like: I’ll see a post that is somewhat negative towards a thing I like or a trait I even remotely identify with (including stuff as vague as ‘nervous’ or ‘writer’) and I’ll be like “yeah that makes sense” or “I don’t agree but I also don’t care”. But then my brain will repeat the negative phrase on loop for like a week. And will trigger physical reactions (crying, shortness of breath, etc) in response to it. I’ve actually had public panic attacks over things I give 0 shits about because my brain is a fucking helicopter parent.

[sweaters-and-vertigo]

the debilitating mental illnesses restricting my daily life:

[alirhi]

life rant. feel free to skip

I know this will be a big ol' pot of "well, duh" to anyone who's been dealing with disability in the US longer than I have, but I just need to get this shit out of my head...

Sometimes, it's not ONE THING that's kicking your ass. The government wants you to point to ONE diagnosis, with lots and lots of documentation from doctors clearly spelling out that you are Disabled Because of This One Thing, but that's not always how shit works, and the rigid flat-out refusal to introduce any kind of nuance into their system makes me want to burn it to the fucking ground.

And then there's the hoops we have to jump through just to GET a diagnosis, and even then no one will actually fucking SAY that this condition, that they diagnosed you with, that is recognized as a disability by the ADA, actually disables you.

I have multiple things wrong with me. Multi system failure, if you will. One system was buggy at best from the start, but everything else was working okay and managed to compensate. Then the other systems started glitching one by one, and now everything is shit. I would LOVE to be at work, even one of the shitty, soul-crushing dead-end jobs I've been complaining about since I was 16. I'm back in the town I know like the back of my hand that I used to walk for hours and hours just because. I'm lucky to make it out my front door now.

I'm autistic. I need a routine in order to function. I can't have a routine anymore because I never know from one day to the next if I'll even have the energy to get out of bed that day or not. I'm diabetic, which means I need to eat a certain way (and on a schedule because I need to take my meds with food) that I can't afford to maintain because food is expensive, healthy food is way more expensive, and I haven't been able to work in over a year. I have fibromyalgia, and the doctor who diagnosed it and just increased my med dose for it refuses to say whether or not he thinks it's a disability. Depression, anxiety, OCD, c-PTSD... multi system failure. all needing different things to deal with them, all working against each other and kicking my ass in the process. I'm in therapy, I'm on meds, I'm doing what can be done but I am still disabled. But since no one will acknowledge this, I'm a burden on everyone around me with no way to contribute that doesn't make everything I'm dealing with even worse.

[vivvy-an]

i have more mental disorders than you

[panicattackresearch]

Can you help us with panic attack research?

University of Oxford researchers are seeking UK-based participants who experience either:

- Panic attacks

- or no current mental health difficulties

The study consists of a 15-minute phone call (or email if that feels too difficult) and a 20-minute online questionnaire.

Contact joel.lewin@hmc.ox.ac.uk if you're interested.

Through this research we hope to develop a better understanding of the relationship between fear of losing control and anxiety.

You can also find more information on our website.

[fl0rescer8]

[satanfemme]

would absolutely love this job I'm gonna write them a cover letter and everything (<- and I hate writing cover letters)

[yuga2000]