World Mental Health Day Thread - Ask Questions ITT

Today is WMHD which is all about raising awareness and the like, I'd say most of you are aware of mental health at this point so a better understanding of it might be a better thing to shoot for.

So post any and all questions about mental health issues in here and I'll see what I can do to explain them.

The usual disclaimers apply of course.

How much evidence is there that psychedelics can be used as a treatment for certain mental illnesses?

Why do disorders like x-phagias exist?

E.g. Trichophagia, Dermatophagia, (the other one where you bite objects like pencils, etc)

Is your sp00piness genetic or environmental?

Why do disorders like x-phagias exist?

E.g. Trichophagia, Dermatophagia, (the other one where you bite objects like pencils, etc)

Freud says it's your latent homosexuality wanting a substitute for dicks.

Why do disorders like x-phagias exist?

E.g. Trichophagia, Dermatophagia, (the other one where you bite objects like pencils, etc)

Freud says it's your latent homosexuality wanting a substitute for dicks.

Thanks Das Freud

Why do disorders like x-phagias exist?

E.g. Trichophagia, Dermatophagia, (the other one where you bite objects like pencils, etc)

Freud would say it's due to a developed oral fixation relating to your mother not breast feeding you long enough or for breast feeding you for too long.

Also a budding Electra Complex.

This is a freud free zone

Please obey all morality laws ITT

(I'll be doing the replies a bit later today, just gotta finish my coursework first)

This is a freud free zone

Sounds like a fear of older men. You resent your father, and want to kill him so that you can pound your mom 24/7/365.

That'll be three beans please

This is a freud free zone

Please obey all morality laws ITT

(I'll be doing the replies a bit later today, just gotta finish my coursework first)

Freud did nothing wrong.

This is a freud free zone

Sounds like a fear of older men. You resent your father, and want to kill him so that you can pound your mom 24/7/365.

That'll be three beans please

Actually it's a fear of coca cola derived from the terrible experience of drinking one as a child being projected onto the historical representation of a cokefiend.

That'll be three memes please

This is a freud free zone

Please obey all morality laws ITT

(I'll be doing the replies a bit later today, just gotta finish my coursework first)

Freud did nothing wrong.

I still think that netflix was taunting me that day, not you.

This is a freud free zone

Please obey all morality laws ITT

(I'll be doing the replies a bit later today, just gotta finish my coursework first)

Freud did nothing wrong.

I still think that netflix was taunting me that day, not you.

what?

This is a freud free zone

Please obey all morality laws ITT

(I'll be doing the replies a bit later today, just gotta finish my coursework first)

Freud did nothing wrong.

I still think that netflix was taunting me that day, not you.

what?

on rabbit

'Only FREUD DID NOTHING WRONG can use the remote'

Is there any statistical correlation between crippling depression and memes?

How much evidence is there that psychedelics can be used as a treatment for certain mental illnesses?

There is some tentative evidence for psilocybin being used to treat depression

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2016/05May/Pages/Magic-mushroom-ingredient-tested-as-depression-treatment.aspx

The tl;dr was that for most of the participants their depression scores were significantly reduced in the months following the treatment. It was a pretty small study so it's going to be limited in terms of what you can draw from it but it's caused a bit more interest in the psychological research community into psychedelic drugs being used as a treatment for depression.

You wouldn't really want to use it for people with anxiety though, I would have thought, given that it tends to bring on symptoms and feelings of anxiety when the person starts to hallucinate. And someone with psychosis being given a hallucinogen is probably a really bad idea.

It's early days though, definitely something to watch for the coming years.

Why do disorders like x-phagias exist?

E.g. Trichophagia, Dermatophagia, (the other one where you bite objects like pencils, etc)

From what I understand, it originates as an anxiety disorder along the lines of OCD.

The exact way in which it develops isn't entirely clear (or at least I've not come across anything on it's aetiology so far) but it follows a fairly simple pattern in the same vein as obsessive compulsive does.

The mechanism of OCD tends to be Intrusive thought -> Obsess over said thought -> act out ritual to negate thought -> relief -> intrusive thought.

So 'my hands are dirty' -> I cannot stand it -> wash hands -> relief -> they still feel dirty

With dermatophagia it follows a pattern along these lines

Observes an imperfection in the skin, say a bit of dead skin or a scab on a finger -> Obsess over the imperfection, it makes you feel quite sick knowing it's there -> bite the skin or scab away to make the flesh smooth again -> inadvertently cause more tissue damage leading to further bites -> relief at it being gone (until it appears imperfect again).

The problem with this disorder in particular is that the body's healing process results in dead skin being fairly visible, so the compulsion to bite the skin away is pretty hard to avoid and doing so leads to more and more and it's a pretty endless cycle.

At a guess, early childhood stress is a pretty likely cause of most phagic disorders but I would imagine there is a bit of predisposition to OCD (hereditary) mixed into it.

Is your sp00piness genetic or environmental?

Psychological Determinism is my waifu

Is there any statistical correlation between crippling depression and memes?

yes

Although this is a seriously understudied phenomenon and I think it's a grave injustice that research money is not spent on investigating the links between numbers of emojis posted at 2am and likelihood of suicide.

This is a freud free zone

The fuck is this bullshit?

This is a freud free zone

The fuck is this bullshit?

Remove yourself

I think I'm legitimately bipolar but I'm very anti medicine

What should I do brah

I think I'm legitimately bipolar but I'm very anti medicine

What should I do brah

See a doctor and don't act like you're some self-diagnosed eejit from tumblr

What kind of mental illness is it that causes one to worship anything other tha the glorious God-Emperor?

What kind of mental illness is it that causes one to worship anything other tha the glorious God-Emperor?

Schizophrenia

And Liberalism

Will killing myself make everything better?

I think I'm legitimately bipolar but I'm very anti medicine

What should I do brah

You would need to see a psychiatrist for a diagnosis and treatment

Why are you anti-medicine?

What kind of mental illness is it that causes one to worship anything other tha the glorious God-Emperor?

And Liberalism

Basically this

Will killing myself make everything better?

It's quite unlikely.