Do any of you suffer from any mental illnesses?

@The_beast
Regarding mental illness I have taken medication for a month. I stopped it when my doctor told me that I had to take it for 5 years after asking how long I was suffering from depression. 2 reason for this is because I know medicine was expensive and it had impacted my health for it led to increase in my weight.I started my own journey and realised that depression is our mental state and spirituality can help us to overcome it in some extend. I fought against it and able to manage it till some extend. The only solution that is infront of you if you are not going to take medication is spirituality. Otherwise you can try logotherapy or CBT.

Have you noticed the changes and challenges --if there are any-- in your nofap journey?
Dyu find being on meds makes it easier to abstain from pmo rather than being off of em?

@Leanmaxxing
I have OCD, specifically contamination and checking OCD and it has destroyed my mental well being for the past decade. ERP doesn’t work for me, I can’t get the intrusive thoughts out of mind. I wish I never had this and wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy. If you have OCD also, you would know how much of a curse this shit is.

I don't believe I do have OCD. How has this impacted your nofap journey? Have you ever seen a therapist for this?
Take any meds, my friend?
How are you doing these days in managing this?

@SoBeOne
Sometimes I catch myself doing the strangest things. I think sometimes I may be a little crazy in my head.

Like what, for example? What's been going on? What dyu think you have? How have you been feeling?

I myself struggle with hypersensitivity. Too much stimuli can make me feel drunk. overwhelmed and give drain me from all of my energy.
Dyu see a therapist? Dyu take any meds for this? And how do this affect your nofap journey? What dyu feel when you abstain vs when you relapse?
When did you find out you had adhd and autism?

I wholeheartedly agree with the id-ing as a mentally ill person. It's a stigma and a label I don't like on myself.
Were the antidepressants prescribed from a doctor?
I myself hate meds since it turns me into a zombie and the side effects were god awful.
Felt like death and would give me insomnia which made my condition a whole lot worse.

Thank all of you guys for your responses and patience

 

Hmm. Have you ever seen anyone about this? Taking any meds for it? How does this affect your nofap journey?

Great find! I didn't know those existed!
Will check them out!

It's alright.
Hmm. Do you still feel those side effects to this day when taking your meds?
How are you doing these days with your meds, mental diagnosis and nofap?
Do you go to therapy?

I agree. All addictions are just a way to hide away from your emotional short-comings and the inability to cope with them in a healthy and productive way.
It's just looking for pleasure, instead of happiness and wisdom. Dyu take any meds? Dyu go to therapy?

What's your relationship with nofap when it comes to your disposition?
What dyu think you suffer from, if you don't mind me asking?




I myself am seeing a therapist right now. Still off meds, and don't see myself going back to them, but who knows?
I haven't had another hypomania episode, thank God

 

@Mara43

I remember why I didn't and haven't posted on there, and it's because hardly anybody knows it exists, and I've posted there before and nothing.
It's a ghost-town there. It hardly gets any traction, which is unfortunate since I am sure there are quite a few of us sufferers in this forum, knowingly or unknowingly, who are suffering in silence and without support.
These things are definitely not better left unsaid. Connection, communication and community helps us lighten the load