How is your mental health at the moment?

whirlpool · 28-03-2014 03:13AM #1

How is your mental health this week / the last couple of weeks? Considering things like total satisfaction with your life, or feeling physically unwell and maybe that is distressing you, or anger, grief, loss, anxiety, depression, stress, fear, loneliness, sadness, etc etc...

I've been feeling great for a long while. This week I'm suddenly not feeling as great and it took me by surprise, so I'm just kind of interested in where other people are in that regard at the moment.

Bipolar Joe · 28-03-2014 03:16AM

I'm starting a no-brain-selfie campaign in an effort to raise awareness.

Sir Arthur Daley · 28-03-2014 03:19AM

I am above ground cant ask for any more.

orangesoda · 28-03-2014 03:19AM

wild bad at the moment but when things are wild bad consistently it is almost normal

HalloweenJack · 28-03-2014 03:21AM

I'm in a good mood at the moment but I've had a lot of problems with depression in recent years and every few months I get stuck in a rut so we'll see how things are in a few weeks time.

foggy_lad · 28-03-2014 03:25AM

Still alive at the minute, and for when I'm not...........well won't it be a blessing on my feet!

Call Me Jimmy · 28-03-2014 03:31AM

Had a couple weeks of hell, it just turned upward there a couple of hours ago, it may blow away again that's why I haven't gone to bed yet.

dgt · 28-03-2014 03:39AM

Past few weeks and days are rough, I do be very down at times

Sapphire3 · 28-03-2014 03:41AM

Have had a tough few weeks, and so I am a little down at the moment.
I suffer from depression and anxiety, so that tends to get me down at times as well.

pappyodaniel · 28-03-2014 03:41AM

I was just about to say I feel pretty content with life and all of a sudden my neighbour's dog started barking. Now I'm depressed

Sir Arthur Daley · 28-03-2014 03:45AM

pappyodaniel wrote: »

I was just about to say I feel pretty content with life and all of a sudden my neighbour's dog started barking. Now I'm depressed

Why would you get depressed over your neighbours dog barking?

nbar12 · 28-03-2014 03:46AM

Struggling...still coming to terms with moving and working abroad for the first time. Albeit, I know I'm only a short distance away from Ireland but in recent months I've been struggling with money, confidence and now these stupid little demons are getting into my head worrying about the smallest of things but sure there has been more good than bad days!

My name is URL · 28-03-2014 03:48AM

Is being pissed off or a little bit unhappy really a measure of mental health?

pappyodaniel · 28-03-2014 03:50AM

WikiHow wrote: »

Why would you get depressed over your neighbours dog barking?

Well it's 2:50 and I know she's going to bark the rest of the night and keep me awake.

pappyodaniel · 28-03-2014 03:50AM

My name is URL wrote: »

Is being pissed off or a little bit unhappy really a measure of mental health?

It is if it affects your daily life.

NickDunne · 28-03-2014 03:51AM

Just moved back to Dublin from another part of the country, there seems to be NO ONE around?

Either everybody working ****ty jobs to get by or moved abroad.

The craic is dead

TeddyTedson · 28-03-2014 03:51AM

Constantly consistently up and down. My sleeping is totally distorted. I didn't sleep at all Tuesday, then today I fell asleep around 20:00-23:00.
I've been an absolute prick to anyone who's seen me over the last two days and barely spoken a word to them. I think I need to leave and start over.

Sir Arthur Daley · 28-03-2014 03:53AM

pappyodaniel wrote: »

Well it's 2:50 and I know she's going to bark the rest of the night and keep me awake.

Talk to your neighbour about the barking or one slug would sort that out.

Turtwig · 28-03-2014 03:55AM

Bit all over the place at the moment. Lots of reasons. Going from extreme boingy boingy boingy hyperactivity to doldrums. It should wear off in a week or so.

pappyodaniel · 28-03-2014 03:58AM

Jernal wrote: »

Bit all over the place at the moment. Lots of reasons. Going from extreme boingy boingy boingy hyperactivity to doldrums. It should wear off in a week or so.

Might these erratic emotions have anything to do with consumption of alcohol?

I know it does for me.

TeddyTedson · 28-03-2014 03:58AM

Jernal wrote: »

Bit all over the place at the moment. Lots of reasons. Going from extreme boingy boingy boingy hyperactivity to doldrums. It should wear off in a week or so.

That's the important thing to remember, from previous experience for me personally I know I'll feel great again out of the blue unexpectedly.

RayM · 28-03-2014 03:59AM

How's my mental health? Well, it's almost 3am and I'm awake and online. I think that answers your question.

TeddyTedson · 28-03-2014 04:01AM

RayM wrote: »

How's my mental health? Well, it's almost 3am and I'm awake and online. I think that answers your question.

I think when I go online in the middle of the night I'm subconsciously trying to get out of my head so to speak. Maybe consciously now that I've said it :P

Turtwig · 28-03-2014 04:02AM

pappyodaniel wrote: »

Might these erratic emotions have anything to do with consumption of alcohol?

I know it does for me.

Don't drink.

(No, seriously I don't drink.)

Ann Landers · 28-03-2014 04:21AM

So-so?

Had a terrible 2013 and a mental crisis at the start of this year but things are slowly beginning to look up.

Ann Landers · 28-03-2014 04:23AM

My name is URL wrote: »

Is being pissed off or a little bit unhappy really a measure of mental health?

Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

TeddyTedson · 28-03-2014 04:33AM

Does anyone else think when they're feeling crap that it's due to dehydration? I often think the reason I mentally feel sluggish is due to dehydration and drink lots of water, although I later discover that it wasn't the case.
Last Summer I remember for several weeks I went through a period where I would be waiting for Friday to come, only to feel like crap once I got up that morning. It's so odd how you can go to bed feeling great and wake up feeling slightly dead inside. That's without any alcohol involved too.

nocoverart · 28-03-2014 04:36AM

'I feel great' and 'I feel Grand' are jammy basturds! if it wasn't for undiagnosed Neuro pain I imagine I'd be quite content (apart from a few grievances)

Lenin Skynard · 28-03-2014 06:32AM

I never understood it when I was younger but now I can see that stress really ****s you up physically. It messes with sleep, sex, appetite and everything else. It's unsurprising that the poll results are how they are.

Good thread OP.

mrsdewinter · 28-03-2014 06:41AM

Going through a pretty stressful time but I'm feeling fairly robust mentally at the moment. It's generally after the fact that the demons of anxiety and listlessness get to me.

28-03-2014 06:46AM

A sixteen week binge of drink and drugs? Nah I'm fu*ked.

Doing a dry spell right now to put my brain back together.

Of course the binges are consistent with a general lifelong unhappiness anyway. I'm just one of those people that exists with depression instead of living with itl

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