Comments on: What Does A Nervous Breakdown Feel Like? http://www.lighteningonline.com/2008/10/10/what-does-a-nervous-breakdown-feel-like/ Simple Living... Frugality... Gardening... Cooking From Scratch... Knifty Knitter Projects.. And More. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:53:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: TTL http://www.lighteningonline.com/2008/10/10/what-does-a-nervous-breakdown-feel-like/comment-page-1/#comment-13735 TTL Mon, 19 Dec 2011 04:12:52 +0000 http://www.lighteningonline.com/2008/10/10/what-does-a-nervous-breakdown-feel-like/#comment-13735 Hello I would like to share with you that I have had a nervous breakdown, with a psychotic episode (spelling). I reached out for help and started calling family members because I knew something wasn't right! My husband, daughter and sister stayed with me in emergecy. I was admitted to the Psychiatric Ward where I spent 10 days, only having to go back to emerg. a few days after I was discharged. The psychotic episode I had was that I quit eating and could only drink a little bit of water. I don't have a history of any eating disorders. But alot had been happening in my life for the past couple of years and it caught up with me in a big crash! Thoughts of suicide, even rationing that it would be ok if I died of a result of not eating. I was very depressed but becaue I couldn't let anything into my body, I couldn't take anything for it. I had sleep deprivation and once again could not swallow anything for it. I felt like I was my own worst enemy. After losing 52lbs. in this journey, I now have gained most of it back and can eat all foods again. I have attended anxiety progam and currenty am in a support group. I take anti-depressants and sleeping pills, and have anxiety meds if I need them. It has been a very, very long road to where I am today, but it can be done. My advise would be not to ignore your thoughts, especially if you fee you can't bear the pain of living anymore. Reach out!!!! Tell someone...You may feel alone, embarrassed, not have the mental energy, but REACH OUT!!. You don't have to be in this alone...you can get better, the pain can go away, you can get mentally healthy again..There are support groups to. I am living proof, I am almost there! You are worth it! Hello I would like to share with you that I have had a nervous breakdown, with a psychotic episode (spelling). I reached out for help and started calling family members because I knew something wasn’t right! My husband, daughter and sister stayed with me in emergecy. I was admitted to the Psychiatric Ward where I spent 10 days, only having to go back to emerg. a few days after I was discharged. The psychotic episode I had was that I quit eating and could only drink a little bit of water. I don’t have a history of any eating disorders. But alot had been happening in my life for the past couple of years and it caught up with me in a big crash! Thoughts of suicide, even rationing that it would be ok if I died of a result of not eating. I was very depressed but becaue I couldn’t let anything into my body, I couldn’t take anything for it. I had sleep deprivation and once again could not swallow anything for it. I felt like I was my own worst enemy. After losing 52lbs. in this journey, I now have gained most of it back and can eat all foods again. I have attended anxiety progam and currenty am in a support group. I take anti-depressants and sleeping pills, and have anxiety meds if I need them. It has been a very, very long road to where I am today, but it can be done. My advise would be not to ignore your thoughts, especially if you fee you can’t bear the pain of living anymore. Reach out!!!! Tell someone…You may feel alone, embarrassed, not have the mental energy, but REACH OUT!!. You don’t have to be in this alone…you can get better, the pain can go away, you can get mentally healthy again..There are support groups to. I am living proof, I am almost there! You are worth it!

]]> By: admin http://www.lighteningonline.com/2008/10/10/what-does-a-nervous-breakdown-feel-like/comment-page-1/#comment-13691 admin Fri, 25 Nov 2011 04:21:47 +0000 http://www.lighteningonline.com/2008/10/10/what-does-a-nervous-breakdown-feel-like/#comment-13691 Hi Donald. Sorry to hear you're having a rough time at the moment. Please try to find some help. You shouldn't have to keep feeling this way. My GP told me early on that my thoughts may seem rational but aren't always rational. In his opinion, that's how suicide happens. It feels like a solution to the problem but it's NEVER the right one. So, please get some help. Lightening. Hi Donald. Sorry to hear you’re having a rough time at the moment. Please try to find some help. You shouldn’t have to keep feeling this way. My GP told me early on that my thoughts may seem rational but aren’t always rational. In his opinion, that’s how suicide happens. It feels like a solution to the problem but it’s NEVER the right one. So, please get some help. Lightening.

]]> By: donald http://www.lighteningonline.com/2008/10/10/what-does-a-nervous-breakdown-feel-like/comment-page-1/#comment-13687 donald Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:43:48 +0000 http://www.lighteningonline.com/2008/10/10/what-does-a-nervous-breakdown-feel-like/#comment-13687 i am currently in the midist of a complete mental break down it really dose fell like jelly and thoughts of suicide are never far from my mind i have attemped it twice once very seriously i feel i,ve let all of the family down driven to hard in my company and find it hard to cope i feel empty on autopoilet not in control blank jittery on edge sad very sad just totaly done finished perhaps fifty is a good age to die sleep is a blessing and i think may be like death who knowes but peace is what we all want no noise no disturbance silence little tasks can be achived like clearing the table but any thing bigger seems a mountain to climb my death would hurt the family but it may give me peace i have to think of them otherwise i would go my life at the moment dose not feel worth living but i have to struggle its the struggle thats so hard if i get through i have to change my pressurred life for peace and harmony i cant write any more this is as much as i can do i am currently in the midist of a complete mental break down it really dose fell like jelly and thoughts of suicide are never far from my mind i have attemped it twice once very seriously i feel i,ve let all of the family down driven to hard in my company and find it hard to cope i feel empty on autopoilet not in control blank jittery on edge sad very sad just totaly done finished perhaps fifty is a good age to die sleep is a blessing and i think may be like death who knowes but peace is what we all want no noise no disturbance silence little tasks can be achived like clearing the table but any thing bigger seems a mountain to climb my death would hurt the family but it may give me peace i have to think of them otherwise i would go my life at the moment dose not feel worth living but i have to struggle its the struggle thats so hard if i get through i have to change my pressurred life for peace and harmony i cant write any more this is as much as i can do

]]> By: admin http://www.lighteningonline.com/2008/10/10/what-does-a-nervous-breakdown-feel-like/comment-page-1/#comment-13651 admin Sat, 05 Nov 2011 01:36:21 +0000 http://www.lighteningonline.com/2008/10/10/what-does-a-nervous-breakdown-feel-like/#comment-13651 Thanks Esther. Great advice. There is ALWAYS, ALWAYS a better way out than suicide. So, hang in there if you're feeling that way. Thanks Esther. Great advice. There is ALWAYS, ALWAYS a better way out than suicide. So, hang in there if you’re feeling that way.

]]> By: Esther http://www.lighteningonline.com/2008/10/10/what-does-a-nervous-breakdown-feel-like/comment-page-1/#comment-13647 Esther Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:02:32 +0000 http://www.lighteningonline.com/2008/10/10/what-does-a-nervous-breakdown-feel-like/#comment-13647 Hi i am currently suffering from depression and have done now for 5 years since my dad was murdered when i was 16. i am 21 now and have a 14 month old son of my own, these stories that some of you have left on this page are really moving, but i cant help saying this to you all... if you feel like killing yourself DON'T! I have been through one of the worst things you can go through in life and i am still battling with it now i have felt like killing myself in the past but something held me back and now i know what... My son! he was my healing process and always will be i am so proud of what i am doing with my life, and if i can do it you can too! Hi i am currently suffering from depression and have done now for 5 years since my dad was murdered when i was 16.

i am 21 now and have a 14 month old son of my own, these stories that some of you have left on this page are really moving, but i cant help saying this to you all… if you feel like killing yourself DON’T! I have been through one of the worst things you can go through in life and i am still battling with it now i have felt like killing myself in the past but something held me back and now i know what… My son! he was my healing process and always will be i am so proud of what i am doing with my life, and if i can do it you can too!

]]> By: admin http://www.lighteningonline.com/2008/10/10/what-does-a-nervous-breakdown-feel-like/comment-page-1/#comment-13550 admin Wed, 21 Sep 2011 04:03:59 +0000 http://www.lighteningonline.com/2008/10/10/what-does-a-nervous-breakdown-feel-like/#comment-13550 {{{HUGS}}} Carol. You really sound like you need help. I wish I could come and get you and help you get that help. Can I ask what country you are in? The windowless garage concerns me - you need sunlight or things will only get worse. {{{HUGS}}} Carol. You really sound like you need help. I wish I could come and get you and help you get that help. Can I ask what country you are in? The windowless garage concerns me - you need sunlight or things will only get worse.

]]> By: carol stephen http://www.lighteningonline.com/2008/10/10/what-does-a-nervous-breakdown-feel-like/comment-page-1/#comment-13548 carol stephen Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:59:24 +0000 http://www.lighteningonline.com/2008/10/10/what-does-a-nervous-breakdown-feel-like/#comment-13548 I'm already there again. Had a nervous breakdown at 14 was hospitalized, then started seeing a wonderful psychiatrist, who is no longer with us. No friends not one. Four children age 18 to 36 but don't ever come to see me not even a phone call. Live in a windowless garage in my mothers home, but it's okay. I don't have to answer the door or even answer the phone. My health is bad in pain 24/7. Don't know where to go or what to do. I am praying for a full cardiac arrest, but my luck I'll have a stroke. Suicide always an option but I have failed at that too. I could stand in front of a moving train and somehow make it out alive. The worst part is there are so many people dying that want to live how dare I feel this way? I’m already there again. Had a nervous breakdown at 14 was hospitalized, then started seeing a wonderful psychiatrist, who is no longer with us. No friends not one. Four children age 18 to 36 but don’t ever come to see me not even a phone call. Live in a windowless garage in my mothers home, but it’s okay. I don’t have to answer the door or even answer the phone. My health is bad in pain 24/7. Don’t know where to go or what to do. I am praying for a full cardiac arrest, but my luck I’ll have a stroke. Suicide always an option but I have failed at that too. I could stand in front of a moving train and somehow make it out alive. The worst part is there are so many people dying that want to live how dare I feel this way?

]]> By: Robin http://www.lighteningonline.com/2008/10/10/what-does-a-nervous-breakdown-feel-like/comment-page-1/#comment-13390 Robin Fri, 22 Jul 2011 01:20:27 +0000 http://www.lighteningonline.com/2008/10/10/what-does-a-nervous-breakdown-feel-like/#comment-13390 Lightening, I have problems with depression and sleeping. I take meds for both and have med checks. I have not found the right support systems. One top of it all the doctors say my husband is dying from vasculitis. My problem is I need some time away from him, but he feels like I should spend every minute of my day with him. I feel like I am dying too.l I feel I should have the right to go on a vacation just to regroup. He doesn't support my decision and won't go stay with anyone or let anyone come stay with him. This morning he acted like he was dying right now he bbqing. All this confuses me very much and adds to my depression. Robin Lightening,

I have problems with depression and sleeping. I take meds for both and have med checks. I have not found the right support systems. One top of it all the doctors say my husband is dying from vasculitis. My problem is I need some time away from him, but he feels like I should spend every minute of my day with him. I feel like I am dying too.l I feel I should have the right to go on a vacation just to regroup. He doesn’t support my decision and won’t go stay with anyone or let anyone come stay with him. This morning he acted like he was dying right now he bbqing. All this confuses me very much and adds to my depression.

Robin

]]> By: admin http://www.lighteningonline.com/2008/10/10/what-does-a-nervous-breakdown-feel-like/comment-page-1/#comment-13369 admin Sun, 17 Jul 2011 09:25:47 +0000 http://www.lighteningonline.com/2008/10/10/what-does-a-nervous-breakdown-feel-like/#comment-13369 Hi Robin, Sorry you had so much trouble leaving a comment. All I can say is "hang in there". There are so many ideas out there that might help that it can be so overwhelming. Not to mention, they can be almost impossible to implement when you're feeling so low. Do you have any support? {{{HUGS}}} Lightening Hi Robin,
Sorry you had so much trouble leaving a comment. All I can say is “hang in there”. There are so many ideas out there that might help that it can be so overwhelming. Not to mention, they can be almost impossible to implement when you’re feeling so low. Do you have any support?
{{{HUGS}}}
Lightening

]]> By: Robin http://www.lighteningonline.com/2008/10/10/what-does-a-nervous-breakdown-feel-like/comment-page-1/#comment-13364 Robin Sat, 16 Jul 2011 03:21:44 +0000 http://www.lighteningonline.com/2008/10/10/what-does-a-nervous-breakdown-feel-like/#comment-13364 I have tryed posting 3 times and each time something happens and it vanishes. I am right there feeling doomed and at the end of my rope. Tired and exhausted. Looking for a cure. Some hope, anything to laugh again. I have tryed posting 3 times and each time something happens and it vanishes.
I am right there feeling doomed and at the end of my rope. Tired and exhausted.
Looking for a cure. Some hope, anything to laugh again.

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