A high fever and a reaction to meds can do this.

Next up: serial killers blaming their actions on the common cold. Or am I exaggerating things?

Can infections trigger OCD and other mental illnesses? I'd tell you, but I have to wash my hands 10 times and make sure all the doors are locked, or my cat will explode

My cat may or may not have already exploded. I won't know until I open the box.

/His name is Erwin.

Approves!

If that's true, OCD really wouldn't be irrational then.

lol mental illness

gopher321: Next up: serial killers blaming their actions on the common cold. Or am I exaggerating things?

The ACLU is already working on it.

I dunno, but my OCD-caused incessant hand washing and hand sanitizing can prevent infections. I get maybe one cold a year.

it's not OCD, it's the gods talking through you.

/obscurest obscurity ever

I seem to remember a so-called obessive disorder due to Deep Throat, but maybe that's not the same thing.

Andrew Wiggin: it's not OCD, it's the gods talking through you.

/obscurest obscurity ever


Most Farkers know this...

Han Qing-jao

Most Farkers: Andrew Wiggin: it's not OCD, it's the gods talking through you.

/obscurest obscurity ever


Most Farkers know this...

Han Qing-jao

fark Xenocide.

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/obscurest obscurity ever


Most Farkers know this...

Han Qing-jao

fark Xenocide.

heh yes it was god awful to the point of almost being funny

for some reason I'm reminded of the woman on COPS that carried around a bunch of urine samples "just in case".

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Most Farkers know this...

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fark Xenocide.

What if Ender was talking about Children of the Mind?

As a depressed person, I always wish my mental illness was cool like OCD. I mean, Monk has OCD and it makes him a better detective. People with OCD get super cool reality shows like obsessed. Damnit I'm jealous.

It seems like an indirect relation. The child obsesses over the trauma of experiencing a nasty illness. Not from a cooked brain.

That kid sounds like a sad PANDAS sufferer.

/can infections

But it rubs the lotion on its skin.

A disease called PANDAS?!

/sign me up

I predict a bunch of perfectly normal people will post in this thread to tell us how they have OCD, ADD, ADHD and all the strange things they do that makes them so lovably awkward.

No different than whiny vegans and the don't own a tv bunch. Probably a lot of overlap there.

The brain is not a resilient organ. It is easily damaged.
If another organ in the body is damaged, it can run at less than 100% and we'll be "ok".
The brain can run at less than 100%, but it's REALLY important what part is damaged.
The brain also is very pharmacologically sensitive. Your body produces alot of chemicals to make the brain work correctly. If that mix of chemicals is off just a little, it can produce side effects.

Beluga Heights: As a depressed person, I always wish my mental illness was cool like OCD. I mean, Monk has OCD and it makes him a better detective. People with OCD get super cool reality shows like obsessed. Damnit I'm jealous.

Liquid d3 made a huge difference for me.

For the Glory of the Horde: A disease called PANDAS?!

/sign me up



I'm OK with this too.

AbbeySomeone: Beluga Heights: As a depressed person, I always wish my mental illness was cool like OCD. I mean, Monk has OCD and it makes him a better detective. People with OCD get super cool reality shows like obsessed. Damnit I'm jealous.

Liquid d3 made a huge difference for me.

Care to share any more? I guess what I'm asking is...how much do you take? And how bad was it for you before?

mortimer_ford: It seems like an indirect relation. The child obsesses over the trauma of experiencing a nasty illness. Not from a cooked brain.

Maybe, but you'd think a good diagnosis could clear it up.

CSB-time: In my case, I had an inner ear infection that did some wacky things to my vestibular (balance) system. The brain has to compensate for the change in signal so it starts some rewiring. This has some odd side effects of making me highly caffeine sensitive, somewhat alcohol sensitive (I'm working on getting back my tolerance of these).

The other weird thing it did was that it occasionally provokes anxiety-like physical symptoms. Usually not the mental ones like racing thoughts or panic behavior, but all the muscle tension and adrenalin release. Sometimes its a feedback loop where dizziness causes tension which makes dizziness worse. It seems to improve with time as the brain continues adapting.

So I can totally see that an infection, particularly if it attached itself to part of the central nervous system, can cause neural symptoms. The brain has to rewire itself to compensate for signal changes.

dkimball: The brain is not a resilient organ. It is easily damaged.
If another organ in the body is damaged, it can run at less than 100% and we'll be "ok".
The brain can run at less than 100%, but it's REALLY important what part is damaged.
The brain also is very pharmacologically sensitive. Your body produces alot of chemicals to make the brain work correctly. If that mix of chemicals is off just a little, it can produce side effects.

You stop making sense right this second, and take your rational self out of here. We're tormenting the OCD in here, not comforting them, you jackwagon.

StanTheMan: I dunno, but my OCD-caused incessant hand washing and hand sanitizing can prevent infections. I get maybe one cold a year.

You know one cold a year isn't impressive, right?

frontbutt: I predict a bunch of perfectly normal people will post in this thread to tell us how they have OCD, ADD, ADHD and all the strange things they do that makes them so lovably awkward.

No different than whiny vegans and the don't own a tv bunch. Probably a lot of overlap there.

LOL. As opposed to the pants-wetters who are worried that those scary vegans and spastics and OCDers will show up to a thread about them.

/at least, I've read about people like that. I don't own a TV.
//never two slashies
///always exactly three slashies

I don't see why not - there has been research showing connections between other mental illness (particularly schizophrenia) and autoimmune disorders. I know that my own autoimmune disorder was first triggered by strep. Why not other autoimmune disorders or autoimmune related mental illness?

Both sides of my family have funky autoimmune disease histories ranging from psoriasis, to the undiagnosed, to lupus. My sister with OCD has recently been diagnosed with Lupus. My aunt, who tested positive for signs of lupus, had some other undiagnosed autoimmune thing and has a totally schizophrenic son with autoimmune issues. My son is bipolar, but only has massive allergies so far, but the other stuff could always follow - it's very prevalent in both my parents' families.

Since we are finding out that viruses can cause various cancers, why not infections with autoimmune effects trigger an underlying predeliction for mental illness.

//My slashies can become uneven, because my mental illness is so NOT OCD.
/Considering the other family choices, I am happy to have just plain old psoriasis.

LOL. As opposed to the pants-wetters who are worried that those scary vegans and spastics and OCDers will show up to a thread about them.



I'm not sure why pants wetters would be worried, they're not scary, they're annoying. Yes, there are a few valid cases of those mental disorders but mostly they are used by people to avoid responsibility.

And for some reason, lots of people think that having one of those disorders is 'cool'. I guess it's because they find out an artist they like had it, or was some how mentally farked up, and they want to be like that. Not realizing that the person they want to be like was miserable and would have loved to be 'normal', like them.

They are whiny, irresponsible people and yes, everything is about them, this thread and everything else.

Beluga Heights: AbbeySomeone: Beluga Heights: As a depressed person, I always wish my mental illness was cool like OCD. I mean, Monk has OCD and it makes him a better detective. People with OCD get super cool reality shows like obsessed. Damnit I'm jealous.

Liquid d3 made a huge difference for me.

Care to share any more? I guess what I'm asking is...how much do you take? And how bad was it for you before?

I got into a winter funk last year and was advised to take it. I take 5000 IU everyday and feel great. Lots of info available online. If you live in a northern climate or spend alot of tiime indoors you may be deficient.

AbbeySomeone: spend alot of tiime indoors

so that's why the girls i keep in my dungeon are so moody?

AbbeySomeone: Beluga Heights: AbbeySomeone: Beluga Heights: As a depressed person, I always wish my mental illness was cool like OCD. I mean, Monk has OCD and it makes him a better detective. People with OCD get super cool reality shows like obsessed. Damnit I'm jealous.

Liquid d3 made a huge difference for me.

Care to share any more? I guess what I'm asking is...how much do you take? And how bad was it for you before?

I got into a winter funk last year and was advised to take it. I take 5000 IU everyday and feel great. Lots of info available online. If you live in a northern climate or spend alot of tiime indoors you may be deficient.

Hmm. I'm willing to try it (as at this point I'm willing to try just about anything). I'm just concerned right off the bat because my siituation is moderate to severe. So. I'm not hopeful (imagine that). But again. Worth a shot.

Subby, don't forget to wipe off the bad luck from the El Camino.

Beluga Heights: AbbeySomeone: Beluga Heights: AbbeySomeone: Beluga Heights: As a depressed person, I always wish my mental illness was cool like OCD. I mean, Monk has OCD and it makes him a better detective. People with OCD get super cool reality shows like obsessed. Damnit I'm jealous.

Liquid d3 made a huge difference for me.

Care to share any more? I guess what I'm asking is...how much do you take? And how bad was it for you before?

I got into a winter funk last year and was advised to take it. I take 5000 IU everyday and feel great. Lots of info available online. If you live in a northern climate or spend alot of tiime indoors you may be deficient.

Hmm. I'm willing to try it (as at this point I'm willing to try just about anything). I'm just concerned right off the bat because my siituation is moderate to severe. So. I'm not hopeful (imagine that). But again. Worth a shot.

March is the best time for people in north America to be blood tested for a baseline on vitamin D (end of winter months). If it's bad, I wouldn't recommend waiting that long.

If the doc writes a scrip for vitamin d it might be cheaper than buying otc.

JustinCase: Beluga Heights: AbbeySomeone: Beluga Heights: AbbeySomeone: Beluga Heights: As a depressed person, I always wish my mental illness was cool like OCD. I mean, Monk has OCD and it makes him a better detective. People with OCD get super cool reality shows like obsessed. Damnit I'm jealous.

Liquid d3 made a huge difference for me.

Care to share any more? I guess what I'm asking is...how much do you take? And how bad was it for you before?

I got into a winter funk last year and was advised to take it. I take 5000 IU everyday and feel great. Lots of info available online. If you live in a northern climate or spend alot of tiime indoors you may be deficient.

Hmm. I'm willing to try it (as at this point I'm willing to try just about anything). I'm just concerned right off the bat because my siituation is moderate to severe. So. I'm not hopeful (imagine that). But again. Worth a shot.

March is the best time for people in north America to be blood tested for a baseline on vitamin D (end of winter months). If it's bad, I wouldn't recommend waiting that long.

If the doc writes a scrip for vitamin d it might be cheaper than buying otc.

Thanks for the advice. But I more meant my depression was bad. Unless that's also what you meant. Now I've confused myself.

If you Google NIH, I think vitamin D has been officially tied to depression along with a host of other things. Good luck.

cherryl taggart: dkimball: The brain is not a resilient organ. It is easily damaged.
If another organ in the body is damaged, it can run at less than 100% and we'll be "ok".
The brain can run at less than 100%, but it's REALLY important what part is damaged.
The brain also is very pharmacologically sensitive. Your body produces alot of chemicals to make the brain work correctly. If that mix of chemicals is off just a little, it can produce side effects.

You stop making sense right this second, and take your rational self out of here. We're tormenting the OCD in here, not comforting them, you jackwagon.

Ok, I'll be over in my corner counting ceiling tiles.

frontbutt: whiny vegans and the don't own a tv bunch

I compulsively hunt/fish and don't watch tv, though I do own one for DVDs and VHS. I mostly watch movies on the peecee unless I have company. There's a lot of us meat eating people that don't watch television much at all. Finding teevee uninteresting isn't a stepping stone to being a vegan. Neighbor is middle aged same as me, can't stand to watch teevee either, he'd rather be doing something outdoors, working in his shop, or on the net. He's a building contractor and a hunting buddy.

/Non-interactive entertainment just doesn't cut it for some people.

Careful with that broad brush, Eugene.

I know someone who developed obsessive, PTSD-like symptoms after having vivid, nightmarish fever dreams during a bad bout of flu in his mid-20s.

Afterward, the images his mind had generated during the fever kept haunting him, and he began to obsess on the idea that he was going to act on them and do terrible things to people he knew. Finally he had to go on OCD meds to control it and stop the daily panic attacks.

I'm with dkimball on this one.

Aphoticamy: HalRoach: frontbutt: whiny vegans and the don't own a tv bunch

I compulsively hunt/fish and don't watch tv, though I do own one for DVDs and VHS. I mostly watch movies on the peecee unless I have company. There's a lot of us meat eating people that don't watch television much at all. Finding teevee uninteresting isn't a stepping stone to being a vegan. Neighbor is middle aged same as me, can't stand to watch teevee either, he'd rather be doing something outdoors, working in his shop, or on the net. He's a building contractor and a hunting buddy.

/Non-interactive entertainment just doesn't cut it for some people.

Careful with that broad brush, Eugene.

I am a carnivore and I don't watch television. I do spend a lot of time on the computer playing MMOs and stuff like that...slightly better than watching reality television I guess. I listen to music and read a lot...and I'm a movie nut. I just hate the news (NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! PINEAPPLES!) And I hate commercials and most programming, but I'll watch good TV schtuff on DVD.

When I was your age, television was called books!

I'm approaching 50. When I was your age, you weren't born? Got piles and piles of books, too. Funny, the assumptions people make on fark. You guessed wrong.