Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Phobias and Mental Illnesses

If I were to characterize myself using various mental illnesses and phobias, I'd have the mental illnesses/phobias below:

Agoraphobia - I hate crowds and being in crowded places. They make me nervous sometimes.

Acrophobia - But I always say I have a slight fear of heights because I imagine myself jumping off and magically flying (or landing like a ninja), both of which I know logically to be untrue. So then knowing the real consequence and having to suppress the illogical desire to jump is where the "fear" comes from.

Narcolepsy - I can sleep anywhere, anytime. :D Though this is changing slightly. They say it changes with age. I say it changes because there's more to worry and think about - age just happens to be closely correlated with how busy one gets, thus affect how much one thinks.

OCD - I mean it in the everyday fake definition, not the clinical definition. Where basically people have this desire to be "overly" clean (depending on who you're talking to, that "overly" may be the norm for them). I'm probably one of the dirtiest/messiest people I know but in my head, I prefer things to be much cleaner than most people. I don't like watching other people clean because they'll miss a spot (it'll be a tiny corner somewhere) or they'll miss a piece of dust.and it'll bother me. So I give up. But if I started, there'd be no end. That's why I hate cleaning. It's just too time-consuming (so I've been trying to learn to break it down and do it smaller parts, so at least I'm getting something clean).

Germaphobia - I guess this kind of goes with the clean thing. I realize that I'm starting to have slight issues with people sharing drinks with me. In the end, I don't really care, but it's honestly kind of really gross. Again, I just let it go but it does kind of bother me. O.o

ADD - to be differentiated from AD/HD, which I don't think I have characteristics of. I actually do think I have a moderate case of this, simply because I realized I have difficulty following conversations in large groups (I always thought it had to do with being bored/un-engaged) and I have a really hard time doing things that I find boring or uninteresting (apparently it's a symptom of ADD - but it has to be to an extreme). I'm restless, impulsive, have excess energy if I don't exercise and I think the obvious one is that I have difficulty focusing but I can hyperfocus at times. I think one of the other indicators that I found surprising was having difficulty recalling conversations... I thought perhaps it was something to do with the fact that although I can be detail-oriented, I'm actually more of a big picture person... And another one was being unable to filter or stop one's thoughts. I suppose I don't have a problem when going to sleep, but I do understand the thought-overflow thing. That's why I write. Meh. I mean normally I'd brush it off but since I display like 80% of the symptoms, I've started to wonder about this one. ^^;; haha

Obviously I don't actually think I have any of these phobias or mental illnesses (though really, with ADD, I'm half-seriously thinking of getting it checked out - but I looked at treatments outside of drugs, and it's all the same "get organized, focus, stop bitching and get your shit done." So yeah. I think that's what it is.

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