What is a Mental Breakdown?
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Welcome to The Mental Breakdown and Psychreg Podcast! Today, Dr. Berney and Dr. Marshall discuss what is meant by a mental/nervous breakdown.
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Came for the explanation..stayed for the calming effects of your voices that helped me fall asleep.
When i took one of my premed classes, the teacher told us that if we dont learn anything else from the class, to learn the truth that THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS NORMAL AT ALL. She gave a diabetes example. She was working in an ER in her residency. The doctor recalled a case where a woman came into the ER that had a 280 blood sugar. Obviously to us medical people, that is insanely high. My teacher was prepping a dose of insulin to regulate and one of the paramedics found the woman’s glucose journal and discovered that instead of this woman being a very high score, it was actually a very LOW score for this woman. Instead of further lowering this woman’s score, they startedgiving this woman sugar instead of the insulin injection. After a short while the woman woke up as to where if the medical professionals here had given the insulin injection they would have plummeted this woman into a diabetic coma. Just to be clear with everyone else, blood glucose keeps getting lower as the years go on. It used to be around 120. Last i heard its 80. Be careful everyone and to the medical community, please, keep this story in mind. If im wrong truly? Link the proof. If not, reaffirm that this is INDEED TRUE.
The degree as to which someone can or does breakdown varies and due to many factors or situations too. My nervous Breakdown was in October 2017. A situation happened that caused me to go into complete shock. I stopped eating an entire month and lost 120 lbs. in a month and a week, A very drastic weight change. I did sign myself into amental hospital but really didn't help. I was COMPLETLEY out of my head, my mind, i couldn't function AT ALL. It took me out of school, work, and even parenting. I was in so much turmoil and pain. I had panic attacks that made me black out and throw up, i even become addicted to meth while under the breakdown because i did not know what i was doing. Whoever i was? Was gone and still she is gone to this day. I lost my sense of time I don't know what day time or even year it is at times, i developed short term memory loss, had severe insomnia, i was so scatter brained, nerve wracked, paranoid, i even was SO STRESSED that i developed tachycardia too and my hair turned silver. I did not come out of this "fog" we will call it until about April 2018 and even then i was still gone. I have yet to fully recover but the fog i was in fully lifted about a year later. As for the straw that broke the camels back"? Yes that's exactly what happened to me with what happened that triggered the breakdown. I just could not handle what happened.= and i not only broke but shattered in a million pieces. I also developed agoraphobia and social anxiety. Like this breakdown WRECKED my life. And it feels like permanently. I have yet to return to work or school or anything. I am now to the point i am SO depressed and anxiety ridden i DO.NOT.GET.OUT.OF.BED. PERIOD... On the daily ALL i do is stay in bed. I don't even talk on the phone because of anxiety. Any interaction with people forget about it. I am completely F*cked!
That is heart breaking. I'm really sorry that happened to you. It's been seven months, are you any better?
I had mental breakdowns when i was younger, i was in elementary school and due to being bullied and having a pretty bad situation at home, i fell into depression, i believed that no one cared for me and that no-one loved me, that it would be better if i disappeared, if i killed myself and i almost did, i promised myself i wouldn’t do it however, a moment i will never forget, i had massive social anxiety and also started growing this rage inside me, a burning hatred for those who had dared to hurt me and with it came a desire for vengeance and blood, i wanted to kill, it was a fire that burned through me, a hatred for human kind, a desire to cause suffering, and worst of all i had everything i needed to bring it to fruition, but i did not believe that was the person i wanted to be, i hated this new part of me, i just wanted to be loved and i just wanted to love,so i fought this ever consuming desire, each nights i struggled with insomnia that would bring panic attacks worst than I’ve ever been able to experienced in the recent years, i felt my mind breaking and shattering, i could not feel a sense of self and did not know who i was, my hatred defined me and my mind didn’t feel safe or as one, i felt as if there were others, yet they were all me, i felt like i was going insane and that my body was pushing me to do acts i never wanted to ever think of, which brought waves of extreme self hatred leading me deeper into depression, it traumatized me and to this day i fear going over my limit of anxiety because i don’t want to experience that ever again. Eventually i met some random people on the internet and on a random day i broke down and shared everything i had been going through and talked about my issues and it brought me a sense of relief, the delusional beliefs i had held for years started crumbling down with the passing years, by simply talking online and having meaningful connections and while i was still in depression, i found i could actually try to make my life better, i never really felt happy back then, my life was defined by a state of apathy every good new eventually flatlined into an emotion of boredom and self-pity/hatred, but i still tried to do what i could, i went to school and tried to stand up more for myself, i made my own philosophies on how i wanted to live life and who i wanted to be, i shared how i felt and started growing closer with my family, trying to fix what i had never been able to build with them, eventually i tried to learn to appreciate my own qualities and talents and actively try to learn how to be more confident, yet its only in the past year, about 12 years later, that I’ve felt like this curtain of fog lifted off and finally i feel like i can actually feel happiness, i find my current existence to be, while not perfect, such worlds apart from how i lived back then that i cant help but be happy, and all of this ended with my reaching out to a single person, never hesitate to talk, social interactions are what every human needs and even if it is extremely hard to bring ourselves to open up sometimes, its the right thing to do to come out of our dark times and that no matter how tough our lives are its possible to het out of it and learn and truly understand that life isn’t suffering but simply enjoying every day as they come and go.
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I think I’m just realizing today, two days prior to the 7 year anniversary of my father’s death, that what happened to me and my brain once he passed away, was a mental breakdown. I had several documented mental illnesses that I was untreated for, for more than 20 years but began getting help with medication and I began to feel better and I was able to do better in life and work prior to taking medication. But after he passed away, although I was at peace with him no longer suffering, I somehow changed. I up rooted my life I created and loved while living in a different state from my family so I could be there to spend time with my father before he passed. After he passed away I decided to move back out of state and work with the same company as I did prior to moving but it became evident after a few weeks of me working there again, that I was not the same person. Even the doctors and coworkers noticed this change in me. I could feel this change in me and even though I tried so hard to be my old productive, efficient employee, it just wasn’t working. I felt like something broke in my head and the person I used to be was no longer there and had disappeared. I was a high functioning human being who lived hobbies, and to work multiple jobs at a time. Despite moving back to the same state as my family, I needed to move to a smaller city. I’ve seen many therapists, psychiatrists and psychologists and none of them understand the stress I go through daily. OCD, ptsd, and anxiety run and ruin my life. I know I will never be the same person I was before I lost my father but I still do dream about my old life. I wish my brain could be fixed
Do one about actual mental breakdown
I agree this was not helpful for a person going through a mental breakdown.
My late mother told me about her "breakdown" in the early 1940s.
She grew up in a small town buried in bushland and farmland. Everybody knew everyone else. The day after she graduated High School her mom went with her to " the big city" and left her there... likely culture shocked.
Then she babysat for the son of the landlady of the rooming house, worked full time M-F, and went to night school. It was hundreds of strangers everywhere that she was unused to, plus working and schooling all day and night. Probably too abrupt an entry into the big city "rat races."
Suddenly, things hanging on the wall looked to her to truly sink into them. Things on a tabletop looked to truly sink into the table. Those were all the things she would tell me.
So she had to stay in her room with the blind shut, lights out in darkness or she would become highly upset seeing these things. Anyone wanting to enter and exit her room had to knock and wait for her okay so she would have her eyes covered against seeing anything.
Nobody thought she should be sent to what then were very bad "mental asylums."
Her landlady called her parents. Her parents paid for a psychologist to visit her regularly, which normalized her.
Oh, good to know about the insurance codes.
Sometimes, people overdiagnosed the symptoms.. In my experience, some filipino seafarers were being sent home due to family problems wherein they experienced those three you mentioned: lost of control, lack of option, and fatigue that results to work dysfunction and mental breakdown.. when they undergo their psychological assessment here in the Philippines for their pre-employment medical. Exam,, our psychologist find it as a normal reaction due to familial and significant relationship concerns. person did not develop any psychological or psychiatric problem and they are in good condition... And yet some employers find it difficult to rehire them..
Susanna, That is such a great point, and an unfortunate circumstance that happens here in the US, as well. The person does not have a major problem, but they are identified as such and are at risk for being rejected for future employment. It is so unfortunate! Thanks for sharing!
BTW, will you be attending the ICPCE (www.icpce2018.psychreg.org) in early August? We are looking forward to it and hope to meet a lot of new people!
The Mental Breakdown as much as i would like to attend, but unfortunately, i can't due to conflict of schedule with regards to my graduate school internship program. I guess i will miss the first international conference.. And i feel sad about it 😭 However, i am definitely looking forward for the second ICPCE 👍😊😊❤️
Sounds great! We are looking forward to the trip. I have never been to the Philippines, but look forward to the trip!
The Mental Breakdown enjoy your stay here in the Philippines!! We, psych people, are also looking forward to meet you all! (well me, someday haha!) i am hoping for a better weather on those dates..BTW, it is our rainy season 😊😊😊
Our's, too... Rains every day here!
Dr Bernie, of course I choose to feel sorry for you ! So I am behind in listening to your podcast for different reasons. Anyway, my solution is to listen to the podcas of the day and one or two of the older ones. This way I can keep up on your humerus daily banter and happenings like Chealsea kicking butt so I can feel more connected with you guys again.🙂
Noreen, Don't feel sorry for me... :-) I like your strategy! That's a great way to keep up and catch up, all at the same time!
im sorry... your other content may be good .. but that was 37 min that told me nothing. ... how is it defined, what are common symptoms, when is it something more concerning?
Hey mate i was trying to watch your vid but the audio is very low and distracting.. do you reckon you could repost with good audio this is a really good vid apart from that.
The one on ones are hard to come by they always has an infomercial vibe if catch my drift.
Cheers mate.
There is no “getting back to normal” Anybody struggling with mental illness just wants to feel better. To live a manageable life. To learn. To grow and flourish. It’s stressful to hear that phrase whilst struggling with a mental Heath disorder because of the shame society places/and we place on ourselves to be “normal”. I would encourage coming up with a more inclusive phrase. The whole podcast felt highly impersonal.
Yes there is getting back to normal
It takes time but after 6 months should be normal again 👍🏻
How do you know😂😂😂
Utterly useless.
My name is Tymeshia Minniefield i have had a series of traumatic events life long and it has caused me to isolate from the world and either let a million thoughts consume my mine or sleep all day and its not healthy for my well being. The tarot cards and readings didn't help over time either. Deciding to give hell back to hell and Go get help TODAY