Mental Health

In 8 th grade got so weak due to anorexia and fell unconcious from a fever for 10 seconds , started getting wierd floating and twisting turning sensation when closed eyes and tried to sleep , don't know whether it was vertigo , this continued many years , constantly googling . Then at 11 th grade at evening after gym and slept sudden surge of body symptoms like nervous and chest panic so intense . Later it gone and slept but still those wierd floating and twisting sensation while eyes closed and tried to sleep was there , strangely , whenever I used to test if it happens , it happened more , psyciatrist gave eacitalopram and clonazepam taken for 1.5 years and suddenly got to know about these things like sexual side effects and this new thing called PSSD ( post ssri sexual dysfunction) . Extremely scared and deppressed i quit tablets suddenly and after a month started getting symptoms of heart rate and extreme restlessness and no sleep , after 2 years still persists . any idea??

I have a 16 year son who is autistic and non verbal. He does not follow instructions much. He is under going puberty stage and has now started getting erections.. How do I explain what is good and bad for him and guide him appropriately at this stage.

I have a history of anxiety, things were normal from past few years , but suddenly from the past week , death anxiety is bothering me too much. I was never bothered by it before, but suddenly it's impacting my day to day activities. I am okay with death, but the persistent thought is impacting my day to day life. Unable to feel free and carry out my day to day activities. Feeling very under confident. please advise.

I have ocd. Doctor gave fluvoxamine 100 twice a day, clonotril 0.5 at bed time and risdone ls at bed time for two months. After that he increased fluvoxamine dose to 250 mg and ocd increased so he reduced it back to 200 mg after 4 days. Now when i take the tab at day time i feel little bit dizzy. So i took vertin 8 mg 4 tabs and now i am feeling more dizzy after stopping vertin. I want to know i am feeling dizzy now because of stopping vertin or because of ocd medications?

Does chronic stress or elevated cortisol for a very long period of time, due to any reason, physical, mental, emotional or dietary, or any reason, kill off brain cells of body cells? Does it damage the brain cells forever? Like, kill them off and they never regrow? Please guide correctly. Does excess stress cortisol levels, that affects sleep, appetite and other parameters of the body, lead to loss of neurons( killed off or damaged)? Is this permanent or reversible? Please guide. Thanks

Does rtms 30 sessions taken for mild issues when actually not required, cause any harm to the brain in any way? And cause other issues or cell loss or damage? Please guide correctly.

I'm having insomnia for the last 3-4 months along with anxiety and depression (diagnosed). I was prescribed agomelatine which didn't work for me. I've been sleeping 4 hrs each night and feeling horrible. Any help will be appreciated

I have insomnia about 8 months i have seen several doctors but no one is prescribing me Ambien What to do Recently i have took the same ambien pill from my uncle after that i was fallen into a deep sleep after months Please anyone help me

I have a fear of having heart attack out of nowhere, I even sometimes feel the physical symptoms like chest , arm, shoulder and back pain, I am always worried. I also sometimes feel something bad is going to happen to me specially while travelling. I even stopped riding bike because I used to have heart palpitations and skipped beats. I went to a cardiologist all the test echo, ecg and tmt all are fine. But still I think somethings wrong and not been able to diagnose myself wheather it's anxiety or not. Please help.

Every single suboptimal day / a day that i am not productive feels like genuine torture. Always. I first get comparitive/ self deprecating thoughts , brain fog, task paralysis, and when i dwell on those thoughts i go into limbic hyperactivity, amygdala on fire, PFC takes the back seat and I legitimately CANNOT rationalize my way out, i am not in control of my thoughts by this point, and then i either have panic attacks, or thoughts of self harm (which may or may not be followed by action), or eventually end up getting excessively "sleepy" probably just an attempt to cope with those harmful thoughts and i end up sleeping for major parts of the day, multiple times. Do i need a psychiatric consultation? For context: I can go back in a day or two to being entirely normal, mood stabilized, self esteem not as low- if i simply stay optimal for one day. In other words, perfectionism, black and white thinking; I am either perfect or worthless.