I am just curious about this…I take Lexapro for OCD and Depression and my sister takes it too and we share it because its expensive for us so she gave me a bottle with no sticker on it. Is that illegal?
Danny, I AM PRESCRIBED TO IT. It’s just because its very expensive for my mom to buy it for me. My sister is also prescribed but she only has to pay for hers.
So please dont jump to conclusions.

I have bad anxiety and depression problems and I don’t have a job. I need one because i don’t have money to live, i live with my mom and she needs help with rent, food and bills. I have had a couple jobs but depression adn anxiety got in the way adn I quit them. if i were to go to college or university to get a degree what should i take to get a job where i can work mostly from home? (getting therapya dn drugs is not an option for me, i dont have the money for either and i dont have health care)

I am almost 17 years old but i have turrets syndrome and adhd(with hyperactivity) along with some other disabilities that make me act different than other people. i am always teased at school because i am slow at learnin and i am special education because my mentality is of a 5 to 8 year old in the way i act.i was wondering if castle park would be okay?my mom treats me like a younger kid because of my disability and i dont like it.but i also cant help it, i was born this way. but my dad says i am too old for castle park, even thought its my birthday, he thinks im too old.what do you think?

i know its my birthday but my parents dont trust me in big places, and its kinda embarassing but they are pretty much control freaks when it comes to birthdays..:(

I have numerous anxiety disorders- and next week we are taking a tent camping trip with our 3 daughters. While I camped when I was younger- being a mom and a super high anxiety level has been giving me sleepless nights already.

We are going to a park camping- where I often camped growing up. I don’t ever remember having problems with bears there- just at other locations in northern michigan when we camped. Anyways- when I called the park office to inquire about the bears- I felt so silly and irrational- that I was almost hysterically laughing when I asked if they had bears- so after that question, i thanked the young man and hung up. I am now wishing I had asked more questions. He did say "We are next to the woods, so there can be bears"

I’ve been up there recently visiting some family camping- and almost everyone (that i remember) has campers and pop-ups. I don’t remember anyone or very people were in tents. We cannot afford a camper, nor can we afford to rent one right now- and we do have a very nice 10 person tent we have used before. But sleeping in a tent with the possibility of bears is freaking me the f out – to be honest.

(1) Should I call the park and inquire more about the bears? (How often do they come to the campground- etc…)

(2) Would I be better off paying 10 dollars more a night to camp at a location more south of where I am where they don’t have bears? (peace of mind)

(3) If we do camp there- where would be the best place to camp to put the less likelyhood of a bear visiting our campsite? The campside is surrounded by a winding large river on two sides and the other two sides are a national forrest. Would we be better off camping as close to the river as possible- farther away from the woods as we could? Should we camp near other tent campers? My fear is that people in trailers aren’t worried about the bears- and that they will leave food or something out to attract the bears and then they will come to our little measly tent next door.
(4) Please don’t laugh- I know this fear seems irrational- because all fears are- but to me it’s a very real fear.
ok this is where i get paranoid- i realize bears are attracted the food/scents. Because the campground isn’t in bear country (northern michigan or the UP) and it’s classified as "occassional bear sightings" on the DNR map- they don’t have bear proof food storage lockers. People just leave their coolers etc sitting outside their campers. So this is why I am a little freaked out and considering finding somewhere more southern where its even less of a threat.

Within the last week,including today I have felt like I may have had 2 panic attacks,but I am not for sure if that is what it is.See,when I was5my father committed suicide,but a month before he did I had a dream he did and I was @ his funeral.Now I know I didnt like have a vision,it was probubly due to my surroundings&with the things he was doing at the time.It freaked me out none the less.Now,I am 16 years old and I have had these very scary dreams. Both of them are of my mom dying.Now since I was so young when my dad died,I have gotten incredibly attached to my mom. When my dream shows her dying,I immediatly wake up.Its like I am either already hyperventilating or I start to.I also either again am already crying or start to.Usually they dont last very long,but while I am freaking out I am just staring at the ceiling trying to convince myself that I am ok and I end up calling her just to hear her voice to know she is ok. Is this a panic attack or what?

I am almost 20 and I dont have a job.. I have pretty severe anxiety (GAD)/ depression so I am litterally scared to death to even attempt to put in applications because Im scared that they wont like me, or hire me EVER (ive put in 1 application in this year).. What do I do??? My mom and my sister are getting more and more aggrivated at me.

My best friend has suffered from shyness all her life. Her mom says that even as a toddler and kindergartener she preferred to be with adults and older kids. She has always been nice if you know her but very shy. Is this wrong?

For about six months, I’ve thought I might have panic disorder, but kind of just blew it off as me being a teenager, because, well, even if I did tell anyone they would probobly think the same, anyway. In health class we’re doing a project about mental disorders, my teacher assigned me panic disorder, and I had to do research on it. Well, it seems that I have more than five of the symptoms of it. My mom pretty much blows everything off as me being hormonal…so what do youy think I should do?
nicholas…you kind of made my point…

I’m 16 and I’ve had heart palpitations for about four days now and today I have started to get chest pain. My mom told me to take ibuprofen for the pain and I’m curious if this is a good idea or not.

im havent been diagnosed with this disorder because i dont want people to know about my condition. but in the winter i feel really sad and alone and sometimes i even cut myself. my mom brought me home some vitamin d to take once a day and i was wondering if this may help me get over it. also i am going to start trying to exercise more often in the winter. do you think this could help me? im 15. thanks you!

My boyfriend and I want to have a child. The only thing I’m worried about is whether or not it would end up having depression or being bipolar. I suffer from depression and my boyfriend is bipolar. My mother and younger brother are also bipolar and my mom also has depression. I was told that both are hereditary. So will that mean our child would most likely end up like us?

Seriously, what are the symptoms of a nervous breakdown. This question is for my dad. He seems to think hes having a nervous breakdown. He is having numbness in his left hand’s ring finger and thumb. He says usually the numbness starts at the tips of his fingers and works it way up his arm. He is also having some sort of chest pain. He will NOT goto the doctor. My mom and i have tried convencing him. If its not a nervous breakdown then what is it. **hes also been in alot of stress the last 2 or 3 months**

It runs in my family. My mom has some type of anxiety/depression which is a little mild. I have major depression and my brother is depressed, too. I want to have kids but if they are going to be depressed for their whole life then I don’t want to put them in that misery. Is it likely that my kids will have depression if I marry someone who doesn’t have any type of anxiety/depressive disorder?

Are they hereditary? My grandmother had a nervous breakdown when she was in her thirties and I am fast approaching my thirties. I just want to know what they are. I do know that my mom said my grandmother was never the same after she had it.

My ex stopped using meth about a month ago. He has already gained 10 lbs but his behavior is very bizarre. He is living with his Mom and acting like a teenager and dating a girl in high school (he is in his late 20s). Is this type of regression permanent or a typical psychological response to quitting meth?