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Mark asked in HealthMental Health · 6 years ago

What's wrong with me? Is it just depression, or something more?

I was talking to someone online today about my thoughts and feelings and they said 'I think you have more than just depression' and few months back someone said they thought I had a personality disorder in response to one of my questions on here.

In short, this is how I'd describe myself:

- Detached from reality (sometimes more so than others)

- Detached from other people, often finding it difficult to empathise. For example, hearing about terrible things on the news I feel no compassion for the people effected as they do not seem real to me. I think I could probably kill a stranger without remorse, if asked to.

- I have mood swings for no apparent reason

- I sometimes become impulsively suicidal

- I self-harm

- Bad short term memory - often end up with amnesia after drinking alcohol

- I go from liking people to hating them for no reason, without seeing them inbetween

- Small things can really effect my mood/thoughts. For example, I can become suicidal for trivial reasons such as people not returning text messages

- Lack of identity: I don't know who I am or what I want to achieve out of life

- I struggle to understand what is and isn't socially acceptable sometimes. I spend a lot of time worrying about whether trivial things I've said may have caused offence.

- I spend a lot of time worrying that I've left something (like the oven) on, even though I've checked that it's off multiple times

Does this sound like more than depression?

Update:

I also feel emotionally detached and see things too objectively. For example, the prospect of suicide seems very trivial when in such a mood and I feel the need to act recklessly to feel something.

Another thing is that I sometimes become paranoid that people are looking at me, and I don't like being the focus of attention.

Update 2:

I'm quite good at making people view me in the way I want them to and I often replicate the behaviour of those around me without realising.

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  • Alex
    Lv 6
    6 years ago

    A lot of what you've listed here are symptoms of borderline personality disorder. Namely the following: dissociation (marked by depersonalization), mood swings, impulsivity and streaks of recklessness, suicidal thoughts, self-harming behavior, split thinking (switching back and forth between idealizing and hating people), extreme emotional sensitivity, unstable identity, and copying the opinions and behavior of those around you.

    I think this is probably more than enough to meet the criteria for a diagnosis of BPD. I'd absolutely recommend seeing a psychiatrist about this.

    Source(s): borderline
  • Naguru
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    If you are genuinely inquisitive to know the truth behind it, you should go for a thorough medical check-up. The medical report will reveal the whole secret behind your doubts.

    Source(s): own
  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Yes, it sounds like you're bipolar, or like you do have a personality disorder. More so the second one. (:

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Definitely sounds like more than depression. I would see a doctor before you cause harm to anyone or yourself.

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  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    I'm sort of like you but I couldn't give two shits about mine

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