Posted by benzapp on November 27, 2001, at 0:13:16
In reply to Anyone experience mind torture, anxiety related?, posted by adamie on November 26, 2001, at 18:37:05
That sounds much more like malnutrition than anything else. Having experienced starvation first hand before, I felt exactly the same way. Couldn't think, tired yet anxious, couldn't sleep, didn't have an appetite, and my perception of time was greatly skewed as well. There are many signs of malnutrition, and it is one of the most common causes of depression. About 3/4 of people who are depressed are deficient in one of the B vitamins. I received a B-vitamin injection, and it instantly cleared up my head.
Your brain consumes more energy than any other part of your body, and needs about a third of all calories go towards its function. Many vitamin deficiencies cause these problems as well, particularly B vitamin deficiencies. If you consume fewer than 1200 calories per day, or abstain from fresh fruit, vegetables and meat you will be in big trouble. If you are not eating a proper diet you should probably see a nutritionist, or at the very least have a blood test done to see if you show signs of vitamin deficiency. I would be very concerned with the racing heart, if you have a high pulse rate and low blood pressure you have a problem. Take your pulse, if it is more than 95bpm at rest, I would see a doctor ASAP. If you can't check your blood pressure, just feel your pulse... if you have to press really hard to feel it, your blood pressure is weak.
> mind torture as in even painful to be alive. cant think at all, cant concentrate. heart beating very fast. the sides of head burning.
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> this is on top and part of my extremely severe depression. I have no motivation for anything, no enjoyment from anything, no drive to do anything, little appetite, poor sleep, cant think, cant concentrate, memory extremely horrible, it feels sometimes as if i have no past, always living in the moment.
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> anyone experience mind torture or is my depression severe beyond reasonable help? ECT only helped minorly or not at all and it erased my memory but maybe much of that was from the depression anyway. almost all AD's have made me worse.
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> do panic attacks make people feel like every few seconds are painful to be alive?
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> is what I am dealing with just typical of extremely severe depression? with the mind torture time passes by extremely slow. it's like my mind cant focus on anything because it is occupied by feeling horrific beyond belief. i dunno how to describe it. also everything seems very dark. the worse it is the faster my heart beats and my head burns.
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