stux⚡️Nov 10, 2022

Mental health issues are raising exponentially with young people.. Mastodon has build-in all kinds of features like blocking, muting filters etc and ‘non-features’ like constantly showing numbers everywhere on timelines, profiles etc.

Please know that #Mastodon is a safe place to talk about mental health. Talking about it can really help, we do not judge we only want to help♥️

If we can contribute even the slightest in battling this issue I say we should! Together!  

Show threadJenny WhiteNov 10, 2022
@stux love this a lot especially as I’m a qualified therapist. More than happy to answer any questions anyone has about mental health or of course relationship issues. Feel free to just tag me.
Show threadAz_The nicest of the damned.Nov 11, 2022
@TheQueensMindset @stux How do you approach something like strong ADHD (which has always proved resistant to treatment) complicated by severe chronic pain that directly causes insomnia? Asking for a me.
Show threadJenny WhiteNov 11, 2022
@Az_ @stux the best combination is to work with a specialist therapist that treats ADHD in combination with prescribing medication. Now I’m not a fan usually of prescription drugs as especially in the field of ADHD it often gets overprescribed. It’s also looking at childhood trauma. Insomnia is horrible and I would unravel it from there. Question is what’s first insomnia or ADHD? Sleep deprivation can mimic mild to sever mental health issues. Highly recommend 2 books Gabor Maté “Scattered Minds
Show threadJenny WhiteNov 11, 2022
@Az_ @stux …and Matthew Walker “Why we sleep”. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction seemed to work too. It’s really looking also at your lifestyle (sleep, food and exercise). I also know some people that had improvements by listening to “Brown Noise” which can have a calming effect on the overthinking and cluttered mind of ADHD. Brown Noise is similar to White Noise and can have a calming effect on an ADHD mind.
Show threadAz_The nicest of the damned.Nov 11, 2022
@TheQueensMindset @stux Unfortunately as mentioned due to the inverted effect of what causes the pain to get worse calming just opens my brain up to the chaotic signals. My best bet is usually stimulus of some sort. Focusing my mind on an activity. Shorting out the nerves via intevening signals. Just had surgery to remove a botched neural stimulator they tried on me. So I have tried a number of solutions. Pain Drs are at the end of current research. Sleep Drs no luck either.
Show threadJenny WhiteNov 11, 2022
@Az_ @stux so sad to hear that. Sleep doctors won’t be able to help when pain isn’t under control. So anything you try to do about your ADHD or insomnia won’t necessarily work as your pain is still there and as you stated your mind tries to stay busy to ignore the pain. It’s finding chronic pain groups and keep asking different opinions from chronic pain specialists. Some of my clients who dealt with chronic pain had to be really stern with their doctors and demand to be seen by a specialist to
Show threadJenny WhiteNov 11, 2022
@Az_ @stux get reassessed. The field of chronic pain is so broad it can get very confusing. One of my clients used a tense machine that helped but depending how pain develops in your body it’s different for every client.
Show threadAz_The nicest of the damned.
@TheQueensMindset @stux Yep. Used one of those. In fact the neural stimulator they put in my spine was basically one of those internal. It took about 10% of the pain off but they didn't install the battery right. Had to take the whole thing out. Only they couldn't get all the wire out of my spine. The complications were not fun and I only just got it out. Not sure anyone will want to go in that way again.
Nov 11, 2022 at 7:50amWeb
Show threadJenny WhiteNov 11, 2022
@Az_ @stux that’s frustrating. Not good. And that alone will leave you depressed. Did you join any chronic pain groups in real life and/or online?
Show threadAz_The nicest of the damned.Nov 11, 2022
@TheQueensMindset @stux I have. Even been involved in med trials for my form of chronic pain. Pretty much everything winds up a dead end or the side effects are too problematic.
Show threadJenny WhiteNov 11, 2022
@Az_ @stux there’s a good book out there by Tony Robbins “Life Force” that talks about the newest technologies and stem cell therapy. He dealt with severe chronic pain too. I don’t know in which country you are but often it is pushing the doctors to make treatments available to you and not becoming a Guinea pig. I have to hop off here soon as busy day with clients but will check later. Feel free to DM me.
Show threadAz_The nicest of the damned.Nov 11, 2022
@TheQueensMindset @stux I am in the US where we have the greatest health care system in the world (not sure the sarcasm is making it through the screen).
Show threadAz_The nicest of the damned.Nov 11, 2022
@TheQueensMindset @stux Thanks. Getting myself ready to dive back into expanding my therapy over here. So might reach out for advice.
Show threadAz_The nicest of the damned.Nov 11, 2022
@TheQueensMindset @stux I am beyond simple depression. Current diagnosis is dysthymia. But I seem to have an interesting view on things because the depression though persistent is countered by my rather positive attitude.