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- voyetra8, on 05/29/2009, -1/+28In the words of Chris Rock:
Are you sad, are you lonely, you got athletes foot? Are you hot, are you cold, what you got? Ya want this pill huh, *****? You gotta take this pill! .... they just keep namin' symptoms: are you depressed, are you lonely, do your teeth hurt, what the *****?
I saw a commercial the other day that said, "Do you go to bed at night and wake up in the mo'nin?"
Oh ***** they got one! I got that! I'm sick, I need that pill! - wTheOnew, on 05/29/2009, -0/+19It's not Lupus, It's never Lupus.
- xsecretfiles, on 05/29/2009, -0/+14House can cure them all!
- Sunscreen, on 05/29/2009, -1/+15+10 internets to the submitter for linking to the print article.
- Sunscreen, on 05/29/2009, -0/+9So could Vicodin.
- wTheOnew, on 05/29/2009, -0/+8Woosh...
- shutaro, on 05/28/2009, -6/+14Lupus?
- voyetra8, on 05/29/2009, -1/+7And the answer is: Fibromyalgia. Epstein-Barr. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Lyme Disease.
What are "Things my mother has been diagnosed with."? - thesmallone29, on 05/29/2009, -4/+10not only are all of these *****... but i have almost all of them.
- voyetra8, on 05/29/2009, -0/+5zip000,
Call me crazy, but I really think there are douchebags that goes through threads burying everyone regardless of content.
Really, take a look at some of the comments that get buried, it's the only thing that makes sense.
Now watch, as this comment gets buried. Weeeeee! - BrutePhysics, on 05/29/2009, -0/+5actually yes... hypochondria (spelling?). It's a disorder that causes people to always believe they are sick and have a tendency to latch on to random sicknesses that they just heard about.
- Pegritz, on 05/29/2009, -0/+5Your mom is clearly a junkie, but believe me, fibromyalgia is a real thing. When you're 36 but feel like you're 70 and need a walker to get around sometimes, you'll realize it's real as hell. *I* thought it was all ***** until I friggin' got it....
I've taken every painkiller known to man--in doses high enough to kill an ox--and none of them work. I'd rather not deal with them again, as the side-effects are more annoying than the damned fibro. - Wawin, on 05/29/2009, -1/+6Failed to mention "nevernudes"
- zip000, on 05/29/2009, -0/+4I think it's funny - odd - how every time I mention the fact that my Mom is a junky, I get buried on Digg. I mean, it doesn't come up that often - I don't insert it into comments that have nothing to do with it...Macs are overrated, and oh yeah, my Mom's a junky.
And I'm not whining about it or complaining about my life. There just seems to be something about either the airing of the dirty laundry or simply the saying something negative about your own mother that causes it to get buried.
(I'm also not complaining about getting buried here, I'm just curious about the phenomenon). - dshPls, on 05/29/2009, -0/+4"They should have been born on 3000 bc they still would have been to stupid even if they where born in 45 bc."
Wtf kind of mental disorder do you have to have to make a comment like this? - JinxCrow, on 05/29/2009, -1/+5To me if you keep doing something or reacting a way you *don't* want to, you have a problem.
Like with ADD, I know a few people with it who want to focus on something but can't, or are hyper-focused on something but can't pull their attention away.
Can't say pills or therapy are always the way to go, but damn people still need help sometimes. - ausfahrt, on 05/29/2009, -0/+4Wish i could burry myself. Before replying to either comment i re read the article and realized that i can't say that its not a condition. It has an impact on the individuals health which is how Wikipedia defines a medical condition. I guess i jumped the gun. I meant to argue that its not a disease.
- TheAllBeing, on 05/29/2009, -0/+4Almost all of these disorders are primarily treated with psychotherapy alone, so what are you talking about?
Pharma companies try and take advantage of existing disorders, and most psychologists try to convince clients not to take drugs if they don't absolutely need them. However, I can't speak for the psychiatrists. - thejuiceispimp, on 05/29/2009, -0/+4W/e. Start the treatment.
- Katana, on 05/29/2009, -1/+5It's not funny at all, i've suffered from it for 13 years now, since i was 10 years old.
Not being able to goto school, you really do miss it if only for the social stuff, go out and have fun, have a normal teenage experience, losing all my friends because they are sick of coming to visit you and not being able to go anywhere for being too fatigued, not being able to get the job you want because you can only work a pathetic amount of hours, yeah, that was and still is real ***** funny.
Go laugh in the face of a bed-ridden sufferer who has to be helped onto the toilet every day, fed, clothed, washed and constantly cared for, feels helpless, despressed and suicidal because they have no hope for any kind of treatment.
I really do hope you are struck down with an illness that ***** up your life for decades and has no cure, you *****. /rant
Having it is like having Flu (the severity varies between people) but without the symptoms of a cold (runny nose and those kinds of things), you fatigue quickly both mentally and physically, the former leading to severe muscle and joint pain, and for some reason the vast majority of sufferers have irritable bowel syndrome or the effects of it certainly.
Most people i've spoken hate the term chronic fatigue syndrome, while it is probably the main complaint it is not the only thing experienced by sufferers and the term is inaccurate. - failtrain, on 05/29/2009, -0/+4No the medical condition for that is called Bigus Bonesus, or sometimes referred to Idontdoanyexcerciseus.
- o76923, on 05/29/2009, -0/+4Some of the things on this list are about as controversial as gravity. DID, both with and without fugue states has been recognized as a psych disorder basically forever. The reason its an unpopular diagnosis is because it goes against our current model of cognition. So if it does exist, our model for human thought must be wrong.
- jeremymccurdy, on 05/29/2009, -0/+4Too bad he's in a mental hospital.
- donkevin, on 05/29/2009, -0/+3Just because we didn't find it, doesn't mean that it's not there! It could have been hiding!
- voyetra8, on 05/29/2009, -0/+3Did you know that the doctor that initially identified and defined fibromyalgia as a condition now believes that it is not a real disease, and that it's entirely psychosomatic?
Basically... doctors tell someone they have fibromyalgia, and they start attributing every ache and pain (that normal people have on a daily basis) to the disease.
Check this out:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0 ...
"The diagnosis of fibromyalgia itself worsens the condition by encouraging people to think of themselves as sick and catalog their pain, said Dr. Nortin Hadler, a rheumatologist and professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina who has written extensively about fibromyalgia.
''These people live under a cloud,'' he said. ''And the more they seem to be around the medical establishment, the sicker they get.''" - lyric123, on 05/29/2009, -2/+5Whatever happens in our lives can have an impact on our behavior. Our past experiences sometimes dictate our attitudes. There are even times that what we eat can affect our personality. These "medical conditions" somehow gives us a picture of reality, of what is really happening in our society. If you think you have one or more of these conditions, I think you better get some help or go see a psychiatrist.
- STKD, on 05/29/2009, -0/+3I'm sadly not. Most people these days seem to be ignorant of anything that doesn't affect them, personally, at that exact moment in time.
- myskepticsight, on 05/29/2009, -0/+3Multiple personality (dissociative personality disorder), social anxiety and even fugue are regularly discussed in college psychology courses. Fugue and split personalities are very rare but I wouldn't say social anxiety is, especially viewed as a spectrum disorder (impairment ranging from mild to severe).
- Gloogle, on 05/29/2009, -1/+3Stupidity has now exceeded this Digg webpage's bandwidth.
- Tiggereth, on 05/29/2009, -3/+5Not sure what is honestly so funny about CFS, I know someone who suffers from this and the constant pain and overall tiredness they suffer and the absolute hopelessness they feel after trying a gamut of medications is far from amusing.
- dshPls, on 05/29/2009, -1/+3Do they also enjoy taking back sunday?
- nepidae, on 05/29/2009, -0/+2you are on digg so i doubt you are actually doing work.
- evanfrey, on 05/29/2009, -0/+2diarrhea
- paperclipsNsoup, on 05/29/2009, -0/+2My dog has Lupus.
Labradors don't make good house dogs (Lupus can get worse with too much sunlight) - zip000, on 05/29/2009, -1/+3My mom "has" Fibromyalgia. I put has in ""'s because I'm 1) Not convinced it's a real thing, and 2) not convinced that there is anything wrong with her.
She's been a junky for at least 20 years, and when she found a little known, untestable disorder that could get her an Oxycontin prescription she was all over that.
It has allowed her to keep telling herself that she has to take these pills, and even though she keeps going to her 12 step program, she isn't using again. She actually got kicked out of one 12 step program because she kept crawling up on one of the tables and going to sleep.
/tmi - korewahimitsu, on 05/29/2009, -1/+3The idea that somebody's chronic pain or exhaustion is only legitimate if YOU agree with the particular diagnosis is absurd. Treatment for certain conditions like restless leg syndrome should certainly be held off on until one has ruled out treatable causes like low iron, but the frustration and pain is real and should be treated as such once a diagnosis has been made.
Normally it's pretty easy to write off most of the comments as jokes, but some of this is just ridiculous. - zip000, on 05/29/2009, -0/+2I'm not an expert certainly, but I've always felt that multiple personality disorder sounded a bit fake....or at the very least, if someone has multiple personalities there is no division or sharp divide between them like you see so often on TV.
I think a fugue state sounds perfectly reasonable however. I think personality is a fairly complicated thing, and suddenly - due to some trauma - you lose the strings that bind that altogether the idea that you are a single coherent identity just vanishes, and you're like one of the dolls on "Dollhouse". - paperclipsNsoup, on 05/29/2009, -0/+1Its caused by drinking Tijuana tap water
- CrackHappy, on 05/29/2009, -0/+1There may be people who are faking MPD / DID out there, but trust me, it is DEFINITELY a real condition. My adopted sister, that my parents adopted when she was 5, had DID. There was NO WAY she could have possibly faked it either. The last time we saw her (before she was committed), she had 7 very distinct personalities. And no, it wasn't always apparent when she had switched, as sometimes they would intentionally hide who they were so we wouldn't react to it. She tried a couple of times to kill our younger brother and sister as well, tried to seduce myself, my best friend and my father (grabbing our penises, stroking, etc.). IT was ***** disturbing as hell, I'll tell you that.
One was a 30 year old female nurse.
One was a dog.
One was an infant boy (who liked to play with his penis).
One was an extremely angry old man who hated everyone.
One we could never quite figure out what it was, as it was mostly nonverbal and very confusing.
There are others I don't remember completely. The homicidal one was a teenage girl. - rossisdead, on 06/01/2009, -0/+1It was a joke on how they'll call anything a disorder these days. Thanks for playing!
- MSUKate, on 06/01/2009, -0/+1I hate the way that people treat psychiatric disorders.
They act like the sufferers are weak or stupid. Trust me, a doctor won't give a Dx without having good evidence to do so. The contempt that i've read in these comments is appalling.
This is what feeds the stigma against the mentally ill. - JoeParanoid, on 05/29/2009, -0/+1Geez, who knew that Big Pharma trolled Digg?
- getlogicated, on 06/05/2009, -0/+1negative.
- inactive, on 05/29/2009, -0/+1Morbid obesity?
- mparker21311, on 05/29/2009, -0/+1It was sarcasm, dick.
- ScissorHand26, on 05/30/2009, -0/+1I thought it was going to mention SSAD - Same Sex Attraction Disorder.
Though I suppose it's not so much controversial as completely made up. - STKD, on 05/29/2009, -1/+2No, but I'll give you one that says "***** you, you ignorant uncompassionate moron."
Not all conditions have visible symptoms or treatments. I know of several with serious, life threatening conditions attached to them. Think for five minutes and perhaps find you do too.
We know things exist that we cannot measure yet in the Universe. Why so hard to believe that the not-that-well-understood biology and psychology of the human body can have them, too?
Ignorance is the enemy. - LostOutEast, on 05/29/2009, -1/+2As someone who has a brother with Asperger's I assure you that Asperger's Syndrome is very real. Do you believe autism isn't a real condition either? Because Asperger's=mild autism.
- IKORKYI, on 05/29/2009, -0/+1I think everyone would agree that it is over-diagnosed, not an illegit disease.
- shutaro, on 05/29/2009, -0/+1It could be Wegner's.
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