So What's your Disorder?

[SolomonGrundy]

I've notice in the past few weeks, that alot of us have issues- depression, OCD, PMS, thyrod issues, Cancer...So lets get them all in one tidy place.

I'll start- Depression- low grade. ADD and a learning disorder that doesn't really effect me now that I can type everything- but man when I had to take pen to paper it was the most painful exersise in my life. I made it through school with a tape recorder- not for the lessons, but for writing my papers - spew, then write it down..exc. Back in those dark years, most teachers wouldn't take a typed and/or printed paper. Can you imagine? And then there were the ones who wanted it in hand writing, not printed...shudder- instant F.
Most I have overcome, but when the depression kicks in, it usually takes me a few weeks to realize it.
Ok, step up- who's next?

[madkevin]

I believe we will look back on this thread and realize this was the exact moment Qt3 turned into Gone Gold.

[Orinoco]

I believe we will look back on this thread and realize this was the exact moment Qt3 turned into Gone Gold.

What? QT3 is dead now?! I blame Chick!

[MatthewF]

Aside from a headache that hasn't receded since April 2005? Nothing really. Coincidentally, I started working at EA in March of '05. Although I've since left as of 8 months ago, unfortunately my headache came with me. Now, me and hydrocodone are best friends.

[Hanzii]

I get the sniffles every spring, is that good enough...?

[secretary]

I get a whopping cold every spring and every fall, so nyah. ;-)

[Brendan]

I have an enormous penis.

[Hanzii]

I get a whopping cold every spring and every fall, so nyah. ;-)

Oh, I get plenty of colds but when I learned a bit of science and the fact that our rotten climate has no bearing on colds (apart from the logical that it's easier to get close to bacteria when you stay inside close to other - sick - people), I finally went to the doctor and got a prescription for allergy meds for my spring 'colds'.

The ones in autumn and winter I still try to cure with whisky or brandy.
So nyah nyah!

[Kalle]

I prefer not to discuss medical disorders with random internet strangers, but maybe I'm just crazy.

[secretary]

The ones in autumn and winter I still try to cure with whisky or brandy.

I simply must try that.

[Midnight Son]

I..... am a Pizzaholic. Help me!

[Pjerrot]

I spend to much time reading meaningless stuff on the internet

[Kunikos]

I have an enormous penis.

Oh, so you're a compulsive liar. ;)

[Athryn]

I am batshit crazy.


Actually, I have severe insomnia, depression, some OCD, and sometimes agoraphobia.


Ok, well batshit crazy really sums it up better though.

[arctangent]

I am batshit crazy.


Actually, I have severe insomnia, depression, some OCD, and sometimes agoraphobia.


Ok, well batshit crazy really sums it up better though.

You win.

[Glenn]

You know when people call themselves "chocoholics"? I'm kind of like that, except for me it's booze.

[Jason McMaster]

I'm not going to get into the whole deal, but severe sleep disorder

I also have to do something if I think of it. I guess that's OCD. For instance, if I wake up at 3 AM and wonder if I noticed if my bike was in the back yard or not, I'll have to get up, get dressed, go downstairs and check. Same thing if my wife asks me if the door is locked. I know I locked it, I always do. but I have to go check. I've woken up in the middle of the night and cleaned a part of my house. If I can't remember if I've seen one of my cats lately, I'll go find them. I try to explain it to people as it's like I have this checklist of things I must do and know. I line up my laptop on the table, then I line up the mouse pad and put all the cables in a certain order.

Here's a personal favorite, if I'm thinking something, and I think of a sentence, I sometimes get stuck thinking a part of it over and over again because I think I might not have actually really thought the last part, which is ridiculous, but then I can't NOT think it again because of this part of my brain that says I NEED to think it. When I was younger and involved with the church, I would say amen at the end of my prayers over and over again just in case I hadn't said it but imagined it.

So yeah.

I also drink a lot.

[Lunch of Kong]

I have A.D.S.

[Mark Crump]

I post on QT3 way too much.

[Bill Dungsroman]

I CARE TOO MUCH.

[RichVR]

I have A.D.S.

I have a DS as well.

[Kunikos]

I post on QT3 way too much.

I reply to posts on QT3 too much for my own good.

[KaoFloppy]

I can't make new topics on QT3. Thus, I can only divert or otherwise manipulate existing topics. But since it's only for the good of mankind, it can be forgiven.

[Patrick]

I have bad gas.


Also my girl friend beats me. Probably because of my first problem.

[Raife]

I am afraid of the Gummi Bears. GET YOUR SICKLY SWEETNESS AWAY FROM ME, GUMMIS!

Also, worst thread idea ever.

[Charles]

Aside from a headache that hasn't receded since April 2005? Nothing really. Coincidentally, I started working at EA in March of '05. Although I've since left as of 8 months ago, unfortunately my headache came with me. Now, me and hydrocodone are best friends.


Do you have glasses? Might need a new prescription. If you don't have glasses, maybe you need glasses.

[Lum]

Mild social anxiety disorder. What in happier times was called "shyness".

Other than that I'm fairly well adjusted in person. I know, you're shocked.

[TheRock]

Gout - the disorder of kings!

[Bill Dungsroman]

I am afraid of the Gummi Bears. GET YOUR SICKLY SWEETNESS AWAY FROM ME, GUMMIS!

Also, worst thread idea ever.
I hate Gummi bears. And Worms. All of them. It's like Man I don't think this stuff is gonna let me chew it up properly when I first start eating it. It freaks me out!

[MatthewF]

Do you have glasses? Might need a new prescription. If you don't have glasses, maybe you need glasses.

Yeah, I thought that might be it, so I got some new contacts about 4 or 5 months after it was determined undiagnosable. Didn't do a thing. And glasses actually strain my eyes at this prescription, so if anything, the new contacts would have definitely helped.

Everyone I've ever seen about it is completely stumped. The pain is always local in the same exact spot, right behind where my hairline starts on my right side. My last neurologist did come up with Hemicrania Continua (http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/hemicrania_continua/hemicrania_continua.htm) as the most likely diagnosis, but supposedly Indomethacin should have worked almost immediately to alleviate it (it didn't). After taking the stuff in high dosages for about 3 weeks, he pulled me off of it. And that's all folks.

[Charles]

To contribute to the thread, I've had a mild cold for about two years now. It's great! Probably allergies though I haven't gone for testing, cause what are they going to do? Tell me I'm allergic to air?

[Raife]

I hate Gummi bears. And Worms. All of them. It's like Man I don't think this stuff is gonna let me chew it up properly when I first start eating it. It freaks me out!

Solidarity!

[Tyjenks]

Yeah, I thought that might be it, so I got some new contacts about 4 or 5 months after it was determined undiagnosable. Didn't do a thing. And glasses actually strain my eyes at this prescription, so if anything, the new contacts would have definitely helped.

Everyone I've ever seen about it is completely stumped. The pain is always local in the same exact spot, right behind where my hairline starts on my right side. My last neurologist did come up with Hemicrania Continua (http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/hemicrania_continua/hemicrania_continua.htm) as the most likely diagnosis, but supposedly Indomethacin should have worked almost immediately to alleviate it (it didn't). After taking the stuff in high dosages for about 3 weeks, he pulled me off of it. And that's all folks.

Interesting. I have had goofy headache/migraine issues and took Indomethacin as a preventative drug treatment before and after physical activity, which seemed to help somewhat. My neurologist never diagnosed it as anyhting with a fancy, Latin name, however, and this does not sound like a match.


Physical exertion and alcohol use may increase the severity of headache pain in some patients.


I have pretty much given up on extended yardwork, basketball, and exercise in general as the headaches are more than I can deal with.

As long as we're whining, I thought I was at the end of my rope with marital issues to the point of counseling, depression/anxiety, therapist dying, job, finishing school, newborn and 5-year old, and then the Lord went and decided my 33 year old wife was meant to have breast cancer. Now, I was going to shut up about this one, but I am teetering on some sort of precipice of something and have little concern as to how my actions appear to family members, co-workers, and internet pseudo-acquaintances. My lack of concern is concerning, in fact.

Is there some sort of vacation from life, like a temporary death where I could sleep for a month and then I could re-subscribe after 4-weeks and not be so burned out? Wait, that did not work with me and WoW either. Tomorrow is another day and I do still have masturbation, thank goodness.

EDIT: Is that "burned"?

[SolomonGrundy]

Don't you all feel better now?

That will be 100 bucks each.

[Flowers]

I like working late and sometimes I leave some extra work so that I can get a ton done at once. I think that is more fun than finishing everything quickly and sitting on my thumbs. I am not sure if that is a disorder or a matter of personal preference. The thumb sitting is probably not normal, however.

[amiller320]

I also have to do something if I think of it.


I really wish my wife had this problem, just so I could abuse it (her?).

Her: "So I was at work today and the craziest thing happened."

Me: "Humph?" *Goes back to playing BF2*

Her: "Yeah, so... Angie came over and said that she was going with her cousin Dale to the blah blah BLAH BLAH blabity-fucking-blah..."

Me: "Hey, did you remember to shut your computer off at work?"

Her: ".... I'm not sure. I'll be right back."

Me: *into headset* "Tank, north."

[Jake Plane]

No matter how much I eat or fail to exercise, I just can't seem to gain any weight.

[nutsak]

I have an enormous penis.

It's just too bad it's in your ass.

[shift6]

I am starting to have confusion and memory loss. I think my brain age is like 150.

[Rob_Merritt]

I believe we will look back on this thread and realize this was the exact moment Qt3 turned into Gone Gold.


hahahaha... Well, for this to really be gone gold, Tom would have to pretend to be a likable person online but in real life be a humongus dick like Rich was.

As for my disorder

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemiplegia

[Union Carbide]

I ridicule the near-dead on the internet.

[SolomonGrundy]

Funny i've haunted the net for years, but i know not what this gone gold thing is/was/will be.

[Union Carbide]

Also, color me surprised that there aren't 20 or 30 Asperger Syndrome self-diagnoses in this thread.

[Rimbo]

I'm fine. Absolutely nothing wrong with me at all.

[RichVR]

I'm fine. Absolutely nothing wrong with me at all.

Sounds like denial syndrome.

[Rob_Merritt]

Funny i've haunted the net for years, but i know not what this gone gold thing is/was/will be.

Gone gold was a website that covered "gold" annoucements of games. The two things that made it different was the blog like entires of the webmaster, Rich Laporte and the forum. He was a cop who was disabled in the line of duty and was on diabled retirement. As time went on, he would make posts about events that happen in his job. As time went on these stories became almost epic in nature. Much like a modern Myspace emo drama, people became devote to the online persona Rich created. The forum filled up with those people and it was one great group of emotional misfits filled with their own self importance (myself included). As posts from Rich became fewer and farther between, the forum members became more neurotic and a cult like atmosphere develop around his legend.

[RichVR]

Damn. And I just went there to see if a game was released. Is there an archive somewhere?

[Rob_Merritt]

Damn. And I just went there to see if a game was released. Is there an archive somewhere?


Try this
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.gonegold.com

[RichVR]

Try this
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.gonegold.com

Thanks.

[RepoMan]

I hate to tell you this, RichVR, but a Gone Gold archive won't tell you when any more upcoming releases are.

The weirdest thing about Gone Gold was that Rich LaPorte kept insisting he was going to have more time for it, but he actually had less and less and less and less and less. Then the domain lapsed and then he took the forums down. He killed his own community, basically. Very curious....

[RichVR]

I hate to tell you this, RichVR, but a Gone Gold archive won't tell you when any more upcoming releases are.


No shit? Thanks. Sherlock.

[dannimal]

Some kind of mishmash of:

- Depression (chronic, "mild" (in that it hits hard for 2-3 days and then is gone for 2-3 weeks or so), and impacted by seasons), which is probably closer to cyclothymia than depression

- ADHD
- Social Anxiety (and in fact, this can often trigger a depressive period)
- OCD (very mild, if at all)

*shrug* I know I'm screwed up in the head. I know it's not as bad as a lot of people, and I am at least mostly functional despite it, after figuring out how to work around a lot of it.

[Qenan]

Dysthemia, supposedly. Probably a side effect of ACOA stuff.

[Qmanol]

I habitually correct my wife's pronunciation and grammar.

[SlyFrog]

The weirdest thing about Gone Gold was that Rich LaPorte kept insisting he was going to have more time for it, but he actually had less and less and less and less and less. Then the domain lapsed and then he took the forums down. He killed his own community, basically. Very curious....

Sometimes, when what you love starts to get away from you, you have to kill it Mercifully if possible, shhh, shhh, it will be okay, the hurting will stop soon.

[AndrewM]

My eyes produce powerful laser blasts unless I wear these ruby colored glasses.

[Old Man Gravy]

I get boners from smells.



Edit: actually, I guess that's really more of a superpower than a disorder.

[Bill Dungsroman]

I'm not going to get into the whole deal, but severe sleep disorder

I also have to do something if I think of it. I guess that's OCD. For instance, if I wake up at 3 AM and wonder if I noticed if my bike was in the back yard or not, I'll have to get up, get dressed, go downstairs and check. Same thing if my wife asks me if the door is locked. I know I locked it, I always do. but I have to go check. I've woken up in the middle of the night and cleaned a part of my house. If I can't remember if I've seen one of my cats lately, I'll go find them. I try to explain it to people as it's like I have this checklist of things I must do and know. I line up my laptop on the table, then I line up the mouse pad and put all the cables in a certain order.

Here's a personal favorite, if I'm thinking something, and I think of a sentence, I sometimes get stuck thinking a part of it over and over again because I think I might not have actually really thought the last part, which is ridiculous, but then I can't NOT think it again because of this part of my brain that says I NEED to think it. When I was younger and involved with the church, I would say amen at the end of my prayers over and over again just in case I hadn't said it but imagined it.

So yeah.

I also drink a lot.

Happy birthday Jason! ^__^ (http://www.stupid.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=store&Product_Code=OBSS)

[Union Carbide]

Actually, for real, I have moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obstructive_Sleep_Apnea). I have to wear a CPAP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPAP) at night.

[Rimbo]

Sounds like denial syndrome.

Or maybe I was exaggerating when I said I was bipolar.

I have been known to exaggerate and/or make shit up from time to time, just to see how people react.

But I might not have been, y'know? I could be the total unstable nutcase Bill Dungsroman imagines I am when he jerks off to fantasies of rescuing <insert random QT3 female type here> from me on a manic rampage. Thus follows the "Oh, Bill, my hero!" lovey dovey.

[Vincent_GC]

I have this bad habit of not stopping to read forum posts that will make me gag, like Rimbo's post above :P

On topic, I am not a team player as it takes a prohibitively long time for me to develop trust in anyone.

and probobly a dose of ADD

[Bill Dungsroman]

Or maybe I was exaggerating when I said I was bipolar.
Trust me, you're not. You are TEH CUH-RAZEE MAAAAN.


I have been known to exaggerate and/or make shit up from time to time, just to see how people react.
Manic people do that.


But I might not have been, y'know? I could be the total unstable nutcase Bill Dungsroman imagines I am when he jerks off to fantasies of rescuing <insert random QT3 female type here> from me on a manic rampage. Thus follows the "Oh, Bill, my hero!" lovey dovey.
Hahahaha, funny. You know damn well I jerk off to dismembered corpses.

[Arioch]

I have asthma and irregular pains in the underbelly and wrists.

[Jason McMaster]

Happy birthday Jason! ^__^ (http://www.stupid.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=store&Product_Code=OBSS)

It's like they've known me my whole life!

[Tyjenks]

oh also, I have a rare one that many of you may have never heard of...addiction to 30second lesbian internet porn samples.

[Jim Hoffman]

oh also, I have a rare one that many of you may have never heard of...addiction to 30second lesbian internet porn samples.

All your other problems, blah blah blah. But this one. Oh man, I'm so sorry. How do you keep going?

[Tyjenks]

All your other problems, blah blah blah. But this one. Oh man, I'm so sorry. How do you keep going?

It's hard.

[insert generic comedy outro]

[Fugitive]

My crippling problem is that I can't seem to write my own signature consistently. I always look at it afterwards and think "Jeez, will the bank even accept this?"

Oh, the shame!

[path12]

I don't talk much.

[SlyFrog]

I don't talk much.

See, this is why you lurk. So awesome.

[Jim Hoffman]

It's hard.

[insert generic comedy outro]

Well keep it up!

[Bad Neighbor]

I fly into a murderous rage when people post about their ailments like it's some sort of dick measuring contest.

[Tyjenks]

I fly into a murderous rage when people post about their ailments like it's some sort of dick measuring contest.

Is that before or after you post describing your wacky, pretend ailment? I cannot imagine what lofty goal you wish to achieve with said posting as it is imminently more interseting and discussion worthy than the rest of the thread.

[LesJarvis]

Sleep apnea.

I'm also incredibly antisocial, but I don't know if that qualifies as a disorder or if I just don't like anyone. I used to have panic attacks, but it's been 3 or 4 years since the last one. I mean, there's plenty of shit wrong with me I guess, I just don't know which of it is the result of an actual disorder, and which of it is just sort of self-imposed. I think I'm reasonably well adjusted, though. Whether that's a good thing or not is debatable. The sleep apnea was actually diagnosed, though.

[Bad Neighbor]

Is that before or after you post describing your wacky, pretend ailment?

What?

[Raife]

I think Tyler was concerned that you must have flown into a murderous rage after posting your own problem about flying into murderous rages.

[Marsh Davies]

To contribute to the thread, I've had a mild cold for about two years now. It's great! Probably allergies though I haven't gone for testing, cause what are they going to do? Tell me I'm allergic to air?
Heh. A flatmate of mine suffers from chronic eczema and went to have a test to find out what she was allergic to.

Results came back, and guess what she's allergic to. Concrete. What the fuck can you do about that?

[Bad Neighbor]

I didn't see his original post. My apologies to him, but not to the countless threads of people talking about how many pills they're on because they're depressed and too lazy to just go outside for once. It was a joke about how threads like this are usually plagued by one-upsmanship, not an attack. Oh well.

EDITING ALL MY POSTS AND DELETING MY ACCOUNT.

[Bill Dungsroman]

What?
Your mastering of cats. WE KNOW YOU DON'T HAVE ANY, LIAR!

[Tyjenks]

I didn't see his original post. My apologies to him, but not to the countless threads of people talking about how many pills they're on because they're depressed and too lazy to just go outside for once. It was a joke about how threads like this are usually plagued by one-upsmanship, not an attack. Oh well.

EDITING ALL MY POSTS AND DELETING MY ACCOUNT.

Isn't the whole internet forum dealie about one-ups-manship? Political debates, viewing habits, gaming achievements.....people happen to have fucked up other problems and they want a sense of not being alone in whatever is bothering them this week.

You thought it would be clever of you to make a joke. I get it. We do all whine too much to strangers, but feel the need to post about it in a thread so it doesn't seem so hopeless. Depression is all about bitching cause everything sucks ass to the point where one's outlook on things becomes totally illogical. Some people close off and some people wanna chat. Not sure what it hurts to discuss with others, but those who think it is idiocy and/or the habit of an attention whore, so be it. I understand. On its face, it is stupid. You are not going to get much educated advice or a cure, but you certainly can vent and look at it all typed out and see how folks in similar situations operate.

No need to apologize to me about the whole cancer thing. From your point of view, complaining about cancer should be no different than complaining about turf toe or head lice or depression. It is pointless on a message board. My, now belabored, point is why bother replying in the thread unless it was just to say, "Hey look at me, you guys need to shut up. You don't see me complaining about life." Your posting was, oddly enough, either to (a) get attention or (b) to do us all one better.

[Dirt]

My disorder is not being able to figure out what's wrong with me.

[Gunmetal]

Also, color me surprised that there aren't 20 or 30 Asperger Syndrome self-diagnoses in this thread.

After reading Douglas Coupland's "JPod", I thought I might Asperger's. Then I checked out Asperger's and I don't fucking have anything close to Asperger's. (Incidentally, here's the JPod method of diagnosis: "Are you shy, and do you like hugs?" Who doesn't like hugs?)

I do have hatred for lazy, lazy Douglas Coupland and his books with 15 (fifteen!!!!) pages of random numbers.

[Qenan]

Microserfs wasn't too bad. It caught the feeling of a place and time for me.

[SlyFrog]

Check out "Avoidant Personality Disorder" and "Schizoid Personality Disorder." My conservative estimate is that roughly 94% of gamers have one of the two. :)

[Gunmetal]

I actually really liked Microserfs, which is why I was so very disappointed with JPod. It also prepared me for a character reciting the first 9000 digits of Pi. I thought doing it twice in JPod was pretty weak. Also the celebrity that shows up in JPod is sooooooo part-time

[Jason McMaster]

You know, I keep seeing this Aspergers shit, and I have no idea what it is. I WILL NOW LOOK AT THE INTERNET!

[Jason McMaster]

Oh, so "I can't believe I'm not autistics?"

[unbongwah]

I hate people who bitch a lot about their petty problems.

I bitch a lot about my petty problems.