Posted by B2chica on February 28, 2004, at 16:43:49
In reply to Re: psychogirl...cont., posted by psychogirl on February 28, 2004, at 15:22:33
Dystonia is a speech disorder that is similar to what you describe which can be brought on by many things (psychological, medications, stroke, TBI) One thing to do is prolongate your vowels (hold the sounds long) this is one was to see if it occurs. May want to chat with an SLP (speech-language pathologist). It's basically a constriction of muscles (your vocal folds-these muscles normally vibrate very fast but can't if their constricted causing the problems) some symptoms include imprecise consonants, distorted vowels, harsh voice quality strained quality,voice tremor, inappropriate silences, excess loudness, *voice stoppages, slow rate.
Sorry that was so long but i did my undergrad in Speech Path.Hubby is better today. He said some pretty harsh stuff when i told him but i know that was out of fear and sense of helplessness, infact today i brought it up to him and he didn't even remember saying it. (he took it back) though i think he's convinced that it's not a real issue. But i'll leave it alone for now. Partly i brought this on myself cuz up till recently i've been able to hide my depression from everyone including him. And he never thought much about my insomnia (he would always go to sleep before me so he never knew how late i would stay up). So really he's not "experienced" me at my worst. some have seen my hypomanic and some have seen my sadness but never both! -but i also have trust issues so it's not like i tell people what's going on either.
No kids...yet. i finally decided a year 1/2 ago to go back to school so if i can get through this year i'll (hopefully) graduate in august and then we'll be ready to start trying. At first when i got this label that's the first thing i thought about...do i really want to have kids now? should i? but Kay Jamison's book (an unquiet mind) answered that for me. it's a great read about manic-depression. And i have no doubts that i want children no matter what. But i will be trying it without meds, don't want to risk any unknowns.
Boy you've got little'uns how do you do it? i think as long as you are open with your kids you have nothing to worry about. kids understand a lot more than adults do sometimes.
Bipolar II. the DSM states depression and at least one manic or hypomanic episode. i have atypical depression (which means i gain weight instead of no appetite and i sleep EXCESSIVELY during this) also my cycle is backwords, most go from high to low, i go from depression to mania to normal(with anxiety of course). but i've also recently picked up the label of ADHD which there is no question about that one.
Sorry this was so long.
B2c.
poster:B2chica
thread:318522
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20040219/msgs/318586.html