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Arcstarter

Thu Jun 16 2011, 04:49AM

Registered Member #1225 Joined: Sat Jan 12 2008, 01:24AM
Location: Beaumont, Texas, USA
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Hmm, its funny you ask. Well about 6 years ago, i started having anxiety attacks and such, and i became homeschooled (i have also been diagnosed with bipolar and ADD but i don't know because my psychiatrist went through a lawsuit for some kind of sexual something or other toward a client...). I have had a few friends in the past few years. I have been on many different medications, mostly lexapro and abilify iirc. I haven't taken any for some 6 months.

For the past year or so i have not had much anxiety, and i went to driving school. I finished homeschool, but i don't think i learned as much as i did in school about the subjects. Instead i fixed engines and got into electronics

. A week or two ago i took my SAT, and after being there for about an hour i had an anxiety attack for an hour or two. It kind of sucks to go so long without much anxiety, and then almost have a mental breakdown. I just can't seem to handle too much stress well. I handled that time i almost got shot and arrested for 'trespassing' well, i talked him out of pressing charges

. Damn my curiosity, i was looking for stuff to salvage parts from and got a little lost and went through some woods to get home and it turns out it was someones property... with nothing but woods on it -_-

magnet18

Thu Jun 16 2011, 05:14AM

Registered Member #3766 Joined: Sun Mar 20 2011, 05:39AM
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Funny you mention the stress...
I hate it, but I thrive in it. Under the right circumstances I can work very quickly and accurately, I swear time can slow down.
I also get really, really shaky at the same time, and it's almost like I can't focus on one thing, I focus on EVERYTHING, and I'm constantly glancing around, and thinking in circles, but it works good enough.

I once daydreamed during a chemistry final, looked at the clock, realized I had about 15 minutes to answer 40 questions, and I snapped into epic test mode, answered them all and aced the final :)

Another time we were about to go on for a robot competention at the state level, and suddenly the robot arm full out stops working for no reason.
We stop and I spend about 5 minuets troubleshooting it before finally jury rigging it and getting it to work halfway. I swear it was 5 minuets. Afterward I watched the video and it took me about 45 seconds while everyone sat and stared at me.
Again, it's a good thing I didn't have to solder, because I was shaking so damn bad (though everyone kept telling me I looked unnaturally calm)

Meh.

Proud Mary

Thu Jun 16 2011, 10:48AM

Registered Member #543 Joined: Tue Feb 20 2007, 04:26PM
Location: UK
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Finn Hammer wrote ...

Proud Mary wrote ...

* (F60.0) Paranoid personality disorder
* (F60.1) Schizoid personality disorder
* (F60.2) Antisocial personality disorder
* (F60.3) Borderline personality disorder
* (F60.4) Histrionic personality disorder

A google search for a meaningfull translation of these terms into something that can be understood by this native Dane led me to a number of Youtube videos which have convinced me of the unnerving fact that I suffer from it all!

Finn

To attract a diagnosis, a symptom set must "cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning" (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, 4th edition, American Psychiatric Association, 2000, p. 356).

Perhaps a Google search can only ever be as deep as the mind of the person who made it.

Chip Fixes

Thu Jun 16 2011, 01:35PM

Registered Member #3781 Joined: Sat Mar 26 2011, 02:25AM
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magnet18 wrote ...

Another time we were about to go on for a robot competention at the state level, and suddenly the robot arm full out stops working for no reason.
We stop and I spend about 5 minuets troubleshooting it before finally jury rigging it and getting it to work halfway. I swear it was 5 minuets. Afterward I watched the video and it took me about 45 seconds while everyone sat and stared at me.
Again, it's a good thing I didn't have to solder, because I was shaking so damn bad (though everyone kept telling me I looked unnaturally calm)

This reminds me, last year my friend (the only other friend I know interested in building electronics, I didn't know him well enough to get invited to join at the time) started a FIRST robotics club and they placed second at state, would have made it to internationals if they either had an engineers notebook or if their Bluetooth worked throughout the whole competition. What robotics competition are you in?

not that this has anything to do with the topic but oh well

magnet18

Thu Jun 16 2011, 01:53PM

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It's called destination imagination.
It's more creative problem solving, but they have a technical section that was all about robots (technically RC)

Killa-X

Thu Jun 16 2011, 06:00PM

Registered Member #1643 Joined: Mon Aug 18 2008, 06:10PM
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I personally have been more comfortable sitting at home doing stuff alone, and not with people. But at the same time, HV made me want to present projects. and this year, school and all, I was a LOT more open. People in class like the teacher always said I was quiet..never talked..and this year I talked a lot and some semi-friends joked around with that saying that I went from quiet to constant talk. I enjoyed presenting many things to the class this year.

Also made a step that i havn't done for over 4 years. Making a new friend.

So i guess ya, HV was a start of boredom, something to do to keep me busy and happy on days I was in a bad mood. Yet, it has also made me more open, due to the want to share my projects...show off..get feedback..and I now have a friend who actually wants to do some of the things i do with HV.

Bored Chemist

Thu Jun 16 2011, 06:12PM

Registered Member #193 Joined: Fri Feb 17 2006, 07:04AM
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Posts: 1022

I feel sorry for people who don't understand the excitement of science.
As I see it, being "normal" is a mild personality disorder.

Sulaiman

Thu Jun 16 2011, 06:31PM

Registered Member #162 Joined: Mon Feb 13 2006, 10:25AM
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 3140

I think that it would be fair to say
- all 4HVers have a 'personality disorder' of some kind since they're human
- readers of this thread probably have diagnosable 'personality disorder's
- posters even more so !

The worst is fear of worrying about personality disorders.

Conundrum

Thu Jun 16 2011, 08:23PM

Registered Member #96 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:37PM
Location: CI, Earth
Posts: 4061

Does obsessive collecting of broken stuff count?

Yes I do try and fix some of it, but at the moment my workspace resembles a junkyard.

-A

GluD

Thu Jun 16 2011, 09:34PM

Registered Member #1221 Joined: Wed Jan 09 2008, 06:17PM
Location: Odense, Denmark
Posts: 196

I feel sorry for people who don't understand the excitement of science.
As I see it, being "normal" is a mild personality disorder.

The way I see things, "normal" people are the cause of most the problems we see these days. But I could be wrong, its been said to me before that I am at times rather antisocial

The only time I didnt feel strange around people was at a hamfest, usually I never go out but I made an exception.
I was really suprised how civilised it was with all those people in the same room.
In a room with an equal amount of "regular people" there would have been one hell of alot noise, people yelling at each other or similar "normal human behavoir". But it was all nice and quiet and people behaved themselves - because they was geeks with various "disorders".

In my opinion all the disorder in the world is made by the "normal" people.

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