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Originally Posted by AdamantEsuna
This is all pretty confusing. But I'm pretty sure it's not just "behavior problems", because I just feel depressed and all that, but I'm not nasty or disrespectful to people, I'm maybe a little withdrawn and quieter, but the periods when I don't feel depressed, I just go back to normal.
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Please don't think I'm doubting the validity of what you're feeling, just clearing up some confusion for you.
I don't think anyone called it a behavior problem, but for something to be diagnosed there have to be accompanying behaviors. That does not make it a behavior problem, disorder or anything other than a behavior.
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And if it was behaviour problems would I not be able to control it then?
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Can you control blinking? Sure, for a few minutes, but other than that, no you really can't. Blinking is a behavior.
Behaviors for the most part are not controllable. Well I should say a majority of the behaviors you perform daily are uncontrollable.
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Would I not be just acting out?
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You are acting out. You're not screaming and hitting someone or cursing and biting but withdrawing yourself from something you normally would enjoy, you are having an abnormal behavior. (I say abnormal because in theory it is not socially acceptable, hence where bad behaviors are defined.)
A behavior is not bad, a behavior is what you do. Me typing right now, that is a behavior. You being sad is not a behavior, it's an emotion but what you do as a result of that emotion, what is observable, that is a behavior.
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Believe me, this has really been hurting my social life, particularily at school, where I used to be really friendly and outgoing, but I'm now very shy and quiet. I just want to be back to normal, so I can have the energy to hang out with people more like I used to.
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I really hope you find the help you need, let us know how it goes. You definitely need to seek out professional help from non-internet sources.