I suffer from chronic headaches that range from being barely able to feel them to almost crippiling pain. I have really bad social anxiety, and Im barely able to taalk infront of a group of people. I personally haven't had any of this diagnosed but I am pretty sure that if I were to go to a specialist I would be.

My boyfriend was diagnosed with ADHD, I don't see this one bit in him. I have another friend diagnosed with ADHD also and I can telll when she has not taken her meds. I have another friend that is slightly autistic, another that has diabetes.

All I have to say is that I love my friends, and I don't care what may impede you so long as you are nice with me. I am naturally curious about these things, but I am very open minded also :D

Mental and chronic and/or serious physical illnesses of many kinds run in my mother's side of the family. I'm hoping, REALLY hoping that the mental illnesses skipped a generation in me, because they are BAD. The physical illnesses, eh, at least either they're treatable or they'll kill me before I suffer too much...or make anyone else suffer too much. I really don't want any of them, but I REALLY want to avoid the mental illnesses.

My grandmother was paranoid-schizophrenic. Died of lung cancer.

One of my aunts on that side is severely depressed, has a history of cancer, and is always extremely paranoid that it's back (despite no evidence suggesting it), and the other...I'm not sure what it is - I'm no doctor - but there's something not quite right with her.

My mother, well, the universe seems to have something against her. She probably has BPD, high-functioning autism, schizophrenia, and/or bipolar disorder. (I have a thread in LI where I've discussed the entirely unacceptable things she considers normal. She is living proof that mental illness is the worst thing because it's the only kind of disease that makes you want to kill the patient.) This on top of having had lung cancer...five? Six times? I've lost count but it was THREE ENTIRELY DIFFERENT PATHOLOGIES. This ALL on top of a fuckload of other less serious problems. She's basically a wreck.

She also has a blood disease which I just discovered tonight is hereditary and long story short I can never have most local anesthetics again just to be on the safe side. In her, it's undetectable until it flares and when it flares it can kill. In me, I have a few things that can be comorbid with it. Little scary.

I actually find the prospect kind of fun, but I just really like the idea of there being something exciting and different about me. And it's a REALLY FASCINATING disease. In mild chronic cases it TURNS PEOPLE BLUE. How awesome is that? And it's entirely possible to have it such that being blue is the only symptom and it's otherwise entirely harmless.

That's clearly not anyone in my family, but it's still kinda cool. There are two types of the gene: One which causes it as a chronic condition and one that just causes a change in blood chemistry as an acute reaction to outside factors. Both genes are technically recessive, but with the latter kind, carriers can still experience its effects - it's just a lot less likely.

I also "probably" have PTSD from dealing with my mother for 23 years. And by "probably" I mean I have the characteristic symptoms clear as day and I just need to see a therapist to sign off on it. I was also once diagnosed bipolar, but it turned out I just had a bad case of the teenage hormones with a touch of Done With Your Shit, Mom. My elementary school counselor also once decided I probably had ADD, but that was when the whole "Different? MUST BE ADD, GIVE RITALIN, MORE MONEY!" thing was going on. Truth was I was just BORED because I knew the class's material already.

Luckily my parents never bought into it.

I have a history of seizures, but they seem to have gone away. It just happened for a while, got under control with medication, and then just kinda...stopped. I started running out of medicine, couldn't refill it, stepped myself down out of need to stretch it out...but then...nothing happened. Not even under the exact circumstances I'd had seizures before (high stress, fatigue, flashing lights).

As for anything else, I just have to wait and see and hope that the worst crap skipped a generation. I have no plans to ever have biological children - I feel it would be horribly irresponsible on multiple counts - so either way it stops here.

I have anxiety (also social anxiety in that category) It really sucks to constantly have anxiety attacks. It makes life a lot worse. Especially school. Before I started taking meds, my anxiety would be so bad that I would cry at night.

I also have A.D.D I am not hyperactive, but I can't pay attention during class for more than 5 minutes. So obviously that brings my grades down. -__- And anxiety doesn't help with dealing with low grades.

And I have a auditory processing disorder. When people talk to me, I only get about half of the information they said, so during school, if a teacher gives a lecture, I get about no information on the subject.

Lastly, I have OCD. I don't like explaining it cause it would take way too long :P

According to what I've read; I have a 'disorder' because I have a tick where I am constantly twirling my hair and biting my nails. Apparently they go hand and hand and are related to a 'personality disorder' due to 'suppressing unwanted feelings'. I've been doing it since I've had teeth and hair long enough to wrap around my fingers, so I don't think that that is correct. But I also get the hiccups all the time; and causes for hiccups include stroke and brain tumor, so.... lol.

I think the 'disorders' they have nowadays are just ridiculous. Just lazy parents. "Let's shove drugs down our kids throats to make them zombies so we don't have to actually be parental units!" In most cases; anyways; I know there are legit ones as well. haha.

Hiccups are linked to tumors? What? Hiccups aren't even linked to the brain at all are they?

Hiccups are related to seizures, actually. Not in the sense of "OMG GET ON MEDICATION AND NEVER LOOK AT A STROBE LIGHT AGAIN" - but, they're caused by unusual electrical activity in the brain. Usually caused by confusing it by eating too fast.

Interesting. So does that mean that having seizures makes it more likely to have the hiccups? Or the other way around?

Honestly, I have no idea.

It would explain a bit though... my partner does get hiccups more than I do...