[Nikki57]

As with a lot of my posts I wasn't sure where to put this. I tried searching but I'm just so bad with explaining things.

Ok so I was watching Intervention earlier and it was an episode on an alcoholic. Well for some reason I started thinking what if the next time I drink I think of this episode and have a panic attack or something? I barely ever drink, so I have no idea why I thought this. Something like this has happened before though. If I watch a show or read a book or something about someone with any kind of mental disorder I start getting freaked out. Like I'll start thinking do I do that? Or that somehow by seeing it I'll get whatever "problem" (for lack of a better word) that they have. Obviously I know disorders aren't contagious.

Does anybody else do this?

[Disorder7]

I feel like that but it's usually related to sickness or disease. Like if I watch something on television, or someone tells me about someone with cancer, I start feeling sick and wonder if I have it, too.

I saw something on television the other night where someone had a blood clot in the brain. Almost immediately I developed a headache and was afraid I was having a stroke.

I'm completely insane. Lol

[Shining]

True story:

When I was 22 I had seen an episode of 20/20 and college students drinking until they were passed out and die from alcohol poisoning. They discussed how the kids are so drunk they do not know to help the one passed out.

That weekend, I was at my friends. Her boyfriend wanted to have a contest who could drink the most Jack Daniels. I thought I was going to beat him. By the time the Jack Daniels was gone, I was drunk as drunk could be. I was hugging the toilet. My mind went back to the 20/20 show and I kept yelling from the bathroom I am sick and about to die help me. My friends were drunk and were ignoring me. I thought "oh my God it is true - no one cares and they let their friends die". I was still screaming from the bathroom - call 911, I am sick and about to die. Finally, my friend called 911. She said my friend is in the bathroom and keeps saying she is sick and about to die. They sent an ambulance to come and get me. I was so drunk that when they got there I was now lying on the bed and out of the bathroom. They kept trying to pull me up by the arm to get me to talk to them. I was then telling them I was ok, it was a mistake calling them. Since I was so drunk - they made me go to hospital. In the ambulance they asked me my name. I said Maria Fuentes. That is so not my name. They kept calling me Maria. When I got into the ER - security was waiting for me (I guess drunk people get security). Well, the security girl was a girl I went to HS with. She said hey (called my name) whats going on? I said I don't know but my name is Maria........haha. I was put into a room, they took my blood and I just passed out. I woke up several hours later. They said I was only drunk. I for sure thought I had alcohol poisoning because of that show.

So, it is our minds playing games with us.

Originally Posted by Nikki57

As with a lot of my posts I wasn't sure where to put this. I tried searching but I'm just so bad with explaining things.

Ok so I was watching Intervention earlier and it was an episode on an alcoholic. Well for some reason I started thinking what if the next time I drink I think of this episode and have a panic attack or something? I barely ever drink, so I have no idea why I thought this. Something like this has happened before though. If I watch a show or read a book or something about someone with any kind of mental disorder I start getting freaked out. Like I'll start thinking do I do that? Or that somehow by seeing it I'll get whatever "problem" (for lack of a better word) that they have. Obviously I know disorders aren't contagious.

Does anybody else do this?