I have been told, by peers, that I seem to have bipolar disorder, ADHD, schizophrenia, and multiple personality disorder. what are the symptoms for these mental problems?

I also hear little voices in my head that are constantly arguing with each other, no matter what I try to do to stop them.

I don't know if this is relevant either, but today in class I was reading a book, and a few people were staring at me. I started having a panic attack and crying. what could this be?

Peers cannot diagnose, especially if they aren't inside of your head.

If you want a proper diagnosis, talk to a psychiatrist or – better yet – therapist.
Especially if you hear voices, you'll want to seek some psychological assistance. if you don't know where to start or how to get help, start with seeing your doctor. They can recommend steps from there.

For clearer definitions, you should google each disorder individually, but:
Bipolar disorder has several types, but basically means that you go through severe mood swings. Highs and lows. I have bipolar type II, and I also have hallucinations and panic attacks without medication. but you'd also have to have severe ups and downs.
I don't know much about ADHD, but you would have trouble paying attention, and even reading a book would be difficult. you don't seem to have that.
Schizophrenia is likely, but schizophrenics have trouble expressing emotion. not many cry.

Definitely seek assistance.
This should be more than a curiousity.
If you get proper medication, you can live a relatively normal life.

Good luck<3

Bipolar disorder – Periods of mania that last at least 4 days but usually last for months, symptoms of mania include insomnia, loads of excess energy, risky behaviours, hypersexuality, increased spending, etc.

Periods of depression, symptoms of depression include feelings of hopelessness or doom, suicidal ideation, loss of intrest in activities that once help pleasure, over sleeping, increase/decrease in appetite.

ADHD – I dont know alot about but i hear its very similar to the manic phase of bipolar disorder

Schizophrnia – Hallucinations, such as hearing voices – real voices, not voices in your head but voices that you cannot tell arent real if you had your eyes closed.

Delusions – false ideas, so believing people are out to get you or that you know someone famous etc.

there are several other symptoms of schizophrenia that mimic those of depression.

Multiple personality disorder,, also known as DID – sufferfer is usually unaware of other personalities, will have periods of blank memory, must have suffered repeat, severe trauma to develop DID.

I cannot stress how HIGHLY unlikely it is you have all these disorders although you may well have one, or somethign else you havnt even considered like schizoaffective disorder. However the only person how will ever be able to tell you for sure is a psychiatrist – go and see one if you are worried, best of luck!

Look it up in a DSM.
I am no doctor, I'm just a teen who's kind of obsessed with psychology. To me, it sounds like you COULD have Schitzoaffective Disorder. It's a mix of a mood disorder (bipolar) and a psychotic disorder (schitzophernia). Multiple personality disorder, I'm not too sure, but I don't think that's an actual condition. It's a symptom, usually of schitzophernia.

Bipolar- allpsych.com/disorders/mood/bipolar.html

Schitzophernia- allpsych.com/disorders/psychotic/schizophrenia.html

Schitzoaffective- allpsych.com/disorders/psychotic/schizoaffective.html

See a psychiatrist.

You didn't mention your age. I just read an article, the link is below. Check it out, see if anything sounds like what you are experiencing. have you talked with anyone about this? Maybe your parents, a close friend, or a councelor at school? Maybe you should check with your doctor. They may be able to help you figure out what is going on. The sooner you find out, the better things will be. it seems there are a lot of people with similar feelings, so don't feel alone.

I hav multiple personality disorder.. but i dont think im bipoler,,,,,,,,,,,,,, I cry alot and have anxiety and panic attacks but still!

Bi polar disorder – Is a mood disorder. The sufferers goes through periods of mania and periods of depression. These episodes of mania and depression may last a few days to a few weeks. There might be periods of feeling normal in between. The Mania is very severe it is not like hyperactivity it is like a level of hyperactivity that is beyond human. The sufferer will talk non stop and may loose their sense of reality, will do and say uncontrollable things like beating someone up, or spending their life savings in one afternoon. The depression is also severe.

ADHD – Is a behavioral disorder. The sufferer has a very short attention span and can't concentrate for long, is hyperactive and constantly moving and fidgeting and has poor impulse control and does not consider the consequences of their actions or inhibit their behavior. To be diagnosed with ADHD you have to have had it your whole life, it does not appear in later childhood or teen years also it is present all day every day no sporadically like Bi Polar.

Schizophrenia – Is a psychotic disorder which means the sufferer loses touch with reality. They usually don't know they have the disorder. They may have delusions that people are trying to kill them or read their mind or something and can have hallucinations which means they see and/or hear things that aren't there. They can't stay on one train of thought, they may skip from one thought to another and make no sense.

Multiple personality disorder is actually called dissociative identity disorder. in this disorder the sufferer has two or more (often more) totally different identities, changing from one to the other at various times. each identity is often unaware of the other identities and they think they are the only one, but there are big chunks of life missing from their memories.

panic attacks are a separate disorder on their own.

Consumers conduct about 90 million multiple sclerosis related searches each month. they spell out the words, but also use the acronym MS 508K times a month. MS is an ambiguous acronym, and has many meanings depending upon who is using it in a query. currently there are over 200 definitions for MS in the marketplace, but the most common meanings are:

• Multiple sclerosis
• Microsoft
• Mississippi
• Morgan Stanley
• Masters of science degree
• MySpace

This is something to think about because it reflects how people and search engines process information differently. People can see “MS” in context and get the meaning, but search engines have a harder time figuring out what it means. for example, do a search on MS and look at the results. As you can see, you end up with a search results page co-mingled with results from Microsoft, Morgan Stanley and Mississippi. I think this causes consumers to do a second search spelling out multiple sclerosis which returns a rich set of search results.

I took a look at a couple of multiple sclerosis non-profit websites, and indeed I found that the term MS was used almost exclusively over multiple sclerosis in webpage copy. One home page I looked at had 15 instances of MS, and only one instance of multiple sclerosis. This is not the best usage of the terminology from an SEO perspective, but the copy was just fine for consumer consumption. Non-profits should try to strike a balance in website copy between these two important keywords because they have two important but very different targets: the consumer, and the search engine crawler.

Ok, with that out of the way, let’s take a look at how consumers find information about multiple sclerosis. 90 million monthly searches is an enormous amount of traffic that reflects consumer anxiety, and a quest for answers about this debilitating disease. there is a fair amount of complexity in this data, and understanding this search behavior will help you provide more options and information to people in crisis.

The first thing to examine is the high-level categories of search behavior. Consumers are participating in 19 distinct behavior patterns. Reviewing the categories by volume shows you that informational searches are the most dominant category by a wide margin. Informational searches are often vague, and hard to exploit because you know that they are in some way interested in MS, but you can’t tell what specifics they are looking for. The next two largest categories (symptoms and treatment) are the most common specific search requests where you can deduce user intent.

The next thing that jumps out at you is the Spanish category. 90K people are searching on “esclerosis multiple” each and every month. This is close to one million searches a year; therefore this would make an excellent micro site opportunity for the Hispanic community. keep in mind that these are global numbers, and your strategy may be different if you focus is local.

Several of the high-level categories have themes that can be called out. In the following table you will find these themes sorted in descending volume so that you can see the relative importance of each sub-group. for example, about 88% of searches for treatment reflect a traditional physician / hospital approach, while the remaining are queries about diet, and other alternative approaches.

While examining the list of sub-categories is an interesting exercise, it is more productive to see if there are common interests that allow you to regroup this list in sections that make sense from an information architecture perspective (for website development). it turns out there are four very distinct organizational opportunities in this search behavior.

First cluster: Searchers are looking for very specific information about all aspects of the disease. they are in self-education mode.

Second cluster: here searchers are concerned with treatment options, the long-term prognosis and future developments that may impact treatment.

Third cluster: here searchers are interested in finding services and support. This includes locating hospitals and doctors. On the support side you find them looking for support groups and non-profit support organizations.

Fourth cluster: here searchers are requesting specific types of content. they are naming products and people, and making content requests using terms like guides (in the content category).

The ability to organize search behavior into common categories allows your non-profit to display the information that consumers are looking for into logical sections accessible from the home page. This organizational strategy makes sense for Facebook support pages as well.

Let’s take a look at the individual categories in more detail. I will be dealing with each of the categories by descending volume.

Information: Informational searches account for 2.9 million searches a month. these tend to be vague in nature. they use phrases like MS information or multiple sclerosis websites that make it clear that they are interested in MS, but what aspect of the disease is unknown. One of the more interesting things happening in this group is how many searches are done on abbreviated spellings of the medical terms. for example:

• multiple sclerosis – 550,000
• multi sclerosis – 550,000
• multiple sclerosi – 550,000
• multiple sclera – 550,000
• multiple scl – 550,000

This terminology can be exploited as part of your SEO strategy.

Symptoms: Consumers search for symptoms more than a half-million times each month. they tend to cluster into two sub-categories: non-specific searches using vague terminology, and very specific searches mentioning body parts and specific symptoms. for example:

These non-specific search terms most likely reflect consumers who are in the earliest stages of research and self-education.

• Early signs / symptoms
• First signs / symptoms
• Initial symptoms
• Warning signs
• What are the…

When you look at specific symptoms used, you see clusters in the following areas:

• Pain
• Fatigue
• Lesions
• Numbness

Consumers search using non-specific terms by a ten-to-one margin over specific medical terms.

Treatment: Consumers conduct 195,388 searches for treatment options in three distinct sub-categories:

• The first category is generalized searches about therapy, medications and new developments in treatment.
• In the second category, they are searching for alternative treatments using the terms natural, homeopathy, herbs and alternative.
• In the third category, they are concerned with diet, nutrition and vitamins.

Organization: most of the 103,540 searches are for MS organizations. Consumers are searching for these groups using the terms association, society and foundation interchangeably. society is the most commonly used term and should be the term of choice for website and ad copy.

• Society – 40K
• Association – 20K
• Foundation – 10K

Spanish: 90,500 people search for “esclerosis multiple” every month. This is clearly an opportunity to develop a Spanish language micro-site to front-end the rest of the content available at your non-profit site.

Location: The majority of the 71,320 searches in this category are for locating a hospital (60K searches). they are using the terms hospital, center and clinic interchangeably. The most common term is center, used about 54K times a month. This behavior should be reflected in your webpage copy.

Drug: two thirds of the 62,656 searches are for drugs by a brand name. Avonex is the most common (29K searches). The second / third most common search is generic in nature, and is for new drugs and MS drugs. The following terms are the most common found in the drug category.

• Avonex – 29K
• New drugs – 7K
• MS drugs – 5.4K

Consumers are also using medication, medicine and meds interchangeably. It’s hard to make a case for a preferred term in this instance, though you can make a case for using all three variants throughout all your content.

• Medication – 6,140
• Medicine – 6,000
• Meds – 4,400

Support: Of the 56,600 searches in the support group, 44K are about the MS walk. The searches for support manifest itself in several distinct themes.

• MS walk
• Awareness
• Charity / donations
• Resources for individuals

Causes: these 43,660 monthly queries are really about consumers asking questions. The most common terms in this category include:

• Causes of – 12K
• Etiology of – 6.6K
• How do you get – 6.6K

This behavior provides a great labeling opportunity for a custom landing page.

Diagnosis: when consumers search about diagnosis (41,770 searches) they do so using variants such as diagnose, diagnosing and diagnostic. You find them using the following terms to modify the primary phrase:

• Blood test / test
• MRI

Disease type: when consumers search for information about MS (32,590 searches) they do so in two ways. they are specifying their searches in general terms using the word type or types of – 10.8K searches. when they search more specifically they are commonly using the following terms:

• Progressive – 8.3K
• Primary progressive – 4.8K
• Secondary progressive – 1.7K
• Benign – 1K

Research: The 31,746 searches in research break down into three distinct consumer interests.

• General research – 12.8K
• Stem cell research – 11.9K
• Clinical trials – 6.9K

Complications: The 29,028 searches in the complication category cluster into four groups:

• Relapsing MS – 10.4K
• Myelin / myelin sheath – 4.1K
• Secondary complications from pregnancy, alcohol and stroke.
• Reference to body parts: brain, bladder, neck and legs.

Gender and Age: Of the 16,721 searches conducted by gender and age we find that 10K searches are for information about women, whereas only 2K searches concern men. The rest of the search traffic is demographic in nature, and deal with age and onset of MS.

Prognosis: 50% of the 15,926 searches in the prognosis category deal with questions about cures. The rest of the traffic deals with the effects, the stages and prognosis of the disease.

Doctor: Consumers look for professional medical services in several ways (11,773 searches). The most common titles include:

• Physicians – 3.6K
• Doctors – 2.9K
• Neurologist – 2.6K

In other medical behavior models I’ve seen that consumers tend to favor the term physician over doctor when they are searching for services.

The remaining categories have very little traffic, but it is worth understanding what consumers are looking for in these cases.

Content: 4,237 searches. these are very specific content requests, and most of this traffic consists of people searching for pictures and videos.

Products: 2,530 searches. these people are interested in books, bracelets, jewelry and t-shirts. though this traffic is limited it is transactional and valuable because they want to buy something.

People: 2,450 searches. most of this traffic is for famous people with MS. Perhaps they are trying to find out how these personalities are coping with their disease.

It’s always useful to look at how often an individual term or a two-word phrase is used across all the keyword phrases in a particular dataset. The following table outlines the top 25 terms, and how often they show up in a search query. The terms in this list account for nearly 90% of search traffic. In particular the terms symptom and treatment reflect the primary interest of consumers, and should play a major information role on the home page.

One of the more interesting behavior patterns in this list is the propensity for partial spellings of sclerosis in very large numbers (1.65 million) each month. it could be that many consumers are not sure how to spell sclerosis, and they hope that the search engine sorts it out for them. The top three partial spellings are:

• Scl
• Scler
• Scelosi

The word “multiple” is also abbreviated 550K times each month (i.e., multi). Behavior like this is difficult to exploit in consumer friendly webpage copy without it looking like spam. though you can get creative, and call out this behavior on a “did you know” facts page.

In the final analysis these terms represent your textual pallet when developing website pages and ad copy, and the terms should be reflected in your information architecture.

So, what does this analysis do for you as a non-profit organization? Let’s list some of the most important items to think about.

• At the highest level, consumers are interested in symptoms, treatment and organizations. these themes should underpin your website information architecture and ad copy.
• The sheer number of Spanish searches provides additional recruiting and donation opportunity.
• The 18 categories identified in this analysis fold neatly into four sections that can be the basis for focused architecture in website design. these can also be the basis for custom landing pages. these are:
  • Self-education
  • Diagnosis and treatment
  • Locate support and services
  • Locate content and products
• Editorial focus. Each category of behavior has a very narrow set of terms that are being used in searches. these terms provides you with the opportunity to tailor page copy to exactly what consumers are searching for. One of the major reasons consumers bail out on a website is their intent is not satisfied. when they see an exact match for the terms they are using, they are less apt to leave.
• Google taught the world how to search. Consumers are taking these skills and are applying them in the enterprise and in social networking platforms. The insight in this analysis applies to your enterprise and social media initiatives.
• Strike a balance between MS and Multiple Sclerosis when writing website and ad copy. Consumers know what MS means from context. Search engines are not as smart.

Your non-profit organization may not be focused on multiple sclerosis, but the insight in this analysis exists in your cause. I encourage you to sort out how consumers find your organizations services.

Finally, your non-profit may be national but all your events and fund drives are local. if you have not claimed your organization in Google, Yahoo and Bing’s local search services, you should do so. You will not automatically get added to these local search indexes. there are local search requirements for being included. make sure you understand what they are.

If you are looking for more information about multiple sclerosis please check out the national multiple sclerosis society for a chapter near you.

The data used in this analysis were extracted from AdWords.