Do you have a mental illness?

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Do you have a Mental illness?

  • Yes

    Votes: 43 60.6%

  • No

    Votes: 28 39.4%
  • Total voters
    71
Stan said:
Tbh I think my original fascination with Chris Chan came from anger I felt at being compared to the autistic boys in my social skills class. The first couple classes at age 5-6 were fine, but when I had to go back in grade 6 the other kids were worse off, touched me inappropriately, and I generally resented being compared to them. When I first heard about those crazy GF/dairy-free diets for asspies some kids in the group were on I was terrified my folks would put me on one too.
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Thankfully I was never put in tard classes, not that my parents would have allowed it. I did get free lunch one year before my parents cancelled it. I hated the fucking math assistance classes I had to take and I definitely would have probably started ditching school if I ended up in a tard class.
Sage In All Fields said:
normal people suck i prefer aspies tbh
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The Great Chandler said:
Even though I'm an aspie, I put No because I don't think I ever had a real problem with it. Could just be me.
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I mostly normal as well but am a fuck up socially. I either try to blend in with people around me and feel like I still out and am artificial or jumble my words up because I'm stressing out.*sigh*

Wish I had been giving some socialization therapy or something.
 
Anxiety isn't a mental illness and ADD was invented to sell amphetamines and pathologizes normal child behavior.
Edit: No. Probably have something but never been checked.
 
Corpun said:
Thankfully I was never put in tard classes, not that my parents would have allowed it. I did get free lunch one year before my parents cancelled it. I hated the fucking math assistance classes I had to take and I definitely would have probably started ditching school if I ended up in a tard class.


I mostly normal as well but am a fuck up socially. I either try to blend in with people around me and feel like I still out and am artificial or jumble my words up because I'm stressing out.*sigh*

Wish I had been giving some socialization therapy or something.
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It's kind of weird, but I don't think I needed therapy just to learn how to socialize. I just do. Occasionally I get spurts of social awkwardness, but most of the time I just shrug it off. If it causes someone to flip out for whatever reason, I just remind myself that it's not my fault I try to mean well and someone took it the wrong way, but at the end of the day, you are not responsible for others' reactions except yourself.
 
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Non Verbal Learning Disorder. Bipolar Type 2. Major Depression. I test borderline negative for ADHD, but respond positively to medication. That's the only type of medication that actually does its job; I've cycled through an entire pharmacy of psychiatric drugs, both on and off label, with varying degrees of success, failure and side effects.

I'm currently in adjustment again, with my psych taking me off two medications and reducing a third. This is the first time I've ever had an adjustment and lost weight, because my stomach and lower digestive tract are fucked up and I haven't been able to eat much for the past couple weeks. Usually I go up a size whenever my meds change.

I've been through withdrawal so many times that whenever I hear some whiny little bitch complaining about quitting cigarettes, I just want to slap them in the mouth.
 
i actually went to a psychologist once and they determined i have no mental illnesses.
other than a few addictions, but those aren't inherent.
 
Puff said:
Anxiety isn't a mental illness and ADD was invented to sell amphetamines and pathologizes normal child behavior.
Edit: No. Probably have something but never been checked.
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I have a really complicated relationship with stimulant meds for ADHD. I was forced to take them in middle school and hated it because they gave me insomnia, and my parents basically allowed my school to mandate it. The story was that the school wouldn’t let me proceed to the next grade without drugs. When I quit them myself in 8th grade (school was K-8, so no next grade to disinvite me to) and school found out I quit, I was called to this junta where the school counselor and the principal tried to persuade me back on them.

But as an adult, low dose stimulants are pretty helpful with my mood. Everything feels 3x more annoying and useless without them.
glass_houses said:
Usually I go up a size whenever my meds change.
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Tell me about it. 2021-22 I was hospitalized 3x and gained 45 lbs. I’m only starting to lose it again
 
I've never had an opportunity to formally get diagnosed with anything, but I probably do a have few loose screws here and there considering family backgrounds and whatnot. I know I never felt 100% "normal", but who knows what it actually is.
 
The public school system suspected it twice. Sent me to remedial retard classes the first time and a shrink the second. Both times I was returned to my normal routine within a week and diagnosed with "smart but bored, nothing wrong with this one".
 
Diagnosed with severe depression. Probably have more, but not official.
 
"Mental disorders are not real. You don't have ADD, you're just lazy. You don't have aspergers, you're just retarded. You don't have anxiety, you're just a pussy. You don't have depression, you're just a sad sack of shit. Now go outside and touch some grass."
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PTSD after a terrorist attack. Things I recommend: actively working with your care provider/therapist, at the same time taking medication if you absolutely need to do so and not fucking around taking it here or there or more than recommended or conversely, quitting it without tapering off, and looking after yourself even if you don’t feel like it that day. Get up, get clean, get dressed, get back to work or normal routine as soon as you can and take some time to get outside each day, eat a good meal at least once a day, don’t neglect your sleep or cleaning, and find something to work on, something like woodwork or coding- whatever you enjoy- and do that more often than you are online reading posts by other mentally ill sad sacks.
 
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