Mental Illness Thread

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Here's a thread to share any experiences you or a loved one has had with mental illness and society's attitude toward it.

To start off, for the last few years I'm been having complications from anxiety and depression, and both of them I'm on meds for. One time I checked myself into the mental hospital. And currently as the days are shortening in the Northern Hemisphere, I'm starting to feel the effects of Seasonal Affective Disorder. I'm becoming more sluggish, reclusive, and sleepy since it's getting darker now. :(
 
Recently, I found out my ADHD was legitimately misdiagnosed.

Still taking the meds from it. They have some positive affect, but it's no different from drinking a cup of coffee every morning, apparently.

I get depressed a lot in the summer and curl up and die. I'm really energetic and wonderful in Autumn and Winter. I tried to get over that summer depression last year with some success. Having a friend to keep me in check helped.

I'm not sure about anxiety. I know most of my family members have it, but apparently, it doesn't really show that much in me or my sister.
 
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After I eat my light dinner I need to get on the treadmill. My meds have made my gain weight, and also my therapist has said that exercise is good for mental health.
 
I've had some sort of undiagnosed mental illness since I was 12. When I was 25, I started seeing a counselor when I transferred to another college and pretty much lost my marbles. I've been on anxiety medicine ever since. I think it helps a lot, I don't cry all the time like I used to.
 
Everyone is at least little mentally ill. A therapist once suggested that I was obsessive-compulsive, but I immediately stopped seeing her after that so I guess I'll never know. Maybe I'm better off not knowing.
 
I've had severe issues with depression and anxiety in the past but I treat it without relying on medication as much as I can now.
 
Niachu said:
I've had severe issues with depression and anxiety in the past but I treat it without relying on medication as much as I can now.
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How do you do that, may I ask?
 
exball said:
The Hunter said:
exball said:
My Mental illness is being to amazing.
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Whatever illness it is, it has a devastating affect on your writing.
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I can't believe you missed the fucking joke, god damn, I must be the only person here that knows how to spell.

*leaves building*

No, no, fuck it, I'm done. I can't work with these incompetent... assholes!

*begins to get into truck*

Fuck off.

*starts up truck, drives forward, runs over camera man*
 
The Hunter said:
I can't believe you missed the fucking joke, god damn, I must be the only person here that knows how to spell.

*leaves building*

No, no, fuck it, I'm done. I can't work with these incompetent... assholes!

*begins to get into truck*

Fuck off.

*starts up truck, drives forward, runs over camera man*
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The joke is that you used "affect" when you should have used "effect," isn't it?
 
Mourning Dove said:
Niachu said:
I've had severe issues with depression and anxiety in the past but I treat it without relying on medication as much as I can now.
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How do you do that, may I ask?
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Diet, exercise, pets, being involved in my community and having things to take pride in.
 
i've dealt with mental illnesses. i've been in the hospital for it. but i have learned to never let them be an excuse for anything. they actually motivate me every day to not sit around feeling like crap all the time. it is possible to deal and cope.
but i recently came across this article:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/fo ... 0320.story
stuff like that makes me feel good that there are people out there bringing attention to mental illnesses. something i feel is not really talked about as much as it should be.
 
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CatParty said:
i've dealt with mental illnesses. i've been in the hospital for it. but i have learned to never let them be an excuse for anything. they actually motivate me every day to not sit around feeling like crap all the time. it is possible to deal and cope.
but i recently came across this article:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/fo ... 0320.story
stuff like that makes me feel good that there are people out there bringing attention to mental illnesses. something i feel is not really talked about as much as it should be.
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I agree. Society's stigma towards mental illness, such as attributing it to weak will or "craziness", only makes mental illness among sufferers worse. As I learned during my time in the mental hospital, openly and candidly talking about mental illness is one of the best methods for healing. Mental illness is simply an illness after all (chemical imbalances in the brain to be exact), just like diabetes, Celiac disease, or breast cancer. Yet strangely enough the attention, care, and sympathy towards it is still absent.
 
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Certain smells, like my moms terrible cooking (she likes to overcook things) will set off my anxiety.
 
Mourning Dove said:
CatParty said:
i've dealt with mental illnesses. i've been in the hospital for it. but i have learned to never let them be an excuse for anything. they actually motivate me every day to not sit around feeling like crap all the time. it is possible to deal and cope.
but i recently came across this article:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/fo ... 0320.story
stuff like that makes me feel good that there are people out there bringing attention to mental illnesses. something i feel is not really talked about as much as it should be.
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I agree. Society's stigma towards mental illness, such as attributing it to weak will or "craziness", only makes mental illness among sufferers worse. As I learned during my time in the mental hospital, openly and candidly talking about mental illness is one of the best methods for healing. Mental illness is simply an illness after all (chemical imbalances in the brain to be exact), just like diabetes, Celiac disease, or breast cancer. Yet strangely enough the attention, care, and sympathy towards it is still absent.
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Mental illness is a stigma because when you bring it up people automatically think of the ranting lunatics lost in their own world and possibly criminals high on drugs. I'm not above thinking of mental illness in this way either most of the time. It's a habit.

When, for example, I was at work and this younger guy in his early 20's came up and explained to me over the course of an hour that he had psychic powers and that the Jehovah Witnesses wanted him because the leader of their church also was psychic and was sending thoughts into his head to make him do things the first thing I thought of was "Holy crap how do you not know how crazy you sound? Why don't you just stop?". Same thing happened when this lady came in late one night and told me she had driven over 4 hours out of her way because she didn't like the look of a policeman she passed on the interstate because she was constantly being followed by cops and the government because it was her "job" to follow cops around to make sure they were doing their job right. This is the kind of people most people think of when mental illness is brought up.

And you're right that the best way to heal from mental issues is to talk about it. The problem is most people don't want to talk to these people so they end up being alone which makes the illness worse which causes even less people to want to talk to them.
 
I've got bipolar disorder. I've tried to commit suicide several times. The last time I tried I curled up in my bathtub with a .41 magnum in my mouth and the hammer pulled back. 4lbs of pressure on the trigger and I wouldn't be here. My finger was on the trigger and I just couldn't will my finger to move, which made me incredibly angry. Wound up going to the hospital where I met Anna McLerran. I've been stable since, found my Dudeness if you will.
 
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Related. I (thankfully) don't have schizophrenia, but recently I found a simulation of a schizophrenic psychotic episode on YouTube. Having the disease must be terrifying! You wouldn't know what's real and what isn't!

[youtube]LWYwckFrksg[/youtube]
 
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