[Serious] Has anyone had any experience with mental illness?

[I believe in Harry Potter]

This is an issue i don't really always feel comfortable opening up and talking about and i wonder if anyone besides me have had any experience with mental illness , alergies , personality disorders etc. besides me which i have been having anxiety related to people ,can't handle eye contact , obsessive extreme thoughts , mood swings, social fear and insomnia so i think it's probably a good time that i go get checked so that i know how to cope with it better, im having a lot of common ground with aspergers syndrome and schizoid personality disorder

[Rhizomorph13]

I had a psychotic break many years ago and was hospitalized for a couple of weeks. It took me about 1.5 years to really get back to a true baseline of sanity. I'm a weirdo but I've been mostly successful in maintaining employment. I'm married and have three kids. If you feel weird about your mental state I would recommend talking to someone about it. Get a professional brain wrangler though, don't just sound off to any random nitwit that will allow you to bend their ear. I would also recommend finding a secular one.

[Sal]

I'm diagnosed schizoaffective disorder with tendency to lean on the depression side of the mood swings.

As long as I take my meds, I'm fine.

See a GP or a psychologist if you're really worried it has a negative impact on your quality of life.

[Jackalope]

Yeah, diagnosed bipolar type 1 with psychotic features (paranoid delusions) and post traumatic stress, all going back to the 1980s. Doing pretty good these days, due to lots of work on it and medication.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I was locked up in a psych ward for three weeks.  I tried to strangle a priest and then drink myself to death.  Nothing since then.

Boru

[Rev. Rye]

Autism Spectrum Disorder, Depression, and Pure-O OCD. That's the unholy trinity for me.

[no one]

Do batshit crazy girlfriends count?

[The Valkyrie]

Do batshit crazy girlfriends count?

(Seriously) I keep telling you I’m not your girlfriend!!

To answer the thread, yes.

Many.

[Abaddon_ire]

This is an issue i don't really always feel comfortable opening up and talking about and i wonder if anyone besides me have had any experience with mental illness , alergies , personality disorders etc. besides me which i have been having anxiety related to people ,can't handle eye contact , obsessive extreme thoughts , mood swings, social fear and insomnia so i think it's probably a good time that i go get checked so that i know how to cope with it better, im having a lot of common ground with aspergers syndrome and schizoid personality disorder

Right. Let us get something straight. I willingly volunteer for support lines because it is a useful and worthy use of any spare time I may have. All of the brakes I have in that context do not apply here.

Here, I can say what I wish.

So if I chuck out my training out of hand, what would I say?

Well, I know the type and you don't want to know my honest answer. Not in public. Perhaps in private and possibly not even then.

Does that seem harsh? Well, tough luck. That is why everyone who volunteers for what ever counselling service has a back up team of councellors for the unbelievable crap that one hears on the lines.

This leads me to a conclusion that I would normally not discuss except among my colleagues. Nevertheless, as an anonymous nobody on this site I am able to speak without restriction because nobody will be identified.

As you self identify, you are a self destructive narcissist. You think the world revolves around you. So do all teens. So did I when I was a teen. Welcome to reality. That is all false.

OR

You are a trojan horse account. A christian attempting to promote their BS. In which case, no thanks.

Either way, you are not being honest. The worst sin.

Either way, you are a childish dickhead.

[no one]

That's not what you said last night.