Mental Illness and the Psych Ward

[Psykhronic]

Rev--

Why did one of your teachers report you, if you dont mind me asking? In any case, yeah medications are only good if they actually fucking work no matter what anybody says. If you are stable without medications, then that's legit.

FMN--

You, I never thought about how great of a break the hospital would have been in high school. And you should ramble more about another hospital. Also, I've noticed that the hospital is mostly good at keeping people in a cycle and distributing meds. Like you said, the group therapy sucks. I'm so sorry you had a Dr. Phil douchebag though.

ShellB--

Wow, what a dick. Glad those guards were there for ya. But that anxiety level, etc sounds pretty fucking terrible.

[Rev. Rye]

Rev--

Why did one of your teachers report you, if you dont mind me asking? In any case, yeah medications are only good if they actually fucking work no matter what anybody says. If you are stable without medications, then that's legit.

My stories were getting increasingly disturbing;
One of them talked about the Dolphin slaughter in Taiji; another one involved a teenaged couple who can't stand each other who finally fell back in love with each other, but one of them immediately dies in a freak accident and the other one is blamed for it; Another time I responded to a dictum to "write something you've been avoiding writing about" by writing an unvarnished account of a trauma I had in grade school; and, finally, I wrote a reworking of Roald Dahl's "Lamb to the Slaughter" with, instead of husband and wife, two 13-year old girls and, looking upon it in retrospect, I think the fact that I singled out one of them as a vegetarian might have been the tipping point.

[Psykhronic]

Really, creative writing stories? That's interesting, where are you from if you do not mind me asking. The only reason I ask is because I wrote stories that rival yours in "disturbing" qualities in high school and totally got away with it. I could write a book on everything I got away with in high school though.

[Rev. Rye]

Really, creative writing stories? That's interesting, where are you from if you do not mind me asking. The only reason I ask is because I wrote stories that rival yours in "disturbing" qualities in high school and totally got away with it. I could write a book on everything I got away with in high school though.

Chicago. And just for the record, another story I've written involves a guy who raped, enslaved, and eventually cannibalised his own mother. I don't think you've got anything that can rival that. Of course, I think that the fact that said teacher turned out to be a vegan might have had something to do with it; not that I knew at the time. For what it's worth, the teacher and I had some issues with each other; She's very extroverted, I'm very introverted, and she just couldn't process that for some reason.

[Psykhronic]

I'm not doubting that your stories were gruesome or disturbing, but honestly I think you would have gotten away with even a story about enslaving, raping and eating a mother in my creative writing class and it was high school instead of college. But it's not entirely surprising-- students do sometimes get evaluated after writing/drawing something psychologically unsettling.

EDIT: Oh, an extroverted teacher. Explains it a bit more. My CW teacher was a mix, but he clearly loved introverts.

[Something completely different]

I`m an asshole.


The condition cannot be healed.

[paulpablo]

I had mild OCD when i was younger, touching things a certain amount of time. I would imagine objects having emotions so I used to do things like if i dropped one piece of chocolate i would have to drop another piece to keep the first piece company. Other than that i tend to ignore all this talk of depression and ADD.
some of my family has had depression and they just get books on how to deal with it and stuff but i think admitting you have it and settling down with it makes it worse, its better to be active or if you cant do that educate yourself or read about other subjects, anything is better than sitting there thinking more about your depression.
When i was in school some teachers though i had ADD but its never effected my life enough for me to really be concerned, if im interested in something ill pay attention, if im sat in a maths class or sat watching any lord of the rings films i wont pay attention because i think they are both shitttt.
Also this is just the morbid side of me but id love to see what its like in one of those mental wards

[pocaracas]

You native english speaking atheists are all messed up!
Germans, we suffer from the same problem, but that's it....

[Psykhronic]

Paul -- That's the thing, everyone has their own threshold for what they can handle and different ways of dealing with/distracting from it. And not everyone has a problem, of course. Oh and there is no shame in wanting to see the inside of a psych ward. Honestly, they're interesting as hell especially with voices.

And yeah, I do not know why America is a breeding ground for mental illness

[Something completely different]

Na, I`m not only an asshole.


The thing is, I had and still have problem in talking to people about my problems and I am still only slowly coming out of that state.

The worst thing is, if one cannot talk about ones problems, but I have already goten over that.

But I still have a problem with adressing a wider audience about these.