RE: Has anyone had any experience with mental illness?
November 5, 2019 at 2:40 pm
(This post was last modified: November 5, 2019 at 2:50 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 4, 2019 at 10:25 pm)EgoDeath Wrote: I think there is a massive amount of miscommunication happening in this thread.
Yep, lol...it's cute, right?
In answer to the OPQ...yes, by any account, most people have experience with mental illness. Their own, their friends, their family. Its an issue with stigma that shouldn't have attached stigma on account of how ubiquitous it is...but that's not how stigma works.
I had a run in with a serious issue as a consequence of traumatic head injury. Full dissociative break. I like to joke about it being the best thing that ever happened to me. How many people get a free vacation from their own skin? The reality, ofc, is a bit more nasty. I will never fully believe my own experience or person. I can never be sure that I am who I think I am. I have what amounts to a lifetime prescription of antidepressants and anti psychotics to keep me...ostensibly, from doing the horrible things my other self might do, and is good at doing. Not that theres any actual "other self"..it;s just me....but....that's not how that works either.
So...you know, lighten up OP, it's not so bad. Go talk to somebody, feel better, make yourself well. However bad it is, remember..it can get worse. You have anxieties...that sucks. It cant be anything other than painful. You should get help. I might skullfuck my neighbor and burn their house to the ground with their kids in it, in my sleep.....if somebody says the right combination of words.
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