The Mental Illness Thread

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Saxmoof: I'm very sorry to hear of all you've been through Yes, ME clouds my mind terribly, the mental fatigue is as bad as the physical fatigue. When it's at its worst I can't think straight, I can't answer simple questions or focus on anything. I'm doing my book keeping training, but I can only do it for so long each day before my mind gives up. If I have to concentrate hard on something, I have very limited gas in the tank. Luckily computer games don't seem to require much mental energy from me.

Yeah, I share your scepticism about therapy. It did really help me first time though (I never thought it would) because I was suffering from an awful lot of irrational thoughts. I just didn't realize they were irrational until the therapy helped me analyze them. Now the depression is more linked to my illness, and the fact that I may never get better. It's not irrational to be depressed by that. I've got pretty good at holding any skewed thoughts to account in my brain before they take over now, but as I was describing, just a total sense of hopelessness doesn't have thoughts to analyze. The team seem to think this may do me some good, this new version, so all I can do is try.

I'm not sure it was me who said about social anxiety, I think that was someone else I don't have much of a social life at all because I don't have the energy to go anywhere. I would like to see more people, it's just very difficult. But sadly seeing other people tires me the fuck out as well.

It's very kind of you to ask after me, thank you