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Post by wmdkitty on May 24, 2011 23:30:38 GMT -5
I'm a depressive with a good handful of other mental health issues. Things are stable, right now, so... that's good, right?
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Post by chad sexington on May 25, 2011 0:56:46 GMT -5
The hair I will give you, but the skin is a trick of my webcam. I'd post a pic showing me in all my acned glory, but the best one has my name in it. :{ You could always edit it out, you know. |
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Post by largeham on May 25, 2011 2:21:55 GMT -5
I'm aware of the gender disconnect, and that by that idea I'm a weak little pussy who needs a man to support her. I even had a tutee tell me that, basically, I should get married and let a man support me while I go through school.  I have a younger brother who's dealing with the same shit I've dealt with, but of course he's a little more reluctant to seek help because he needs to "take it like a man". He has insurance that covers that sort of thing, but like I refused to bring anything mood related, he doesn't even want our parents to know. I really don't know what I can do to help him, and I'm kinda feeling that same way with you. Good therapists don't pay any attention to your sex, gender identity, any of that. And if it's mostly a personal problem with the idea of seeing a therapist, well...I really can't change the way society portrays mental illness as a woman's problem (hysteria, anyone?  ). But consider this-- if it wasn't depression and was something like an infected toenail that just wouldn't heal, would you try to get some help for it or would you keep trying to heal it yourself? That's something that's been hard for me personally, and I think it's a problem for a lot of people. Mental health is just as important as physical health, but we tend to discredit our own thoughts and feelings as weakness, as signs of character flaws. If there's anything I can do for you (I don't know what exactly to offer, other than a sympathetic ear) let me know, okay? Eh, well thanks for the sympathy, though there isn't really much anyone can do unless I actively want help, but thanks anyway. I would agree that women have had worse for longer, with pseudo psychologists 'trained' with dealing with wondering wombs, women being dumped in mental hospitals for decades, etc. I dare say with men, the whole 'stiff upper lip' thing arose out of WW1, with a mixture of the trauma from veterans and the racial and martial superiority European men had been told about through the 19th century. While I agree that mental health is as important as physical health, one can't see depression, autism or bipolar disorder. You can see the effects an infected toenail has. When it comes to depression, people are just expected to suck it up. And then one commits (or tries to) commit suicide, they are condemned as weak. A broken leg or an infected wound is open for all to see, you can't see inside someone's head, so many people just dismiss it the person being weak or childish. Also (at least among Indians, I can't really speak for other cultures), psychology isn't well regarded. Not pseudoscience bad, but it is still treated as a waste of time. |
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Post by The_L on May 25, 2011 14:10:41 GMT -5
ADHD, codependent introvert who may or may not have Asperger's. Oh, and I'm bipolar! Because I apparently wasn't socially crippled enough already.
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Post by Chi Shiro on May 25, 2011 15:49:51 GMT -5
I might as well throw my problems into the ring.
Let's see, the major ones are Borderline Personality Disorder (diagnosed by three different counselors), Bipolar (two different counselors), Depression (All three), Anxiety (all three), and Asperger's (two).
Throwing some smaller problems into the ring. I am an alcoholic so I try not to drink (the irc saw how bad it can get when I do). I've been told by one less than kind individual that I'm co-dependent as fuck. But, just because they went about it the wrong way telling me, it doesn't mean that they were wrong. Oooh, I become obsessed with ideas and concepts to the point of distraction. Right now I want nothing more than to prove someone wrong and it's making me physically sick I'm worrying over it so much. And when I say physically sick we're on day four and all I've managed to keep down is water, grape juice, headache pills, and booze. All food comes right back up.
Edited to add that I also have serious abandonment issues. If something happens and someone leaves from my life I start to freak out, completely blame myself, and punish myself in ways that are a little too graphic for to mention on this board. I may start a F&B about how much I suck later, but not right now.
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Post by DeadpanDoubter on May 25, 2011 20:11:08 GMT -5
largeham: I feel you, man...for the longest time I thought I was just weak, that I couldn't actually be depressed because, hey, what the fuck do I have to be depressed about? Even after I started therapy, I convinced myself that I was just looking for attention and giving the therapist the 'right' answers to get a depression diagnosis...
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Post by Shane for Wax on May 26, 2011 5:48:23 GMT -5
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Post by nickiknack on May 26, 2011 18:58:29 GMT -5
I have an mild explosive personality disorder, and I'm on medication for it. I've been having periods of depression on & off, since I was fired from my job in 11/2009, due to the fact that I fill out applications for jobs, and still no luck, I get interviews from time to time, but no one seems to want to hire me, and I'm talking Retail with help from an employment agency that helps those with disabilities. Because of all of this I feel like shit, or even lower than shit.
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Post by DeadpanDoubter on May 26, 2011 19:11:55 GMT -5
@shane: ASPERGERS' IS NOTHING LIKE AUTISM! *throws a bitchfit*
When I was little(r), I used to worry 'cause I'd only really, really like maybe two or three things at a time (StH was a constant fandom until the depression wrecked me, I alternated between TOS, TNG, and Voyager fandoms, and one week I'd be hooked on one webcomic, the next I'd totally abandon it for something else). Then I grew up and got tired of everything. Kinda sad for me to think about...I used to be totally gung-ho about really silly shit (seriously, making a 'guest appearance' in a friend's fancomic was AWESOME), now I might feel the same happiness if I get an A out of a particularly hard class.
Growing up sucks.
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Post by Shane for Wax on May 26, 2011 19:53:21 GMT -5
I... didn't make the pic? I thought it would bring a chuckle. >.>
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Post by Vene on May 26, 2011 20:11:48 GMT -5
@shane: ASPERGERS' IS NOTHING LIKE AUTISM! *throws a bitchfit* Technically it is classified in the autism spectrum and it looks like it will be removed in the next DSM in favor and will classified as autism. |
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Post by MaybeNever on May 26, 2011 20:26:57 GMT -5
I'm gonna assume that DPD was fooling around. Asperger's = Autism is one of CWC's major triggers.
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Post by DeadpanDoubter on May 26, 2011 21:38:04 GMT -5
I'm gonna assume that DPD was fooling around. Asperger's = Autism is one of CWC's major triggers. Yeeeup. It's the first thing that I think of when I see the word "Aspergers'"...well, besides Asperchu. |
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Post by Rat Of Steel on May 26, 2011 23:12:30 GMT -5
Sorry to derail this perfectly good thread, but mmm, Emily Deschanel.  *pant, pant, drool* |
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Post by DeadpanDoubter on May 27, 2011 15:18:05 GMT -5
Welp. Had a therapy appointment today, and I think we've finally found the general location of the roots of my problems-- I'm stuck in the goddamned kindergarten stage of Initiative vs. Guilt. So yeah, college student on the outside, sad little kindergartner on the inside.
I always thought I wasn't as mature as everyone seemed to think, but this is too literal for me.
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*pant, pant, drool*