What are your thoughts on mental illness? Have you ever been diagnosed with anything? How does it affect your day to day life? Have you self-diagnosed anything? Why would you ever do anything so stupid? Lettuce discuss
I've talked to one therapist years ago and he was judgey about me smoking pot. Since then i haven't had a regular doctor or anything and i dunno where to find free resources for that kind of thing. Self diagnosed anxiety but also depressed/bipolar? Not sure cause I'm not a professional 😂
Depression is definitely a thing, and probably something else. I don't want to self diagnose, but I also don't want to see a doctor. 🙃 Too expensive. He'll just tell me something is wrong with me anyway, and I know that. 😂😂
That's roughly how I feel. Although I did see a doctor. He diagnosed me with Borderline Personality Disorder, which idk what I'm supposed to do with that info since there's apparently nothing that can be done. I just have a negative label now, there is no pill or cure for my kind of alleged brokenness. So doctors are not always helpful and sometimes the diagnosis just makes you feel worse haha
I'd recommend things but idk how BC works =/ move to Alberta and I can tell you resources. A lot of therapists have made me uncomfortable, it's apparently v hard to find a good one
It's probably pretty similar but yeah, i think i might be able to find some stuff through work, they are pretty focused on mental health so i should spend some time and look.
I’ve been diagnosed with emotionally unstable personality disorder. How does it affect my day to day life? I cannot type it out...... not even a diary works... meds and therapy blehhhh ... this is who I am and don’t think any amount of meds of therapy will change me. Just need coping skills
I know I’m definitely depressed and probably have some form of anxiety but my family is very anti therapy & have that “Just don’t feel that way then” mentality, so ya’ know. Just suffering silently.
If you feel like you need therapy or it would benefit you, you don't necessarily need to listen to your parents. Everyone copes different
If you're able to find some cheap or free resources and think you would benefit, you should do it anyway
Have you actually? That's the alternate name for bpd which is allegedly what I have. It's supposed to be very rare 👀 what have you been doing to better it
Even the pills they claim help, I don't trust though 🌚 the side effects are one thing, and then there's the fact that they're supposed to make you what, "normal"? 🙃 So then I'm only "normal" when I'm on a pill? Bleh. I'd rather be depressed and crazy.
The side effects are scary. I used to take pills for depression when I was 9-15 and they gave me hallucinations.
Yeeaaa... That sounds like something I definitely don't need. My SO was on pills as a child as well (tho for depression and other stuff), and he had some awful reactions. As well as developed a total inability to cope with his non+medicated brain once he became an adult and was able to choose to ditch the pills. Personally, I do a lot of yoga. Reminds me to be thankful of my brain & body and what I can do. But, I guess you could say I'm lucky, depression is something a lot of my family has, and they taught me several coping mechanisms even when I was young. Including just telling me that it's okay to feel the way I do.
You can have my anxiety meds. Dude who diagnosed me said they prescribe people with BPD completely unrelated medication in an attempt to soothe my incurable insanity and now I have an SSRI prescription