Some people can't understand that saying 'be happy' will not help a person with mental illness. It's an issue within your mind making it incredible difficult to combat. Mental illnesses are terrifying.
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· 8 years ago
Okay. So let me tell you a story. A true one. A kid in my school, siffered dyslexia, deppression,anxiety. Basically he was super fucked up. But he's 99.99% normal now. The occasional akwardness because he didn't get much human contact still occurs. But when I asked him how he overcame that shit in just a year he looked me dead in the eye and simply saod "I stopped being a pussy" and walked the fuck on home to his boarding house. Fucking brutal.
Reasonably? He probably decided you weren't close enough to know. I'm pretty sure if a random person from work ever asked me what happened the answer would be as close to "fuck off" as I could get without getting fired.
Yeah I agree with Abel. If a random person were to ask me that I would reply with, "I just grew up" or "I stopped worrying" or something like that but the honesty would be something like, "I realized my life is fucking shit. I didn't want to live like that so I tried to make a difference. It caused me so much pain and misery and I wanted to give up so many times but I kept pushing. I pushed through everything and ended up here and I'm glad I did because I'm a much better person now. Socially and mentally."
I was the only person in the whole school who would talk to him. Tell me again how I wasn't "close enough"? I was literally asked by the school to take care of the kid because I am known for welcoming new kids into the school. Literally my emtire friends group consists of 6 kids that were new to my school and 3 who have been at my school our whole lives(Me included). He has his own friends now, because the school moved him down a grade.
How many times must it be said that mental illnesses are mental and physical illnesses are physical, making them fundamentally different? With different treatments?
Well mental illnesses have to do with chemical imbalance in the brian. There is a physical component in it.
You can't control which chemicals are released in your brain, so saying there's a difference and that mental illnesses aren't a result of physical things isn't really a medically accurate statement.
Well, I agree with what you said. But your stance on a certain mental illness and lack of ability to spell 5-letter words makes me not trust things you say.
If the brain can convince itself it's a bird and try to fly then they can convince themselves to be happy. There are poor kids dying of AIDS who are happier than a westerner with two computers and three meals a day. You can be sad for a day, but wallowing in self pity will get you nowhere. You suck it the fuck up and move on.
HOLY SHIT A TYPO I KNOW YOU'VE NEVER HAD ONE
Also, I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've seriously discussed mental illness on this site. I'm new here, gamer girl is the one the trans one. I'm a different person but I do know gamer.
Yeah you treat mental and physical illnesses differently but you also treat physical illnesses differently too, you're not going to treat someone with cancer the way you'd treat someone with asthma or diabetes. Also there are physical components to mental illnesses - imbalance of chemicals in the brain, genetic component etc.
Okay to whoever the first guest is obviously doesn't struggle with mental illnesses. I have anxiety and depression. A horrible combination. I cannot just tell myself to "stop worrying" or to "be happy" no. It doesn't work like that. Mental illnesses take over your brain. You can't control what you think. If I were to tell myself to suck it and be happy id find myself in a worse state than before due to the fact the I was unable to suck it up and be happy. Since j was unable to do that I start to feel like I cannot ever live up to anything and I end up in this pit of dread and misery. It's horrible. It's hell. You cannot tell someone to suck it up. They can't.
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Why is he doing it to his crotch...
But... what am I supposed to do with this kind of information!?
You can't control which chemicals are released in your brain, so saying there's a difference and that mental illnesses aren't a result of physical things isn't really a medically accurate statement.
Also with what bases?
Also, I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've seriously discussed mental illness on this site. I'm new here, gamer girl is the one the trans one. I'm a different person but I do know gamer.