What's the suckiest thing about mental illness
 

Just thought it could take out minds off things to makea list, funny stuff is good or whatever I shall start...


depresion makes you So tired you can fall asleep on the sofa after only being up for half an hour

*TRIG - OD/SI*
 

To me depression makes me:

- unable to sleep despite working full time job and trying to be normal;
- makes me want to kill myself or shred myself to bits;
- makes me want to hide from the world and **** the rest of them.

sometimes, if people who don't understand get even a whiff of your mental health problems, they start treating you as though you're a complete imbecile when in fact you're probably twice as bright and capable as they are. *shakes fist at them*.

:) i like fist shaking,

People think saying "If you cared about me you would get better" will encourage you to get better and not make you feel like crap

everything

Depression is waking up, then wondering why the hell you bothered...
The Insomnia Diet: you haven't been out to buy groceries for weeks, are only awake from 9 pm to 6 am, and NOTHING is open. Besides, eating would take effort...

The problem with having a mental illness? No matter how smart a person you are, the problem is in your mind, and you can't use your mind to solve it. You can try, but most fail. The movie "A Beautiful Mind" is inspiring in that regard.

~Tobias

Eh, for me, it's the feeling of hopelessness. When you feel that nothing's going right, and you wonder why the hell you bothered crawling out of bed; when you feel that you're damaging people more than you're helping them, and that you'd do everyone a favour if you just...ceased to exist

Public attitudes.
I have PTSD. I don't have two heads. [well, ok, I do have an alter-ego, but that's not what I meant!!!]
If they respected my space, treated me like a human being, I wouldn't be provoked into flashbacks in the first place.

Which brings me to point 2. Dissociative Flashbacks. They're the worst thing for me. It's like being trapped in hell, in a cage, and everyone laughing in at you and throwing things.

Hot stupid sunny days in long sleeves and trousers !

everything because im never going to be the person i was before.

suckiest thing is none of the professionals seem to 'get it' and are so often out of their depth

funniest thing is i've got more letters after my name than my psychiatrist ... did, bpd, ptsd so HA HA dr lyons!!

the urges. The self hate. The boredem so bad that i cant concentrate on anything. The bouts of anger.

I hate the fact that because of my medication I'm always 'out of it' like lethargic (sp?) sleepy, dopey etc...

I've got to repeat what alyssa.star says, the meds turning me into a zombie has to be the worst, but If I wasn't a zombie I would be pychotic
So you can't win really

also the friends who don't know what to say when they find out you've been sectioned under the mental health act, so they don't say anything, they just dump you, really nice feeling that :-(

also the constant pychiatric evaluations by various proffessionals
trying to find out what the hell is wrong with you

DID
Waking up and not knowing where you are.
Switching to a 3 year old in public or in the city (not good).
Dr's in emergency departments being abusive.
Psychiatrists telling a 4 year old alter who has been severely abused to 'stop crying' and 'grow up!'
It being so hard to get close to people, even those you love and trust
Connecting with people
Getting beaten up for having scars on your arms
Confusion
Exhaustion

Hospitals.

Because as soon as you tell people they talk to you like your a two year old no matter how intelligent they thought you were before.

When people make snap judgements on diagnosis before even seeing you or hearing your history - e.g. the Occ. Health nurse who asked me if I was Bipolar almost as soon as I'd walked in the door.

For me it would be being given an illusion of support/treatment when things are bad which are then shown as the illusions they are when requesting it. Oh and the fact that I am 'strong' so must be able to cure myself *really* annoys me too.