Thank you so much for this. I'm having real trouble accepting that I have an eating disorder although I'm in therapy and have been diagnosed as having one. These reminded me I do have one.
I had trouble accepting it for a while as well.
I tried to be perfect but nothing was worth it
I don't believe it makes me real
i know im a bit slow on the replying here but i just wanted to say THANKYOU and i think this really is an excellent thread Katie!And also to all those who have contributed too.
i can relate many of them to me personally but even where i couldnt i still agree with many [if not all!] of those said full heartedly!
It actually made me smile and cheered me up to read these.And to be reminded of them.
Not sure why but thank you and take care.
And im glad you feel your getting stronger Katie!Thats brilliant well done and keep up the good work and know we are here for you.
xx
i do not always manage to be around but i wish you all the very best - love and luck to you all!
There are those who think people diagnosed with some mental illnesses don't have a heart, cannot feel love ... but ... everyone has a heart, including those with personality disorders. It may be more hidden in some, have more defences around it. But someone always has a heart. Treating someone who's very defended as a human being can help bring them, and you, in contact with that heart.
"everyone has a heart, including those with personality disorders."
I have a PD and already dislike my dx, so a bit upset by that comment. Not sure why that group has to be an add on? I'm sure you don't intend it that way, but it implies some people don't think that.
- being intelligent does not give you immunity againts mental illness, therefore telling someone 'you're a smart /boy/girl/man/woman', therfore implying that they're too inteligent to succumb to mental illness (as if it's a chocie!) only makes people feel worse!
oh and, even though its not really MH...
- just because someone is dyslexic does not mean they're stupid. So stop telling them they can't be dyslexic if they're doing well at school/uni.
"I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell." -Picasso
"No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war." - Picasso
'I have scars becuase I have a past; but they, like my past, do not define my future'
On that note... for those uninformed people out there in society that think anxiety and hyper-vigilance is a sign of low intelligence...
Having a mental illness doesn't mean one is not intelligent. It doesn't affect basic intelligence, although it can affect ability to apply that intelligence when symptoms are most severe.
We are human beings who have our own needs and wants. If we say something, please LISTEN.
There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: 'This glass is half full'. And then there are those who say: 'This glass is half empty'.
The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: 'What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!
- just because someone is dyslexic does not mean they're stupid. So stop telling them they can't be dyslexic if they're doing well at school/uni.
that one pisses me off! my dad is dyslexic, and so is one of my best friends. dyslexia is OFTEN together with, but i dont think linked to, a very high IQ! smarty-pants, the two of them, they just have trouble reading. einstein was dyslexic =]
this is a great thread, i love it.
So if you wanna burn yourself remember that I love you
And if you wanna cut yourself remember that I love you
And if you wanna kill yourself remember that I love you
Call me up before you're dead
We can make some plans instead
Send me an IM, I'll be your friend Kimya Dawson - Loose Lips - Juno Soundtrack
oh, here's a myth to explode - just because youre happy today, doesnt mean you dont suffer from depression or similar.
So if you wanna burn yourself remember that I love you
And if you wanna cut yourself remember that I love you
And if you wanna kill yourself remember that I love you
Call me up before you're dead
We can make some plans instead
Send me an IM, I'll be your friend Kimya Dawson - Loose Lips - Juno Soundtrack
that one pisses me off! my dad is dyslexic, and so is one of my best friends. dyslexia is OFTEN together with, but i dont think linked to, a very high IQ! smarty-pants, the two of them, they just have trouble reading. einstein was dyslexic =]
this is a great thread, i love it.
I love bringing up Einstein when people talk about intelligence being about what one can do because he was not only dyslexic but couldn't do the simplistic math to balance his check book nor the ability to tie his own shoes. Though I think its more that he was bored by the simplicity of those and irked by the time it took rather than an inability to learn it. I know I had that problem in math... I failed Algebra because it bored me, they put me in 'integrate math' (where they mix up the curriculum with algebra, calculus and trig) the next year and I got a B.
I was lei'd in vets! ***** Proud Plumeria Sister!
"He said look inside your heart/ And you'll see stars/ Falling stars/ Look, deep into my eyes/ Don't look down/ Or you'll fall, he said/ Here, the sky goes on forever"
Just because I am fragile doesn't mean I'll break if you touch me, I need holding more then ever. It doesn't mean I need treating like a small child I just need you to have some patience and compassion for me.
[*]Depth of cut or number of bruises, or amount of weight lost, or number of times purged each day is not a measure of depth of emotional pain.[*]Emotional abuse can cause deep and lasting damage to your mind, feelings, soul, perception of yourself and others. It is not 'normal' or 'nothing'.[*]One can have been very ill emotionally, without ever having been hospitalised.[*]One can experience psychotic symptoms without necessarily needing to take anti-psychotic medication.[*]Recovery from long term depression cannot be a 'quick fix'. It can sometimes take years for change to develop - this doesn't mean that the person's treatment is not working or that they're not trying hard enough.
Thank you. <33
If someone ever says to you "You need to stop thinking so much," call them ignorant in your head and keep thinking deeper. It is this mentality that breeds stupidity and sheeple. Your mind is the most important tool you have. If you stop using it, it will atrophy.
I so totally agree with all of your posts, I get so super pissed off when people get freaked by mental illness it's not different to any other type of illness why is it still a taboo? I hate it, I have to go to work tomorrow in the worlds hottest hospital with an outfit consrtucted so I can be bare below the elbows but combine this with layers I can pull down over my forearms when I need to, I have to wear about a million layers, What I would give to wear a tee-shirt! xoxox
I love soooo many of these, well all of these, some I can relate to SO well.
One of my university friends is severely dyslexic (so can't read or write), has many other problems including severe ADHD & depression, but she's got a 1st class honours degree & is now doing her masters!!! Very proud of her <3
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