primitives think about mental illness

[franksolich]

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Oh my.

The things the primitives think about.

It's a very large campfire.

uppityperson  (1000+ posts)        Sun Jan-31-10 07:15 PM
DOROTHY, THE SNOBBISH PRIMITIVE
Original message

If you think mental illness is funny, think again.

If you think "someone should have made" a mentally ill person get help, it isn't that easy.

If you have been affected by mental illness (not just yourself but by someone else who is mentally ill), I commiserate with you.

Mental illness has affected me through family member, ex-partner, and now a stalker. It isn't funny for anyone and it is not an easy thing to have to deal with.

More accessible, affordable, non-stigmatic mental health care is needed. But EVEN with all that, there will be some who will not get help because, after all, THEY are not the problem.

The campfire's mostly primitives reminescensing about what's wrong inside their heads.

undergroundpanther  (1000+ posts)        Sun Jan-31-10 10:05 PM
THE SUBWAY CAT, #04 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
Response to Original message

58. Mental illness hurts

Having it myself I know. Anyway people like to pretend there is a thing called"normal".So, if you ain't normal you get a social death sentance.A social death sentance comes from being labeled crazy among peers who convinced by the labeller that you are 'crazy'.It means no one has to take you or your points seriously and that is part of what hurts. A social death sentance means being made invisible("ignore them they're crazy") and made voiceless("because they are crazy, nothing they say is real or important to anyone else"). Mentally ill people become non persons to others who all are'normal' enough.

I say what I say because to me it's worth saying,and sometimes I am told by others reading it,it makes more sense to them than some of the ramblings of the"sane" commenters trying to diminish my words by calling me crazy..Our whole culture is so cold,heartless,selfish, callous and mean.To a sensitive person it's like you cannot breathe here, or speak your mind or heart,lest someone who is bored or just mean, sends an evil word your way and encourages others to do the same..

"Why can't I touch someone who doesn't strike back?
A question I searched to answer in vain.
Each time I opened the depths of my heart,
I ended standing alone with more pain."

psychopathy on the other hand is not an actual mental illness, it is a personality type.

psychopaths by personality alone really can cause mental illness in those unfortunate to live,work or exist around them.

[Specbid]

uppityperson  (1000+ posts)        Sun Jan-31-10 07:15 PM
DOROTHY, THE SNOBBISH PRIMITIVE
Original message

If you think mental illness is funny, think again.

If you think "someone should have made" a mentally ill person get help, it isn't that easy.

If you have been affected by mental illness (not just yourself but by someone else who is mentally ill), I commiserate with you.

Mental illness has affected me through family member, ex-partner, and now a stalker. It isn't funny for anyone and it is not an easy thing to have to deal with.

More accessible, affordable, non-stigmatic mental health care is needed. But EVEN with all that, there will be some who will not get help because, after all, THEY are not the problem.

Lighten up, you f###kin' retard.

Signed- Rahm Emanuel.

[Lord Undies]

Anyway [sic] people like to pretend there is a thing called"normal".

Pretend?  It's not a fantasy, Subterranean*****.  There really is a state of being that constitutes "normal".  But don't bother to cloud your mentally ill head with this fact.  It will never be something you experience firsthand.  

BUT...We normal people know exactly who and what we are.....and we know exactly who and what you are.  

[Ree]

Pretend?  It's not a fantasy, Subterranean*****.  There really is a state of being that constitutes "normal".  But don't bother to cloud your mentally ill head with this fact.  It will never be something you experience firsthand. 

BUT...We normal people know exactly who and what we are.....and we know exactly who and what you are.  

I read that and heard Pee Wee's voice.....Guess I'm not "normal"

[Celtic Rose]

Pretend?  It's not a fantasy, Subterranean*****.  There really is a state of being that constitutes "normal".  But don't bother to cloud your mentally ill head with this fact.  It will never be something you experience firsthand.  

BUT...We normal people know exactly who and what we are.....and we know exactly who and what you are.  

By using the term "Mentally Ill", they are themselves saying that their state of being is not normal.  The goal of mental illness treatment is to help people act and feel normal.  There is no "pretending" involved.

[Lord Undies]

I read that and heard Pee Wee's voice.....Guess I'm not "normal"

Realizing it is the first step in battle back.  Godspeed.