Mental illness thread

[sff_writer_dan]

Boy how the standards have fallen off this subforum.

[rushyrulz]

Very grave indeed.

[_DJ Vinyl_]

To be frank my Autism does not hinder me all that much. I think people misunderstand what it's like for me. I think calling me weird is fine but I don't label myself as normal person which people want me to be.

I lose myself sometimes when people don't understand my hobbies like collecting anime figures, watching my little pony and biting my nails constantly (Stim Habit); they want me stop these things. I think if everyone was normal then nobody would be. Based TBH but to those people that say you won't get there because you're Autistic to that I say STFU.

[Cavernio2]

Anyone remember that summer for awhile when they were being stalked by people taking Puzzle Pirates poses? Oh, that was only me, nevermind. That's called paranoid schizophrenia.

[lingusbingus]

I have autism. It's good sometimes and bad sometimes.
A consequence is that I am the worst human being at social cues.

Like someone will be talking about how their goldfish died and then I'll ramble on about how Maduro got 'napped by the military. It does get annoying when people get mad at me for that and I don't understand why. And when I was young, I had a full mental shutdown and attempted to kill myself (I'm fine now that was years ago).

But on the bright side, I pick up academic skills VERY quickly. I had absolutely zero idea on how to write code, and then I learned Python in a day since I was bored. Next month I had learned C.

Moral of the story? Don't liquefy hamburgers while baking an exoplanet.

[lingusbingus]

Originally Posted by _DJ Vinyl_

to those people that say you won't get there because you're Autistic to that I say STFU.

I think I may have said that exact sentence to someone before XD

[Cavernio2]

These days I seriously believe that Western ideals that loosely get called Mental Health, and the institutions that talk about it, so the Mental Health System, are actually harmful by gist of the beliefs that are needed for there to exist psychological illness. The people who delve into this and who view the world through a mental illness paradigm are generally nice, helpful people who are sheepled. There's absolutely a mental illness kool-aid. The solution to anything that is a mental illness by way of definition must be the change of the individual. Because the only other thing is to deem the society is in error about something about the individual. This ends up essentially victim-blaming the mentally ill person, even though no one thinks that that's what happening. This furthermore isn't a problem of stigma, as the stigma itself grows out of the belief of the existence of mental illness in general, not the specific individual person's diagnosis.
Mental illness can't be determined the way the rest of modern medicine determines things, because at its root its a psychological problem. That we disbelieve this and go towards the rhetoric that there are obvious physical issues with what a mentally ill person goes to doesn't change a thing that the parameters of the illness are psychologically based. Furthermore, if the parameters weren't psychologically-based, instead physically measurable, it would no longer be called a mental illness and it would switch out of the ever-nebulous 'its physical we just can't determine what it is physically'. You would no longer have a mental illness and would instead just have an illness. As you can see, that it's based on psychological, mental criteria, is necessary, even though that criteria exists only because we create those criteria.
Let's take for example something really quite obviously a mental illness which has a well-studied, physical background. ADHD. There's a LOT of studies around it, shows up in childhood, has meds which treat it quite well. Outwardly, this has nothing to do with something psychological, although we use the rhetoric of psychological illness to define it. It's the perfect example of how mental illness is, how it must be, based on how well you psychologically fit in to someplace. Because now I want you to think about the child with ADHD growing up in a 3rd world country where one of their chores is to walk to get water 3km everyday, who then, after their chores are done, is lucky enough to be able to go to school afterwards. This child with ADHD doesn't tire like the rest of the children do, and is likely to fair better at school after having exercised for hours. Or even worse, the child can't even go to school because there isn't one, and they have to go do manual labour the entire day because hey, some places use child labor still.
After all and said is done, it's still a social problem, having ADHD. That means that society is what determines what is healthy or not. Let it sink in that there being physical proof of illness doesn't change that at its core it's a societal problem.

Anyways. The mental health system is making people in my generation and younger, believe in psychological illness as a paradigm so strongly that the terms associated with it are part of the generational lingo. Younger and younger people are diagnosed with psychological illness. And trust me, once labelled as mentally ill, good luck running away from that. Here in Canada especially since the health care is institutionalized, your mental illness diagnoses from the past get passed around. There's literally no escaping them. I get told that I'm supposed to keep lists of drugs I've been on, that I'm not taking care of myself properly if I don't join the Mental Health System's view of both myself and society. This happens even while spontaneous remission of pretty much all mental illness can occur.

I seriously think we should defund mental health here in Canada, put the money towards actual medicine or schools or government aided affordable housing etc. and explicitly away psychological medicine. It's unethical to have psychological illnesses especially if the system that defines them is institutionalized, which it is, because the underlying core beliefs in such a system will become self-sustaining.

[Cavernio2]

Having a mental illness isn't like having diabetes. Treating a mental illness isn't like giving a diabetic insulin.