Agreed.
Chronic anxiety is a sign and key criteria of GAD. The kind of anxiety that stops you fully functioning most of the time with little “cool off” in between. Sounds like hell on earth.
1 Like
We live in a world where “happy happy happy” sells and is big business. So when many folk meet adversity, and experience a range of negative emotions, instead of treating these as a learning curve or a natural/healthy response - people want to find abnormality, and look for illnesses - anything to detach from personal culpability. ITS NOT MY FAULT! IM UNWELL .etc This is a huge issue and reality that the mental health system faces. And Im sure its this particular dynamic that the OP is making reference to. I think.
3 Likes
I would rather have everything out in the open at this point in my life, but when I was younger I was afraid of whatever was going on. In my course of life, that has extremely limited me, and led me to beat myself down for my own incoherent actions.
I have come to terms with the fact that whatever is going on with me (or possibly for others without understanding / proper support): nobody in society really cares about. But it is the same for people who have way worse than me, who endure much more, yet still have their mind together.
The same could be said of older folks being drugged up in retirement homes, zombied out and asleep 21/7-23/7 for the last years of their lives.
There are terrible things going on right now, and the more it gets worse, the more inaction becomes a non-option. That applies even for those of us who cannot act to the extent that we would like. Victim-hood will magically disappear as soon as survival becomes imminent, even for those who are real victims.
To break people’s bubble, we don’t live in an isolated safe zone within the world. Things happen, and the ‘fake/entitled’ victim-hood from this year could be a happy ending for entire population, next year.
I would highly recommend Mark Manson’s book ‘The subtle art of not giving a f^&*’. It had some hidden wisdoms outside the obvious for me, so maybe it will help others.
Being a victim is not a sin in my opinion, as we need to communicate when we are in pain or need help at a primal human level. The problem begins when that is used as an argument to enforce leverage onto other people’s lives. We are not entitled to other people’s time and attention, or their other resources.
To be harsh & blunt
Either society will allow the ‘history of human mortality’ to be taught to the western masses, or we will learn it the hard way. Hint: some don’t learn.
Learn the cycles of history, and be prepared. Take things as they come with humor.
I would also recommend the book ‘Deep Survival’ by Laurence Gonzales, just for some humility.
As bad as things are, at least we are not lost and alone in the pacific ocean inside a lifeboat, eating raw fish to survive like the character Gollum. We could, if we wish, persist under similar conditions in our household bathtub, within the middle of modern civilization, but most of us opt out.
Not to patronize mental illness or decline, but if you can opt out of something dreadful, then opt out.
2 Likes
The most I could help someone is by being an example. And encourage others that there is a way. And show them a way. And keep encouraging them to achieve and maintain control and develop habits. And show them that what they can achieve is not impossible. And trying to overcome is not defying science.
CLICK BAIT
CLICK BAIT yup
CLICK BAIT right
Oh hell no. Couldn’t have sobered up without AA. Couldn’t have done a lot of things over the years without standing on my wife’s shoulders. Now I have an adult kid propping me up occasionally. What has changed is that I have gone from automatically refusing to try anything because of my SZ, or my heart, or my spinal injury, to being a person who will cautiously see how far I can push myself. Sometimes I have to ask for help. Sometimes I have to give up because it’s just not realistic to think I can do that particular thing. I no longer give up before I try, though. I developed a wicked case of learned helplessness after my SZ diagnosis and it was hell on Earth to push past it.
I see some people here who are now victims of learned helplessness and who refuse to even try. Some. Not all. I wish some of the folks here believed in themselves as much as I believe in them.
My dysfunctional 2 cents.
4 Likes
I feel sorry for ppl who feel everything is everyone else’s fault. And hold onto that resentment for life and use it to justify to do nothing and hate everyone for the rest of their lives. I feel sorry for them because it must really sting.
Are you talking from personal experience @Zoe ?
I never realised you thought this
1 Like
No it’s not personal experience.
I’m talking about some1 else not from this forum, and perhaps there are other ppl too like this. Idk.
Some1 else?
Can you elaborate, on tv?
1 Like
I’d rather not because for privacy reasons. To respect that individuals privacy. 
Yeh it’s not a person on this forum.
If the individual truly hates everyone in real life then that is tragic?
Ive never heard of this phenomenon?
1 Like
Gyat damn this thread is a royal rumble
6 Likes
Lmao 
ThePoet.
2 Likes
Rumbling along
Merry Xmas
3 Likes
It needs some beefcake if you ask me.
2 Likes
@anon40326163 I challenge you to an arm wrestling competition right here right now brother!
@Moonbeam doesn’t know who to shoot first
3 Likes
With BBQ sauce to sweeten it up
2 Likes
Now I have iced tea up my nose!
NOT COOL BRO.
3 Likes
I just remembered how much I love you guys 
Anyways sorry for derailing… Back to mental health stuff
3 Likes