When doctors and therapists think what’s going on with you and they don’t? When they use all this Buddhist crap on you trying to get you to calm down, and there is just NO calming you down? Doesn’t matter what med you’re put on, how much people try to help you, it’s just hopeless. Doesn’t it make you angry that nobody understands you and will ever be able to treat you? You’re just THAT psychotic?
It makes me angry it makes my blood boil. Especially when I’m trying trying to become something I’m supposed to be. And everyone around you is like “treatment is possible.” No, it’s not. It may be for a few schizophrenics but… not us.
Eh…I must be one of those “few schizophrenics where treatment is possible” then. I usually get along fine with my pdoc personally. I don’t have a therapist though.
No. I have control over the emotion anger. I don’t let anger dictate how I think. I appreciate the efforts of my mental health team and try to use the tools they teach me to have a better life.
I do get it. And I am angry! I couldn’t never break the prejudices of psychiatry nor ever be understood. I’m just unorganized /sz/weird etc depends on who you ask
No. And I’ve gone off APs with my pdoc’s blessing.
Being angry and combative doesn’t help you. I know, I spent years being that way. Accepting help and working towards recovery is the only way to feel better.
I’ve never had a psychiatrist guide me toward Buddhism. The first few I had wrote me off as not salvageable, but in their defence it was an understatement to say I had a poor prognosis at the time. I developed a recovery oriented attitude and eventually got the support of my pdocs. They are a positive force in my life for the most part.
I saw a therapist for 3 years. When I would get delusions and have anxiety he told me to do some breathing techniques. Delusions can’t be changed by breathing techniques and it didn’t help the anxiety. He was a one trick pony. The other thing he pushed was reframing. Basically if you had a bad day just pretend it’s a good day, a good way to deny your authentic self. Waste of money. $175 an hour, once a month, for 36 months, so $6300. I would feel better binge spending when I have a bad day.
Or that thing where hospitals try to get you to look around and find 3 things in the room (easy part) and then try to describe 3 or 4 things about them (hard part)
I always freak out a billion times worse when I have to try to describe the objects because I usually can’t think of anything or pick the wrong things. Then they’re like “it’s foolproof” and “there is no wrong answer”. You can’t tell my brain that there isnt a wrong answer. Otherwise I could say “porridge, Pikachu, and snorlax” and have it have the same “calming” effect. Its not 3 words describing the object you picked therefore, it’s a wrong answer therefore, you freak out worse.
I am illiterate I can’t read I forgot but be noble and never ever get angry ! Avoid anger!! If you get a little loud? APOLIgize ! But yes I didn’t understand any of this thread ! Life gets better a lot of times! Docs used to make me mad! Now I feel fabulous!! You got this!!!
I don’t see anyone for my mental illness, but I get annoyed by psychiatrists and therapists online, who support things like ECT, or rely too much on pills. Also, the hallucinations don’t come from me, and I know that, but I think most people are unable to accept that, since it seems like an irrational belief to them.
Freud assumed that victims of child sex abuse actually wanted their parents to do what they did to them.
Psychiatry is often wrong. Psychotherapy is often wrong. Medicine has often been wrong.
i would try to remain positive. i understand youre mad and thats part of life but…
i mean maybe we should avoid thinking of recovery as binary like im cured or im not. the idea is to improve the situation. maybe we cant reach 100%, but can we reach 50%? can we reach 75%?
this forum is so helpful, the support is invaluable to me personally, i learn so much…
its almost like a case study this site. like a meta-community where we can bring all of our SZ knowledge together and come to conclusions.
lets keep making progress even if its only %1 at a time.
