I’m both pissed and believe that it’s true. Maybe this IS all in my head. Maybe I am lying to myself. Maybe I need to just suck it up.
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Well, it’s a problem with your brain chemistry, so in that way, it’s all in your head. But that doesn’t mean you can get better by just having more willpower and being a “strong” person. You need medication, and therapy. It is a real disease with real solutions. It is important to keep trying to do better, but it’s also important to be responsible about knowing your own triggers, limits, and needs.
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What you’re experiencing is very real to you, which is why medication and therapy are necessary. It’s important you know this isn’t your fault in any way, so you shouldn’t feel guilty or bad for having the thoughts and feelings you have.
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Did the gorillaz pop into anyone elses head after reading the title…
Finally, somebody let me outa my cage…
Anyway dont worry about what other people think. Its not like their any better than anyone else. Just ask them where they got their phd and what sources their citing…
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Yes, this is just ignorance.
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No one has said that to me, but if they did, I would not know whether to be insulted or laugh at the irony.
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I’v heard that too, someone I talked to online a long time ago said “we all have that negative little voice in our heads…” only this isn’t just my voice in my head…I’ve tried controlling the voice/thought I can control and still hear the thoughts/voice of…well lack of a better term “The others inside my head”. I know they’re not real, and work very hard at not responding to them outwardly. Though many then don’t see me as being schizophreinic then…and probably just assume I’m lazy.
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I wish…
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Both my father and brother like to either dismiss my symptoms and downplay everything or call me names like wacko or “very sick”.
There is little middle ground with them.
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I think it is a very invalidating and upsetting experience to be told things that you experience as very real are just “in your head” and “stop believing that”.
People without psychosis don’t realize that people with psychosis don’t have the luxury of having a clear cut version of reality. A nonpsychotic person doesn’t even have to THINK about reality. I think we could get farther in therapy for people with psychosis if we acknowledged that what they are experiencing is very real to them. This isn’t to say I want therapists to be supporting delusional thinking, but instead of just immediately leaping to “ok well that’s not real” (because it may not be real to the therapist but it IS real to the person experiencing it) instead dealing with the emotions the person may be dealing with.
Example–>someone says aliens are harassing them telling them they need to do a certain thing or else they will destroy the world or something. Therapist can reply with “Wow, that sounds like a very distressing experience. How are you coping with that?” And from there can help lead the patient to more healthy coping mechanisms. I don’t know just a thought.
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Well it took me 6 years to figure out I was sick. I didn’t think I was crazy. I thought I was the target of a conspiracy.
I would like to go back and apologize to my boss and my psychiatrists when I got sick. I thought they were crazy and I was sane. But I lost touch with them. I tried to resign from my job in the military because I didn’t think I was sick and they wanted to put me in the Wounded Warrior Batalion. I refused to go or I would resign and they didn’t send me. I can remember my boss saying “No Tom I think you have a medical condition”.
In hind sight I should have gone and gotten the help that would have offered me. But instead I kept working and dealing with stress and going in and out of inpatient 4 different times.
Turns out I was pretty crazy and didn’t know it. I think everyone excepts that I am sick now. My Dad was floored when he saw my meds all lied out in a hotel room. He was like you take all of that.
My wife got mad at me the last time I quit my meds and was hospitalized. She said she won’t visit me in the hospital anymore so I take my meds. If I forget them she yells at me but I deserve it. But she knows I am very sick.
I hope you get the support you need.
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Adding to this, it’s almost hypocritical how mental health professionals are meant to be very accepting of emotion, which is an internally experienced reality, there is no possible way you can feel the exact feelings someone else is. If someone is clinically depressed, a therapist would never say “Those feelings aren’t real. They have no basis in reality, there’s no reason why you should be depressed so just stop thinking about your depression and don’t engage with your depression.” Yet depression is just as mentally warping, and can be just as dangerous and debilitating as psychosis.
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I fuvking hate that, even my new therapist seems to think so
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When he said it I was to anxious to put him in his place. Maybe next time
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I had a doctor tell me once all I had was insomnia. I had a doctor tell me once all I had was mania. I was told Schizophrenia is lifelong, but I guess it can go into remission. Whether you imagine things or not is probably perspective, it’s most likely the way one reacts to reality, not that all things are just in your head.
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Yeah a good friend suggested that I read one of those crappy self help books. “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff”. Great advice to a person with racing thoughts all the time!
Years later, actually only recently, he said gawd mate you really opened up my eyes to mental illness. I hounded him relentlessly whilst psychotic!
Fun times. Most folk have no idea and that is what it boils down too. I’d love a program in highschool that tells about the dangers of mental illness. That could really make a difference if done early enough!
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i tell myself this sometimes lol
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You’re experiences are real and valid. And you’re doing your best!!
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