“Mental Health” Card, when you wanted to get out of a sticky situation?
You know what i mean. Lets be honest. Have you used your MI Diagnosis to your advantage? Like laying it on a “bit thick” for the shrink, so you can get those benzos your after? lol.
My parents say I play this card 
Sometimes I do feel that way too.
Yeah, im not proud of it but i have once or twice blamed having had drugs and alcohol recently before a shift on mental health issues.
I hate lying and usually refrain from it but work is such a stressful environment for me and i get desperate.
You mean you had a session, got bad MI, and then didnt mention it? lol 
I actually think we should be allowed to lay it on thick, now and again - cos our voices are not always heard. Nevermind the stigma, we have to laugh off - and then essentially blame ourselves cos we got abuse.
Nah. Ive suffered enough. If ive got the curse of Schizophrenia, im gonna bloody well milk it.
I’m on 2 mg Valium once a day. I had extra a few months ago and took them and I didn’t even get tired. I’ve always hidden my illness from my pdocs because I’d be wailing if I didn’t.
You should always be brutally honest with your pdoc - even if your afraid of the outcome. If they dont have up to date information, they cannot help your properly.
I don’t outright use my mental illness as an excuse but it’s inferred. If I want to get out of a party I’ll say “too many people” to get out of it and my sister will understand. I don’t do it often, in fact very rarely. I begged out of a New Years Day get together at my sisters because it would have been with a bunch of young strangers that I had never met. My sisters are pretty sensitive as to what parties I can handle and what I can’t.
Yes. Thats what i mean. I cant say it, properly. But did you feel guilty? Or think you was conning them?
I have on purpose once or twice.
Thats what i mean. I mean why should we feel Guilty? Its our condition.
I dont know. Im probably over tired lol.
I used to get trapped into attending social functions because I was so high functioning at the time that my family wasn’t going to accept any excuse for not going. That was a real problem a couple of times. I was accepting all invitations and once me and my sisters drove a hundred miles to visit my mom and my stepdad. About halfway through the visit I thought it was becoming too stressful for me so I asked if I could go in a back bedroom and take a nap. My sisters refused. They did that because they didn’t really want to be there and they figured if they could force themselves to socialize than so could I. But I got into that situation myself because at that time I was acting like I could handle any social situation so it was “ put up or shut up”
Bummer mate. Your Sisters probably had no bloody idea.
Yeah, been there, with my twin brother. Anything to please them eh? And you end up dismissing your own feelings.
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