If you had a choice, what mental illness would you have?

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I would want depression. If you have one mental illness?

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I would want one that I can recover from

Sometimes it’s possible to recover from depression so I agree with you, @Jake

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I’ll take depression as well. I had a lot of creativity spurned from depression. Also, I believe magic shrooms cures depression now.

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Tourettes. So i could swear at the idiots that annoy me and get away with it.

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None. I’d want none.

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I’m not particularly eager to have one either.

I think I’d want PTSD, but the single-incident adult variety. That can be treated by EMDR. And people recognize as true, so you don’t have to beg for safety and therapy for ages.

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If you don’t have a choice.

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I have suffered from depression and PTSD since childhood. Then I’m told I’m adulthood I got sz. I have to say they all suck. I couldn’t possibly choose to have one.

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If I don’t have a choice, I’ll stick to my anxiety disorder.

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I think I will stick with what I know which is what I have.

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In this, specially i want that instead of schizophrenia if I have cut my hand or leg or one eye blind, and live as handicapped. I prefer it.

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ADHD if I had to 1515151515, depression is hell

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It is freaky how not seriously PTSD is taken when it isnt a single clearly defined traumatic event everyone can understand as life threatening

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I wouldnt chose depression because after withdrawing from prozac that i took for anxiety i felt how awful depression can feel so i’d prob chose schizoid just cause im already an introvert and loner

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Yes, it is. It has been twelve years now. And I still didn’t get therapy. And worse - they still do not want to help me protect my kid from the same faith. Even now they started to believe me, they don’t do anything.

Even the concrete sexual abuse was not at all taken seriously. But the emotional abuse? Zero. When for me, it was more impactful, because it is crazymaking. I also found it difficult to talk about it though…sometimes minimalizing it, or blaming myself. But that’s what the effect of it is…they should know.

They would consistently believe my parents in everything. Even if I said thinigs were not true. And believe me in nothing. Only when a professional witnessed my dad saying very weird things…did they believe me. And not because I told them.

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I think sometimes it can be hard to be believed when you have sz.

I’ve even read articles of people who are believed to fake physical illnesses by health professionals because they have a severe mental illness.

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Yes, it is. My psychiatrist even admitted to it. He said he had prejudice against people with schizophrenia, and thought I was just rambling, and ignored everything I said.

Now…more and more that I said is confirmed. Either by physical tests or signs (food intolerance, thrombosis), or by other specialists (hormonal influence on psychosis), or by other professionals (social worker witnessing emotional abuse). When I had trombosis because of haldol…they would not even want to test and treat me…or even look at it.

My psychiatrist had a few little “■■■■ she was right”-moments. And I start to be able to give better words to it as well.

A doctor’s assistent I know, hurt a patient badly at work, with blood everywhere. She said: “it doesn’t matter, she is only a schizophrenic”. I could not out myself as one, but I despised her for it.

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Ive got 4 official diagnoses. But im been through the ringer of wrong diagnoses before landing where im at now.

Honestly, ive made a home where im at and can handle it for the most part. Was it always this way? No.

So i guess, id just keep with what i know.

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Anything but OCD.

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depression maybe too…