…what I do in a day! It’s not a lot, okay??? I have a debilitating mental illness and it’s effort just to get out of bed in the morning! I post memes on Facebook and read topics on the forum. Sometimes I eat food. Leave me alone, I’m doing my best 
Rant over
Yea I always feel uncomfortable talking about it to people.
I start to feel real or imagined judgement from the person.
You just gotta do you and be proud of it
Pressure is bad for us.
That’s the thing.
Take care 
I hear you sister!
I feel the same way!
My father complains that I don’t do enough around the house.
Leave me alone I’m barely surviving!
My pdoc asks what I’m doing all day every appointment. I get frustrated with it too, because I don’t do a whole lot.
Thanks for your support guys. It helps knowing that I’m not going at this alone 
Definitely not. Everyone has struggles. For us, it’s not being able to handle much stress beyond what we deal with on a daily basis from nothing within our control. Well, we can control following treatment plans and taking our meds regularly. Other than that, what happens in our minds is very difficult to control
I feel the same but lately I have been saying that I play video games.
I don’t do much most days either. I spend a lot of time here these days.
@Aziz I wish I had the attention span for videogames. I’ve just been watching Mad Max on a loop
@Bowens I don’t know what I would do without this forum. Probably just be that much more isolated
@LilyoftheValley it is a constant struggle, but I like to think I’m doing the best I can with the hand I was dealt
That’s a great attitude! Love it!
I can’t watch TV. Rarely I watch Netflix. I can’t play video games on my own but I play with a friend, he motivates me to play by calling me to play. We play 1hr almost everyday. I find that doing things with ppl easier than doing things alone.
@Aziz Oh, it’s nice that you have a friend like that!
The hardest person on me–is me. I’m not better than anyone else but I expect myself to do more than I’m doing. I’ve been coasting for too long. I had some really productive years and even though I’m not able to recapture that level of functioning I know I am capable of more than I’m doing now.
There’s this guy Fulton sheen who had a tv show back in the day. He did a really good episode on how the mentally ill get no sympathy. If it’s a visually broken leg it’s easy to care, but mental Illness is invisible suffering
Another thing is that people expect others to get better eventually. They have a certain amount of sympathy, then that and the ability to care runs out. It’s just another type of burnout.
Any chronically ill person runs into that, mental or physical.
Yea like are you still depressed?! Lol 
uh yea and I probably will be my whole life
I love my dad and I’m not talking bad about him but he was joking about me gaining weight saying maybe I’m eating too much haha I’m like “meds cause weight gain 
” looool
"You just have to think positive! " and lots more.
Sorry that my couch lock offends you, bub. Lol!
I tell people that I am a professional navel lint harvester.
Sounds less skungy than insurance broker.
@anon4362788 @POET yes! Exactly
@shutterbug hahaha 