I don’t really consider myself “mentally ill” but more like mentally challenged. My brain clearly doesn’t work right and probably has sparks flying around inside.
Do you identify with the mentally ill label? Or something else?
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I guess I’d identify with both. I’m mentally ill and thats a challenge.
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When I talk about myself with others, I call myself mentally ill. Even though I am high functioning again now, I know I am still ill underneath the Zyprexa, Lexapro, and Lamictal.
I consider myself someone with a mental illness who has some brain dammage. I’m not trying to make fun. But some people I’ve seen my first guess would of been that they were mentally challenged not mentally il. It was especially the case at the clubhouse.
I prefer the term disorder, I don’t like to think about it as an illness doing damage. I think of myself as a person in recovery, and despite the news about how it causes tissue loss, there are many stories of people recovering to a level of relatively normal functioning as well.
I do identify with being mentally ill. It is like an invisible handicap. But also I need to be treated well by people near me. I expect a certain amount of understanding.
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I get called crazy ■■■■■. Crazy hoe whore ■■■■. I feck vehicles an squirrel. They should have a little sticker turtle giving with middle finger.
I just say I have a condition. Mentally ill makes me feel like there’s something inherently wrong with me. And I like to think I’m just a person.
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What can I say, I’m sick. I don’t function like the average Joe. There are alot of things I would like to do that I’m just not capable of doing right now. Maybe in the future it will be different. I think the key is to focus on not giving up on myself. Treatments change, new meds come out. I’ve been on this ride for 40 years now. Life has it’s ups and downs.
I am mentally ill but, high functioning now.
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I also would say that I am mentally ill and challenged despite I have not diagnosis of psychosis or mental illness from DSM, but one of my diagnoses is classified in one subpart of ICD classification with schizophrenia and persistent delusional disorder (schizophrenia-type disorder which is known as “schizotypal personality disorder” in USA, I think that it is a mental illness too, not just a disorder of personality and overall functioning of individuals affected by it may sometimes be worse than in the case of some individuals with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder). I do not function high. I was good in scholastic skills and IQ test but very poor in social and occupational areas. I have also diagnoses of OCD and pervasive developmental disorder (Asperger’s). When I was about 14 years old, I had controlling compulsions without insight probably. It was associated with magical thinking. It looked somewhat like delusions of influence. I rather elliminated them due to the fact that they are (like) magic, occult practices which are sinful (against First Commandment). I take meds since above 10 years and have never had a remission. Now I am almost 28.
I think psychiatry is young and arrogant, much in the way science is. Today, just as we did yesterday, the few were laughed by many and turned out to be correct. Labels are completely pointless. I’ve yet to meet a schizophrenic I can identify or relate to.
I’m different, but one day we’ll look back at “modern psychiatry” and laugh at how stupid we were -how stupid the things we did to people were and how we treated or marked them as different, dangerous, or even evil was completely wrong and just plain mean. At least thats my theory. History repeats itself yet even the highly educated for some reason forget that fact.
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