Having one facet of reality doesn’t mean you are seeing the full reality.
I hate when people try and make others delusions real. The idea that ‘crazy people’ like the poor schizophrenic homeless veteran yelling about the sky falling is right. Maybe the world is going to end! Maybe you just really have super powers! Or god is talking to you! Maybe crazy people are actually the sane ones!
Give me a break. We really don’t need to hear our delusions be entertained as truth. I have a hard time when my delusions are confirmed, and this does happen frequently.
If I think I can read minds I don’t want someone to agree with me. It’s scary when delusions seem like solid truth, and others encourage you to continue unhealthy beliefs.
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“Oh. You’re still dealing with that.”
Shut up.
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i have struggled w strong paranoia that people are talking about me, even random strangers and saying nasty things and plotting and laughing at me and i had a therapist say “well people are probably talking about you”
didnt see her much more after that
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Omg yeah this exactly! Even people I know with schizophrenia do this to me!
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That’s awful. I hope you found a better therapist.
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I went to a NAMI conference and they talked about the importance of therapy. At first they thought it only worked on milder cases but then they tried it on the most hopeless and severe cases. The schizophrenics who had been in the hospital for years. After therapy soon many were living normal lives again and going to work and such. She believed it so much she sent her depressed son to a foreign country for therapy…
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There have been so many. But most recently a customer said that her playlist was “schizo” because there were so many genres. I’ve also heard “just ignore it” more times than I can count.
But my least favorite is when people find out my diagnosis and then suddenly I’m inspirational or respected and hard working. I HATE being patronized. I think I hate it more than people who believe mental illness is made up because most of the time those people are just uneducated. The people who patronize understand what is happening and STILL choose to patronize. And most of the time it’s family thinking they’re doing me such a big favor by telling me how amazing I am for wiping my own butt. I get sick of reminding the same people that I’m not much different than them and they keep doing it. Ugh getting my feathers ruffled just thinking about it.
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It’s not what people say, it’s the condescending looks that bug me when people find out something is off.
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I’m so sorry Noise. That sounds absolutely terrifying.
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“You know, you would probably need less meds if you slept less and took a walk each day”
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Therapy fixed many of the most hopeless and severe cases…
Mmmmmmmmmmmm… …
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Yeah i flipped out i locked myself in the bathroom and had a bit of a panic attack and then i don’t remember the rest of the day i think an alter took me to my last class. i was so scared thinking that the class wanted me dead. It made me so paranoid.
I told the professor how much it bothered me later and she told me to “stop being so sensitive” and then proceeded to try and psychoanalyze me and arrivied at the conclusion that I have anxiety! (No fucking shit the entire class just said it’d be ok to MURDER me but whatevs) and to this day I’m still just??? The ■■■■??
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That blows my mind. The professor should have their teaching license revoked.
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That’s what I thought! It’s like you teach this ■■■■ and think it’s ok for somebody to say something like that?! And then try to figure out what’s wrong with me because I got upset? I was so ready to punch that bitch! I actually ended up anonymously complaining to the head dudes about the incident but idk if anything happened to her.
I hope something happened. She deserves a pay cut at least. Clearly she doesn’t know much about the topic that she teaches if she’s treating her student this way. How infuriating.
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What’s even worse is that she was a doctor I forget what kind she was (I think a psychologist but I’m not sure) but yeah she’d always talk about her patients in relation to a topic and it’s like omfg I’m 99% sure that’s breaking the law but ok whatever
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Technically if names or otherwise identifying descriptions were not used it’s not illegal. At least not where I’m from. BUT it’s highly concerning she would do that frequently. My abnormal psych professor mentioned clients she worked with many years ago but made up names. She only did so to communicate a specific lesson that wouldn’t be as effective if we’d just read about it.
(Kind of off topic but) I remember she did a demonstration where she called up a neurotypical student to the front of the class and just asked her to talk about her favorite sport. The girl started talking and the professor began whispering in her ear degrading (but school appropriate) things just low enough that the rest of the class couldn’t hear. The girl couldnt get her words out and immediately all the neurotypical people in the room understood how difficult it can be. She was such an awesome professor. At the end of the semester I told her I had this disorder and I appreciated that demo and all she was concerned about was if she’d offended me at all throughout the course. Of course she never did, but it made me feel great to know that she genuinely cared about how I felt about what and how she was teaching.
I wish you’d had my experience instead. Your professor sounds like a dim witted, unconcerned, here for the paycheck piece of trash.
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Oh my god that is way better than my teacher I would have loved a teacher like that! And the fact that she asked if you were ok that’s like so sweet Omg!
Yeah when my teacher brought up clients she always made them sound like such messed up people. which I know like when you have a mental illness it’s messed up but she always brought up the most violent ■■■■■■ up and temperamental cases.
she always seemed to talk about them like they were beneath her. and she almost made it sound like we all have the plague or something Like the way she taught we didn’t really sound like people it sucked.
She really didn’t seem to care about the people she was “helping” it was gross.
And this is the best description I’ve heard of for that ■■■■■ I hated her
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That was a good one. As if psych meds are like taking cough syrup for the common cold lol. I’ve done that to people before I had this illness and the frame of reference to know what it’s like to live with it.
Here’s one “oh you’re just suffering from (insert religious experience here) because you’ve done (insert religious feat here) and it’s not actually mental illness, you’re just a bad person/woke”
That really steams my hams.
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