I usually keep my psychosis/sza symptoms to myself unless it’s here with people who understand (even then when I post about them I seem to get passed over with those posts). I feel uncomfortable talking about it and feel like people don’t take me seriously. Maybe I don’t explain things right. Also I am not the kind who likes that kind of attention. It makes me uncomfortable also feel like I’m making things like my delusions come true if i talk about them.
My new psychologist says I need to be more open about what I go through with people in my life even if it makes me uncomfortable or if they don’t understand. I’ve tried making Facebook posts but end up deleting them because having that on social media like Facebook makes me very uncomfortable. I don’t know where I’m going g with this. I guess I wonder do you talk open about your symptoms with friends etc.? How does it make you feel?
I can’t talk to anyone in real life about mental illness.
- They wouldn’t understand
- There’s nothing they could do anyway
- They don’t really care
That’s how I feel
I don’t mind talking about my symptoms to people, but they rarely understand and it seems to make some uncomfortable
I’ve talked to my one friend who has bad depression and she is nice but doesn’t understand and brushes me off I guess. So I quit telling her when I’m having a hard time I just go quiet and don’t text anyone until I feel better
Also it seems like people on social media are always saying to talk about mental illness but it seems they only mean depression or anxiety other ones make them uncomfortable
There is no point in it. People close to you get used to your illness. Others don’t care as much. Or they simply can’t understand. Even when they try. Then there is stigma.
Elyn Saks wrote in her autobiographical book when people get cancer they receive flowers. People go to meet them. But you get schizophrenia no one even says you hi.
I had troubling experience with two of my teachers. They obviously know I didn’t do well academically. I suspect they have some idea about my mental illness. When I ran into them on occasions they looked away as if they had duped me and I was on lookout for them.
It’s true. When I was just diagnosed bipolar people seemed nicer, when I got correctly diagnosed schizoaffective, people don’t seem to talk to me as much
Depression and anxiety have become ornamental mental illnesses as there is not much stigma and troubles associated with those. And those who post about their struggles with depression/anxiety have mild cases of those. People with severe depression or crippling anxiety don’t usually post on social media about their struggles.
But when we talk about bipolar or schizophrenia I read on guy’s experience in a facebook group - members of group said it was depression and anxiety. Not for people with bipolar and schizophrenia.
For me meds took away almost all symptoms - or maybe it calmed down by itsself. So I really don’t understand when people have all these crazy and unusual believes or hear voices when medicated. But meds also take away other functions and that I don’t like.
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