Do All People With Mental Illnesses Think The Same? | Spectrum

a lot of my anxiety symptoms are really hard to hide sometimes I will shake someone's hand and be like yeah I have OCD [Music] mental illness was discussed in my home growing up but it wasn't discussed in like a positive light it wasn't really something that I was encouraged to to seek out I was more so encouraged to lean on faith I kind of feel like I was like the prototype in my family because after I was diagnosed with my mental illness a few years later my uncle got diagnosed and then to my cousin's dead and when I first was experiencing the symptoms everyone thought that I was just being a rebellious teenager the consideration that I might be going through something deeper than that was never even considered I think just being a first-generation mexican-american my parents thought that my symptoms or my expression was a choice and a lot of times it was very like you got to stop talking in school you have anger problems or so it was not necessarily seen as something that I can work towards but it was seen as a defective trait yeah for me it wasn't it's who I was so last year in Oscars hospitalized that the conversations and mental help was brought up in my family and I don't think it was done on purpose I think it was just never had a space to do it and currently like accustomed to it I relate to that it just never really came up right yeah I have a memory of my sister saying like I think that sparkle has OCD from a really young age it wasn't really discussed outside of that and I never really got help until it got so bad that I would have died if I didn't [Music] probably not like in high school and stuff like I was always like the even just cool dude like everybody seemed like I had together really so I think it would probably be surprising people that I'm dealing with bipolar disorder because it just seemed like everything was so in order I think everything was looking how I was supposed to look so I guess for some people it would be like surprise for me I'm surprised like I just try to carry on myself the exact opposite of what people would think so I can make an effort to hide it a lot better you think of depression and you think of just some gloomy person in the corner and I tried my best not to be that person to not let anybody know because I was extremely insecure about it I didn't want anybody to know that I was struggling with something that I couldn't really put into words I'm so open about it they're like any stranger on the street like if it should happen to come up I will shake someone's hand and be like yeah I have OCD because I actually feel like hiding it like I'd rather tell somebody oh yeah by the way I'm bipolar so if I ever like start acting a little bit different like that might be why [Music] I was first diagnosed with schizophrenia and that was after seeing a psychiatrist for five minutes she sat with me looked at me she's like okay you have schizophrenia just because I told her I had hallucinations but I was later diagnosed as bipolar one so I think it's really important that these medical professionals really take the time to listen to their patient and to figure out what's really going on and not just you know be so jaded by all their other past patients that they're not listening to the person you know sitting right in front of them I do trust medical professionals like I believe for the most part that they're trying to do what's best for you and we can't allow like mistakes or things that happen in every career every field discourage us or others from going and getting help from these people but what if it was a person that had a more severe disability like somebody who can't go a day who if they dropped the ball that could land them in the hospital I have seen some situations where there was a mix-up you know and one person got someone else's medication and you can't take that back before I was diagnosed with Bipolar I thought I was absolutely everything because I was bipolar and I'd be going through all these different manic episodes and you know one week I'd be self diagnosing myself as this and the next week I'm not I see people struggle mostly with diagnosis acceptance so I think self diagnosis can really just turn into denial it's interesting the first time that I went into a therapist and said I think I have an eating disorder I told her the amount of times a day that I was purging and it was all day every day and she said you're not thin enough it's not a problem unless you get thinner and thinner so it took me two more years to go and get help a second time I did end up getting diagnosed later on with both bulimia and anorexia at different points in time but I think it was good during those two years that I didn't have a diagnosis to still be able to talk to people like to still be able to talk to my friends and say like I have an eating disorder I'm not diagnosed but I have an eating disorder before I got Dennis about bipolar disorder I noticed that he might my freshman year at college that I thought I was depressed and I'm reaching out and telling someone my girlfriend to Sam and she was like no you're not depressed and so I sometimes when you're like self diagnosed you kind of don't get Chi the same as being banished by a doctor but I think people know to themselves know themselves well so I think it should be taken more seriously when people at least attempt that self diagnosing himself when I did feel at my lowest points the combinations of therapy and medications definitely seemed to help but it's been a couple years now since that and even when I don't feel necessarily okay or if I feel like I'm struggling I don't feel the need to run to therapy or from medications at this point I feel like I've grown and learned a lot from what I went through and learned my own coping mechanisms to say that I don't necessarily need to fall on that so it's not something that as of now I can say that it works for me because I don't necessarily need it as of now I'm torn with the whole therapy thing medication I'm all for I've been on medication since I was 16 and it's actually really helped me get through my different moods and keeping me stable but as for therapy sometimes I feel like when I go I'm just like retrigger you know the trauma inside me so I don't really like to talk about it but I agree with you guys it doesn't work for a lot of people not so much for me but it I I would recommend therapy definitely well in for me going to therapy say definitely saved my life getting the diagnosis gave me something tangible to hold on to when my like whole world was slipping away from me and I had no idea what to do as far as the conversation around medication goes like a lot of people don't realize that no matter what medication is never like a perfect answer like it's always only like 40 50 percent effective you still need peer support you still need to like accept what's going on and work on it on a personal level like no matter what yeah I think that for me it's what like allows me to do that work and in terms of anxiety medication like my anxiety medication like lets me leave the house to go get there and like let it slows my brain down enough that I'm able to like think about it and then do the work yeah maybe a lot of them I would say that I would completely take back you know go back in time and and not go through the darker parts of my life but it's helped me grow a lot as a person I wouldn't change the person that I've become how stronger I've been from it how much more confidence I've had in myself had I not gone through that I wouldn't take that back it truly is so hard because in one way like it has made me who I am today it has made me so much more empathetic it literally I'm a mental health writer and it started my career I wouldn't have the career that I have I wouldn't have the connections that I have but then thinking of how like I have osteoporosis I have bone problems I have teeth problems because of my eating disorder in so it's like I wouldn't take away my past but if I could snap my fingers and not have to deal with it for the rest of my life that would be excellent very much so thankful that I went through the things that I went through because I've seen how it's affected my close friends my family it gives me the responsibility to be a voice for the voiceless especially people in my community who go through these things who don't know what's going on have no experience but with it at all and for someone like me to just put step out on a limb and just talk about it I think I was chose to have that role my parents were like convinced that I was just defective and so now that I'm convincing my parents that I wasn't just making this up they're able to see that I'm working towards something but they still have to deal with me they still have to ask me how are you doing they still have to see me at the hospital and being in your 20s is not easy to question if your life is you know a worth it because you aren't just making a lasting effect on yourself it really affects everybody and I think that if I didn't have my disorder I wouldn't be Who I am and I'm okay with that because life is more than just me I do believe that we should be positive about our mental illnesses so we can bring other people up who aren't even ready to accept that they're going through something right now if they see us feeling like so negative and like we wish we could just rip all this way which I totally understand like how everybody feels I'm not trying to say that it's so much easier anything all I'm trying to say is is that it's part of your life not your entire life like my life is so much more my beautiful husband like my wonderful family my cute chihuahuas like that's my life like my life isn't that I'm bipolar that I have an eating disorder or that I experience sexual trauma this is such a hard one for all of us I don't want to be in this line I want to be in the middle because having this illness like with you it it makes me who I am today you know it's made me stronger it's made me appreciate what I have it's made me appreciate being happy because if you're living with a mental illness some of us wake up every day just wishing to god that they could put a smile on their face and it actually means something it's so hard you know and I think life would be easier without taking all those pills without not knowing if I could even have a child because I can't bear a baby with taking all these pills it's it sucks at the same time there's so many people out there who live with these illnesses and I think it's up to us to help them and to you know be bear strengths and to educate people because who else is going to do it if not us guys if you're struggling with an addiction if you're struggling with a mental illness please ask for support you know there are people here for you giving their time freely to be of support we so appreciate you guys taking the time to watch this and empathize with the cast members as always follow us on Instagram leave a comment below and we'll see you next time [Music]

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Length: 14min 28sec (868 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 27 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/Reddrum222]

My personal experience with this, no matter how good the science is and how well decorated the authority, is that fundamentally it demands you be less of an individual, and that erosion of your sense of self is every bit as detrimental as the issues you sought treatment for in the first place.

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I don't trust any of them and that's because of their misguided sense of morality and ethics. The same goes for psychologists, anyone that can infringe upon my rights as a human being is not to be trusted. Their sense of egotistical empathy makes me want to vomit.

[u/iNeedSeriousHelp0]

The problem with this hyper-normalization of mental illness on social media is that (1) it won't translate into your IRL experiences; obvious mental illness will still be looked down upon; mentall illness may be considered "common" but it won't be looked upon as normal or cooperative with social norms, and (2) it's also giving credence to the outdated hypothesis that a mental illness begins and ends within the real-estate of the brain. Our treatments that are specifically targeted at the brain and no other organ are almost entirely made up of a pharmaceutical lineage and they can cause permanent brain damage or terrorizing and inhumane side effects.

Also (3) is that your mental illness is now being regularly inflated as a badge of honor on social media, rather than seeing it as a defect of character/a problem to solve. This movement of acceptance promotes inaction and provocates the apathetic to become a roulette machine for various psychiatric drugs until one numbs their most debilitating symptom, rather than seeking out non-pharmaceutical avenues of treatment.

Literally every psychiatric patient has to constantly reassure themselves on social media that they are making the right choice by taking medication(s); whether that be on a facebook support group, an anonymous forum, etc. There is going to be a snowballing of a pro-psychiatry crowd in the near future, because the constant subconsious uncertainty that haunts all patients who take psych meds at the discretion of their psychiatrist. Any opposing arguments or safety concerns from "concern trolls" will be rudely minimized and you'll be mocked for offering an opposing opinion, even if it's backed by science, because once you're on psych meds, you're going to continually justify the act of taking them, even if that means spreading false hope on social media or convincing other people that the drugs you're taking are successful and void of side-effects, even though the truth is that you're scared shitless that the psych drugs aren't working like they should or you're deliberately omitting side-effects to fool others. TL;DR: Basically: Dominated psychiatric patients will spread disinformation and shill for both psychiatry and their most commonly prescribed medications in order to calm their looming anxiety/regret about taking psychiatric drugs in the first place.

A hard pill to swallow: So many people under psychiatric "care" will falsify a success story with medications/psychiatry in order to reel in gullable people so that they can demote them to their level of constant uncertainty and fear, just so they can feel more comfortable knowing that more and more people will have to live with this argubaly life-altering decision that they were so unsure and vulnerable about in the very beginning of their psychiatric care.