Full Mental Normality

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Kubricking it.

If it's Little Miss I'm Your Carer Now, then no ta

Actually, me too - I tell people I've been sectioned etc, people assume that it's depression, people don't understand schizoaffective disorder.

Anything nice for dinner/tea anyone?

No it's the ditzy one. I can't describe here too much but honestly she gives me rage sometimes. She just doesn't know stuff and that makes me really angry

i don't understand why one diagnosis would be more embarrassing than another

there are some I love the sound of, like intermittent explosive disorder, I relate to its name while failing miserably at qualifying for it

but when I went for a second opinion and they gave me schizoaffective disorder I was affronted, not just because I don't believe in it but I somehow found it really offensive

but then I was affronted by the bipolar

am happier now about a million years later dwelling on those aspects of my personality organisation that can sort of fuck with my functioning - am no further forward as far as that goes but feel happier about addressing the misattribution of it all to bipolar

I hated when I had the public knowledge pnD that DH would sometime use it as an excuse for HIS poor behaviour or own grumpy mood!

My various gods, do I ever empathise with this. Any time DP is feeling irritable and we get in one of those snipey bickering squabbles, he does the whole "you've been in a funny mood all day, you keep getting at me, you're being irritable, are you feeling okay" routine

snowy my sister has schizoaffective, that's the only reason I don't believe in it

although deep down I don't believe in very many of these things at all

My diagnosis BPD and if people don't know what it is they assume things about me. Other diagnosis is bi polar but when I've told a couple of people they have given an face and commented that the psychiatrist must have got it wrong.
apparently I am still diagnosed with anorexia too, but I only discovered thAt when I went to get a sick note. I definitely don't have that any more.

I think that last one just stays there forever, even when weight restored, but 'in remission'

Does it? Ffs.

I was even envious of my husband's fascinating mental breakdown - I mean who gets detained in HOLLAND? for MONTHS? is almost unheard of there

he has an unusual misidentification disorder, is still not really over it yet, am not envious of how horrible it must have been for him but if you have to be mentally abnormal might as well do it in a rare and interesting way

Oh Chap you're not weak or ungrateful It's a massive struggle just to get through a day sometimes with depression and when you're fantasising about suicide it takes enormous strength to keep going.

I felt a bit stifled just reading your description of your life as 'perfect' chapuys

can imagine it wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea

and now to construct a spicy omelette

Depression is a proper thing to have wrong with you, as well

depression isn't about weakness or ingratitude It's very hard to take care of yourself with it.

Oh no, I have just realised that when I went to Tesco earlier, I got the milk, teabags, and geranium-scented joy-tablets, bit completely forgot the far more important panty liners, Coke Zero, and sugar-free jelly sachets

Oops enpo anywhere close by you can get them?

I've collected a number of diagnoses over the years, including (but not limited to) bipolar type 2, depression, ADHD and anorexia. Current therspist, who is a retired psychiatrist, took them all away and labellede with attachment disorder
I'm really not sure how I feel about that!!

They can wait, I guess, Snowy. I have some Coke left, which is the main thing

I always forget the most essential items. The corner shop does very well out of me, much to DH's despair.

Diagnosis-wise, I learned today that my office have concluded I have anorexia. TBH I was rather relieved: so much less stigmatised than BPD, depression etc. But maybe they have a point that I should put on some weight.

Davis has rearranged for tomorrow - having heard her reason, I feel bad for grumping about her earlier on.

Aaaaaand though I'm seeing Line Manager - about work itself, rather than the mess my job is in. I hope I was remain professional and composed and not cry

good

Hope Davis is okay. Don't feel bad; you had no way of knowing why she had to rearrange until she told you.

It's weird what people assume, isn't it? I had one person have an entire conversation with me about "your schizophrenia"

(I just let them get on with it because it was in the middle of my worst depression and I couldn't talk/smoke/drink/eat/piss without help - would go immobile and uncontactable for hours at a time.)

To be fair to them, my BMI is currently about 16.8 so I technically could be diagnosed. I don't really buy into the whole concept of diagnosis, though. And to be anorexic I would need to think I was fat and I don't: I simply struggle with my feelings towards my body in every other way possible.

But yes, people and their assumptions. A friend who has been diagnosed with BPD was in a car accident a while back, and she and her friends all got admitted to hospital with their injuries. As I heard it told to me a week or so later, the friends she'd been with were all recovering nicely on an orthopaedic ward, and her fractured pelvis was being treated on the 'mentals ward' instead