happy mental health awareness week!!!

camisado 10/3/2022 06:14 am 511

hello!! starting today, it is mental health awareness week! (this week ends on october 8th), october as a month is also ADHD awareness month, infant loss/miscarrge awareness month, down syndrome awareness month, physical therapy awareness month, and animal abvse awareness month!!

for anyone struggling with mental health, or any of the things above, share your stories!!

i've struggled with mental health my whole life, im diagnosed with ADHD, depression, anxiety, cptsd, and autism, and then im working on a diagnoses for BPD/OSDD-1B. my mental health has affected me socially, academically, emotionally and sometimes even physically! this week means a lot to me, because I want people to be aware of just how difficult it is to live with mental illness. a lot of people don't take mental health seriously and it harms me as well as many others a lot. the world isn't built for people with both physical disabilities, and mental disabilities, and it affects me daily. I have lots of trouble in school, and I've been told multiple times that I'm "lazy", or "dumb", all because I'm mentally disabled and need extra help when it comes to my school work. My life is very confusing and frustrating, especially because of my OSDD. I have lots of trouble figuring out who I am, I forget days of my life, sometimes even months of my life, I forget my friends and family, and often I wonder if I'm real or not. Many people stereotype my disorders, and make it very hard for me to get the proper care I need.

disabilities, both mentally and physically, make a lot of peoples lives hard. feel free to bring awareness to your disabilities in the comments!! and remember, it'll be okay , mental illness doesn't define you! you are not your mental illness!!

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itswhackadoodletime
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Oct 3, 2022 6:25 am

hello, I have like half a diagnosis for autism (by half I mean I took the test, it’s been reviewed by a psychiatrist, but it’s not on paper yet), undiagnosed adhd, auditory processing disorder, c-ptsd, and working on a diagnosis for borderline personality disorder and a schizoaffective disorder. I really struggle with making/keeping friends, as I really have no concept of social cues or how people work, so I am often seen as insensitive and awkward. My apd makes it very hard and tiresome to communicate, so a lot of people just give up. It’s insanely frustrating. And when people actually make an effort to get to know me and talk to me, I never know how to actually talk to them and I often try and shape my personality around theirs to accommodate for the gap, but I generally fail and lose them as a friend. I also dissociate often, which coupled with apd makes going to class a nightmare on occasion. Something I like to do that helps with most of this is researching/consuming media about my special interest and baking!

compost_in_training
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Oct 3, 2022 8:18 am

ooo i forgot it was mental health awareness week :v

ive been diagnosed with ptsd, bipolar disorder, psychosis, general anxiety disorder. i was just recently diagnosed with bpd so that on top of all my other stuff makes me feel fundamentally unlovable sometimes but now that i know im learning to deal with it and getting better. Im also genetically predisposed to developing dementia so that'll be fun lol. ive been meaning to see about someone about if i might have autism spectrum disorder (i think thats what its called-) but yeaaaaa. i also have tourettes :p and pica ://///

my dad has schizophrenia and both my dad and sister have DID along with my best friend so if anyone with things like that going on ever needs to talk im always here for ya ^^

Trever_The_OutcastX3
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Oct 3, 2022 9:34 am

I didn't even know this was a thing until now, but I'm not diagnosed with anything, so I can't say much because I don't want to self-diagnose. Still, I think I might have ADHD, Anxiety, PTSD, and possibly depression, or dysthymia. Still, my first therapist appointment is today so my nervous about that but most of the time I've been called over dramatic, I also was mental and sometimes abused, so I have trauma, but we will see. I'm still not exactly sure how to get diagnosed still, I will probably look into it more

My biological mother has bipolar disorder and my stepmother had depression and anxiety

But happy mental health awareness week everyone!! ^^

josuyasu
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Oct 3, 2022 11:01 am

happy mental health awareness week to eeveryone

Sleepy_Loss
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Oct 3, 2022 11:35 am

hi! we have DID, c-ptsd, bipolar 2, ocd, adhd, and autism. (and chronic fatigue).

it's something that has been incredibly influential in our lives and has made us really spiral at times. that being said, we're learning that it's okay to have these disorders, and that the DID/c-ptsd was not our fault.

stay safe everyone, and remember you are loved and valued

-toby

Quartz
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Oct 3, 2022 6:35 pm

Hi there! : >

I live with Persistent Depressive Disorder [previously known as dysthymia], GAD, and ADHD-C. As much as I'm aware of all the faults in our industries, I'm a huge advocate for mental healthcare and even plan to become a therapist myself! Therapy and medication have absolutely turned my life around, and my healing journey's still only just begun! I've been on Wellbutrin for well over a year now, and it has completely changed the game for me in regards to PDD. Feeling better is possible! Being better is real!

It's a huge challenge for me to accept that this makes me disabled. It's not a bad word, but the people in my life have never taken my problems seriously, and it's tough to feel like I "deserve" to consider myself such when other people have it "worse". So I practice! I'm disabled. When left unchecked [and even with treatment, since it isn't perfect], my conditions impact my eating habits, sleep, hygiene, productivity and ability to keep up with adult life, mood, interests, relations with other people, and overall quality of life. That's very disabling, I'd say.

I am always open to chat if you want advice or questions about my experience! I love getting an opportunity to help someone, and feel better knowing we aren't in it alone.

heckarockstick
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Oct 3, 2022 11:26 pm

@heckarockstick: anyways I have autism and adhd. Also I have deperession

dootdooots
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Oct 4, 2022 4:19 am

I feel like we need help more than awareness

sincerely your local chronically ill and mentally ill fool

camisado
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Oct 4, 2022 5:05 am

@heckarockstick: leave them alone. literally this thread was meant to be a safe space and people like you ruin it. leave them alone, if you needed a translation or something then just ask politetly.

camisado
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Oct 4, 2022 5:06 am

@dootdooots: true! but awareness will help us get help!

happy mental health awareness week!!!

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