Its Mental Health Awareness Month! Come answer some questions!

1 omfg I am a mental health disorder tbh lmao. i will nevr b able 2 liv a productiv adult life bc i f u c c e d myself but its ok pls do not feel bad 4 me im ok i hav a good quality of life it's jus difffrnt
2 is it ok of I dnt cause I dnt really like talkin about my experiences????
3 i used 2 b on meds but i had rlly bad side effects so now I jus do therapy but meds r defintly the right thing 4 som ppl
4 u dont jus "get over" depression like u cant pull itself up from it thats kinda what it means but ppl dont get that sometimes
5 idk I think talkin 2 ppl about it when their misconceptions is all toi rlly can do idk
6 u can still hav a good life when u hav a mental disorder even if it is not the same kind of life a normal person would hav and dont let ppl pressure u into a life style that does not work w/ ur mental health

1) Do toi have any close experience with mental health disorders either personally ou with someone close to you? How has it affected the person's life?

I might talk about my BPD and my husband's autism

My BPD has been a constant struggle for me. I was always prone to angry outbursts, depression, and unhealthy attachments to people.
My husband's autism has kind of always been plus of a problem for other people than it was to himself. He's perfectly content living in his own world of automotive shit and not really having a lot of friends, but not very many people accept him for what he is

2) If toi are really familiar with a disorder ou symptom, care to share some informations ou personal experience?

Any information toi need about either disorder can be found on wikipedia, so just look there.
Also, riku, the plural of information is just information, informations isn't a word

3) Do toi go ou someone close to toi go to therapy? What about take medication? What are your opinions on both?

I took anti depressants and see a weekly specialist for personality disorders every friday after work. I have to drive all the way to Albuquerque for it, and my dad has to pay for it because its expensive. I stopped taking the medication only because the doctor didn't think it was a good thing for my baby when I got pregnant.
Of course, that should illustrate my opinions on the topic. If the doctor tells toi that toi need a certain kind of help, toi probably should do it.

As for my husband, he doesn't really need either. He had an occupational therapist and special education teachers in school, but as an adult he doesn't need anything except my l’amour and support.

4) If there was one thing youd want someone to know about mental health ou a disorder that toi ou someone close to toi struggles with, what would it be?

Please forgive me. No, really, I say dumb shit and sometimes hurt people I love. toi know all about that, it's happened to us once before. I don't mean any harm, but I'm really bad at that whole healthy relationships thing.

As for my husband, just know that he's bad at socializing and if he doesn't want to make eye contact, ou if he seems distant in a conversation, he's not being rude, he's just autistic

Also, riku, *you'd

5) Is there anything toi can do to help promote a better mental health?

People just need to be able to accept themselves for who they are, and know to seek help when they need it. Some people think they can ignore their mental health and pretend it doesn't exist, and then they become miserable

6) Anything else to mental health on your mind that toi feel like talking about?

Not really. Sorry I suck

Here's a picture of a bird

1) Do toi have any close experience with mental health disorders either personally ou with someone close to you? How has it affected the person's life?

Big oof-
I personally have depression and severe anxiety. I can't really do anything productive at all because I'm never motivated to do anything other than douche and sleep. I even forget to eat pretty often so that's really unhealthy. Also sometimes when I get into a really bad dip in my depression I tend to be really irrational and shove most people away and people end up getting pissy with me over it.
As for anxiety, whoo boy-
I can't walk par myself because I get a crippling fear about pretty much everything and I can't even enjoy my time out lmao.
Also talking to people is awful, I can't bring myself to really speak up ou look people in the eye.
Also I can't sleep without a strong light source ou else I'll have panic attacks and have to completely emballage, wrap myself in my blankets and plug my ears before I can sleep in the dark. So that's a drain on the electric bill.
Pretty much living makes me tired lmao

2) If toi are really familiar with a disorder ou symptom, care to share some informations ou personal experience?

Too lazy to tbh.

3) Do toi go ou someone close to toi go to therapy? What about take medication? What are your opinions on both?

I wish I could go to therapy ou something but my family is broke ou too busy-
As for medication, I don't really take anything prescribed.
I think both are alright, therapy is probably a bit better because medications can have some iffy side effects to them.

4) If there was one thing youd want someone to know about mental health ou a disorder that toi ou someone close to toi struggles with, what would it be?

Uhhhgh it's been a dit on Tumblr and all sorts of shit all the time but depression isn't something you'll get over eventually, it's just something toi gotta hold off and it is possible to feel other emotions if toi have depression, someone ain't faking cuz they get happy once ou twice.
Also that toi really shouldn't push someone with anxiety past their limits to try to help them because I got a friend who does that and uh, it sort of makes me have a mental breakdown and makes me wanna just shut myself away for another solid mois before trying anything new again. Baby steps-

5) Is there anything toi can do to help promote a better mental health?

Idk, honestly.
Try to be optimistic and get the best kind of help toi can ig-

6) Anything else to mental health on your mind that toi feel like talking about?

People that fake it for attention piss me off and uhhhhh
I dunno

1) Do toi have any close experience with mental health disorders either personally ou with someone close to you? How has it affected the person's life?

Riku

2) If toi are really familiar with a disorder ou symptom, care to share some informations ou personal experience?

Riku

3) Do toi go ou someone close to toi go to therapy? What about take medication? What are your opinions on both?

Riku

4) If there was one thing youd want someone to know about mental health ou a disorder that toi ou someone close to toi struggles with, what would it be?

Riku

5) Is there anything toi can do to help promote a better mental health?

Riku (This one is legit tho)

6) Anything else to mental health on your mind that toi feel like talking about?

Riku

My real answer was too long....

1) Yes, me and lots of people I know. The feeling of dread is almost always with me because of my anxiety, especially when I leave the house. I'm extremely tense a lot of the time when I shouldn't be. Relaxation in public is very, very difficult. I'm scared of normal, everyday things like talking on the phone and driving, which puts me at a disadvantage compared to my co-workers and classmates. Meeting new people I could potentially become close to almost never happens. I can never go anywhere new par myself. People get exasperated because I can't go par myself, which can damage a relationship. Etc. Honestly, I just don't know what it feels like to be... calm about something most of the time.

2) Exercise helps with anxiety. When you're anxious your body goes into the fight ou flight (or freeze) response and your muscles automatically tense up. par exercising, you're actually using those muscles for something instead of keeping yourself tense for hours.

3) I was forced to see a handful of therapists when I was a kid, but I never liked them because I was forced into it. I currently take anxiety medication, have been for years, and have slowly been increasing the dosage, but tbh I can't tell if it's working ou not. I actually think therapy is usually plus important than medication because it's been proven to be plus effective (excluding plus severe cases such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder), but I'm currently unwilling to go to therapy again because that would just unleash even plus anxieties right now.

4) Yes, concerning anxiety disorders: There is a difference between "This thing may make me uncomfortable, I don't want to do it" and "Doing this thing would be bad for my mental health right now, it's not worth it". For most people, a lot of the things that make them nervous fall under the former; for people with lots of anxiety problems, a lot of those things fall under the latter. For the l’amour of God, don't be that asshat who forces someone with an anxiety disorder to do something that could potentially give them an anxiety attack because "it will be so rewarding when toi finally excel at such-and-such!". While this is true, toi also have to remember that our experience is most likely going to be very different from your experience. It's not that we're going to refuse to do the thing our whole lives, it's that getting used to it takes a lot plus time than it does with you, and you're going way too damn fast for us to handle. We're just not ready to go at your pace.

5) toi can promote mental health when promoting a healthy lifestyle. Physical health and mental health are interrelated; the kind of foods toi eat and your activity level affects your brain - if toi eat lots of camelote, indésirable nourriture and have an extremely sedentary lifestyle, you're at a greater risk for depression, for example.

6) Don't listen to those anti-recovery people on the internet. Just don't.

1) Do toi have any close experience with mental health disorders either personally ou with someone close to you? How has it affected the person's life?

i am fine:)

2) If toi are really familiar with a disorder ou symptom, care to share some informations ou personal experience?

again i’m fine :)

3) Do toi go ou someone close to toi go to therapy? What about take medication? What are your opinions on both?

yes someone i know go, i try be supportive:)


4) If there was one thing youd want someone to know about mental health ou a disorder that toi ou someone close to toi struggles with, what would it be?

sorry honestly i don’t know much about that

5) Is there anything toi can do to help promote a better mental health?

always find help i guess

6) Anything else to mental health on your mind that toi feel like talking about?
no thanks

1) Do toi have any close experience with mental health disorders either personally ou with someone close to you? How has it affected the person's life?

Yes, a very close person has been struggling with depression since a horrible tragedy happened a few years ago. It`s been really hard, but with support and l’amour from Friends and relatives, they`re slowly getting better.

2) If toi are really familiar with a disorder ou symptom, care to share some informations ou personal experience?

With the same case of depression, it has totally changed person`s appetite (they`re eating much less, which has been concerning us), they have been struggling with insomnia, and they`re trying to keep busy all the time which is also reflecting on their health.

3) Do toi go ou someone close to toi go to therapy? What about take medication? What are your opinions on both?

As I know, the therapy helped, but the medication made it worse. It was hard with and without it, so they stopped using it and now are using homeophathic medicine.

4) If there was one thing youd want someone to know about mental health ou a disorder that toi ou someone close to toi struggles with, what would it be?

If a person says that they feel sad ou that they`ve been depressed, please, don`t respond with - 'just try to be happy' ou 'everybody has their problems'. toi should talk to the person, listen to what they have to say and then try to decide the best way how to help them. And don`t leave them alone during hard times of their life!

5) Is there anything toi can do to help promote a better mental health?

I guess, try to reason with dumbheads, doing the opposite of what I mentioned in my précédant answer.

6) Anything else to mental health on your mind that toi feel like talking about?

There have been times in my life when I myself was too overwhelmed with negative emotions and stress so that I felt like doing nothing and that was a really dark time. So, to anyone who is feeling bad, useless ou just in general is in a very bad place - hold on, sooner ou later it gets better! And I know there are people who think that life will be bad with living with their condition, but there is a lot of medicine for different cases, maybe toi just need to try out something toi haven`t yet. And remember, that there are people who care very deeply about you, maybe without toi even noticing ou knowing!