"Snap out of it", "Get a life", "Get a grip", "Get ahold of yourself", "find a hobby", "go to church" (BARF), "It's not that bad", "let it roll off your back", "take it with a grain of salt", & the clincher "At least you're not crippled/ in a wheelchair, etc". Who ARE these people. Non-mentally ill people JUST don't get it. Y? Then they have to stereotype & stigmatize us. It's BS . Let me see a show of hands! I didn't ask to be born MUCH LESS develop this GD "Borderline Personality Disorder".
2007-08-01 07:50:37 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Mental Health
to answer some 1 else's ? : you name the med except Lithium in which case I would sooner inject heroin into myself that take that garbage. Every SSRI or anti-u name it wore out their effects if any or gave me adverse side effects much outweighing the benefits.
2007-08-01 14:38:55 · update #1
Yes, exactly. If I could snap out of it, I would have as soon as I reconised it!
2007-08-01 10:46:52 · answer #1 · answered by Crazygirl ♥ aka GT 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I do hate a couple cliches, like "get a grip", "chill out" and "just snap out of it". But, tomorrow is a new day. And if your still feeling crappy, you need to focus on how to change it. Do you take meds? If not, go see a doc. If you are, then the meds aren't suited to you. I was diagnosed with anxiety /depression a year or so ago. I, in a nut shell, wanted to "croak!" I was around 46 and had nearly a decade of "dark days" and feeling like a nervious chichiuaua. The first dill hole doc put me on Depakote. Well, I don't have seizures or am schitzophrenic. But I did feel like a human slug! I changed docs, tried 4 different meds till they got it right! There are times I would have rather been crippled in a wheelchair than to feel as awful as I did, don't you agree? I love the saying, "Let em walk a mile in our shoes!" ....or even just five minutes in a mood disorder!!!!!!!!!!
2007-08-01 12:34:00 · answer #2 · answered by zen 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sure you can define it that way if you want but I don't see why it would make a difference. "Tomorrow never comes", is more than a cliche', it's a truism. It is always 'today', always. It is always the present moment and tomorrow never comes, it's already here. We live in the present moment not in the future, we can plan for the future,'tomorrow', but we live in this moment. Not in the past either, because those moments are spent and we cannot get them back, not for all the gold the planet holds those moments are past, it is 'now', that we live in.
2016-05-20 01:17:26 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its not that this stuff is altogether wrong. Some of it actually helps. I just hate that people don't understand how difficult it is to "snap out of it" or "get a hobby" or even "go to church" when you've got mental illness. It takes me 10x as much to do the things that people take for granted each day. Its all ignorance about the disease. They need to be educated.
2007-08-01 07:59:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Idiots that use this language towards peops with mental health problems should be shot. They are ignorant and have no understanding or empathy. NO ONE wants to have a mental health problem and if there was a magic wand we would all grab it with both hands, but there's not. This is a real disease with real symptoms and real problems. I really hate those ignoranuses that have this attitude. They have the personality depth of a paddling pool. GRRRRRRRRR!!!
2007-08-01 08:05:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I hate the phrase look on the bright side...if it was that bright, I'd already be looking at it.
I have RTS...so pretty much everything scares me and I get defensive as a coping mechanism. And yeah I get of lot of snap out of its and get a grips. Makes me want to shoot myself just to put a stop to it.
2007-08-01 08:35:27 · answer #6 · answered by Chief High Commander, UAN 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have chronic depression and anixety. I used to get really sick of hearing "be positive" and "if things don't turn out it's because you didn't want it enough." I haven't anyting like that for several years, but I know what you mean.
2007-08-01 15:05:23 · answer #7 · answered by majnun99 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the worst ones I hate is its all in your head you know, like yes you know your brain is in your head stupid idiots. and why don't you just snap out of it, I mean please if I could do that would I have not done it a long long time ago.
2007-08-01 08:01:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I know what you mean. You know what I hate to hear? "Smile. It uses more muscles to frown than it does to smile." Am I supposed to walk around with a goofy grin all day long?
2007-08-01 08:01:06 · answer #9 · answered by jennyninny 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes i get very sick of hearing the same old bullshit. They arent the ones dealing with it every single day of their lives.
2007-08-01 07:53:58 · answer #10 · answered by Ariel 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋