I myself have schizophrenia and have encountered people who assume that I must have split personality or be prone to violent behaviour, neither of which are true. What kind of false assumptions have people made about you?
2007-11-16 03:44:05 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Mental Health
i am bipolar, borderline personality disorder, and have panic and anxiety and i have people, even in my own family, close family, that think i am just NUTS, crazy, and all sorts and what makes it worse they constantly treat me like i am disabled, like i am incapable of doing certian things, like if my sister needs help with her 3 year old daughter and 4 mon old son, she will mention she needs someone to help but when i offer, i am shut down because i am "unable to handle it" it sucks cause i know what i can and can't handle and if i couldn't handle it i wouldn't offer in the first place.
2007-11-16 04:33:50 · answer #1 · answered by dtingley95 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was diagnosed with depression when I was nine and I'm now 52, What most people don't understand is that depression can be chronic and that it might get better for a while but that it can and does keep coming back. When I'm feeling fine and than go into a depression they think that I'm looking for attention or that I'm just lazy and don't want to take care of my responsibilities. Neither of which is true but if you don't know much about depression you might assume it to be true. I think that one of the most prevailing misconceptions about any psychiatric illness is that you can just get over it if you really wanted to. That it's a matter of mind over matter and that you're not using your will or that your will isn't strong enough to over come what for other's would be easy.
2007-11-16 13:39:19 · answer #2 · answered by Kathryn R 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am Bipolar and have treatment resistant depression. People think I am unable to handle my own finances and because I might be having just a "normal" bad day that it is my illness causing me to feel aggravated or agitated. I can't have feelings without it always being associated with my illnesses. If I shop a little, I'm outta control, I must be manic. It is very frustrating. I've given family members lost of simple info to read - but they don't - yet they think they know when I'm "in trouble".
2007-11-16 11:50:02 · answer #3 · answered by Believe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Misconceptions about depression:
You do not have enough to do.
You like being depressed.
You should "snap out of it."
If you had other things you had to do, you would not have time to be depressed.
This is what I have been told.
2007-11-16 17:29:08 · answer #4 · answered by Hopefully Helpful 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suffer with depression, and those who don't understand it simply dismiss it as a character flaw or personality defect.
I suppose I *am* somewhat defective....
2007-11-16 13:11:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
bit different, i have major depression and my boyfriend thinks that i just act like that cause i want to. i try to explain that things in my brain don't work as well as it should but alas this falls on deaf ears!
2007-11-16 11:47:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋