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LaTigresse -> RE: How many of you are pretty much sane and sorted? (12/13/2011 4:35:26 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Winterapple
You do realize that clinically insane people think
of themselves as perfectly sane and "normal"?
They don't see themselves as others see them
anymore than sane do or can.
One of the cliches about mental illness is
that a person who is out and about
working and going to the gym, etc can't
be mentally ill. But that isn't true.
A person who has gotten the help they
need can work, play and love like any
other. They might even have a advantage
over all the supermen and women who
deflect illness with their inborn awesomeness,
because they have suffered and have empathy
because it. Empathy being a positive thing
in human interactions.
You also have people who are superficially
sane. Smart and outgoing and successful
and batshit crazy when you look closely.
Narcissists can be worldly successful.
Sociopaths to. Bipolors during a manic
phase can be magnetic.
Mental illness manifests itself in all sorts
of ways. Even "winners" can be afflicted.
And some of us realize that we are just boringly disgustingly, quite sane and have our shit all sorted and in one little boring brown paper bag.
The closest I come to having a mental disorder, is undiagnosed ADD. It's not a bother to ME as it allows me to rock at multi tasking. So I do not consider it a mental problem at all. Because A. it's no problem, and B. it's never been a problem therefore no diagnosis, and C. since it's never been a problem and never been diagnosed, it's never required any sort of treatment.
I don't get anything more than momentarily blue, rarely even annoyed, more rarely upset, and even more rarely angry. My keel is ridiculously even.
I am quite empathetic, so tend to put higher walls around that to avoid drama.
Really, the above doesn't make me special an ounce. There are quite a lot out here like me. We have issues but we just deal with them. We have life shit, but we learn to shovel it. We manage to do it all without screaming "the sky is falling the sky is falling!!!!" or running to a doctor for meds.
And no, I am not putting myself on any sort of pedestal. That would be complete foolishness. I have too many people in my life I love very much that are not like me. People dealing with eating disorders, alcoholism, depression, anxiety, etc etc etc.... Whatever the reason their brains were created differently, with a tendency to those issues. Mine was not. That is the only difference. One is not more special than the other, just different.
The reality that anyone with a mental illness faces is that a lot of people like myself, that do not have to deal with mental illness, just do not GET IT. I didn't get it for a long time. My daughter suffered because of it. No different than most people that are not fat, do not GET the struggle that fat people have. Thin people do not understand why fat people just cannot stop eating so much, exercise and get thin.
We all have our shit to deal with. Some people's shit will be more obvious and easier to understand and others, not so much so. I have whimpy knees, fine hair and a J-Lo type ass. Those are just a few things that I have felt were a negative in my life. There is just less stigma to having whimpy knees, fine hair and a fat ass. Not a one of us was created as a perfect bot. Not a one. That's life.
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