@dubstep_joe 453679 wrote:
I’m gonna put in my 3 cents to this. Sorry about the 3 cents but inflation is hectic nowadays.
Anyway it’s happened to me before that I read up about a so called ‘disorder’ and thought wow I must have that it matches up almost perfectly in some cases. Depression, ADHD, Bipolar, depersonalization and I would agree somewhat with this Aspergers syndrome.
I’d like to come to the conclusion that it is all normal. Everyone of us has everything to some degree, just some others more prevalent than others. I would like to say that this is all down to the environment we are.
I’d like to say that if you take a very social-able person, and put em in a complete unknown group of people they would experience exactly what a ‘unsociable’ person feels like (probably to a less degree but still). It’s because this person always has known peers around thyself that they stay in a environment that doesn’t make these symptoms that prevalent.
I totally disagree with labeling ourselves (someone mentioned it earlier). If we do, then lets all call ourselves psycho, because we all are.
Mental ‘disorder’ just doesn’t seem to make sense. I’m not sure where we draw a line though.
I don’t agree with mental ‘disorders’ they are just a NATURAL effect of the environment we are in. I do believe in mental disease though, we have to draw the line somewhere?
Hope that puts a smile to someones face.. Any thoughts?
I’m gonna say that environments we are put are in today are really not the most easiest for our happy chemicals to function appropriately.
I agree in part with what you say about people being quick to label themselves as having this/that, but you seem to be implying that bipolar/autism etc are all made-up conditions and just ‘a state of mind’, which I disagree with and I think would probably offend a lot of people who suffer from them.
Bipolar disorder, for example, is a pretty well-documented condition that is inherited genetically and a pretty serious mental disorder. For someone who actually has it I’m sure its a great source of relief and comfort to hear from a doctor that actually, they don’t just need to pull themself together and stop moping around, as they do have a medical condition that can be managed through therapy/drugs.
I know what you’re getting at though. Especially with the internet, it’s easy to sit there in a depressed, bored state thinking ‘what’s wrong with me?’, looking up mental disorders online and thinking ‘yeah, I must be bipolar’ when really you’re just depressed because you’re unhappy with your life for whatever reason.
Personally, friends have suggested to me at various points in my life that I might have mild asbergers, major depressive disorder or bipolar – certainly I suffer from the kind of awkward personality, tourettes-style tics and depression that a lot of technically-minded people seem to have, made worse by a very stressful job and even more stressful periods of having no work/income, but having met people that actually do suffer from these problems I don’t think I have too much to worry about.
