Mental Disorders

When people say you are mental because you do something stupid, isn't right its kinda making fun of people that really do have those problems. Really they are people just like us, they have lives to!

Waysrule:

When people say you are mental because you do something stupid, isn't right its kinda making fun of people that really do have those problems. Really they are people just like us, they have lives to!

I've never felt offended by it.
I mean, everyone has a mentality, erego everyone has the opportunity to be mental.
It's just all a matter of how mental.

I have OCD, and mild to moderate Schizophrenia. When I tell people I have Schizophrenia thier normally really suprised, I'm only 12 and Schizophrenia in someone as young as me is VERY rare. I was diagnosed when I was 10, and I've been on meds ever since then and I've only had one or two bad episodes, and I'm able to go to school normally and everything....The worse part of it is people who don't know me that well treat me differently, I've known people to treat me like a little kid and I've even known people to be scared of me. When I'm with people I do know (adults mostly) and thier are people there that havn't met me before, the first thing that the person is told is that I have Schizophrenia. It's really annoying, especially with adults when I tell them that I'm fine, and they act like they know more about whats going on then me.

Medical disorders can't be cured, but they can be treated easily a lot of the time, and I think more needs to be done to get more medications for certain MDs.

Rosey203:

I have OCD, and mild to moderate Schizophrenia. When I tell people I have Schizophrenia thier normally really suprised, I'm only 12 and Schizophrenia in someone as young as me is VERY rare. I was diagnosed when I was 10, and I've been on meds ever since then and I've only had one or two bad episodes, and I'm able to go to school normally and everything....The worse part of it is people who don't know me that well treat me differently, I've known people to treat me like a little kid and I've even known people to be scared of me. When I'm with people I do know (adults mostly) and thier are people there that havn't met me before, the first thing that the person is told is that I have Schizophrenia. It's really annoying, especially with adults when I tell them that I'm fine, and they act like they know more about whats going on then me.

Medical disorders can't be cured, but they can be treated easily a lot of the time, and I think more needs to be done to get more medications for certain MDs.

i'm sorry to hear that...i have a friend who was diagnosed with schizophrenia at a very young age, and i was pretty shocked when she told me... but once it set in, which didn't take that long, i didn't treat her any differently.

that's the thing, you can have something like schizophrenia and live a normal, productive life for the most part.

xXhopeXx:

i don't see why people mock people with disorders, it really annoys me, they can't help it.

I am glad someone has noticed that. I have Bipolar disorder [extremely severe] and I was diagnosed 4 months ago. I told my form tutor to tell my form that I had it so that they would understand. Unfortunatly, they all took it as an excuse to push me around and bully me. They all say that I chose to be 'fucked up' and I am doing it for attention. I don't don't see why I should be mocked for something that isn't my fault. I may have a disorder, but that doesn't mean I don't have talent. I am a very artistic person, and singing is one of my biggest strengths. Look at Mikey, he has Bipolar and look where he's at. He gives me so much inspiration to do what I wanna, so therefore I still have strength to move on and beat them. People with disorder such as Bipolar just need help, that's all, and they should never be teased for their imperfections, can I say. Chances are we are the ones who will be able to go on and do things in life!

Mental disorders are an illness just like anything else. Except it's in the person's psyche/soul/mind whatever you want to call it. I'm bipolar, I should know all about it.

my dad works with people with mental disorders. i grew up knowing that it is wrong to make fun of them about the disorder they have, exclude, abuse and people with disorders. my stand partner in orchestra has a disorder and i always see and hear people making fun of her. I have a disorder that's not so bad but does get in my way, i have ADHD, and people think im crazy and such.

everyone has some kind of mental disorder in my opinion: like people who make fun of other people have a disorder, people who want to kill innocent people have a disorder. i wish those who don't have a medically dignosed disorder like ADHD, Tourettes, or Schizophrenia can find a way to see that what they are doing is wrong.

I have clinical depression and anxiety. They think i might have bipolar though. The meds im on are weird, though. It takes forever to find the meds that work for you because everyone reacts differently. And it also takes 5 weeks to find out if the meds your on work or not. Then when you switch meds you go psycho. Its rediculous. Not enough is done... at least not effectively. And judging people based on mental disorders is stupid and ignorant. I have a lot of friends with mental disorders and they are some of the greatest/nicest people i know.

I'm battling with depression. I believe that most mental disorders are something that you cannot really prevent. I mean that I didn't want to get depressed and I tried to deny it even from myself for a very long time.

You can try to nurse them with medication and the right kind of therapy, as I am, but sometimes the disorder might be hereditary. In those cases I believe no cure can be found, only certain treatments that can make the symptoms decrease to the kind of level where you can live a "normal" life.

Well... i have hereditary depression...like.. its from my dad and grand dad. Its clinical depression. I also suffer various anxiety disorders too though.
I dont think there is a cure to any mental disorder though. Depression for example...its all about chemical imbalance.I take meds to stabalize the chemicals. Same with bipolar. Without the meds the chemicals wouldnt right themselves and as soon as you go off the meds the chemicals are thrown off worse than before you went on them so... i dont know... I really dont know what to say...

I'm kinda in the middle between if they can be cured or not. I guess it depends on how bad you have that mentel disorder and how bad it affects you. I don't think therapy is the way to cure mental disorders. Having some strange person you've never met, come into your life, having you tell them your deepest dark secrets, and telling you they can fix you because went to college and read books about it, doesn't seem right. Sometimes you need friends to help you, family to support you, but sometimes they can't. From there it's all you. If have to find it in yourself to want to be better, that's the hardest part, is admitting you need help and you want to get better. Then you have to find a way to get there, some find it through writing, painting, talking, etc......... But I don't think they are completely cured, things like that never just go away, they are just delt with as they come. It's all in how you deal with it.

Waysrule:

When people say you are mental because you do something stupid, isn't right its kinda making fun of people that really do have those problems. Really they are people just like us, they have lives to!

It's a saying and a phrase. It's the same with ' That's gay'. 'That's retarded.' etc.

MyOwnImmortality:

Waysrule:

When people say you are mental because you do something stupid, isn't right its kinda making fun of people that really do have those problems. Really they are people just like us, they have lives to!

It's a saying and a phrase. It's the same with ' That's gay'. 'That's retarded.' etc.

But some people take things differently, even though you may not mean it in a mean way, that doesn't stop people from taking it differently. And I really wish those phrases would stop, It's gay and It's retarded is used to describe things you don't like or agree with, and using racial slurs to do that, it's not right, they are hurtful things that do have an effect on people

Soda_Warfare:

But some people take things differently, even though you may not mean it in a mean way, that doesn't stop people from taking it differently. And I really wish those phrases would stop, It's gay and It's retarded is used to describe things you don't like or agree with, and using racial slurs to do that, it's not right, they are hurtful things that do have an effect on people

Then we might as well go through the whole entire Webster Dictionary and English vocabulary if every human was wanting to be distinct and not crude.

Take out 'bitch' because it may offend a dog or those who own 'female dogs'. So let's now use the dictionary term 'female dog'. We don't need to offend those dog owners.

But calling a female dog a bitch would be correct, seeing as that is what it means, using it to describe a person would be terrible, it's just one of those words that weren't offending then all of a sudden the meaning got changed to describe terrible things, just like the word queer, which back in the day meant strange, but now it means something homosexual.

Its the same as calling someone a schitzo. Its not right but people have to toughen up. Sure its not polite and all but you're only gunna depress yourself if your gunna take such loosely used terms to heart.
What i think is wrong and unacceptable is how people will describe multiple personality dissorder as schitzophrenia. That is just ignorance and rude. It happens a lot where im from and i near flipped when i was watching a Marilyn Manson and Danny Elfman interview about Mansons cover version to "This is Halloween" and Manson described himself as a schitzophrenic role because he did all the voices himself. I didn't like that one bit. Its ignorance at its best.

I really, really don't want to flame anyone, but I have to make this point.

Thoughts do not cause disorders. Disorders cause thoughts.

I'm not saying this always happens, but having sad thoughts will not give you manic depressive disorder.
My sister has ADD [attachment, not attention], PDD, and is slightly autistic. She has a lot of trouble attaching to people and having normal, loving, serious relationships. She has temper tantrums at birthday parties, and often has fights with my parents over whether they love my other sister and me more than her. She can't control it. She didn't become this way because she felt unwanted a few times. She was born this way, she developed this way, and if she could, she would change.
Many of the MDs out there are often looked over and ignored. Like my sister's. It's not somethign that is obviously a MD, but it is one. People treat her like she's just an idiot, or annoying, or angry. She's not.
This leads me to my last point. I think we should treat everyone respectfully. Don't downplay another's problems, because you never know what they really are. Maybe what seems to you like a fear of commitment is really a mental disorder someone was too afraid to admit having.

People are people. Would you want someone treating you differently for something you couldn't control?