Cashewmilk
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- Mar 10, 2020
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Everytime I try to join a support group for mental health, I can't relate to anyone at all. They're all just drones like the neurotypical, complaining about petty little shit and looking for perfection, ungrateful for their cushy lives. I feel like I can't talk to anyone about my thoughts on mental health. I'm way way too scared to try to see a therapist, especially here in my town it's impossible, especially because I'm a full time addict. They don't like talking to people who aren't sober, and anytime I try to talk to someone, they're always rushed, flustered, and tired and careless (I can't afford proper healthcare). Most I could get is a counselor, but I hate how my last counselor was harassing me to get better and get clean, like you can't make someone if they don't want to. Another thing that pisses me off about mental health teams, they like to blame all my symptoms on drugs, like it's a drug induced illness. Except I was having symptoms way before drug use, since childhood... but nobody wants to acknowledge it they just want the easy way out. I often wonder why psychiatrists become psychiatrists as well, and therapists etc. I'd trust one who has suffered from a disorder over one who had a preppy life and did it to impress others and gain social status among their communities.
In mental health groups online, there is a huge disproportionate among everyone. Most of them are living with very mild symptoms, their "illness" does nothing to destroy their lives, it's simply an inconvenience (I don't get how that's considered an illness?). They were just able to access good health-care and pay a psych to give them a diagnosis. It just seems like a bunch of people who are already doing really good and wanting better, wanting perfection. That's what I got from reading the posts in some groups on FB and reddit.
In mental health groups online, there is a huge disproportionate among everyone. Most of them are living with very mild symptoms, their "illness" does nothing to destroy their lives, it's simply an inconvenience (I don't get how that's considered an illness?). They were just able to access good health-care and pay a psych to give them a diagnosis. It just seems like a bunch of people who are already doing really good and wanting better, wanting perfection. That's what I got from reading the posts in some groups on FB and reddit.
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