What disorders/illnesses/etc. do you wish people would know more about?

[CaringShrimp]

I would love to learn more about the struggles and pain people face every day of their lives, hoping to understand them better ♡​

Feel free to share your facts!
*:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟMuch love to all of you *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ​

 

[BusTicketholder]

OCD, people tend to dismiss it as a "cleanliness disorder" when it's actually a debilitating anxiety disorder caused by misfirings in the brain

 

[SamTam33]

Misophonia and the rage that comes with it. I've wished all kinds of horrible fates on my coworkers and neighbors when they've triggered me.

As a result, I try my damndest not to be a trigger for anyone else who might be suffering from it.

 

[CTB Dream]

Wabt people know thing, life call nnormal this not this actual damage both body brain, people not notice say normal, can give many exmp there endless, one compete this wrong relation full damage etc, this all damage people not notice life all diseases damage people pretend ok, this nobody know put calssify disease not see life disease illness

 

[fayth2567]

Bipolar one and two. People think my issues are a character flaw instead of the illness itself.

 

[Wannagonow]

Bipolar one and two. People think my issues are a character flaw instead of the illness itself.

Yes!! I couldn't agree more. This has been my experience for almost 30 years.

 

[donewithyourview]

Body dysmorphia is such a common thing, but since it's one of the biggest moneymakers in this shitty capitalistic world, they won't ever talk about it openly or try to find long term solutions for it.

 

[Jadzia]

ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) especially very severe ME. That's what I have.

 

[makethepainstop]

I would love to learn more about the struggles and pain people face every day of their lives, hoping to understand them better ♡​

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Feel free to share your facts!
*:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟMuch love to all of you *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ​

Autism, I hear people tell me they are autistic, but they never give me even the smallest clue what that condition(s) is actually like.

 

[PanickedMelancholia]

Religious Trauma Syndrome. I've suffered from it my whole life, I just wish more people understood how fucked up indoctrination can actually be.

 

[makethepainstop]

Religious Trauma Syndrome. I've suffered from it my whole life, I just wish more people understood how fucked up indoctrination can actually be.

Now religion IS a case of "Grooming", if there was ever grooming, this is it!

 

[Cryptonite]

Scheuermann's disease of the spine. No one knows, not even doctors, even though 2-3 % people have it. It can be cured in case of an early diagnosis, but no one cares.

 

[Cantbereal]

Gadolinium POISONING and benzo withdrawal

 

[Cantbereal]

Akathesia

 

[Minibosterita]

Miscarriages

 

[Shadowlord900]

Autism and Asperger's Syndrome. Unfortunately both in recent years have become a common insult and the butt of jokes. But with previous disorders/disabilities/terms like retardation and spaz now becoming taboo if used as an insult, I guess something needs to fill the hole.

 

[actual_fox]

Autism and Asperger's Syndrome. Unfortunately both in recent years have become a common insult and the butt of jokes. But with previous disorders/disabilities/terms like retardation and spaz now becoming taboo if used as an insult, I guess something needs to fill the hole.

I just wanted to type that.

 

[gottablast888]

Autism, I hear people tell me they are autistic, but they never give me even the smallest clue what that condition(s) is actually like.

feels like most people are inside of a bubble and you are on the outside and you can never get in

 

[TheCyberian]

I wish people knew the profound effect autism has on social connection. Most people know we're awkward and have narrow interests, but they don't understand how hard it can be to be on the spectrum while entirely self aware. I've felt like an alien in every social situation since I was a child, and I constantly ruminate over every social interaction--picking apart every single thing I did wrong. It's exhausting.

 

[charlotte_]

I'd definitely say autism. It genuinely disgusts me how even till this day, autism people are still sometimes seen as a joke that is found "funny". none of us asked to be born with such different functioning from others. its genuinely exhausting and can cause you a great deal of anxiety, especially to those who are prone to masking. honorable mentions would go to schizophrenia, psychosis and BPD (I'd say DID too but it's pretty uncommon so I'll go with these for now)

 

[kansatsu]

cluster C personality disorders

 

[reiko1337]

NPD, it has so much stigma and stereotypes that people immediately believe all who have NPD are cruel and abusive. Which yes, some of them do, but not everyone.

 

[chuva de canela]

schizophrenia seems like hell

 

[AngelicPsychedelic]

Honestly any. Nowadays even the most well known disorders are totally misrepresented. e.g. I hear depression being used as an alternative to being sad literally all the time like "I was so depressed yesterday". Theres also autistic used as an insult or schizophrenic as an alternative to crazy, etc.
These piss me off so much!!

 

[Touhou]

ASD/Asperger's.

 

[girlsboysthems]

OCD, people tend to dismiss it as a "cleanliness disorder" when it's actually a debilitating anxiety disorder caused by misfirings in the brain

I second this. the intrusive thoughts/images make me feel like the worst person alive because these thoughts are not mine and i dont want them...

 

[AVeryLazySloth]

Probably Alzheimers. Seeing my mom struggle with her memory is awful.

 

[cogmachine]

anhedonia / other side effects of medications for mental illnesses.

 

[sorrowed_ender]

OCD, especially OCD with themes/intrusive thoughts of harm, abuse, etc. I struggle with P*dophilia themed OCD, and what that means is that I am afraid of becoming a p*do. it does not make me a p*do for having this kind of OCD, in fact the fear came around when I started recovering from childhood online grooming and online sexual assault. I am afraid of becoming the people who had hurt me as a child and I would never EVER wish for a child to be hurt like that, or ever want to hurt a child like that. I wish people understood that OCD is capable of coming with violent sexual and abusive intrusive thoughts, and it's actually so fucking common for OCD and jntrusive thought havers to atleast have a few bad ones. An intrusive thought is just a misfiring of the brain, and do not actually reflect on one's character as a person. and I wish people understood that and I wish people would stop jumping to conclusions when I talk about having POCD in "safe spaces" for OCD havers. (safe spaces in quotes because they dont feel safe to me. I feel disgusting and invalid and I feel like I shoukd die for having POCD)

 

[borderline-feline]

OCD, people tend to dismiss it as a "cleanliness disorder" when it's actually a debilitating anxiety disorder caused by misfirings in the brain

I second this so hard.

Personally, I describe OCD as there being a cockroach in my brain that loves to gaslight me (it helps to assign the intrusive thoughts to a seperate entity) and that I have to do seemingly irrational things to try and prove the roach wrong.

For me, the other big ones are borderline personality disorder and gender dysphoria.

Religious Trauma Syndrome. I've suffered from it my whole life, I just wish more people understood how fucked up indoctrination can actually be.

Tbh, I only have the understanding that I have of religious trauma because my mother grew up in a cult.

Religious Trauma Syndrome. I've suffered from it my whole life, I just wish more people understood how fucked up indoctrination can actually be.

Tbh, I only have the understanding that I have of religious trauma because my mother grew up in a cult.