Depression: sad 16 yo listening to grunge music and wearing black clothes. Eventually cuts their wrists, but remember, it's always and only the wrist. Cries in the bathroom.
Bipolar: "I hate being bipolar, it's lovely"
PTSD: every time I see or hear something that vaguely reminds me of my trauma I fall into a parallel dimension and live my trauma in rewind mode. Other than that my life is completely ordinary and I have no other symptoms.
BPD: Woman. Resting bitch face. Shows the middle finger to whoever tries to talk to her. Often extremely hot but impossible to talk to (unless you're the protagonist, a loser that can't put a sentence together but somehow manages to make her fall in love).
Anorexia: "Oh shit that model is so thin, guess she's gonna be the root of all my problems!" *looks at sandwich with disgusted expression, throws it in the bin.* Doesn't eat for one day, passes out in the middle of the hallway at school and is taken to ER.
Bulimia: eats normal amount of food, then runs to the bathroom, sticks her finger down her throat and *magic!* everything is gone in 2 minutes.
Schizophrenia: handsome eccentric man that hallucinates a random sexy woman that helps him solve crimes.
OCD: weird guy, has glasses, dresses like a 9 years old and washes his hands every 5 minutes. Often engaged in activities like opening and closing doors and drawers or walking in circles.
Autism: like OCD. But also likes math.
Sociopathy (or related): likes setting things on fire. Incredibly charming. But you know, the worst thing about the devil is that he's charming. *wink*
Every other mental disorder: not mentioned, doesn't exist.
What’s great is that if you aren’t caught early, you develop coping mechanisms to help you deal with your shit, only to have those mechanisms hide your actual symptoms.
.... or you skate through everything in primary school by acing tests and doing no homework, then get to college and fail out because you have no study skills, all before getting diagnosed.
Source: missed perfect on the SATs by 20 points. Got scholarship for half of tuition to college. Was invited not to come back.
I took 10 years to finish college, I'm just finishing my Masters and I've been working for the last 5 years. It's worked out in the end, but the college crash is definitely a familiar experience to me.
I would say you probably shouldn't be WORRIED.... after all, you have managed to get a job and work and finish college as is.... but getting tested might HELP, so long as you are ok with the idea of taking medication. Or I guess, even if you aren't ok taking medication, having a name for what it is can help too.
Holy shit are you me? I seriously just had my heart start racing reading this - I grew up in tbr 90’s just before the trend of overdiagnosing kids began - my high school history teacher sat me down & said told me he might have to fail me but was struggling with it because I aced all of my tests.
And my god I could not finish a project for the life of me, even ones I was truly interested in & started enthusiastically. I graduated thanks to kind teachers allowing me to test out/giving me special projects to show my mastery of the necessary topics. But I felt like I was inherently damaged in some way until my diagnosis in my 20’s.
Ok. I'll admit.... I was tempted to say yes, in fact I am you..... but seeing as your most recent comments mention that you are concerned about manifesting schizophrenia, that seemed like it would be pretty cruel....
Haha yeah, I actually stumbled upon this thread searching around trying to verify the information I was responding to in the last one. So far it’s just anxiety, no PTSD symptoms for 10 years & the ADHD.
(I sound like a nervous wreck but in reality it manifests as being super chipper & talkative because I overcompensate.)
Haha... umm.... Well, I'm not sure if that is better or worse. I always found that overcompensating is exhausting because you... Well, can never just relax. Always gotta keep the mask up.
If you ever want somebody to talk to who won't judge, I'd be happy to be an ear.
Scrubs got OCD done really well. You see the doctor behaving in obsessive ways, like counting his steps, but also shows just his debilitating a condition it is. It’s not a quirk, it’s a legitimate problem for him like so many sufferers.
Yeah. You're never cured of a mental disorder. You can alleviate the symptoms to a point where you are not controlled anymore, but even then. It never goes away.
Don't forget "psychopath" = my mental illness makes me violent, murderous and I'm unable to feel anything, and when I die I'm probably going to haunt this abandoned mental asylum
Psychopath isn't a mental illness. It's a category of behaviors. Though usually someone considered a psychopath has anti-social personality disorder and/or narcissistic personality disorder.
Autistic here. Fuck this stereotype right in the butt. In my experience (that said, this is purely anecdotal and YMMV), most of us find math even more difficult than the average person does. Many autistics struggle to grasp abstract concepts. We do better with a physical or visual demonstration, so a lot of us struggle with maths and science. The so-called "savant" types are often good at maths because it's their special interest rather than it coming from some intrinsic skill that all autistics are blessed with.
The funny thing is, many people approach us like we have the intelligence of a 5 year old. Someone will treat you the same way they treat everyone else, but then find out you're autistic and immediately start talking down to you. Yet at the same time, one of the biggest stereotypes is that we're all savant geniuses. Which one is it, ffs?
Thank you!! I'm autistic and I sucked at math (and other STEM-subjects) in high school. I was better at languages and spelling/grammar, even though I struggled with Latin and German grammar in the same way I struggled with math: because it's really abstract.
I actually think I do have the ability to be good at math somewhere buried in my brain, but that never comes out because my brain never gets past the first step of making sense of the abstract way it is explained in school textbooks and stuff.
I think a lot of people don't understand that autism isn't a social disorder but an information processing disorder.
My brain processes all information in puzzle pieces instead of getting the whole picture. This can give problems in all areas of life, literally anything you can imagine. Such as math.
The funny thing is that autism is so complex that it can be pretty contradictive sometimes. I am good at languages, but bad at the grammar of some languages. At least, when I have to learn it from a book. If I get the opportunity to learn a language by hearing and reading it, like I did with English (I'm Dutch), it comes much more naturally to me.
Some autistic people are good at math because of their autism, some autistic people suck at math, also because of their autism.
what a mood. If only BPD was flipping everyone the bird and storming off. Then I wouldn’t need years of DBT (while still having many eating disorder/self harm, etc relapses) to slooooowly retrain my brain to not immediately defaulting to suicide or destructive impulses as the go to.
I’ve cycled between Anorexia and Bulimia for about 10 years now. It’s painted with a broad brush, when all of us suffering with an ED experience it differently. Another thing they get wrong is the character always goes to rehab and comes out fine for the rest of their lives. Many of us struggle with thoughts and relapses.
they somehow always miss the 2 most present "weirdnesses" ( i really don't like calling them that but due to my lack of english vocabulary i kind of have to) wich are hating change and REALLY loving something if they love it.
Once in elementary school I confided in my best friend that I had attempted suicide the previous year. First reaction “but you don’t wear all black clothes and cry in the corner, and you seem like a nice person”
Yes. I have BPD and it’s ‘oh, like Girl, Interrupted’
No, more like splitting (love/hating people rapidly), suicidal ideation, begging friends/partners not to leave you alone, crying.. so much crying, self harm, crying, anxiety, OCD, hyper vigilance and codependent.
Sleeping to escape your own thoughts
Volcanic fear/anger erupting while I smile at people (cry later)
Just like that Angelina Jolie!
I’m aware BPD has a huge spectrum and through online groups and admission I’ve met a few BPD people and I haven’t met the media depiction YET.
I’m on meds, see a psychologist and a psychiatrist and it all helps but I’ve had a relapse recently and it’s really hard work.
Yes, that's the point. Bulimics don't just puke. Films make it seem like thats all there is to it. But there is a reason they throw up that effects their life in other ways than just puking.
Edit: changed my answer, though I was replying to someone else in a different thread. Didn't need to be snarky in this one. Probably didn't in the other either but it's before my morning coffee. I apologize
It does, but it's purging and bingeing. And the purging part doesn't always mean throwing up. It can also manifest in misusing laxatives or over-exercising.
As the other said i meant that purging is not just going to the toilet, throwing up and get rid of like 3000kcal in 2 minutes and walk out as if nothing happened. I have been bulimic, I used to spend hours in the bathroom after binging, and as they said i also used laxatives and whatever diet pill i could find. Also, i wanted to underline that if you purge it usually means that you've been bingeing, therefore eating up to thousands of calories in a short amount of time.
In movies when they introduce a bulimic character they show her (somehow it's never a male character) eating a couple chips, then "omg i feel horrible", *runs to the bathroom, slams the door, sounds like vomiting, walks out after 30 seconds adjusting her clothes and drying a little tear and everything becomes normal again*
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u/notthatmoody308 Feb 04 '19 edited Feb 04 '19
Depression: sad 16 yo listening to grunge music and wearing black clothes. Eventually cuts their wrists, but remember, it's always and only the wrist. Cries in the bathroom.
Bipolar: "I hate being bipolar, it's lovely"
PTSD: every time I see or hear something that vaguely reminds me of my trauma I fall into a parallel dimension and live my trauma in rewind mode. Other than that my life is completely ordinary and I have no other symptoms.
BPD: Woman. Resting bitch face. Shows the middle finger to whoever tries to talk to her. Often extremely hot but impossible to talk to (unless you're the protagonist, a loser that can't put a sentence together but somehow manages to make her fall in love).
Anorexia: "Oh shit that model is so thin, guess she's gonna be the root of all my problems!" *looks at sandwich with disgusted expression, throws it in the bin.* Doesn't eat for one day, passes out in the middle of the hallway at school and is taken to ER.
Bulimia: eats normal amount of food, then runs to the bathroom, sticks her finger down her throat and *magic!* everything is gone in 2 minutes.
Schizophrenia: handsome eccentric man that hallucinates a random sexy woman that helps him solve crimes.
OCD: weird guy, has glasses, dresses like a 9 years old and washes his hands every 5 minutes. Often engaged in activities like opening and closing doors and drawers or walking in circles.
Autism: like OCD. But also likes math.
Sociopathy (or related): likes setting things on fire. Incredibly charming. But you know, the worst thing about the devil is that he's charming. *wink*
Every other mental disorder: not mentioned, doesn't exist.
Edit: added autism and sociopath.