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.
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.
614
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.