are you mentally ill, by your standards

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mr. what

no.

mr on

whose standards?

I've witnessed much disturbing behavior in everyday life - like obsessive-compulsive people and stuff like that - people who have addictions or compulsions....and then they make a living and have social status and all of that. I think those aren't real friends, though - they enable because they want social status. So privately the depressed or disturbing behavior continues.

It's not a bad idea to seek therapy when someone in your life refuses to! It helps you cope with the other person's problem.

No, I don't think I am mentally ill. My "problems" (in the past/present/future) haven't hindered me in a big way. I have had problems (anxiety, depression,...) but I have tackled them (more or less anyway lol).

no

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My brain functions according to its design specifications. It includes all the normal crochets built-in by the haphazards of evolution, but without anything you could call pathology.

btw, happiness is not a statistically normal state in modern western society. not sure about other cultures.

i dont even know what my standards are

are you sure about that xp

we're rich and fed and warm and dry and have loads of leisure time and activities, but we're not happy like those pure innocents in the shanty towns, bless them

projection

sure ya

i mean it needed projecting tho tbf

happiness is tough to quantify but i suspect that heuristic/anecdotal projections would underestimate, you could be surprised

had one of those moments last night where the hindrance of my OCD was just so glaringly massively obvious, got rly sad

*in my case, manifested in rigid thought patterns, not behaviors or rituals

i think i have adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

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― 乒乓, Wednesday, December 5, 2012 5:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha this was a serious question! i think ilx is burnt out on talking about stuff like this though

I think I had adult add too, Harbs.

I do have a diagnosed anxiety disorder for which I spent the better part of the last decade medicated so, sure, I guess I do.

think I have not had tbh

i am mentally ill by anyone's standards.

except perhaps full-on psychotics'.

yep!

unrelated, wishing the restaurant in my dn was real right now

is there crab rangoon?

i'm not really what you'd call functional

"jade" is my favorite chinese food advertising word

Yes.

Not by Catch 22 standards tho.

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Not at the moment. Don't thank me, thank Cymbalta.

oh sure, why not

voted "probably not"

I definitely was not in a good place a few years ago though, when I was on prozac and drinking heavily

honestly i think this question sucks

i mean if you have mentally ill standards than gtfo

especially when our mental can be so ill namean?

I'm prone to depression but only think of myself as "mentally ill" when I'm in that state. So yeah I sometimes suffer from mental illness the way that some people suffer from epilepsy (but they'd prefer you don't call them epileptics and I prefer not to think of myself as mentally ill).

no i hear that. i'm mentally ill like 30% of the time (maybe 40%) but i consider that pretty much equivalent across the human spectrum and not some destabilizing hermeneutic.T

I don't think I'm mentally ill. I do tend to befriend aspergers and ADD-type people though, but wouldn't identify as having either. I've suffered what I would call proper depression at least twice in my life.

maybe someday i'll look back and realise 'yes' idk

I am physically ill by my standards, by which I mean I have male pattern baldness.

Actually, didn't think about it when I just posted, but male pattern baldness was a primary factor in the mental illnesses that I faced in my 20s. Male pattern baldness and excessive marijuana consumption.

This might come off as "woah I'm totally wacky" or self-diagnosing bullshit or whatever, which I hope isn't the case. I don't even know if it's appropriate to this thread, but it's been on my mind recently - maybe a paranoid reckoning or something, but here it goes I suppose...
I have always - and I'm talking on a day-to-day basis here - been told that I'm not on the same planet as everyone else/away with the fairies blahblahblah. More often than not I'll brush this off as norm-y "LOL you so crazy" type stuff that gets bandied around in offices by officey people; and my parents, and my teachers and other students when I was at school.
The majority of my close friends and people I'm drawn to I guess would be classed by others as outcast/eccentric types, but it's only really apparent to me when I'm expected to speak to and socialise with people from outside that sphere. I have a number of friends who would be located on the autism spectrum, suffer from long-term depression, ADHD or similar. Others just tend to display odd behavioural patterns which we as a group have just come to accept and appreciate in their own right. Sadly I've actually lost contact with at least a few friends largely due to their problems becoming too much for them.
This is probably very normal for a number of friendship groups. I guess everyone is a little strange in their own way, deep down, right? All friendship groups have their loonies and eccentrics...
That said, I've never really considered myself to be particularly different from anyone else, and always attributed any (for want of a better term) "oddness" to my early upbringing in a French-speaking environment in the UK.
All the same, if ever the subject has come up in conversation among my friends they have turned round to me and said "what are you talking about? of course you're weird - you're one of the weirdest people we know".
And that kind of worries me sometimes. Until I left university, I found I had a lot of trouble integrating and I pretty much had to teach myself how to socialise, force myself to look at people in the eye when I spoke to them and stuff. I now work in sales where I'm supposed to interact with people I don't know all the time. For a lot of people I work with, it's like second nature to them, whereas I've always felt like a fraud; an actor. Often I don't know where my nature stops and the act begins - it's just this sort of skill I've learnt like playing an instrument.
Again, I don't know if there's anything to it. I feel like a rational, mentally stable person 99% of the time until I see people's eyebrows raising, comments about things I've said ("what are you going on about?" "you're a very strange person, you know that?" "where are you getting this from?") which I absolutely wouldn't deem particularly extraordinary.
Is this anything to even think about? Is it normal for most people or what?

For a lot of people I work with, it's like second nature to them, whereas I've always felt like a fraud; an actor.

Those people are also acting.

i think of myself as "a crazy person" because there are a lot of things about which my feelings/reactions/behaviours make me feel crazy, but I don't think of this as a problem? To me all people seem pretty crazy, the difference lies in whether they are sensible and decent about dealing with the gap between themself and their expectations, themself and the world, themself and the norm, etc.

OTM, feel the same apart from considering myself a crazy person.

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I have a 10 year old boy who has 'classic autism' he is non-verbal and has a lot of sensory issues that cause him to behave in a manner that most neurotypical people would probably consider 'mentally ill'. If one thing my boy has taught me, it is that it is a waste of time trying to fit in or create a persona to deal with people who see 'normal' as a virtue. Just be yourself if you are an Aspie type and don't waste your time working to be accepted. If people don't accept you for what you are then FUCK THEM, they are neither your friends nor worth your time.

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normal distribution?

haha i hope not