Don't you wish to trade brain chemicals for a week with shallow-minded peopl!
Question: We use our mental illnesses, like Depression, Anxiety, OCD, Tourette's, ADHD, ADD, Aspergers, PTSD, Schizophrenia, Bipolar, BPD, or whatever,...as an excuse? So they can see what our daily life struggles are like? Not trying to be mean, but it really hurts when people say I use my Depression, OCD, Anxiety, & Tourette's as an excuse for (poor behavior). The symptoms of the mental illnesses ARE the behaviors! Say, when I tell people I flunked an exam because of my OCD unwanted thoughts & with anxiety, my mind went blank, even though I studied my @$$ off. They just ASSUME that I was LAZY & didn't study & making EXCUSES for my failure. But they tell me I'm crazy & don't have the mentality to hold a job, live independently, manage my own funds, carry, deliver & raise kids, or drive a car. Or do anything else that requires ADULT responsibility. I'm 24 with a college degree. I JUST made it with a 2.3. Not bad for a person who overcame the obstacles I did. & they wanna monitor you like a hawk.
Answers: We use our mental illnesses, like Depression, Anxiety, OCD, Tourette's, ADHD, ADD, Aspergers, PTSD, Schizophrenia, Bipolar, BPD, or whatever,...as an excuse? So they can see what our daily life struggles are like? Not trying to be mean, but it really hurts when people say I use my Depression, OCD, Anxiety, & Tourette's as an excuse for (poor behavior). The symptoms of the mental illnesses ARE the behaviors! Say, when I tell people I flunked an exam because of my OCD unwanted thoughts & with anxiety, my mind went blank, even though I studied my @$$ off. They just ASSUME that I was LAZY & didn't study & making EXCUSES for my failure. But they tell me I'm crazy & don't have the mentality to hold a job, live independently, manage my own funds, carry, deliver & raise kids, or drive a car. Or do anything else that requires ADULT responsibility. I'm 24 with a college degree. I JUST made it with a 2.3. Not bad for a person who overcame the obstacles I did. & they wanna monitor you like a hawk.
I'm with you 110-percent on this one. Everyone I know is anxious to attach labels to me. Almost all of them understand little about neuropsychology and are smug in their ignorance of the many reasons for one's apparent failure (emphasis on the APPARENT) - not only MY shortcomings but yours as well.
Conversely, they also don't understand the multiple factors involved in my success or yours, and tend to skip right over that subject.
My heart goes out to you.
Try to remember how 'small' they are as people and just remember how much strength you have to overcome these obstacles and get a degree and still going on strong. I applaud you!!!!
I don't think I would ever want to trade places (even for a short time) with those small minded people. I wouldn't want to be that ignorant even for a short time.