Any cured people want their mental illness back?!
Question: I've been suffering depression and anxiety from 13 and am now 21. When I started feeling better, I was confused and didn't really know what to do. Also, it destroyed my creativity and I don't know who I am anymore. I feel like I'm stuck in a grey area. Anyone else?
Answers: I've been suffering depression and anxiety from 13 and am now 21. When I started feeling better, I was confused and didn't really know what to do. Also, it destroyed my creativity and I don't know who I am anymore. I feel like I'm stuck in a grey area. Anyone else?
I was happy as all get out when my panic attacks majorly abated. It only took about 10 years. I went through extreme hell with it and felt so misunderstood. You just have to get used to the new you. I'm sure you still have all the creativity you used to have. I normally don't like newness either. Maybe taking an art/writing class would help you to get more focused. I'm glad that you're over the suffering - you just need to start over and find yourself again.
Nope, I'm still mentally ill! <3
I am in the same to say boat. I get real quiet not talking even when people I know are visiting and I know it must stand out like a scare crow in a corn field after the corn has been cut.
They ask me my opinion now and I say as few words as possible.
When I had my trouble I use to rattle on and on and saying something about everything no matter what it was and they use to complain about that and now they complain about how I am now keeping my mouth shut
So even if I did go back to how I use to be they would complain so I chose the quiet person cause now I do not get into trouble for sticking my foot in my mouth so to say.
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You can satisfy some of the people some of the time but not all the time.
its because youre depression was youre safety net and youre way of hiding from the world, and now thats gone you don't really want to face the real world, because you never really had to seeing as you started suffering when you were 13, its a long time to be able to hide away for.
I assume you were seeing a counseller why dont you have a chat with them about they will be able to help you understand it better, also why not try a a new hobbie , set up who you want to be now rather than who you were for 8 years
you should read prozac nation by elizabeth wurtzel. DONT get the movie its shitty. but the book is a memoir and its exactly what youre going through. it will prolly help you a lot
Think of it like this-- You've been asleep for a long time. And when you wake up, the world is completely different. When you finally wake up, do you just stay in the house and wait for sleep again? NO! You gotta go out and see what's new. Even though you have to fall asleep again sometimes, you don't only have to live in your dreams.
It's a big journey to rediscover yourself. I recently got out of a short depression and, even though it was only a few months, I had to sort things out outside of the issue, and I figured out that the depression made my situations get worse and worse.
Coping, with or without, is one thing, but getting better is also worth the stress.
hahaha
YOU WANT A MENTAL DISORDER BACK!?!?
here...i'll trade you my bipolar disorder and ADHD
for a NORMAL life. i'm 18 by the way....i think i deserve
to live a normal teenage life once in awhile.
it did nothing to your creativity.
obviously you're not better because you're thinking black and white still.
and well..as for wanting mental issues back
that's just making you look insane.
I know how you feel, but I'd trade the weird newness of what I could only assume was "normal" for the constant ups and downs and chaos of my unmedicated life. It feels safer to be unstable because it's familiar, but I've come to see that I don't actually prefer it.
you feel like that because your "mental illness" was all you knew until now. Take this as a new begining your past must not of been great or you wouldn't of gotten help. your 21 go out have fun and start a new you. it might be hard and take awhile but try new activities like a gym or something meet new ppl rearrange your room go shopping just start over..good luck you will feel better soon put the past behind you and look forward for tomorrow!