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If I could "just get over" my anxiety or bipolar disorder, don't you think I would have already? They're not doing me any favors. I've had people tell me that I just need to 'get over' my anxiety and Avoidant PD and start dealing with people.Yeah, cool, I'll do that. Except for the whole dehabilitating panic attacks thing and ensuing panic attacks when returning to the situations that caused the first one...
Don't tell people to "get over it" if they have a mental illness. It doesn't work like that.
Should you let it rule your life and use it as an excuse for everything? No. But can you just "get over it" and start living problem-free? Not really.
Besides, do you really think you're the first person who came up with the idea of asking someone to "just get over it"?
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I hate the words "JUST DON'T DO IT" and "YOU'RE STUPID,STOP THAT" when people see the cuts in my arm
Well I CAN'T CONTROL IT,IT;S JUST IT'S MY OWN WAY OF MAKING MYSELF CALM...
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I completely agree. Mental illnesses and/or disabilities are nothing like simple cold. They're serious matters that a lot of people have to deal with.
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This is perfect
I have lost count how many people have told me to "get over" autism, or "get over" ADHD.
I have also lost count how many times I've smacked said people.
I love this stamp.
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In the immortal words of Whitey Ford: "God Forbid you ever have to walk a mile in his shoes. 'Cuz then you really might know what it's like to sing the blues. And then you really might know what it's like!"
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I just heard that quote, and now I love it.
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I have anxiety and depression and its hard for me cause most of my friends don't have these issues but my family and boyfriend understand cause they have these issues too.
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I have social anxiety, and I can only describe it as a living hell, since it makes me scared of almost everyone, makes it insanely hard for me to speak, at all, makes asking for help impossible and forces me to think that I don't deserve to be around people, as well as make me feel like a slip of the tongue from me mean that I'm the worst person in existence and deserve to die. I would do literally anything to get rid of it. Whenever anyone says to "get over it", "stop being anxious", etc., I swear...(growls) I WOULD, IF I FREAKING COULD!
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"just try to relax"
Oh yes
I am cured
u should write a book
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I've been told this way too many times, even by family. Hahaha, no.
You just can't get over shit like this. You can't just forget. You can block the memories, but it's always that curiosity that brings back the pain...
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You can't "just get over it". You can work to eliminate the disorder, which benefits everyone. I am saying this because I am working to get better at maintaining my anxiety.
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That isn't possible with most disorders. you may be able to force it down (through medication or otherwise), but it will always be there.
Things like anxiety and depression can be developed, and eventually "cured" (can't think of a better way to put it), but others like schizophrenia or Bi-polar will be there your whole life.
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Medication usually has some terrible side effects. There is a cure for mental diseases. Taking out the upper left hand side of the brain will eliminate mental illness, unfortunately this procedure also takes away personality. Creepy.
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Me: My hands are all dry and sore...
Mom: Well maybe if you didn't wash your hands so much...
Me: Your words have made me lose all fear of dirt.
Nope.
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It's so annoying when "normal" people pull this shit 
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And stop making mental disorders fads too!
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"stop picking" yes mother, because suddenly your words have cured my dermatillomania, who needs therapy hahah good job 
some people huh?
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Oh god, I feel ya. I have trick (hair pulling) and I get that sooo many times as well. It's just as annoying. D: Everyone's so terrified of damned psychiatrists in my family that they just bottle up everything thinking that's the best way to handle things. Ug. -_-
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I know right? I probably can't even afford to go to a doctor about it, I've just recently got treatment for my excema XD but i agree, that sounds rough, good luck with your trica <3
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Thanks. I've been trying, but it's been rough. x.x;
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Likewise haha, especially with excema, DOES NOT help Derma at all
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Hmm, not sure if it's the same thing, but I have/had a bad habit of picking the skin from my lips, sometimes til bleeding. Is that the same as Derma? D:
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Derma is skin picking in general, i usually get it on my arms, hands and legs, idk I just pick at scabs a lot until the bleed, I used to just think it was a habit until I discovered it was a thing
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Oooh, I see. It's not as bad as my Trich is. But I find it so frustrating how everything I've tried has not worked, one of my only options left is therapy, but as I'm disabled and can't drive, I have to have family help me, and they won't agree to any therapy sessions for this.
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aw that sucks, I hope you find a way at some point!!! good luck!!, many good vibes from me haha
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And to you! 
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"You have nothing to be sad/anxious about! I [insert something about how stressful work is and how hard it it's to "deal with" and "take care of" me]."
Yes mother, I will bow down to your almighty power.
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That is the thing about GAD. Most of your life you are worried about something but you don't know what.
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THANK YOU. oh, what's even better is when people tell you to pray for it to go away. LOVE IT. T_T
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i wish i could get over my mental illness but i cant :/
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You can work to get better at maintaining it. I am! I haven't had a panic attack for 2 weeks!
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Exactly.
As someone with PTSD and bipolar II, it can be hard. And when it does get hard, I usually end up having to deal with it on my own. I'm sure most of the people around me see me as nothing more than oversensitive and a crybaby, which is pretty sad. Sure, I am a sensitive person. I still take responsibility for the things I do wrong, despite my problems.
But to be called insane...
It hurts. And it still stays with me.
In a way, I suppose I am insane. Or can be. During depressive episodes, I am irrational and very hard to, if not impossible to, reason with. Logic does not go into my head during those times.
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THANK YOU
My dad just says "tough it out" to me all the time, but he doesn't understand that I can't just get over it. It's much more complicated than that, and since no one else in my family has anxiety, they don't know what it feels like. Let me tell you, it's friggin horrible having constant panic attacks and stress headaches.
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I am so AGRAVATED when people say this to me..... Why can't they get it???
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like i can improve my habits
but i still have a problem
and it is NOT A BAD THING
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I tried to explain to my friends about my depression and social anxiety, and they just told me to be happy and get out there and talk to people. I think they thought they were helping, but they weren't. If it was that simple, I'd do it. I hate being so sad all the time and not being able to talk to people, but I can't help it.
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i relate to this so well. MPD\DID isnt something you get over its something you work on to overcome and its a great struggle.
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My mom thinks that I can just sweep my depression under the rug, but I can't because it affects my everyday life.
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Especially not now, when my panic attacks and anxiety gets worse and worse for no reason. I don't know why. But it's just like that.. maybe because I feel like everyone's watching me, because it's true? ._.
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I wish more people knew this. People have told me to just get over it and its like a knife to the heart. Its taken a lot to just ignore them but it hurts the most when its people closest to you.
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attention deficit disorder, clinical depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, numerous phobias and my therapist says i have to test for panic disorder
i've heard all of these
"it's just [thing i'm terrified of], get over it!"
"it's just hormones"
"well I haven't seen you have a panic attack before"
"you seem so happy though!"
like jesus christ shut the hell up
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I wish those people who makes fun of the depressed, anxiety, etc people would stop make fun of them and actually understand them. They make me sick!
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