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Spikytastic β Getting Over Illness Stamp
Published: 2010-10-12 20:20:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 21318; Favourites: 1546; Downloads: 43
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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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If I could get over generalized anxiety I would with pleasure. TSS some people are so unthinking.
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It's about time somebody said it...
Nice.
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I hate when people tell me to suck it up when I'm depressed... I have depression and hear voices, so I know it's hard out there for people with mental illnesses...
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The sort of people who usually say that to me are the sort that wouldn't listen to me either... so I doubt that would help... thank you though
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If only my mom would understand this!Β She's been trying to "help me get over my NLD" ever since it was diagnosed!Β If anything she might be making it worse
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I have a number full of symptoms, and my family keeps telling me that "it's just in my head." Yeah, like it's that easy.
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It's like telling someone that's dying to stop dying.
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I have panic disorder and I have been told this numerous times.
"You have nothing to be anxious about! Can't you just make it go away?"
"You're just doing this for attention. Stop bugging me with your BS."
"Oh! It's just because your a teenager. All teenagers have problems. It's a stage and you'll get over it."Β
"You're so selfish. Do YOU know how much anxiety you're causingΒ meΒ due to your "anxiety problems" right now?!"
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I don't have depression or panic disorders, but I know how's it feels. I know you can't help it. I am sorry to hear that.
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Do I know this well -unamused-
I hate people who tell me to just get over it...
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ikr, my friend told me to "stop being angsty" and that pissed me off, depression and schizophrenia paranoia is not some stupid teenage angst
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{{ "When you grow up you can't be shy, you have to start now and stop being shy."
"talk to someone about it"
"If you have so many panic attacks, go to someone and get over it"
Well sorry that I'm VERY shy and have Panic Disorder .-. People should think before they say something }}
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And when you finally wor up the courage to talk to someone they tell you to just "stop" or you just want attention, and then try to invalidate her feelings
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"Just stop being depressed, be happy!"
"Just eat, you don't have to throw it up!"
"Just talk to people, stop being so shy!"
"Stop hurting yourself, you attention whore!"
Β I hate when people think I can just stop having a disorder, because I can't. No one can just 'stop' being sick, so why expect people who are mentally ill to just 'stop'?
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Ugh, these people digust me!
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"Stop hurting yourself, you attention whore!"
That makes me hurt myself more..
"Just talk to people, stop being so shy!"
I don't get this one as often, but I do when I'm trying to order food.
"Just stop being depressed, be happy!"
A Β LOT easier said than done.
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I understand, I can't just 'stop' being depressed.Β
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I fucking hate it when people think mental illness is something that can be turned off like a TV.
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I totally feel your pain. I have depression, social anxiety, bipolar and Β PTSD. And my peers tell me to get over it constantly. Can I advise something? Doing martial arts helped me and a few of my friends with the same problems, and though I can't say for sure it would work for you, I like giving people advice...
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This is exactly right, as long as people are not just making up things and they have a real problem.
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It's still not nice to say to someone even if they don't have a mental illness.Β Everyone goes thru tough times in life after all, like the death of a loved one.Β It's just as horrible to tell someone who's grieving a loss of a loved one to "get over it."Β
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I have depression, and so many times people have said to "suck it up" as if I could just think happy thoughts and everything would be sunshine and rainbows...
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This stamp is cool...
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I suffer from anxiety and panic attacks as well. I feel your pain. *hugs* And no it's not something one can just "get over" buuuuuut you can use Adevan/Lorazepam. It really helps when the chest hurts, the heart is pounding way too fast, when you cannot breathe, and when you feel dizzy and need to leave the crowded noisy room. I have to use it all the time especially in big crowds or when there is lots goin on and it stresses me out and makes me freak out far too easy.
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It's like when I once had a panic attack and a friend of mine just said "calm down". Yeah, like it was somehow possible to calm down in a middle of a panic attack. Same thing with depression. When I first realized I wasn't really able to get much schoolwork done and I was late every damn morning because I was just so exhausted both physically and mentally because of my depression, I asked my father what I should do and he answered, "Just get up your lazy ass and go to school".Β
Like mental illness was something we could control, something we can just use as an excuse for everything we do and/or don't to? I don't understand why, andΒ howΒ can someone even think that? Why would anyone choose to be mentally ill, if they had a choice to be not? Wth people.
This seems to be a pretty old stamp, but still as true as can be
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telling a depressive to think themselves out of their depression is like telling an amputee to think themselves a new limb.
it doesn't fucking work like that. i am so over people telling me i bring them down, that im the most depressing person on earth. well maybe so, but at least im not fooling myself. at least i can admit i'm unhappy instead of living a lie.
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I have depression. Someone asks "you look so sad why are you sad?"
Two possible answers:
A1: "I really don't know."
A2: "I have depression."
A to A1: "If you don't know how can you be sad?"
A to A2: "Get over it!"
Derp.
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Same here, people can be so heartless
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This Stamps message is so true. Many thanks for getting this message out there. Great Work!
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I may have OCD and/or social anxiety. Being told to "stop being so shy" isn't ideal. I can't help it.
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I hate it when people flame people for being autistic.
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It's like telling a cancer patient to 'get over' the cancer.
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If only it was that easy to rid of mental disorders. . . . That'd be so wonderful. Sadly, though, it never works like that.
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your right! i have a number ofΒ Β Disorders. Β Β
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I remember for part of a school topic, I was watching a video in which a woman with a mental disorder was told to just 'get over' depression. I don't think people realise that you can't just 'get over' things like depression, PTSD etc. Lovely stamp.
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Agreed. I have anxiety, which is running through my family's blood. I don't want to sleep in the fear of not waking up. I'm afraid of stepping outside in the fear of being kidnapped, I'm afraid to turn a corner in fear of a serial killer waiting to gut me. So yeah, think I want that shit everytime I want to get a snack?! If I could make it go away, would've done it after my first anxiety attack!
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I have social anxiety disorder. No it does not mean I am afraid of talking. Do you see fear in any of those three words? No. Anxiety is more like dread than fear, so QUIT CALLING ME FRIKKEN SCARED. HOW WOULD YOU LIKE IT IF YOU HAD TO LIVE YOUR LIFE WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO TALK TO ANYONE, NOT BECAUSE YOU'RE AFRAID, BUT BECAUSE YOU GET A PANIC ATTACK WHEN YOU RUN OUT OF THINGS TO SAY? I totally feel for you OP, and I'm sorry you have to go through this too 
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I have Sensory Processing Disorder as well as some type of depression.
News Flash: I WOULD IF I COULD, YOU A**! YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M GOING THROUGH, SO DON'T THINK YOU CAN JUST SAY FRIGGIN' "Get over it".
Ahem. 
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Yeah, i have autism, ocd, major depression, ptsd and adhd. "Get over it?" Yeah right
Also, i don't find any positive side of the coin in being mentally ill. Seeing a positive things in your disorder is merely a stupidity IMO
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If someone told me to "get over" BPD, I would beat the shit out of them...
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This is so true. I suffer from autism, depression and anxiety disorders. It's not something you can just get over.
I always find it hard explaining to a healthy person how it is to have mental issues. And, the worst case scenario is when they don't understand and just say "Come on, you just have to fight and get over it". It just pisses me off.
I don't see my mental issues as a gift, but neither as a curse. I see them as a part that makes me who I am, both in good and bad ways.
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