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Published: 2010-10-12 20:20:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 21320; 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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mmmmmmmmmmmm coffie!
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Pyromania isn't the worst problem ever :I
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cheese off. (i am being polite by saying that). i have had this argument with lots of people and i am sick of it. if it makes u angry, go bang ur head on a wall. it really realses stress.
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I don't want to hurt myself so I'm not going to go bang my head on a wall :I
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watever. just leave me alone.
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Did you LIKE that they told you that? If not, oh hey, that's what this stamp is for.
I haven't been diagnosed with anything, and I find it pointless to self-diagnose. So no, as far as I know, I don't. But if I did I wouldn't go throwing it around like the cornerstone of who I am as a person, nor would I bring it up every two seconds.
However, I have at least the ability to understand other people and their problems. I know perfectly well what Pyromania is, obviously, since I knew it was an impulse control disorder. And I also know that chances are, you're blowing your problem out of proportions. ( For example, your 'How dare they be afraid of me vandalizing things while I go about yelling to the heavens that I'm a pyromaniac' journal)
But this may be pointless to even say, since you admit that you're selfish and you're already treating an opinion like immutable fact. When you get older, I hope you realize and start to care that the entire world is full of people trying to get over their problems, and that you aren't the only person that matters so it's useless to be an asshole to people just because you think you're magically more important than them.
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1. i didnt particually care that they told me to get over it.
2. pyromania is not that, its a derangmet, excitment or ecsessive enthusisum for fire.
3. i dont say that how dare they be afraid of me, i say dont be, because im NOT a freak who will hurt you.
4. i am a bitch and always will be.
5. also, since you dont have a disorder, dont ell me i'm blowing mine out of proportians.
6. if it annoys you, heres the solution. STAY THE FUCK OUT OF MY BUISSINESS!!!!!!!!!!
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Excessive enthusiasm of fire? Here, have this.
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Or this [link]
Or in your case, this [link]
Saying you're a bitch is not an excuse for BEING one. Nor will it make anyone go, 'Oh, okay, I guess they're a bitch, so it's okay that they're bigots.'
To 5. Were you actually clinically diagnosed with it? I really doubt you were, just from you not even knowing it is, in fact, a mental disorder. And just because I don't have a diagnosed anxiety disorder now doesn't mean I don't know about them, genius. I happen to be dedicating a good portion of my time to educating people about mental illness. Also; you're pretending that yours is the worst thing in the world without even educating yourself about anyone else's. You ARE blowing it out of proportion.
And here's the thing about 6. This is a public forum, where you just insulted everyone who happens to have a mental illness that's not yours. That is without a doubt, not solely your business. As someone who wants to educate others about mental illnesses (Including Pyromania), pompous self-absorbed bigots who deny that it's a problem, are very much my business.
If you want me to stay out of your business, you can very well stop responding. Otherwise, it is still my business.
But you're barely a thirteen year old. I doubt you've ever had a friend call you up because their depression has gotten so bad, telling you they're going to commit suicide. I bet you've never had to hear of someone you know cutting themselves so deep they have to be hospitalized. And for that matter, have you EVER met anyone with schizophrenia?
If you think that a disorder where you are deliberately meaning to catch things on fire is so much worse than anything else out there, you really need to get out there and see the world.
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i didnt say being a bitch was an excuse.
yes i was clinically diagnosed with pyromania.
no i am not blowing it out of proportians.
i don know what a self absorbed bigot is.
also, it is not your buisiness, you dont know me and you never will.
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You went on a public forum sharing your opinion with everyone that your problem is worse than anyone else's and that they shouldn't even bring up that they have a mental illness because it's not as bad as yours. I have every right to rebuke that, it being a public comment that you shared on someone else's deviation for one, and because it was offensive to me and completely ignores all people who have problems that have actually completely ruined their lives, or caused others to lose their lives. I wonder if you'll ever know how it feels to have panic attacks. It's nothing to take lightly.
(you can google those words you don't know if you'd like.)
I'm perfectly happy with never knowing you, really. I think I've learned enough about you just from how you treat others, and to be honest I'd like to keep people who repeatedly make emotes about physically hurting me just because they're upset (and people who unprovokedly call my friends twats, for that matter |: ) out of my life.
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get a life and stop wasting mine. also, you know nothing about me, so dont even say that you know enough about me to see how i treat others, cos u dont.
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... I'm sorry, but I honestly laughed.
'get a life and stop wasting mine'
A good part of my life is educating others about mental illnesses. I've already found my life. I know perfectly well who I am and what I want to do. You're wasting your own time. I'm not forcing you to respond at gunpoint. I'm not going to rage quit a discussion, as bad as I feel for anyone who may be reading this. I'm also not going to give you any more facts, as you give the typical response of completely ignoring them.
But I do know you. At least the part of you that I'm seeing as I converse with you.
You're an average narcissistic child with misjudged self-importance.
Everyone I know was like that when they were a little kid. Hell, I was like that too. Not like that's any excuse, because there are people your age that are educated and respectful.
Personally, I'm glad that I learned and changed and found a purpose that helps other people, as opposed to bitching about my own problems all the time, attacking everyone else who I think has less problems than me. If that sounds condescending, so be it.
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I know these comments are old, but:
as bad as I feel for anyone who may be reading this
mind = blown. I think that's called breaking the fourth wall.
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It's a little creepy actually, isn't it?
Haha
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little kid? aw, piss off!
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Hey, when you're 13 you're a kid.
When I was 13 I was a kid.
I consider my 13 year old friends kids.
It doesn't have to be offensive. But at that age you haven't even hit high school yet, have you? A freshman maybe?
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i am in high school, my second year. (im guessing freshman is an american term) anyway, if im such a kid, how old are you?
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The term is used in the UK, but maybe not in reference to highschool students, and maybe not where you live.
I am a first year college (University, in UK terms) student, and am 18. Those six years (probably within the next four, and continuing for the rest of your life) will probably be the years that you'll see friends go through the problems that you think are so minor and easy to shrug off now.
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I know how this feels, although I really don't consider inferiority complexes (as that's what I have) as a mental illness, since I can get rid of it somehow, it just takes a lot of time. Problem is, I've had it literally for as long as I can remember, and I just recently figured out what caused it (my dad). When I mentioned this to my mom after I started crying over burning the food I was cooking, my sister immediately chimed in in an annoyed tone "you haven't gotten over that yet?!". No sis, I haven't, because what our dad started, you continue to do to me, so I can't "get over it".
Sorry, I had to get that out of my system
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People can be so stupid and insensitive. I donβt suffer from any mental illness but I donβt have to be the victim of one to know that you just canβt βget overβ something like that.
I have a cousin that has epilepsy and I really doubt saying βitβs just epilepsy, get over it!β is going to help her.
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My dad told me that. Hardly anything hurt more than that
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Absolutely agree, with everything.
I'd love to get over my social anxiety, I'd love to get rid of my bipolar disorder and borderline personality, I certainly wouldn't mind letting go of my psychosis problems and my paranoid personality disorder.
People often tell me I should just stop being depressed all the time, or to stop being so afraid of human interaction, but that's like telling someone with cancer to just "get over it".
Mental illnesses are just as real as physical ones, and just as hard, or even harder, to treat, with many of them even being just as lethal.
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... LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
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You can troll, I'll give you that.
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Oo Who says I'm trying...?
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Your attitude.
"LOOOOOOOOLLLLL"
in response to someone talking about a serious issue
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Serious? more like fake.
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How do you know it's fake?
You don't even know these people or what they go through.
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THANK YOU.
To my knowledge, I don't suffer from any mental disorders. Well, maybe unless you count gender identity disorder. "Can't you just, like, be a girl?" No. No, I cannot. I am comfortable in my male identity and wouldn't change it for the world. It's not like I can just snap my fingers and be completely comfortable with my body and the way society treats me. e_o
Depression seems to get the WORST treatment. People like to think, "Oh, depression just means you're sad." HAHAHAHAHAHAHA NO. The shit is fuckin' serious. Sad people cry, they don't seriously attempt suicide.
The worst part: "YOU'RE depressed?! You're so SELFISH! You have an awesome life, there are CHILDREN STARVING/DYING IN AFRICA! You have food and a bed and a roof over your head, be grateful!"
Seriously, it's not that easy, and getting mad at a person for being depressed is just worsening the condition. -_-
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I seriously hate people like that..
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I totally agree with you on that one -_-' I hate it when people say that Quote: "You're so SELFISH! You have an awesome life, there are CHILDREN STARVING/DYING IN AFRICA! You have food and a bed and a roof over your head, be grateful!"
I would really love to help those starving kids but I'm just another person who would only make a sliver of a difference. You'd need millions of people to help, at the same time there are soooo many charities out there for that.
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Yes THANK YOUUU
My friend and I got into a talk about her depression once in creative writing.
She said she met this one girl who said "I'm soo depressed..." And my friend said,
"Oh me too, I take prozac, what do you take?"
So I say
"Seriously, you cant just be sad and say you're depressed. That's fucking stupid." So this one girl walks by me, and overhearing what I said, she says
"That's fucking offensive."
I wanted to get up in her face and be all
"Bitch, depressions is MORE than just being SAD. You OBVIOUSLY dont know what you're TALKING about if you think what I just said is OFFENSIVE." But I didn't. And life goes on, with one more stupid person in the world.
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Totally agree! I have certain issues myself and nobody seems to understand how difficult it can be in my shoes. If I act up as a result of something that's bothering me, I'm treated like the bad guy and told to "get used to it". I've tried to "get used to it" for YEARS! Why can't other people try getting used to me instead? I've been going to specialists for a long time to make everyone else happy, and nothing has been permanently fixed. People would actually be amazed at how easy it is for them to just understand what it's like and just cut out the crap which causes me to act up. They call me selfish when they're the ones acting selfish by not putting in the amount of effort I have to make it better.
Okay, rant over. Awesome stamp
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