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⌈ Secret Post #2737 ⌋

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Re: Your berserk buttons

[kallanda_lee]

Hmm, I guess I could count as "people who refused treatment" at several points, because I didn't feel comfortable with it. I also got diagnosed by several people, with varying results (though depression was a common thread, but there were worse things,too, so to this day it's actually hard for me to tell people what exactly was going on. All I have to go on are my own symptoms, and what so-called professionals said- some of it not even to my face - put together from blurry memories I mostly tried to repress years ago)

I think it's a difficult thing. You want to get better but, but you also want to be you. With the first ever pills I was prescribed I just felt they were keeping me docile and manageable for other people, while I felt like I was still kicking and screaming under the surface. And I was still self-aware enough to refuse to do that particular dance.

To this day I am very weary about taking medication as a whole, I guess, but that's my particular issue.

I don't think it's an either/or thing. Just because you don't want a certain treatment, doesn't mean you don't want help. I think especially with stuff that goes in your head it's different than with "oh, I'll just take pain meds cause I hurt my foot". And sadly even health care professionals don't always have your best interests at heart, make mistakes, etc. I do think sometimes you're not really listened to, especially as a minor. So often I felt like people, even those who should know better, were either dismissing me or ignoring my agency as a person.

And I also think it really depends on whether your issues have a mostly external or internal cause. Because with external factors removing yourself from a situation will do more wonders than any pills ever can.(though it might be difficult to do in modern society).

But I realize opinions vary on this, and mine is extremely clouded by personal experience, which is in turn is clouded by the fact I wasn't exactly a functional human being at the point it happened.

Sorry if that was a rant.

Re: Your berserk buttons

[quirkytizzy]

I should have been clearer, I'm sorry! I don't mean people who just refuse pills. There are TONS of good reasons for mentally ill people to not take medication, or even to go to therapy. I just meant people who self-diagnose and then don't do things like read up on CBT or develop other mental health specific behaviors to cope with their disorder.

Re: Your berserk buttons

[(Anonymous)]

I sometimes think that the problem about this is that once you go seek treatment or look at it too closely by reading up on coping mechanisms, that's the point where you finally have to admit that, yes, something's not quite right and you might need help. And I think that a lot of people don't want to admit this - it feels like a defeat, like weakness (at least that was the case for me). To acknowledge that you have a problem is sometimes one of the worst and most important parts of a healing process.

Re: Your berserk buttons

[kallanda_lee]

Thank you for clarifying!