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⌈ Secret Post #3062 ⌋

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Comments

[elialshadowpine]

Late but --

I have GAD. It has been, at points in my life, disabling. Before my awesome psych who put me on appropriate medication (and getting out of the situation with my ex, which was apparently causing a lot of background anxiety I wasn't aware of), I was basically unable to leave my house without extreme anxiety. I couldn't make or take phone calls. I have chronic pain which is its own issue, but even if I hadn't had that, I wouldn't have been able to work. A nasty comment online from a sockpuppet could result in my being non-functional for days. I would get anxiety seizures (which are a thing; I've had it commented by a friend with epilepsy that my anxiety seizures sound a lot like her petite mal seizures, but I honestly haven't had them since I got on proper medication, so I have no idea how they'd even screen for it). It was disabling.

I have no idea where on the spectrum John Green is, but OCD/GAD/depression can most definitely be disabling. Like you said, it depends on how functional, treatment, etc, but I generally tend to assume if someone's bringing it up, it's a big enough deal to at the very least impact their lives. People being shits to someone with mental health issues doesn't surprise me, though; for all that SJWs like to scream about word use (omg, you said crazy, you horrible person), many of them are actually very ableist.

[diet_poison]

Thanks for your perspective.

I have read about and discussed depression in particular several times, not least since it's the one that affects me. Even when I was suffering from it on a regular basis (before meds came into the picture), I would not have thought of it as a disability. I think I just only thought of disabilities as being things that were either purely physical or purely intellectual. I realize now that that's rather narrow.

But yeah, even if it was debilitating for a time, I wouldn't say it's a disability to me now any more than my vision because it's treated.

I'm so glad you got the help you needed, both with meds and giving the ex the boot, and it sounds like you're in a better place now. :)

(Also, I cannot imagine having depression AND anxiety AND OCD all at once, that honestly just sounds really hellish.)