Mental Illnesses - Blog Posts

I play video games to distract myself from the horrors

living without knowing if you have a mental illness or not is really frustrating. going about your day feeling the things that are described when you look up your symptoms, but not knowing if you actually should seek professional help or if you are acting upon what others are saying. feeling empty and anxious and like your walking in a dream, but wondering if this is conditioned behavior or your real emotions, and not being able to talk to a professional because you are constantly told "you are fine there is nothing wrong with you" so you end up just drifting by not knowing what to do.

Something interesting I just realized, because I‘m experiencing it pretty badly at the moment:

It‘s hardly talked about, but once you are making noticable progress in your recovery from depression the damage it has done on your life really starts to kick in.

Suddenly you‘re more aware than ever how much work/social events/life in general you missed, because the question „Why did you achieve so little over the past couple of years?“ is absolutely inevitable and people will think that you were lazy during that time.

I think this is the most dangerous point of recovery for relapses, because whenever someone asks you what you did or didn‘t do while you were sick the realisation hits like a train.

Me saying this could definitely be regarded as pretentious, since I myself haven‘t exactly found a way to cope with this feeling, but I feel like it‘s very important to drown out those voices of „you didn‘t do anything“ „you were just lazy“ and „you‘re a complete failure, look at you“ with thoughts of „I survived.“ „I made it through“ „I managed not to let myself starve, I showered“ „I fed my pets/watered my plants regardless of how terrible I felt“

I‘m mainly saying this to myself in this post, but figured maybe this makes it onto the feed of someone who needs to hear this as well. Stay strong guys, we can get through this!

I swear to god stop diagnosing yourselves with mental illnesses from tiktok videos ect. If i see one more put a finger down... you have [x] video. Like why do people want mental illnesses or disorders so bad? When it's not a trend anymore and you've told everyone you have it i bet you wont find it as fun

The brain is an organ. Mental illnesses are illnesses of that organ. Brain scans show that there is a physical difference between a healthy brain and a sick brain. Telling someone “You’re not really sick. It’s all in your head.” is like telling someone with asthma “It’s not real, it’s all in your lungs.” The brain is an organ that can malfunction as much as any other organ.