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Is Having Mental Health Problems And Depression Becoming Fashionable?
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Yes there are genuine cases but it seems that everyone and their dog likes to jump on the band wagon. We're no longer allowed feel a bit fed up or upset about things that happen in our day to day life, instead it must mean we have mental health problems or depression. Life is not one long bed of roses, there are ups and downs that we have to endure. The young especially seem to have been convinced that they have mental health problems when of course most of them are suffering no such thing, we shop stop pandering to them.
Yes there are genuine cases but it seems that everyone and their dog likes to jump on the band wagon. We're no longer allowed feel a bit fed up or upset about things that happen in our day to day life, instead it must mean we have mental health problems or depression. Life is not one long bed of roses, there are ups and downs that we have to endure. The young especially seem to have been convinced that they have mental health problems when of course most of them are suffering no such thing, we shop stop pandering to them.
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Mental illness is a serious issue and should be treated as such.
However….
Claiming mental illness to get a few weeks off of work, is disgraceful and inevitably causes suspicion of other people claiming to be ill.
I witnessed somebody in my office have a poor review, come out of the review, phone his GP from his desk, claim work related stress, and got signed-off, over the phone, for a fortnight. This was two months ago and we have yet to see him back yet.
He is swinging the lead - there’s nothing wrong with him, but he knows how to play the system. He was about to be managed out, but we can’t do anything now, and other people are having to pick up his work.
However….
Claiming mental illness to get a few weeks off of work, is disgraceful and inevitably causes suspicion of other people claiming to be ill.
I witnessed somebody in my office have a poor review, come out of the review, phone his GP from his desk, claim work related stress, and got signed-off, over the phone, for a fortnight. This was two months ago and we have yet to see him back yet.
He is swinging the lead - there’s nothing wrong with him, but he knows how to play the system. He was about to be managed out, but we can’t do anything now, and other people are having to pick up his work.
Ive lost count of the times when people have told me to pull myself together (Curiously, not on AB though).
Like telling someone to stop going to the toilet when they have diarrhea.
I have BPD, and for a long time rejected such a diagnosis as been psychobabble. (And to be fair, a lot of shrinks that I've had the displeasure to come into contact with, HAVE been nuts themselves. And I *MEAN* raving bonkers).
Despite medication I still have suicidal thoughts, tendancies to just lock myself away and to hell with the world, and an attitude of stuff it because I couldnt care less now.
But I battle on knowing that one day I will die anyway so why worry.
Just do what I can for others (family, friends etc) while Im here.
But occasionally my brain chemistry gets the better of me.
Like telling someone to stop going to the toilet when they have diarrhea.
I have BPD, and for a long time rejected such a diagnosis as been psychobabble. (And to be fair, a lot of shrinks that I've had the displeasure to come into contact with, HAVE been nuts themselves. And I *MEAN* raving bonkers).
Despite medication I still have suicidal thoughts, tendancies to just lock myself away and to hell with the world, and an attitude of stuff it because I couldnt care less now.
But I battle on knowing that one day I will die anyway so why worry.
Just do what I can for others (family, friends etc) while Im here.
But occasionally my brain chemistry gets the better of me.
//It's more a fine line between genius and insanity thing//
More a fine line between ''Dont I know it all, and ''Im a prick who wants to be Derren Brown''
Most, if not all, the shrinks that Ive had dealings with have been absolute head cases.
Dr Hannibal Lector Types.
Bloody fruitcakes the lot of them.
More a fine line between ''Dont I know it all, and ''Im a prick who wants to be Derren Brown''
Most, if not all, the shrinks that Ive had dealings with have been absolute head cases.
Dr Hannibal Lector Types.
Bloody fruitcakes the lot of them.
There are so many online resources now.
I just decided to look up generalised anxiety...and this article came up.
It describes only too well what I've lived with/coped with a good deal of my life. Sometimes I don't like to be reminded.
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I just decided to look up generalised anxiety...and this article came up.
It describes only too well what I've lived with/coped with a good deal of my life. Sometimes I don't like to be reminded.
https:/
Pasta, pretty much what I'm saying too. If it was "rational", it wouldn't be an issue. But...
Like I said earlier, it is always treated as part of depression- and you do not need symptoms of depression, to mean you have it. I'll find depression and post a link, which tbh, didn't help me. They didn't understand, but it helps a lot of people.
It's a free, NHS self-referral thing. It helped me, in that my GP took the results and diagnosis seriously (Panic Disorder).
Like I said earlier, it is always treated as part of depression- and you do not need symptoms of depression, to mean you have it. I'll find depression and post a link, which tbh, didn't help me. They didn't understand, but it helps a lot of people.
It's a free, NHS self-referral thing. It helped me, in that my GP took the results and diagnosis seriously (Panic Disorder).
Pasta, one thing I noticed, which sounds a pointless cliche...
When I started learning flute, I couldn't believe how much difference it made. Purely from being forced to breathe properly for an hour...
It was the first time, I actually sat down without a phone or book, and just relaxed for a while. I had heard it so often, I ignored it before.
When I started learning flute, I couldn't believe how much difference it made. Purely from being forced to breathe properly for an hour...
It was the first time, I actually sat down without a phone or book, and just relaxed for a while. I had heard it so often, I ignored it before.
What would a shrink (most probably a middle class uni student) know about living on the streets, trying to survive?
Just HOW would someone, who has read loads of books, comprehend a real life situation?
They havnt got a clue.....
Show me just ONE shrink that has lived on the streets, been in poverty, experienced just one case of having to claim the nightmare that is benefits,
Just one???
Just one that has to live in the real world of most of his patients?
Just HOW would someone, who has read loads of books, comprehend a real life situation?
They havnt got a clue.....
Show me just ONE shrink that has lived on the streets, been in poverty, experienced just one case of having to claim the nightmare that is benefits,
Just one???
Just one that has to live in the real world of most of his patients?
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