Comments | fodderfigure: (без темы)

fodderfigure

(Untitled)

Jul 20, 2009 17:26

Sometimes I wish that I could trade in my mental health issues for physical ones. At least then I could talk about them without fear of stigma or shame or just plain making other people uncomfortable and airing my dirty laundry in public. Hell, people might even pull for me. They might ask if they could help and I might not feel too proud and/or ( Read more... )

Comments 13

amarylliss July 20 2009, 21:40:55 UTC

But if you did go to muay thai, you could have someone ELSE harm you instead. Outsourcing abuse is totally the way to go!

(Obviously, I'm terribly sorry to hear that you're so unhappy right now and I hope that your mom helps. I would suggest imbibing some rum-type-bevarage to take your mind off your problems, but that's a pretty drastic form of self-harm right there.)

fodderfigure July 20 2009, 21:47:49 UTC

I'll take solace in your gallows humour and leave the rum-type beverages aside for now. At least I can't self-harm with any malt-based "rum" because that belongs to the cottage now, along with Vincent Lam's book.

fodderfigure July 20 2009, 21:49:58 UTC

Oh, and 95% of the reason I'm skipping muay thai is that I really can't take sucking at anything else today.
The other 5%? A mosquito bit me on my eyelid. And I'm allergic to those buggers!

amarylliss July 20 2009, 21:53:13 UTC

But Chris is teaching! It's your last chance for a class not taught by Mauricio (which is the only reason I'm even considering going--I bought a giant tub of caramel ice cream this weekend and it's not going to finish itself, you know.)

Thread 6

diaryarena July 21 2009, 01:45:37 UTC

SECONDED. Do you remember those mental health awareness ads? "THOSE PEOPLE WITH HEART DISEASE SHOULD JUST SUCK IT UP AND GO TO WORK" "PEOPLE WITH CANCER ARE JUST WHINERS".

epi_lj July 21 2009, 01:58:37 UTC

I've had so many friends go through this. It's really terrible. There should be nothing more shameful about having Asperger's or depression than about having the flu, but our society is pretty screwed up on that point.

If it helps *at all*, I know we barely met, and ages ago, but I always thought you seemed like a really cool person.

lemur_catta July 21 2009, 02:02:41 UTC

I can relate to that.The feeling of constantly needing to explain my condition and justify taking up space on the planet is enough to make me sometimes wish I just had epilepsy or diabetes instead. Then maybe I wouldn't feel like a failure every time trying to go off my medication doesn't work out either ( ... )

mmarques July 21 2009, 03:12:14 UTC

Asperger's and depression are not so uncommon... don't feel ashamed to bring them up!