Have you ever know a person who is in mental illness?what is your attitude ?
By wseayuan
@wseayuan (372)
China
October 4, 2007 9:25pm CST
Hi,friends.have u ever know a person who is in mental illness? i have to say i am an depression.sometimes i feel dowm with no reason,and ofen suspicious .as a result , i cann't sleep well.my school open a room for the sufferer and the mental doctor.but i don't want to see the doctor.i know i am ill in mental from the book and the internet.i also read some books about the mental illness,and try to solve the problem myself by the means on the books.i went to sport,make me outgoing,etc.i find i am changing a little and a little in character.though i still suffer from the mental illness,but lighten.recently,i know a star also suffer from the mental illness,and he is brave to tell that to people on tv.and share his causes of the disease and the method to cute. i appreciate him.maybe the illness will be with us all the life,we can do is find funny things in life and try to live happy.what is your attitude? do you have an experience? do you have any good way to avoid from the suffer of mental illness.please share with me.thanks !!.......
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2 responses
@AmbiePam (121302)
• United States
5 Oct 07
I am bipolar myself. I think the key was going to the doctor, getting his opinions, and researching everything myself. Then I felt like I was more able to make an informed deicision. Counseling is frowned in some cultures, and seen as a weakness (generally not in America), but it works, and if it would help you, I would try it. We cannot do everything on our own. I had to find that out. : )
@wseayuan (372)
• China
5 Oct 07
well, the doctors ? i think what they could do is also let me be outgoing ,think the better ,like the books about mental illness tell us.now ,i know it is common that poeple suffer from mental illness,just light or hard. i learn to treat the mental illness as the the usual illness like catching a cold,get hurted .it is common ,it is not serious . thank you very much. i agree with you that we cann't do everything on our own ,if i feel worse ,i wil try to see the doctor.thank you .
@lecanis (16647)
• Murfreesboro, Tennessee
5 Oct 07
I've known a lot of people who suffered from mental illness. There's a lot of it in my family even. I think getting help is important, because I can tell immediately when certain members of my family have stopped taking their prescribed medicines... they are like whole different people, and not in a good way.
I have post-traumatic stress disorder myself. I sometimes go to counseling, and other times I manage the disease myself. None of my therapists have ever given me medication, but they have suggested some very useful techniques that have helped me. I am glad I chose to get help, because being more stable myself has allowed me to be a better wife, a better parent, a better friend... and a better person.
