/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11156045]

What mental illness do you have, /lit/?

[Anonymous No.11156053]

all of it

[Anonymous No.11156055]

>DSM-5
>-5

[Anonymous No.11156072]

the gay
same as you, OP

[Anonymous No.11156075]

>>11156072
>the gay
why "the"

[Anonymous No.11156081]

>>11156045
All of them except for housemaid's knee.

[Anonymous No.11156085]

Schizophrenia, supposedly.

[Anonymous No.11156100]

Probs Schizoid Personality Disorder, if any.

[Anonymous No.11156108]

Assburgers doesn't exist anymore.
So I guess: "social-neophobia" (don't have anxiety when meeting people, more an anxiety and disinterest for having-to-do-so unexpectedly), mild insomnia and apathy.
Also neurotic of everything I say "wrong" or did wrong 5 years ago (not chronically, except at night, major cause of my insomnia) almost a reversed narcissism.

[Anonymous No.11156109]

>>11156085
I'm a schizoid apparently.

[Anonymous No.11156111]

>>11156045
being a heterosexual male, which to mentally ill females constitutes mental illness

[Anonymous No.11156117]

autism

not even joking

[Anonymous No.11156129]

>>11156111
I'm a female that has a number of mental illnesses (hence why I hang out here) and I'm very confused how being a straight male makes you mentally ill. Like I get you're being facetious but it doesn't make sense.

[Anonymous No.11156135]

>>11156045
Bipolar disorder type II

[Anonymous No.11156136]

>>11156045
ARFID

[Anonymous No.11156137]

I'm a Republican.

[Anonymous No.11156140]

>>11156045
mental illness isn't real read foucault you fucking slaves

[Anonymous No.11156147]

Is there a mental illness that makes you waste time on the internet all day? Because I have that.

[Anonymous No.11156150]

>>11156136
What are you afrid of?

[Anonymous No.11156154]

>>11156150
google it and see :)

[Anonymous No.11156163]

>>11156045
Got diagnosed as early paranoid schizophrenic.

Meh. Probably just a r̷̥̝̫̼̩͖̎͌̆̍̕̚ḥ̶̦̺̬̼͇͒̃̀͋͋́͛̽ī̶̥̻͓͉̘̮̰̪̘z̸̡̪͓͌͊̌́̇̐͜ṏ̷̘̭́̿̾̒̿m̶̛̰͒̈́̌̾͌̈́̃̾̀͑͆e̶̠͎̤̝͈̠͎̬̦̹͖͚͎͓͗̋̒́͌͛̇̈́̿̀͂̕̚͜͝ desu.

[Anonymous No.11156171]

>>11156045
mental illnesses are not real

[Anonymous No.11156172]

>>11156085
>>11156109
Don't listen to em brahs. Get off 4chan for a bit, read well, and come back clear-headed. They thought I was doomed last year, but I don't take meds and I'm great desu. Got cleared by a second psychiatrist (always go see someone else before believing anything. in fact, go see three practitioners)

We all get confused ways of thinking, but I feel like what psychs look for is based on socially acceptable behaviour (all outward, they don't know your mind). Stuff like, "do you hear voices?" or "have you ever read the paper and saw something about you" is probably more common than people think.

Are you guys stressed usually, or in a lazy slump at the moment?

[Anonymous No.11156183]

>>11156129
A preponderant portion of what is called "toxic masculinity" is in fact just masculinity, and masculinity is a good thing.

[Anonymous No.11156187]

>>11156140
kek
having spent some time in a psych ward I can tell you with complete unwavering certainty that some people are fucked in the head.

[Anonymous No.11156192]

>>11156183
Masculinity is inherently toxic. Check your privilege.

[Anonymous No.11156195]

>>11156172
Schizoid here.
I was diagnosed because the cops found my writing journal and my ex girlfriend was mad made me sound super dangerous when she called the police

[Anonymous No.11156200]

>>11156183
I see SJWs think masculinity is fine but think patriarchy (a la hating women) as the problem. They cite countries like Maldives or India, where you can hold hands with dudes and even kiss them as a straight dude, as being patriarchal without "toxic straight masculinity"

Just food 4 thought, anon.

[Anonymous No.11156201]

So does anyone here actually know what autism is?

[Anonymous No.11156204]

>>11156200
Ironically they also kill gays in those countries

[Anonymous No.11156205]

>>11156195
I'm the one whom you (you)'d. Sounds like bullshit. Maybe you're just a libertine like myself, and the world can't handle our absolute fucked up prose.

Godspeed, you rascal.

[Anonymous No.11156216]

>>11156204
Nothing gay about kissing your bro, whitey.

[Anonymous No.11156217]

>>11156205
Yeah it's definitely BS.
Everyone's a little crazy. Most people have to be protected from themselves really.

[Anonymous No.11156237]

[Anonymous No.11156247]

>>11156075

stylistic choice I guess. i thought a definite article gave it a feel of being older and less well understood, e.g. "the rheumatism".

apparently the last dsm to have homosexuality listed as a mental disorder was 3, at least until it was revised out. dsm 3 was published in '52.

why care about one word in a post?

[Anonymous No.11156248]

>>11156200
Patriarchy is unironically what's best for women and men.

[Anonymous No.11156255]

Schizoid master race here.

[Anonymous No.11156264]

>>11156129
pls be my autistic gf

[Anonymous No.11156357]

>>11156264
I don't have autism. At least I don't think I do. I just have severe social anxiety and depression. Also anorexia.

[Anonymous No.11156361]

>>11156264
I can be your autistic gf (male)

[Anonymous No.11156397]

>>11156108
>Also neurotic of everything I say "wrong" or did wrong 5 years ago (not chronically, except at night, major cause of my insomnia) almost a reversed narcissism.

I have this but all day long. It makes me groan in agony sometimes. It's like torture. I score extremely high in neuroticism (99th percentile) on those big 5 tests.

[Anonymous No.11156426]

I’m psychiatrist, so obviously there is nothing wrong with me.

[Anonymous No.11156455]

>>11156135
>>11156045
same, bipolar ii, with the standard helpings of anx/dep
im much better with this med cocktail, life more or less ok
>>11156187
this, desu
i also spent some time in one. catatonically depressed people are really a disturbing to be around

[Anonymous No.11156671]

>>11156247
>why care about one word in a post?
for a possible (You)

[Anonymous No.11156687]

>>11156045
>major depressive disorder
>acute generalized anxiety
>”canabis use disorder”
I have the most meme-tier ailments.

[Anonymous No.11156733]

>>11156397
I do get "paralyzed" (or distant, seemingly day-dreaming) for a few min after doing something stupid, accidentally, going over in my head what I should have done instead.

[Anonymous No.11156766]

none, but also anyone they feel like making up and telling me I have

[Anonymous No.11156787]

>ADHD (inattentive)
>Dysthymia
>Executive functioning deficit disorder, whatever that is
>Asperger's, which I guess would be diagnosed as plain old 'tism nowadays
>Bisexuality, which I guess could be considered mental illness; it sure beats being full homo though
It's not so bad really. With a little effort I overcame 90% of the bullshit that comes with being an Aspie (eye contact, body language, sarcasm, hypersensitivity to certain stimuli), and now it is hardly displayed except that I fixate intensely on "special interests" and speak somewhat unusually. I'm a useless slug without my ADHD meds, which is unfortunate; amphetamines are the only thing that can do the trick, and taking things like that regularly is less than ideal, but when I hear from my bipolar friends about their experiences with more heavy-duty drugs like lithium and Seroquel I count my blessings. Please excuse the blog post.

[Anonymous No.11156796]

that rpg character making sucks

[Anonymous No.11156826]

>>11156045
adhd and autism

[Anonymous No.11156909]

>>11156426
One of the top psychiatrists in my town is a tranny. No joke.

[Anonymous No.11156966]

Rapid cycling bipolar who goes more frequently to the depressive side
>>11156397
Same

[Anonymous No.11156988]

I don't go to the psychologist because the only people I trust enough to tell my problems too are people I have sex with and anonymous folk. Last time I saw a psychologist I just talked about how running cross country in high school made me vomit and completely neglected being molested.

shrinks btfo

[Anonymous No.11156999]

Low IQ

[Anonymous No.11157041]

depression and social anxiety, the regular
it sucks because every anti-depressant I've tried has made it worse and nearly killed me
there's always the image of the depressed literary savant but in reality I can't put a pen to paper and tear up whatever I manage to right the day afterwards.

[Anonymous No.11157053]

>>11156108
Literally, everyone has this. You can get over it when you stop thinking you are special and confront it like the entire population of the Earth.

[Anonymous No.11157167]

>>11156357
My type ;)

[Anonymous No.11157201]

Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Probably depression too. I used to take Zoloft but then I got tired of having to pay $120 every 2 months to see my psychiatrist for literally 10 minutes and she wouldn't refill my prescription without seeing her and also she literally said nothing other than "Ok we'll keep you on Zoloft" so I realized she really didn't care about helping me at all and just wanted to have me on drugs for my entire life. So I stopped going to see her and tapered off Zoloft on my own. And even tapering very slowly it made my brain feel like it was zapping itself to death and I realized that nothing good could possibly make that happen, so I'm glad I got off that poison after only a couple years rather than decades down the road. But yeah I have anxiety problems again but at least I can cum.

[Anonymous No.11157216]

>Antisocial, histrionic, and borderline personality disorders, with a trait or two of NPD
>ADD
>A paraphilia
>Some unspecified eating disorder
>Enough PTSD to drown in

All of these have been diagnosed by a therapist

[Anonymous No.11157258]

>>11157201
Good on you for getting away from that stuff. Antidepressants have a place, but almost all of them are soul-crushing if taken indefinitely. I'm super into high-end tea, and it saddens me a bit that when I'm with my bf (who is on Zoloft), he can't handle more than a sip or two because of how the drug synergizes with caffeine. At least he managed to get himself away from the Xanax, that's the shit you really can't afford to mess with.

>>11157216
Sounds rough buddy. Did you really get a diagnosis for a paraphilia? It's hard to imagine one's kinks affecting behavior enough to warrant that.

[Anonymous No.11157274]

>>11156171
twenty second post best post

[Anonymous No.11157319]

>>11156733
Wow you put words on a feeling I've been having for a long while.

[Anonymous No.11157320]

>>11157258
>Sounds rough buddy. Did you really get a diagnosis for a paraphilia? It's hard to imagine one's kinks affecting behavior enough to warrant that.

Yeah, but it took over a year to feel comfortable enough to talk about it. I basically just can't get aroused unless I'm hurting somebody, or making them uncomfortable, or blah blah blah. Like, I can still get hard, but there's just no pleasure. Like, its so bad that I've had to give up on vanilla sex two years ago after I spent several occasions fucking a girl, only for two hours to pass by with her fucking loving it, and me trying to figure out why it wasn't working for me. I've considered S&M, but I don't know if it would work for me.

It's just sort of weird that I'm attractive to a good amount of people, but my sexuality is fucked and disqualifies everyone that I could date/fuck.

[Anonymous No.11157335]

>>11156147
That would be a symptom, desu.

[Anonymous No.11157422]

>>11157053
Most people spend several minutes in the standing same position brooding over trivial things?
Most people spend hours in bed trying to sleep?
Most people get borderline anxiety attacks whenever something unexpected dealing with people comes about in their day?
Almost nothing I do is automated, every movement needs to be coordinated (luckily I've mastered normal everyday movement).
I can't speak and walk at the same time (can't multitask at-all), I have to plan almost any future "long event" if I wish for it to go smoothly, otherwise it takes a fuck longer time to complete; like showering: I have to trigger every new action while showering, "begin blasting ass with water", "move arm up to head, scratch chin", every time is unique (no habitual pattern).
I have no phrases to say as a response to any normal query, my answers are usually just yes/no (unless I recently spend a few minutes manufacturing whole fantasy conversations with people as a precaution to potential socialization), I can only output statements/facts, which might make me a good debater (which isn't something normal people usually do while having "fun").

[Anonymous No.11157424]

>>11156108
i have asd then.
to me, autism whether low functioning (retarded/asd), to high functioning (sperg/asd) are actually really not a fun disorder at all. I prefer to be born with 1 arm rather than to be born autistic.
>statistic had shown that 30% of sperg go to college, but only 15% able to keep long term employment. now that's sad.

>>11156140
have you ever met any schizo?

[Anonymous No.11157437]

Autopsies of autistic, Asperger’s, and normal brains by Margaret Bauman and her colleagues reveal that:

i. In both autism and Asperger’s there is immature development of the cerebellum, amygdala, and hippocampus. Small cells are packed tightly in these immature parts of the brain, signifying true immature development, not damage or atrophy.

In humans, the Cerebellum plays an important role in motor control, and it may also be involved in some cognitive functions such as attention and language as well as in regulating fear and pleasure responses, but its movement-related functions are the most solidly established.
Newer research: activation in relation to language, attention, and mental imagery.

ii. Brains from people with autism are more immature in hippocampus development than are Asperger’s brains, which may help explain the cognition problems we see in low-functioning autism.

Hippocampus
is a part of the limbic system. The limbic system is the area in the brain that is associated with memory, emotions, and motivation. The limbic system is located just above the brain stem and below the cortex. The hippocampus itself is highly involved with our memories.

iii. The situation is reversed for the amygdala, a part of the brain that processes emotion. Here, the Asperger’s brain is often more abnormal than the autistic brain.

Amygdala
Each amygdala is located close to the hippocampus, in the frontal portion of the temporal lobe. Your amygdalae are essential to your ability to feel certain emotions and to perceive them in other people. This includes fear and the many changes that it causes in the body.

[Anonymous No.11157446]

>>11157437
iv. Could the more normal hippocampus preserve the cognitive function in Asperger’s,with the less normal amygdala causing the social problems?

v. Brain autopsy research has shown that both Asperger’s people and the highest functioning people with autism have a small amygdala; in cases of low-functioning people, by contrast, the amygdala is more normal and the hippocampus more abnormal.

vi. More recently, a study by Haznedar revealed that in the brain of the high-functioning autistic or Asperger’s person, the circuit between the anterior cingulate in the frontal cortex and the amygdala is not completely connected. As a result, people with autism or Asperger’s have decreased metabolism in the anterior cingulate.

vii. These brain studies demonstrate that the social deficits in autism and Asperger’s are highly correlated with measurable biological differences.

>2. https://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/research/cameos/AutisticBrain.php

i. Cambridge has analysed the effects of prenatal testosterone levels, produced by the foetus and measured via amniocentesis during the first trimester of pregnancy, on autistic behaviour.

ii. Foetal testosterone shapes brain development to alter an individual’s cognitive profile by binding to androgen receptors in the brain, the amygdala being one region that is rich in such receptors.

iii. Strikingly, Cambridge researchers have shown that higher prenatal testosterone levels are associated with reduced social skills but superior attention to detail in infants.

[Anonymous No.11157459]

>>11157446
>>11156108
3. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-1-4614-4788-7_115

i. Widespread abnormalities in white matter microstructural organization in the brain have been reported in Asperger’s syndrome, and these are broadly consistent with the findings in autism spectrum in general.

ii. Brain areas showing abnormalities in white matter integrity in Asperger’s syndrome include frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital lobes and, more specifically, the cingulum, the body of the corpus callosum, and the right cerebellar region.

iii. These white matter abnormalities may reflect various underlying risk factors, including variations in candidate genes encoding proteins involved in neuronal growth, migration, and myelination.

iv. Reduced white matter integrity found in individuals with Asperger’s syndrome may in turn lead to abnormal connectivity between brain regions implicated in the autism phenotype, including frontal and limbic areas responsible for theory of mind, social behavior, understanding of emotions, and attention. The findings from diffusion tensor imaging studies in Asperger’s syndrome support hypotheses of local over-connectivity but reduced long-range connections in autism.

[Anonymous No.11157506]

>>11156045

Gender Dysphoria
Schizoaffective

[Anonymous No.11157635]

>>11156129
I am sorry you have to deal with our retarded bullshit, please be patient with us.

[Anonymous No.11157720]

>>11156045
None. I'm either one of the only sane people on the planet or completely insane.

[Anonymous No.11157731]

>>11156045
Racism, sexism, transphobia

[Anonymous No.11158233]

>>11156195
Are you me? They found my journal as well thanks to my then-gf snitching, except I had a previous diagnosis for depression.

[Anonymous No.11158269]

Not asking for myself but anybody here with OCD?
How is an anxiety disorder different from OCD?
Anxiety can cause you to have obsessive intrusive thoughts, right?
Usually in pop culture OCD is portrayed as obsession with washing your hands or doing something a particular number of times or stuff like that but also I've read that you can be obsessed about things like spirituality or cognitive control. What is this like? How is it different from a common fixed idea?
Can anxiety make you feel manic and erratic?
What other disorders can feel similar to anything described above?
How do you tell if someone has a mental disorder or is just a bit "weird"?

[Anonymous No.11158309]

>>11156192
Being masculine myself, I should slap the shit out of you bitch baby

[Anonymous No.11158361]

>>11158269
Yes.
The anxiety has to be sharp and reoccuring due to a specific cause (Complicated) Anxiety is mostly generalized fog for people.
Yes, but that's not OCD (Which is an antagonizing loop of catastrophizing from breaks or upsets in routine or personalized order)
I resent you treating OCD like a meme for your paranormal fascinations.
Anxiety is elevated fear in most all cases.
Being a teenager.
It severely impacts their livelihood.

[Anonymous No.11158539]

>>11158361
I meant not to respond but you actually made me mad.
What the fuck are you even talking about and what the fuck do you think I am asking about?

[Anonymous No.11158552]

>>11156183
I can feel frustration seeping from this shitpost

[Anonymous No.11158577]

I have intense discomformity between my percieved sex and biological sex.
Im also depressed and suicidal. Dont know why though.

[Anonymous No.11158588]

>>11156909
So? As long as they're certified, who cares

[Anonymous No.11158595]

>>11158588
>getting psych help from a mentally ill person

[Anonymous No.11158620]

>>11158595
If only the persons that certified her would have that in mind. You should do something about that, anon.

[Anonymous No.11158640]

i have Complex PTSD

[Anonymous No.11159038]

>>11156045
I had PPD really bad as a kid/teen. I don't know if it's gone away but I can function normally now at least.

[Anonymous No.11159078]

>>11156100
Same

[Anonymous No.11159089]

>>11156045
Used to be depressed and now I'm just schizo.

[Anonymous No.11159139]

I would have definitely been diagnosed with Schizotypal PD if I went to a shrink a few years ago but I'm dealing with it now.

[Anonymous No.11159167]

>>11156045
I have schizoid, narcissistic, antisocial and histrionic traits

[Anonymous No.11159173]

>>11156045
Literally autism, or actually Asperger

[Anonymous No.11159336]

No such thing

[Anonymous No.11159417]

>>11158640

What are the features of that?

t. recently seeing a clin psych, probably for similar reasons

[Anonymous No.11159428]

>>11156045
none

[Anonymous No.11159441]

>>11158640
>>11159417
What do y'all got PTSD about?

[Anonymous No.11159447]

>>11158640
are you a soldier. If not you are just a special snowflake

[Anonymous No.11159460]

>>11159441

bad shit kept happening for confusing and chaotic reasons and I couldn't get away from it physically so had to employ various maladapative schemas and emotional numbness

[Anonymous No.11159505]

>>11159460
What kind of bad shit is what I really meant.

[Anonymous No.11159508]

>>11159447
Nah dude, rape and being attacked and stuff counts. Let's see what it really is.

[Anonymous No.11159523]

>>11156085
I used to have that but I think I found an easy fix for it. Don't want to say anything though yet because I want to be sure it works.

[Anonymous No.11159546]

>>11156045
I have a low IQ.

[Anonymous No.11159561]

>>11156129
As a girl gamer intellectual myself, I too am confused by the strange sense of human these men have here. Do they think they are witty? Because they are definitely not.

[Anonymous No.11159582]

Could easily be diagnosed with avoidant personality or something. But if I actually talked to a psych about it then I wouldn't have it desu.

[Anonymous No.11159599]

Got inspired by this whole being sick thing...

Mind of a boy:

A tiny, clumsy looking boy walked in a dark and narrow street. Rain fell heavily and his little, thin legs moved slowly though the puddles. Walter echoed in space as he hurried home.
When he passed a lamppost, something creeped his way into his mind. Other people uncaringly moved on the streets, without a care for him. But the boy crumbled and was dragged down. Heavy raindrops that felt like cold rocks. Hitting him. Uniting with him. Destroying him. Falling with him.
In a dark endless pit, which seemed like an ongoing wide hole of eternal fear.

His mind plays him everyday. And other people too.

[Anonymous No.11159612]

>>11159447
>only people who fight for israel can have trauma! thank you for serving!

dumb seppo

[Anonymous No.11159619]

>A(n) adjective adjective looking boy walked in a(n) adjective and adjective street.
It was a dark and stormy night..

[Anonymous No.11159632]

>>11159582

Not true at all

>>11159505

I figured, but frankly that part doesn't concern anyone but myself and my therapist.

Are you wanting to compare and decide whether your own trauma is valid?

[Anonymous No.11159644]

>>11159546
Same.

[Anonymous No.11159653]

>>11159619
meant for >>11159599
Creative-writing 100 tier, lad

[Anonymous No.11159681]

Borderline

[Anonymous No.11159708]

>>11159653
>>11159619
Purple prose. Now I know better. Will be only a story next time around. I promise.

[Anonymous No.11159748]

>>11156187
>>11156455
>>11157424
Almost all cases of schizophrenia I've encountered revolve around that person having a traumatic past, but surely it's just a biological issue.

[Anonymous No.11159749]

>>11159708
Have you ever written anything before? When you load a description with adjectives it doesn't make it any more vivid. It is hard to create an evocative piece of writing, it is not a result of the sum of adjectives used.

[Anonymous No.11159771]

>>11159749
No experience whatsoever. So yeah I want to know about:
>evocative piece of writing

If you can help me or suggest me anything helpful, then please do so.

[Anonymous No.11159861]

>>11159632
No of course not, I was just curious and thought maybe talking about it anonymously would be therapeutic.

[Anonymous No.11159862]

>>11156687
Try lsd

[Anonymous No.11159957]

>>11159748
If I hit you in the head with a brick until you can't form complete sentences, is your retardation a biological issue or a result of your traumatic past?

[Anonymous No.11160071]

Second try, i promised so yeah nothing goes.

Lost on mother Nature:

Peter, while walking though bis nearby park, enjoyed nature without her. He looked at the trees, heard children playing happily and noticed the humming of nature. He saw harmony.
'How fleeting life can be', He though as the children played catch. One Kid fell and hurt his knee. The other as stupid as he was fell over him. Both of them cried deeply in pain and shouted for their mothers.
Mother? No place without her. Anger rised inside of him. His inner turmoil increased quickly. He wanted to escape. To get out of it. But nowhere would he be saved by his past,
could he be saved from his guilt and grief. Noone to rid him of it.
Then he looked sadly at his click and remembered. Better and happier days. He though of love and kindness. Of delicious green tea and his favorite cake. Of a loving Smile and her heartfelt embrace he never gets again. And his heart cried like the children did.

[Anonymous No.11160098]

>>11159748
In no way does that have any bearing on whether or not mental illness is "real".
Whether schizophrenia, or any mental illness for that matter, is caused by trauma or by biology is irrelevant for the purpose of diagnosis, i.e. basic categorization based on observed behaviour that describes the current state of affairs.

If a person's behaviour or feelings cause them severe difficulties then that's a state of being that could be called "mental illness", regardless of what the cause is. The purpose of such a label is not to condemn (although there is a social stigma attached) but to make it more tangible what the problem is, with the intent of relieving the difficulties caused by their feelings or behaviour.

[Anonymous No.11160114]

>>11159748
Is that so, doctor?

[Anonymous No.11160310]

>>11156045
Confirmed:
Anxiety Disorder, Clinical Depression

Suspected: (Highly likely, going to get a diagnosis soon)

High functioning autism, Paranoia

Suspected (less likely)

ADHD

They thought I had ADHD in the past, but now they are trying to see if it was actually autism.

[Anonymous No.11160458]

>>11159771
read the short story The Piazza by Melville. It is a great example of descriptive, evocative writing done well. In fact I would say all of Billy Budd and other Tales is a requirement for the studying writer. Aside from that if you plan on taking writing seriously a thorough study of the cannon is necessary, starting with the Greeks and so on. Give it some years of failing, to then even judge if you have talent or not; it is like sculpture that you must chip away at to see what lies hidden beneath the stone.

[Anonymous No.11160482]

Science puts no labels of good or bad on behavior. Psychiatrists do. They start with the idea that a behavior is bad, this coming from personal opinion, culture, and state. Any science they have comes after, working backwards from their conclusion to find any 'chemical imbalance' or other made up thing to convince you that you are a broken person. On this grounds, psychiatry is a pseudoscience.

But it goes beyond this and becomes religion. I think the primary myth that psychiatrists pass on, and generally believe themselves, is that the mental illness exists as distinct from yourself. As in, there is you, your personality, your true self, and then this separate entity, the ADHD, the schizophrenia, the depression. It makes it like a flu, or a cancer. But they will never prove this, and they will never show you this, because the lines do not exist. Your depression is as much a part of you as your happiness, and any other piece of your personality, it is all rolled in together.

This is where the dehumanization sets in. Because once they treat you as if there is a separate entity inside of you, akin to demonic possession, they can now justify coercive acts on you, and dismissal of your opinions. You don't want treatment? Well, that's not the real you talking, it is the illness. The real you would want treatment, so we'll force it on you. But they'll act like this is them being your friend. They will tell others not to stigmatize you, after calling you an illness, after calling you 'scientifically bad', dysfunctional, they don't want others to stigmatize you. Completely ridiculous shit.

But you might think to yourself "Ok, maybe there is some pseudoscience to it, but if it works to make me happy, who cares?" Well, fat chance. None of these 'diseases' have cures, of course, like real diseases often do. The treatments will mainly just nullify you, and destroy any pride you might be able to have or make for yourself, and leave you with a permanent negative label, which will always be in some file somewhere. Historically the purpose of mental asylums has been to have a second type of jail for people who haven't broken any laws on the books. A place where you can dump your kids you don't like, or just about anybody else, functioning similar to a nursing home. A dump for society's unwanted. Now, with "outpatient treatment", you remain in society but still, the primary purpose is just to keep you out of the way. Keep you quiet, or stable, keep you paying attention in class, just go along with things, just don't be annoying to society. I would not recommend visiting any psychiatrist.

That being said, if I did go, I suspect I would be diagnosed with something, either schizoid, avoidant, or maybe autism, and then something to do with depression on the side.

[Anonymous No.11161119]

what is some good anti-psychiatric literature?

[Anonymous No.11161156]

>>11156045
some sorta dissociative disorder

[Anonymous No.11161167]

Avoidant, probably autistic too

[Anonymous No.11161183]

>>11156045
I once spent 10 months in a psychiatric hospital with a severe somatoform disorder but a later video telemetry EEG proved it was actually focal seizures of an epileptic nature, so that sucked.

Anyway, the usual. Autism and comorbidities. Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder, executive dysfunction, depression, social phobia and general anxiety, hypersensitivity to sound and light and texture. Chronic active or passive suicidal ideation that never actually goes away.

And, unrelatedly: Cynophobia. Emetophobia. Post-traumatic stress.