sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name
Friday, May 27th, 2011 02:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
erikaThere have been many circling memes on DW, but perhaps none quite like this.
This is a circling meme for the mentally ill.
For the purposes of this circling meme, "mentally ill" means you have a diagnosed mental illness, which includes but is not limited to: bipolar disorder, any personality disorder, depression, any anxiety disorder including panic disorder, disassociative identity disorder, ADHD, schizophrenia, or various combinations of the above.
(If you see a therapist, a psychiatrist, or another medical professional for mental health symptoms, even if you don't know your diagnosis, you're also welcome. If your mental illness is in remission/in good management, you are still welcome.)
Basically, if one of the topics on your journal is your own mental illness, I want you! Comment away, with whatever information you feel is appropriate, but here's a template:
Your identity: not necessarily A/S/L (though you can feel free to put that in) but relevant information that might tell people why they should read you or would want to get to know you. Feel free to link to a sticky post.
Your diagnosis: only if you're comfortable sharing this information on a public entry. Be as specific as you like, but generalities are fine.
How many entries you typically write a week: Within a given range is fine.
Other topics you discuss on your journal: college, your children, your pets, fandom(s), boy/girl trouble, etc.
Interests / hobbies you have: knitting, making icons, programming, etc. (This may overlap with the "topics" question, that's okay!)
Feel free to skip these next few, but I find the answers interesting:
Finish this sentence: I think mentally ill people are . . .
Finish this sentence: The use of the word 'crazy' by a non-mentally ill person. . .
Anything else you'd like to share!
This is a circling meme for the mentally ill.
For the purposes of this circling meme, "mentally ill" means you have a diagnosed mental illness, which includes but is not limited to: bipolar disorder, any personality disorder, depression, any anxiety disorder including panic disorder, disassociative identity disorder, ADHD, schizophrenia, or various combinations of the above.
(If you see a therapist, a psychiatrist, or another medical professional for mental health symptoms, even if you don't know your diagnosis, you're also welcome. If your mental illness is in remission/in good management, you are still welcome.)
Basically, if one of the topics on your journal is your own mental illness, I want you! Comment away, with whatever information you feel is appropriate, but here's a template:
Your identity: not necessarily A/S/L (though you can feel free to put that in) but relevant information that might tell people why they should read you or would want to get to know you. Feel free to link to a sticky post.
Your diagnosis: only if you're comfortable sharing this information on a public entry. Be as specific as you like, but generalities are fine.
How many entries you typically write a week: Within a given range is fine.
Other topics you discuss on your journal: college, your children, your pets, fandom(s), boy/girl trouble, etc.
Interests / hobbies you have: knitting, making icons, programming, etc. (This may overlap with the "topics" question, that's okay!)
Feel free to skip these next few, but I find the answers interesting:
Finish this sentence: I think mentally ill people are . . .
Finish this sentence: The use of the word 'crazy' by a non-mentally ill person. . .
Anything else you'd like to share!
(Please note that if you want
to discuss this entry with me
for any reason
PM is the best place to do that,
not on this entry.)
to discuss this entry with me
for any reason
PM is the best place to do that,
not on this entry.)
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on Friday, May 27th, 2011 11:39 pm (UTC)My diagnos[is/es]: Dysthymic, though I may have just had my first major depressive episode; dysthymic is from my therapist, I don't know what my psychiatrist dx'd me with.
I typically write around this many entries a week: Only very rarely more than one a day, usually 3 a week (with a range of 1-7).
Other topics I discuss on my journal: Fandom (X-Files, Dr Who, random other things); my kid and wife; my job (the tag is "professor nahurriyeh complains"); whatever else I feel like
Interests / hobbies you have: Cross-stitch and needlepoint; writing fanfiction; gardening; cooking used to be a hobby, but now it's more of a chore, because I'm *tired*.
I think mentally ill people are . . . overrepresented in my family, for realz.
The use of the word crazy by a non-mentally ill person . . . doesn't bug me if it isn't explicitly awful; but I think engaging around it is a good thing. FYI, I use it frequently to describe my own mental illness, so if that's an issue for you, you might not want to read me.
Anything else to share?: Most of my mental-illness related posts are access-locked, but I'll grant access to people from this friending meme, at least provisionally. Here's a thinky one I wrote a while back, and this is about my favorite mentally ill character in all of literature. Also, at the moment, my journal is kind of depressing, because my father just died suddenly and I'm pretty much in the thick of it.
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on Saturday, May 28th, 2011 10:00 am (UTC)no subject
on Monday, May 30th, 2011 06:43 am (UTC)I'm a queer woman and an aspiring cranky gender-and-sexuality-studies academic, so I'm looking forward to reading you. It's totally okay if you don't want it to be reciprocal, though. Especially since I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have any social energy if I were in your shoes right now.
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on Monday, May 30th, 2011 07:51 am (UTC)I am a HUGE HUGE HUGE H2G2 fan, just so you know.
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on Wednesday, June 1st, 2011 03:36 am (UTC)I'm sorry to hear about your dad, btw, and *hugs offered*
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on Saturday, June 4th, 2011 03:14 pm (UTC)I am sorry to read about your father. Life lately has had way too much loss associated with it.