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
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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 Sunday, May 29th, 2011 01:49 am (UTC)I'm not really a fan, though, so that lets me out of one of them.
Diagnoses: generalized anxiety disorder, dysthymia, major depression. Also a sleep disorder. What fun! (But those are just some facts about me in a huge range of others. Here's another: I can't sing.) These conditions are managed - I am not acutely ill at the moment, thank God - but not as well managed as I would like.
I post about psych stuff probably on the order of once a week. Much of that is under friends-lock, or circle access list, or whatever DW calls it - but you're welcome to friend me or add me to your circle and I will probably add you back with access so that will be no problem.
I post about all subjects a couple times a day, I'd say. I have a twin journal on LJ under the same name to which I simulpost from here.
I rant about politics a fair bit, too, and most of what I say is pretty well to the political left, so there's that.
I talk about philosophy and culture. I did a dime in grad school for that.
Lately though I find I'm less and less interested in that super-abstract stuff and I'm more interested in understanding concrete things around me that I have so far neglected to really understand, like nature, machines, and so on -- so I post things I see birds do, things plants do, things my car does, things things do when I'm cooking them in a thing, and so on.
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Prompts:
The use of "crazy" by a non-mentally-ill person (are there any such, really?) does not trouble me in the slightest. Your mileage may vary.
"I think mentally ill people are" doesn't have any interesting non-tautological predicates that I can think of.
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