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!
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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 03:15 am (UTC)I'm a 29 year old cis gendered, female bisexually with trust issues involving intimacy. I'm currently in year 3 of recovery from what I call my quarter life crisis which was really a long slide downhill from around my doctors and I are pretty safe with saying, puberty.
I'm 90% through school for my career change from something I could get through on my worst days to something that I actually enjoy doing, esthetician.
My diagnos[is/es]:
The official ones are GAD and Severe Depressive Disorder both of which are either rooted in or exacerbated by Fibro Mialgya, it's hard to tell with his chicken and egg.
I typically write around this many entries a week:
I'm currently down to less than one, but I'm also 3 weeks out from finals and taking a lot of extra classes. I'll probably bounce back to between 1 and 5 after I graduate.
Other topics I discuss on my journal:
My cat, my writing, my recovery which I consider an ongoing and never finishing process and slash.
Interests / hobbies you have:
Most of my hobbies revolve around skin care and makeup, it's still early enough in my career that I don't risk getting sick of it yet, I'm just reveling in the longest run of not being bored in my entire life.
I think mentally ill people are . . .
often stigmatized, badly characterized and all around thought badly of by the general population. I'm open with the fact that I'm in therapy and on drugs as my small effort to work against this.
The use of the word crazy by a non-mentally ill person . . .
too easy to use and too uncomfortable to think about why it's offensive. I'm not too terribly happy with its use by a mentally ill person, mostly because it *is* bandied around to easily.
Anything else to share?:
Er. I don't wear all black anymore and it's confusing me? *G*
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on Sunday, May 29th, 2011 10:12 am (UTC)That's really courageous. And it shouldn't be, and that's exactly why you're doing it, but still. It is. I try my best with classmates to be open about my health, but keep it guarded in work situations in case they fire me or something. [/anxiety disorder]
I'm going to subscribe to your journal. :)
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on Sunday, May 29th, 2011 07:13 pm (UTC)