Thanks for your thoughtful reply. I was hospitalized for psychotic depression. Actually, it wasn't my parents who put me in the hospital. My parents don't believe in mental illness, and therefore they don't believe in any psychiatric approaches. They just told me to not think about it, not hallucinate, and not be sad. I tried to explain it to them, but they just wouldn't believe what I said
Thanks for clarifying my assumption which clearly was wrong. Apologies for assuming.
I hear you about parents not understanding mental illness.
My father told my sister why doesn't chupacabra 44 just snap out of his mental condition? My father is the king of triangulation. I told my sister "tell our father I will snap out of my mental condition as soon as he snaps out of his diabetes". SMH
Nothing like being invalidated by a parent.
I have bipolar one although I've never experienced psychosis or hallucinations which tends to be a typical feature with many of us with bipolar one. Thus, knock on wood I've never been hospitalized. It was interesting because I've been battling hypomania all week because the stress of seeing some of the member stories here discombobulates me. (I just joined SS a week ago). But, it feels like I might be close to my baseline this morning.
Reach out to me if I can offer any suggestions in the future.
I don't have anyone to talk to and people just tell me "get help"... that doesn't help
I'm in the states so this is my reference point hence I'm going to ask you are you comfortable telling me whether you are in the states or not?
If you are in the states I could tell you for my experience what I recommend you consider looking into, in order to help yourself.
If you would like me to do this, give me your answer and then tag me in your response so I'll remember what I'm going to say to you. There are so many members here sometimes it's hard for me to remember who is who.
for me......yes but no. its helping but there are times i really hate my disorders and just want them gone so i tell them that love cant change the past
Yeah it sucks having disorders I've got plenty on my end.