Discussion Venting/No cure

[LookingforAnswers]

Why is there seemingly no cure to mental illness? The drugs are almost more harmful than good. I feel like doctors think you are lying about your symptoms at times or think you can just will your way out of it.

Im 31 and feel like my whole life is fucked now.

 

[Tristan]

Hi we are on the same boat on this one, i gave up all hope on medication and doctors. Doctors have no clue on what they are doing to me either, so i stopped all medication. Dont feel any worse or better, dont see any end in sight about this one neither. I barely talk to my doctor anymore, just go to the appointments because they are paid for and im forced to go with my parents. Like I wanna fight but cant anymore, too many years feeling like this. Just this black velvet aura around me.

 

[lili]

Why is there seemingly no cure to mental illness? The drugs are almost more harmful than good. I feel like doctors think you are lying about your symptoms at times or think you can just will your way out of it.

Im 31 and feel like my whole life is fucked now.

I feel the same way. I'm about to turn 30 and have tried so many medications and they don't work.

I think people have just not understood the brain quite well yet and there's still many scientific discoveries to be made.

I also think I've heard some mental health movements trying to in good intentions give it more awareness by trying to compare it more to a physical illness. Just to make others who don't care about mental illness care.

But I personally think suffering through a mental illness, while the brain is an organ, should not be treated like a physical illness. In my case I have borderline and bipolar, and while those are based on chemical interactions, there's also a baggage of trauma that triggered it from my youth.

To treat my illness derived from sufferings of my past as if it were some physical ailment that just requires medication will never work. I need love, acknowledgement, and most of all, I need to be heard. But paying a psychologist a lot of money for a one hour session is not to be heard. Nor just taking a bunch of medications to numb the pain of my past and silence it.

Sometimes I wonder what the idea of a cure even means. What would it mean if there is a cure?

 

[Tristan]

I feel the same way. I'm about to turn 30 and have tried so many medications and they don't work.

I think people have just not understood the brain quite well yet and there's still many scientific discoveries to be made.

I also think I've heard some mental health movements trying to in good intentions give it more awareness by trying to compare it more to a physical illness. Just to make others who don't care about mental illness care.

But I personally think suffering through a mental illness, while the brain is an organ, should not be treated like a physical illness. In my case I have borderline and bipolar, and while those are based on chemical interactions, there's also a baggage of trauma that triggered it from my youth.

To treat my illness derived from sufferings of my past as if it were some physical ailment that just requires medication will never work. I need love, acknowledgement, and most of all, I need to be heard. But paying a psychologist a lot of money for a one hour session is not to be heard. Nor just taking a bunch of medications to numb the pain of my past and silence it.

Sometimes I wonder what the idea of a cure even means. What would it mean if there is a cure?

I dont think there is a cure, all they do is experiment on us. Not in our lifetime i think. I would rather have a physical disease than this.

 

[lili]

I dont think there is a cure, all they do is experiment on us. Not in our lifetime i think. I would rather have a physical disease than this.

Yeah.

I've never had a serious physical illness and I don't want to compare myself with their suffering, but I do feel my condition presently has manifested physically in the sense that it is painful to get up and walking feels like a big task. Existing in general. I can't get up.

I agree there is no cure. It's a matter of a decision of how much further are we willing to put up with it.

For me the worst is how people don't care. I wish I could just tell everyone around me I need to pause my life please stop making me work stop depending on me stop asking me personal questions about my relationship struggles. Am I supposed to Reveal to everyone that surprise I'm actually suicidal and severely depressed not just chilling around and being irresponsible for the sake of it?

I've been there before and that just leads to medications again. Frankly I've just given up.

I guess this is the life of accepting there is no cure. And rejecting the idea of being a guinea pig for doctors.

 

[Grimmreeferx]

I have long struggled with depression and anxiety. I was diagnosed as dysthymic which doesn't sound that bad but I'm also on a terrible alcoholic and I pretty much ruined my life with that. I hurt the one person I love most in this world. I'm 37. My brother died at 37 and my sister committed suicide at 38. I have severe existential death anxiety but really cant imagine my future anymore. Its only me and my dad left. I watched both my mom and brother die non-suicidal deaths and it scares me. I think its unfair that death is so painful and terrifying. But I cant stop obsessing. I think if my dad was gone the choice would be so much easier.

 

[LookingforAnswers]

I dont think there is a cure, all they do is experiment on us. Not in our lifetime i think. I would rather have a physical disease than this.

This is the way i explain it to my spouse to make her realize the pain. I say i would rather have an amputation than this. Thats how painful it is

I feel the same way. I'm about to turn 30 and have tried so many medications and they don't work.

I think people have just not understood the brain quite well yet and there's still many scientific discoveries to be made.

I also think I've heard some mental health movements trying to in good intentions give it more awareness by trying to compare it more to a physical illness. Just to make others who don't care about mental illness care.

But I personally think suffering through a mental illness, while the brain is an organ, should not be treated like a physical illness. In my case I have borderline and bipolar, and while those are based on chemical interactions, there's also a baggage of trauma that triggered it from my youth.

To treat my illness derived from sufferings of my past as if it were some physical ailment that just requires medication will never work. I need love, acknowledgement, and most of all, I need to be heard. But paying a psychologist a lot of money for a one hour session is not to be heard. Nor just taking a bunch of medications to numb the pain of my past and silence it.

Sometimes I wonder what the idea of a cure even means. What would it mean if there is a cure?

If there was a cure then we wouldnt have to suffer. I do think that trauma or stress causes physical changes in the brain. The cure would somehow reverse these changes.

I think a lot gets implicated in the limbic system and it is too complex a system to figure out, way more than just the serotonin receptor hypothesis etc

 

[13_reasons]

Yeah.

I've never had a serious physical illness and I don't want to compare myself with their suffering, but I do feel my condition presently has manifested physically in the sense that it is painful to get up and walking feels like a big task. Existing in general. I can't get up.

I agree there is no cure. It's a matter of a decision of how much further are we willing to put up with it.

For me the worst is how people don't care. I wish I could just tell everyone around me I need to pause my life please stop making me work stop depending on me stop asking me personal questions about my relationship struggles. Am I supposed to Reveal to everyone that surprise I'm actually suicidal and severely depressed not just chilling around and being irresponsible for the sake of it?

I've been there before and that just leads to medications again. Frankly I've just given up.

I guess this is the life of accepting there is no cure. And rejecting the idea of being a guinea pig for doctors.

I've never related to a post more than this- This, all of this. The pain of every day existence- getting out of bed is an achievement everyday. Every day you can get through without CTB- is an achievement. Other people don't understand that though- they just see you as sad and lazy and not being bothered with going to work. There's a big physical component that others don't understand.

I tried to explain to my husband that it feels like my body has been taken over by an aggressive cancer that's gone to my brain and through my bones and that being upright is a mammoth effort. He doesn't get it. No one does.

I'm just going through the motions now- it keeps everyone off my back. Although- if one more person suggests meditation I'll start screaming

 

[LookingforAnswers]

I've never related to a post more than this- This, all of this. The pain of every day existence- getting out of bed is an achievement everyday. Every day you can get through without CTB- is an achievement. Other people don't understand that though- they just see you as sad and lazy and not being bothered with going to work. There's a big physical component that others don't understand.

I tried to explain to my husband that it feels like my body has been taken over by an aggressive cancer that's gone to my brain and through my bones and that being upright is a mammoth effort. He doesn't get it. No one does.

I'm just going through the motions now- it keeps everyone off my back. Although- if one more person suggests meditation I'll start screaming

Its the inexplicable disease.