Mental Health Diagnosis - License to be a Prick?

[MarJay]

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[MarJay]

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Still misbehaving little scrotes who need a big slap.

[MarJay]

[RhynoCZ]

People always seek the easy way out and when they feel sad/pain and someone promises them instant happiness (drugs), the weak minded ones will just take the pill.

Sure there are more sensitive people than others. We're not all 100% alike. But, people far too often choose the happy pill before they even try anything else and fecking up your brain chemistry is nothing one should want. Or maybe these people just do not realise what could eventually go wrong. It's not just your brain, there are other health ill effects. Pain medication is pretty much always affecting your stomach, kidneys and liver.

Pumping children up with happy pills is even worse. One these, these tiny drug addicts will become adult drug addicts and will be running things, countries... having more drugged up children.
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[Bhud]

It's all going batshit, mental illness is on the rise, unhappy people everywhere, people worried about everything, including worried about being worried, etc. Lots of changes going on in the world at large, which seem to make the mirage of society look like a "real" thing. It's real to this extent: if you've got something and I want it, I can ask to buy it and you can state your price, and vice versa. That's real. Above and beyond that, everyone needs space to be an individual and to be a bit nuts. There isn't a strident need for everyone to express every thought in their heads. Instead of finding that space (perhaps to ride a crosser) they find all sorts of analysis and metrics and theories and deconstruction of the mind into compartments, conveniently under the headers "healthy" and "unhealthy". Well isn't that grand... To cap it all off, instead of heading down to the pub to get a sense of perspective with the boys, that's "wrong" now, so you can listen to the voices in your head (I mean, the internet) instead. Smoking is "wrong" too (and made prohibitively expensive), so it's silly to indulge that habit. A link between the growth in mental illness and the inaccessibility of smoking? I think there might be, as smokers are self-medicators. There may also be a link with the internet, smart phones, etc. Feeling depressed? Well how about going for a blat on the bike at midnight, thrashing it through town at illegal speeds, feeling cool, waking people up, being a bit antisocial and working out those nerves? That's "wrong" too, I suppose. Having a barbecue? Wrong (neighbours might not like the smell). Going to the reggae sound system and breaking out a joint to mighty towers of bass? Wrong. So many things are "wrong". So might as well just accept this mental illness narrative, eh. It's going to be here to stay.

I guess I don't have a point to make, but I just wanted to say my piece on this subject. There is no shortage of contortionists willing to teach you how to even BREATHE these days (how did I survive without knowing how to BREATHE all these years?) which means everyone has a right an unqualified opinion, so here's mine. It's all completely ludicrous. The root source of this is giving too much of a s**t. Stop giving a s**t and life gets easier. If you don't give a s**t you won't be anxious or depressed. If someone's being a cock because they're depressed and you don't give a s**t, you'll be less depressed too. Giving less of a s**t with every passing year is a life goal of mine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6PNc9KN50M

Just an opinion.

[Sister Sledge]

Story time.
I was diagnosed with depression many years ago. My behaviour was interesting and doctors became involved..
Originally I refused medication but eventually tried it to see if it would work. They got me hooked on it - not hooked but my mind became weak. I would accept the convincing words of doctors and take another type of pill and so on.
I became a zombie. Even typing a phone number became a challenge. They hooked me for almost 17 years. Eventually though something in my head said no to it all. I did a quick stop with the meds I was on and without chatting to docs about it (because they'd convince me to stay on them). It was a rough 4 months I can tell you! Seems I could have gone psychotic doing that but hey ho - I was now free of them. All of that and without offer of counselling during those 17 years.

A year later I became interesting to doctors again through more odd behaviour. This time though a different person or rather a team of 6 did an assessment on me. The result? Seems I was not depressed. I never have been. I was incorrectly assessed originally and placed onto medication that would never work. All it ever did was melt my brain and dope me up.
My diagnosis (and subsequent testing) is very different to depression. Doctors get things wrong. Doctors can ruin lives. Never accept what one doctor says - get a second opinion or more if you can. A wrong move could ruin a life.
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[MarJay]

[mentalboy]

[Sister Sledge]

With the pill changing for me they'd do it fortnightly. Eventually they'd come to a point where the only option was try one from a previous week which they did and knowing fine well it wouldn't work..
I do agree they work on some people and should be at least tried. What I see now is a total lack of funding for counselling services - I reckon counselling is a far better option. It's like mourning. Aww he's sad let's give him a pill. No - give him a shoulder to cry on, a person to talk things over with.
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[ThatDippyTwat]

[stevo as b4]

Sink or swim IMO.

Sure people as everyone has said and most have had, can have difficult times, temporary wellbeing or medical or mental health issues. It's life it happens and people deal with it, get help/support and work through the problems or they don't and die.

If person is being a total cock and doing stuff that's too bad or much to ignore, and was doing this with their natural personality for years before. Then just tell them they are a crazy fucked up wanker who needs to sort their shit out and you want nothing to do with them until such time.

A wanker is a wanker and don't let someone who walks round with a label and a box of pills be excluded from this judgment or how you would deal with one.

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[ThatDippyTwat]

[MarJay]

[Nobby the Bastard]

I don't have any mental issues.

I'm just a prick.


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[Polarbear]

[piazza]

Apparently the quest for a label is mostly led by greed. I spoke to an old mate the other night and he was telling me how a woman we know has been taking her kids to the Dr's claiming they're being violent to each other etc..

They collect whatever label they can and get the appropriate benefits.
He also spoke of an asian guy we both know with 3 kids. He managed to get claims in for 2 of them and is trying for the 3rd. He was unemployed for years but has now managed to buy a 3 bedroom house on a new estate totally converted for his 'disabled' daughters. Thing is..said mate knows the daughters and says theyd need to be top rate actors to appear 'ill' in any way.

I remembered my nephew was diagnosed with ADHD and some other bullshit. A quick call to bro confirmed he was getting nearly 11,000 a year just for aforementioned child. He's lost that now.

Furhter investigation reveals that these new illnesses are now being recognised for the blue badge scheme.

Anyway..I'm fine now rant over.

[Ribenapigeon]

The problem for GPs us there's such a lack of psychiatric hospital resources they are left to do the diagnostic work. If a person oresents and ticks off enough boxes on the diagnistic criteria then the GP has ni othet option but to prescribe medication and by default a diagnisis.

[chris-red]

[stinkwheel]

I spent a very long, sleepless and tedious night supervising a friend who was (almost literally) bouncing off the fucking walls having been prescribed diazepam for anxiety.

It doesn't sedate or calm down everyone who takes it. You'd have thought she'd taken speed. Bad speed at that.
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