Re: Too bad we aren't well enough AMEN SCOTT! » SLS

Posted by alchemy on August 22, 2012, at 18:34:48

In reply to Re: Too bad we aren't well enough to be scientists » phidippus, posted by SLS on August 22, 2012, at 11:14:19

> Eric.
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> You just don't get it.
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> Maybe you never had it.
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> Perhaps you once had it, but have quickly forgotten what it's like to have it.
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> You assume too much about me as you attempt to see me through eyes that never will. I exist to you only in words posted electronically. You don't even know how long it takes for me to type those words.
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> I am feeling better. I can read whole paragraphs now, but still not consecutively. Interestingly, I can write ten if I had to.
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> Anyway, you still make the mistake of judging the illness of others based upon your own experience, and expect them to be able to mirror your abilities. You expect people to chip away at their depression when they might not be able to even lift the hammer.
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> Depression has many faces. It takes an expert to be able to recognize them all. No two depressions look alike just as no two brains function alike. I am no expert and try not of quantify the suffering of others, especially publicly. What would motivate you to so with me? Am I too unintelligent to have thought to chip away at my illness as you have yours? Perhaps I am just lazy?
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> > Are you going to school? Do you have a job? Do you volunteer? Do you answer personal ads on Craigslist? Do you take dancing lessons? Have you hiked a 14er?
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> You just don't get it.
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> > > Can you better describe this experience? I would >like to compare it to what I have seen in others.
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> > I thought it was a "pervasive mistake...to attempt to compare their experience with mental illness to those of others"
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> It is. You missed the satire.
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> You are very knowledgeable about psychopharmacology and often give good advice about prescriptions for somatic treatments. I need as many ideas as I can get. However, what I don't need are prescriptions for making adjustments to my psyche and how to use that psyche to develop strategies to cope with my depressive illness. You don't have a clue.
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> I'm sure your advice to me would be appropriate for some other people - just not me. For me, you were wrong.
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> - Scott
There is a spectrum of the degree and variability to this disease. There are times that turning on the computer is as hard for me as what running a marathon is to someone else.
If you suggest that someone can simply ignore any disease with "mental powers", you have not experienced what it is like to be at the more difficult part of the spectrum - and no judgement should be made. Are we not trying to change the public's perception of mental illness - it can be a serious disease.
When people offer what they percieve as "advice" to those who are already especially sensitive and hard on themselves, to be very critical and demeaning.

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