Official Mental Health Thread

[WWWP]

I wasn't a fan of hers to begin with and have only heard horror stories since. She's the one who threatened me with electroshock therapy when I was hesitant to try lithium.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by WWWP

I wasn't a fan of hers to begin with and have only heard horror stories since. She's the one who threatened me with electroshock therapy when I was hesitant to try lithium.

Holy ****. Good riddance then. It’s a bitch all over I guess.

[Plankton]

Friggin brain Nazi's.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Plankton

Friggin brain Nazi's.

lulzzz

[Lucem Ferre]

Originally Posted by WWWP

I wasn't a fan of hers to begin with and have only heard horror stories since. She's the one who threatened me with electroshock therapy when I was hesitant to try lithium.

WTF?!

And we're supposed to pay all this money for this bull****?!

[WWWP]

I mean thankfully she got my meds right or at least to a place in which they work for me. She's 1/2 for diagnoses.

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by Mindfulness

my moms party was night and i left at 6pm got to eat a hot bowl of taco soup before i escaped
didnt even get to play any cool fun games they were playing

some random dude that i wasnt introduced to was there starting to get drunk talking about trump already

i didnt want to ruin my moms party and I was running out of things to do :/ everyone was doing something and i wasnt


i hate being around more than 5 people.. 5 is actually a lot to me

God yes. Family can be great to talk to but when they're all gathered together and interacting together (especially as a group of aunts and uncles who all grew up together with my grandparents and it's like picking up where they left off as a big family that I was never a part of) I feel like an outsider who's looking for an opening to say something while also wanting to completely disengage from any conversation and just huddle in a corner. Family gatherings tend to get hella old after about five minutes.

[The Batlord]

I just kinda tend to find a chair to sit in and just be there for a while and it's awkward and stressful but hopefully there's beer in the house to take the edge off (cause otherwise it can be almost physically painful how awkward it is to just be in that environment with nothing to say to anyone for like thirty minutes at a time) and then move to a new place to hopefully not attract attention for a bit, rinse, repeat. If there's something barely watchable on TV to absorb a few family members like a football game so that I'm not conspicuous in not saying anything to anyone for long stretches of time then that's a godsend but otherwise it can be pretty torturous. I mean there just aren't other members of my family who are on my wavelength and if they are they aren't speaking up (obviously) and they don't come to family gatherings. Maybe some of my cousins would be better to talk to since they aren't from big talkative families but my oldest cousin is a decade younger than me and most are in high school. No wonder my youngest uncle, probably the closest to me in personality generally only shows up at the tail end of gatherings and is gone within an hour.

[WWWP]

That sucks. My family gatherings, while endearingly annoying in their own way, are typically pretty fun. But we're a big group of party people.

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by WWWP

That sucks. My family gatherings, while endearingly annoying in their own way, are typically pretty fun. But we're a big group of party people.

My family are painfully middle class and insist on having boring middle class gatherings where emotional warmth is avoided for the sake of maintaining middle class propriety even though at heart we're trash who should really just break out the booze and cut loose with the defenses. I think the real problem is that we're Irish Catholic emotional islands who are on some level trying to prove to the English that we're not just European redneck messy drunks even though we haven't been Irish for a hundred years.

Originally Posted by Mindfulness

i do fine when its just my sister and her future husband and my parents. thats awesome but when its lots of people, idk what happens to me

Gatherings are terrifying for some people and you just have to accept that that is who you are even if it's not fun.