mental health poll

I fired myself from my shrink. I don't believe in psychiatric medicine anymore. I believe our culture fills us full of lies that we depend on to provide us with answers to why we can't handle reality when in reality our culture can't handle us.

If you're sane, as in a rational human with simple expectations from life, then our culture calls you crazy. If you're a sociopath then our culture hands you the position of CEO or high management. Statesman culture, in specific, is backwards.

We are expected to value that which has no value. We are expected to invest in items of no real worth. "Experts" predict that by 2020 we will be investing in wars over necessary resources, such as a clean water. And yet here we are today with this foresight, continuing to fund such things as the TransCanadian Pipeline for more oil (another limited resource).

And if you come out against the mock reality they have concocted, you must be unstable.

Psychiatric medicine is just another excuse to create paychecks and funnel money. They told me I was bipolar at age 16 and I believed them for 8 years. Last year I quite my meds, started eating more regularly, began exercising and keeping an eye on my well being.

Today I have very few mood swings (usually once a month, if you catch my drift). I am much more stable and, though like everyone I do have problems, my problems are manageable.

All that "believe in yourself" bull isn't shit.

People will tell you you're wrong, tell you you need your medicine (and maybe you do, I know it helped me at times). But when it comes down to it, if you WANT to be off meds, if you WANT to be "normal", all it takes is the confidence that you already are normal.

The more you allow yourself to be convinced that you are something or need something the more you will become and need that something.

Just some advice from a "crazy" person

I have heard that employers now look at insurance records and if you have been to a mental health professional, that can really hurt your chances of getting a job in certain fields...regardless of what that "shrink" visit was for. I find that sad, unfair and a huge invasion of privacy, but apparently it happens all the time now.

I'm sorry, but that is victim-blaming advice. There is plenty of malpractice and oversight in the psychiatric industry, but people with mental illness can't just think themselves better.

My sister is an Impulsive Borderline Personality with a rage disorder, and she goes through periods where she is a danger to herself and everyone around her, especially when she's not on her medication. She went through years of anguish when she couldn't just pray herself better, because she was taught by a friend's church that mental illness was simply a lack of faith. She tried to kill herself over it multiple times, and more than one time her rage disorder made me sure that she was going to murder me. Not a little kid being afraid of their big sister being mad, not a bad temper, but really having to live in fear of my life because her mental illness was so severe that she could not control her actions at times. She's now on heavy medication and in serious therapy, which is necessary just to control her rage to the point that she is not dangerous.

I'm sorry you were misdiagnosed, but PLEASE do not advise people to go off their medication without discussing it with their doctors.