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Or rather by his words

Homie that's some Eastern European take on psychiatry & mental health white bullshit*.

Aka: Don't you pay it no mind & sail on. Don't buy the lies & don't start living in them.

Edited to clarify: * I mean this as a construct of what mental health is, and mental illness is, and how permanent it is, and how determining whole person's life. Some cultures believe strange things about mental illness and the belief in 'beyond repair, beyond salvage' is one of the faulty understandings that's very much damned cultural.

It is a belief that's not supported by facts. That's not /supportable/ by facts, as we don't know a future you.

You're smarter than that, so don't take words of an 'authority' in a country where a lot of basic concepts are yet to travel and make their home, for something to determine your life.
 
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I realize that yesterday I was in an awkward position and wasn't sure how to handle it, so just went along as to keep down hurt feelings.Was going to a play with a friend.. when I went to get in her car, I could 'feel' the anger and chaos coming off of her. Not toward me, but things she is dealing with (or not). I could tell she had been crying.. going ahead with our plans seemed to not be what needed to be done.. But the choice was hers..
Hence my own conflict. I did not take anything for anxiety before leaving.. thought I was doing really ok without it... But found myself closed down at one point... just not present. Between setting three rows from the stage (it was a musical) and the lady on the other side of me oozing out of her seat onto me... I found myself with my shoulders so tense and under my ears, my arms and hands all stiff and tangled , just to keep the lady from touching me...
I don't know if the musical was great or not... it was ok... nothing I would go see again...
I noticed my friend was very edgy and snapping at me... when I am shut down like I was, boundries ? Forget about it... I am just like this blow up doll going along with whatever !!! But getting angry at myself for not asking her what as going on...
She got very upset that I wanted to smoke a cigarette, uh well, sorry, you know I smoke... so compromised and took a few hits and put it out and off we go..I finally just got quite as nothing was being received when I tried to make conversation... awkward !!!
Finally made it home... I have slept all day long... a few awake hours here and there, but my body was aching so bad and just couldn't stay awake.. so much for trying to have a social life !!!!:laugh::roflmao::laugh:
 
@gizmo, I'm trying to accept her for who she is and it's ok most times. The problem I have is when she's drunk and high and tells me things. Then when she's sober she says, "I NEVER SAID THAT, YOUR MIND JUST TWISTS THINGS!!"

I REALIZE THAT I... want to strangle my sister sometimes while screaming, "yea sure, my sober mind twisted what your drunk high ass told me, and you remember clearly, SURE!!" :bored::banghead::wacky:
 
I realize that I have control issues; I am so afraid of losing the people I love or them getting hurt, that I manipulate persons and situations to prevent conflict.
I realize that that behavior is not healthy and will not work in the long run.
 

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