Mental Health

**doc** · 22nd December 2007, 19:49

Originally Posted by Disco Dan

It is about UNDERSTANDING.

This is your chance to ask - I work in mental health, and have been in this sector of work ever since I left school.

If you want to know - here is your chance.

Are you offering us advice as a Mental Health worker or as a Mental Health professional ?

**RC1** · 22nd December 2007, 19:50

Originally Posted by doc

Are you offering us advice as a Mental Health worker or as a Mental Health professional ?

PATIENT

**doc** · 22nd December 2007, 19:52

Originally Posted by RCTL

PATIENT

No but tolerant

**vifferman** · 22nd December 2007, 19:57

Originally Posted by skidMark

I thought i was just a shit stirrer?

hmmmm

maybe is is my ADD and Asperges syndrome (high functioning form of autism) LOL

No, you're just a shit stirrer.
#2 Son has Aspergers, and he's nothing like you, and although he finds life VERY hard (he's had four suicide attempts), he never blames it on the Aspergers Syndrome.

Me, on the other hand? Yeah, it's all in my head.
But I blame the Gubmint - it's their fault. All of it.

**kevfromcoro** · 22nd December 2007, 20:07

While we are on the subject of mental heath.
Has anyone had an experiance where they cant swallow food...
i had an experiance a few years ago where i couldent swallow anything
yhis is not a pss take...

**Colapop** · 22nd December 2007, 20:59

"Hi I'm Disco Dan. Know me before you judge me."

**sunhuntin** · 22nd December 2007, 21:09

Originally Posted by vifferman

No, you're just a shit stirrer.
#2 Son has Aspergers, and he's nothing like you, and although he finds life VERY hard (he's had four suicide attempts), he never blames it on the Aspergers Syndrome.

Me, on the other hand? Yeah, it's all in my head.
But I blame the Gubmint - it's their fault. All of it.

agreed... i used to know a girl with aspergers. disliked her immensely at first, but grew to like her well enough. main reason i think was that, as a underdog myself, i stuck up for others labelled such, and cos everyone else gave her shit, i stuck up for her.
funniest thing ever was her screaming at me that i was gonna blow a building up by flicking an empty zippo to try and get a spark, lol. havent seen her for years... think she might have moved towns actually.

**James Deuce** · 22nd December 2007, 21:14

When it comes right down to it, mental health, physical disability, chromosomal disorders, neural tube defects, it's all just a joke, a weapon to use against someone who suffers from it, or a justification for bullying those who make themselves vulnerable by either speaking up or those who don't or can't do anything to hide their problems.

**scumdog** · 22nd December 2007, 21:30

Originally Posted by Disco Dan

It has come to my attention that KB has a very poor understanding of Mental Health. There are several members on here that I know of that have a mental illness - whenever they post and/or start a thread the reaction is always so negative and disrespectfull it is a wonder they have not gone and bought one of those "electric bath ducks".

It is about UNDERSTANDING.

This is your chance to ask - I work in mental health, and have been in this sector of work ever since I left school.

If you want to know - here is your chance.

If you're the guy that let SkidMark drive off in a car while he's disqualified then yes, you DO have a mental health problem.

**blue eyed savage** · 22nd December 2007, 21:33

normal people are boring, mental is the way to go, the lows involve scraping ur knee and the highs involve hours of laughter with good people in KB

**Kittyhawk** · 22nd December 2007, 21:35

When we watch a funny clip on tv, and someone gets hurt, like arsing off a bicycle or something, we laugh. We understand it's a joke now, but it wasnt at the time of the pain.

Sometimes others laugh at others pain. The reason why some may pick on another with an illness, is because they want that superior feeling, its a natural thing... we cant help but look at a person in a wheelchair in the shopping plaza, then think after. Sometimes we dont realise our natural actions. Because people look different we take more notice, assume more, and draw the wrong conclusions.

Is it a good or bad thing to be honest if someone has an illness?

I came out with my black dog after a lifetime of hiding from it. And I have had a couple of people turn their backs, unable to be successful at interviews, people naturally assume the worst when I say "I have depression but have been given the ok to work" Their first reaction to that which you can see on their faces "are they psyco" because they dont know enough about it.
If I dont say anything people get upset thinking I have lied to them. So either way there are going to be negative results.

Mental health isn't talked about because people are scared of the unknown. If the information isnt going to benifit them they turn a blind eye. If someone you care about has a condition naturally you'd support them, find out a little more info about the condition and work through it.

Would you walk into a dark room you have never been into, unable to see or find your way out?

Can you look at someone and wonder???

The unknown to anyone is scary. Having particular conditions makes life a little more challenging.

I have depression, but to make up for that I have a strong talent in music. Just have to learn to balance the lifestyle.

outa here.

**Colapop** · 22nd December 2007, 21:35

Yep mental health is an issue. If you listen every bleeding heart liberalist out there then nearly all of us have mental health 'issues'. Doesn't help those that genuinely do and need help. All that happens is many more people than need to be put their kids on Ritalin or go on "stress leave" and minimalise the the people that have genuine problems.

**HTFU** · 22nd December 2007, 21:42

Originally Posted by Disco Dan

It has come to my attention that KB has a very poor understanding of Mental Health. There are several members on here that I know of that have a mental illness - whenever they post and/or start a thread the reaction is always so negative and disrespectfull it is a wonder they have not gone and bought one of those "electric bath ducks".

It is about UNDERSTANDING.

This is your chance to ask - I work in mental health, and have been in this sector of work ever since I left school.

If you want to know - here is your chance.

IMHO - even those who think they know and understand mental health - don't. But thanks for the offer of making it all so clear.

Thats why so many (probably most) cannot be helped by what's left of the mental health system.

Anything to do with the human brain is so individual and complicated that I think it is a joke that we think we can even classify types of mental illness and then think we have the science and medicine to fix each type.

Every person has an individual problem based on their life experience as well the way they were genetically hardwired. Millions of cells = millions of different ways to be fucked up and insane in the membrane. Classification is bullshit and a copout for the individual and also the system our taxes pays for to help out people with problems with their mental health. Convenient but not productive.

So, HTFU you mental fucks. We have all had shit happen to us, deal with it. Shovel it, flush it and for fucks sake, stop moping around in your shit. Except those of course who are so mentally fucked they don't even know they are mentally fucked up, they have an excuse - IMHO

How's that for KB understanding.