Discussion Do you think you are ill?

[SUlClDE]

Never been to a psychiatrist and can't go but I have mental issues, sometimes I wonder if I'm ill. Is anyone else like this?

 

[Chabrychek]

Well I believe most people with suicidal thoughts are mentally ill

But it's strange to be aware of your illness and watch your own mind deteriorate, yet at the same time be able to analyze what is happening to you quite rationally. This is the difference from psychosis

 

[OzymandiAsh]

Yes. However, we also live in an ill world.
"It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society." Jiddu Krishnamurti
"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

[Nexvyr]

Sorry for the bad English and long venting.

I honestly, when I think about it, don't think that I am mentally ill.

I do not feel depressed since I am never sad anymore. I feel unable to truly feel any emotions anymore (it has been that way for the last 5 years). Lately I have even felt unable to sympathize with other people or feel genuine love for my family.

Lately I have gone to sex clubs a couple times and had sex with old men even though I don't actually want to (I'm asexual), in hope of feeling something. This have been working somewhat, and caused me to temporarily feel like shit again (better than feeling nothing).

For me, it feels like I experience myself and my surroundings from a fully objective non-sentimental perspective.

However, I feel that my ability to think and speak normally have deteriorated, possibly due to high workload and recently been very close to burn out.

TL,DR: I don't think I am mentally ill, but I am not normal.

 

[locked*n*loaded]

I'm "sick" of my life and the world if that counts.

 

[idontknowwhatiam]

Define "ill".

I'm stuck in a situational depressive state. I've been in and out of it for the last 2 years at age 60. Was never depressed or anxious previously.

 

[worstOFsociety]

I personally consider myself to be mentally ill, I also study psychology so tend to have a bit of a medical point of view too when it comes to mental disorders. Which btw is really ironic since I basically know tht Im fcked in the head and what causes it and I still can't manage to get better lol Like I'm pretty self aware of what's going on and why I feel like sht and Im technically doing all the right things to get better but I'm still not managing to get better lol

 

[Untoten_]

Yea, what kind of person's only positive thought (and not one of anxiety) is that this will be their last year. It's probably weird being emotionless about it, therefore there is something incredibly wrong with me. It is what it is right?

 

[Hawkeye101]

Yes. Treatment resistant depression with crippling anhedonia. 56 years is enough.

 

[Untoten_]

Sorry for the bad English and long venting.

I honestly, when I think about it, don't think that I am mentally ill.

I do not feel depressed since I am never sad anymore. I feel unable to truly feel any emotions anymore (it has been that way for the last 5 years). Lately I have even felt unable to sympathize with other people or feel genuine love for my family.

Lately I have gone to sex clubs a couple times and had sex with old men even though I don't actually want to (I'm asexual), in hope of feeling something. This have been working somewhat, and caused me to temporarily feel like shit again (better than feeling nothing).

For me, it feels like I experience myself and my surroundings from a fully objective non-sentimental perspective.

However, I feel that my ability to think and speak normally have deteriorated, possibly due to high workload and recently been very close to burn out.

TL,DR: I don't think I am mentally ill, but I am not normal.

You said it better than I did tbh and I'm a native english speaker. We're both in the same postion.

 

[thelostautistic]

This is an interesting conversation. Because I've been feeling suicidal for so long now it has become normal to me. I forgot that not everyone feels this way. I was very desensitised to my issues. But only a few days ago I realised how unwell I actually am. I found and ordered something to end my life. Once I made that transaction the realisation of how ill I was hit me and it made me feel quite sad.

 

[OnMyLast Legs]

Well I believe most people with suicidal thoughts are mentally ill

But it's strange to be aware of your illness and watch your own mind deteriorate, yet at the same time be able to analyze what is happening to you quite rationally. This is the difference from psychosis

Yep. On one hand, I'm not functioning/taking care of myself. So I'm sick in a sense. But I think I see myself more clearly now than ever and I was deluded before.

 

[idontknowwhatiam]

Yep. On one hand, I'm not functioning/taking care of myself. So I'm sick in a sense. But I think I see myself more clearly now than ever and I was deluded before.

My therapist told me that those are symptoms of depression... Not functioning /taking care of yourself. "sick and " ill " are both very broad terms

 

[OnMyLast Legs]

My therapist told me that those are symptoms of depression... Not functioning /taking care of yourself. "sick and " ill " are both very broad terms

I am depressed. I just think I have good reason to be.

 

[Hollowman]

Yep. On one hand, I'm not functioning/taking care of myself. So I'm sick in a sense. But I think I see myself more clearly now than ever and I was deluded before.

Same here