Uncertainty about being mentally ill

[firemonkee]

This is a recurring obsession of mine though i do not have OCD. Someone i mentioned this to on a thread elsewhere said "you are mentally ill,or else,why would you have been under mh services for so long,and why would you need medication if you werent?"
I said i could reality test like that but it doesn't stop the uncertainty in my head.
Last year in a letter to support my claim for a bus pass my pdoc said i suffered from psychotic symptoms. I don't know whether that's true(if so mildly not severely)or whether she just said that to make sure i got the bus pass.
I am not in complete denial but i have fluctuating periods of doubt and acceptance.
For me there's a place between chronic anosognosia and unwavering acceptance.

[dib4uk]

Its perfectly fine to question yourself and your mental health condition, i do that all the time.....

[Apotheosis]

http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Szasz/myth.htm

[ramboghettouk]

I have the same feeling, i was in a hostel years ago were they said i was stabilised and claimed it was cure, when they sent me the latest incarnation of the all work test i got pretty upset about what the gp put on the sicknote i kept saying they said i was stabilised on meds and could lead a normal life

When i phone rethink they recommend ability, i say i can remember when depixol was the latest wonder drug and we were all going to lead normal lifes on that

[Apotheosis]

i can remember when depixol was the latest wonder drug and we were all going to lead normal lifes on that

Did you?

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[ramboghettouk]

No i didn't lead a normal life on depixol, i doubt i'm as extremely pro med as you are anti med, as i say ideal worlds and i've been to mind and had people with the money for therapists pushing me to come off meds, when i haven't their level of suppport

Psychiatrist asked me what i considered a normal life, i said it's not living in social housing on benefits, by that definition most people with money are cured and leading normal lifes

[Fragile]

When i phone rethink they recommend ability, i say i can remember when depixol was the latest wonder drug and we were all going to lead normal lifes on that

High dose abilify is great. So great you need to take 10mg of Valium a day for the first 2 weeks just so you don't go out your mind with agitation and fear!

The best thing about the development of new drugs is that you can choose how you'd like to be disabled.

[Apotheosis]

most people with money are cured and leading normal lifes

So you need money & then you'll be cured. A job is obviously out of the Question - Do you play the lottery?

[ramboghettouk]

If i won the lottery, maybe you'd be surprised, but i'd pay a milllion to anyone who could sucessfullt get me off meds, i'd also use a million to pay a top lawyer to see to it sucessfully off meds and cured was what it says on the packet

[dusty1.3]

totally agree, no amount of money could fix my health, still be on meds for life, i would give mine to family and other folk and let them enjoy it, of course i would fit in a holiday and buy relaxing aids for me, but wouldnt fix me unfortunately x