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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 666269" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Mental illness, from how NAMI and my psychiatrists have explained it, ARE physiscal disorders of the brains, chemical imbalances. Like everyone who has an "invisible" disorder, mental illness is often wrongly seen as willfully "bad" behavior.</p><p></p><p>Having spent ten weeks in a psychiatric hospital once and a few short stays in between to adjust medication, I have seen many people who suffer from various degrees and types of mental illnesses. And I know people who have mental illness, know it, and won't go for help or want to fix it on their own.And many more who obviously have big problems in the mental health department, but are ashamed to admit it and deny it. It's hardly worth blaming them, since there is such a stigma attached to it. The stigma stops many from admitting it and getting the available help.</p><p></p><p>It is a big problem in U.S. society...not sure about other places. There is a stigma that it means you are "crazy" which is a nasty word for psychotic, and most mentally ill people are not psychotic. Because of the stigma and the feeling of some that "they just choose to act like that...they just choose to drop out of society...they just choose not to eat...they are just exaggerating; they can't really believe everyone is out to get them"...there is no good place for somebody with mental illness to heal in the U.S. So many are homeless and use substances to self-medicate. Many mental health facilities treat the mentally ill without dignity. Fortunately, this was not the case for me, but it is out there,a lthough I do hear it is getting a little better.</p><p></p><p>I am taking a class to become a Peer Specialist. The point of taking it is to learn how to help younger people with mental illness who feel there is no hope. That's my little bit I'm doing to give back to all those people who bothered to reach out and help me when I was at my worst. I only wish there were better resources to work with. The place I'm going to volunteer is a really cool social and therapeutic actual home where people recovering from mental illness hang out. Believe it or not, most do not look or act different. And that's the part that fools outsiders. Talk Hour is the only time you learn somebody's problems or if they confide in you on their own. We need more places like this one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 666269, member: 1550"] Mental illness, from how NAMI and my psychiatrists have explained it, ARE physiscal disorders of the brains, chemical imbalances. Like everyone who has an "invisible" disorder, mental illness is often wrongly seen as willfully "bad" behavior. Having spent ten weeks in a psychiatric hospital once and a few short stays in between to adjust medication, I have seen many people who suffer from various degrees and types of mental illnesses. And I know people who have mental illness, know it, and won't go for help or want to fix it on their own.And many more who obviously have big problems in the mental health department, but are ashamed to admit it and deny it. It's hardly worth blaming them, since there is such a stigma attached to it. The stigma stops many from admitting it and getting the available help. It is a big problem in U.S. society...not sure about other places. There is a stigma that it means you are "crazy" which is a nasty word for psychotic, and most mentally ill people are not psychotic. Because of the stigma and the feeling of some that "they just choose to act like that...they just choose to drop out of society...they just choose not to eat...they are just exaggerating; they can't really believe everyone is out to get them"...there is no good place for somebody with mental illness to heal in the U.S. So many are homeless and use substances to self-medicate. Many mental health facilities treat the mentally ill without dignity. Fortunately, this was not the case for me, but it is out there,a lthough I do hear it is getting a little better. I am taking a class to become a Peer Specialist. The point of taking it is to learn how to help younger people with mental illness who feel there is no hope. That's my little bit I'm doing to give back to all those people who bothered to reach out and help me when I was at my worst. I only wish there were better resources to work with. The place I'm going to volunteer is a really cool social and therapeutic actual home where people recovering from mental illness hang out. Believe it or not, most do not look or act different. And that's the part that fools outsiders. Talk Hour is the only time you learn somebody's problems or if they confide in you on their own. We need more places like this one. [/QUOTE]
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