Posted by crabwalk on September 22, 2010, at 23:32:37
In reply to Re: is it wrong to hide illness from friends/family, posted by Dan_MI on September 22, 2010, at 21:04:59
Dan, sorry to hear this. I do see where you're coming from though. Sometimes it seems like the objective of mental health practitioners is solely to keep patients alive. While this is obviously necessary, it does seem like they might ignore your other very real concerns while they focus on this goal. Like, in my case, they push for more exotic medication while seemingly ignoring my claims that it was medication that played a huge role in making things worse for me in the first place. So yes, the state of mental health is limited by necessity and tools available. When I hide my life from friends and family, part of it is because I know they will push for me to get help from this very system, i.e. the system which hasn't seemed to help much and which I think actually made things worse.
But maybe we can both use atypical's advice. If ever there were a forum for sharing the true nature of your state, this is probably it...
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