I'm not much for the term "mental illness". Whatever the diagnosis, we are still people, same as before any diagnosis, just diagnosed with something. Many psych problems are considered medical/biological as well. My question is...How has your life been affected by having (mental differences, psychological/psychiatric variations, etc)?

For me, I am the same person I was before, but now I believe and admit that I have PTSD. I expect the world who knew me before to treat me the same as before. Unfortunetly, that isn't the case. It makes me very angry and upset still that things are not the same. Before, I would put up with things silently. Now, when others treat me differently or I feel that "injustice" has been done, I'm not ashamed to let others know that I'm upset about it--and I don't care who they are.

Today I got a call from someone. I let the call go to voice mail, actually. But I feel--no, I am POSITIVE--that this person would not have called had it not been for influence of someone else. I don't know who yet, but one of two people if not both. Now, maybe I am jumping the gun here and letting my personal feelings and emotions and PTSD-related stuff get in the way of ever believing that this person could possibly ever call on their own, without any outside influence and suggestion from another particular person(s). There are a few certain subjects that I am like this with, but everything pretty much narrows down to the same common denominator. I can deal with PTSD, but I would give anything to have some parts of my life back.