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Originally Posted by Anika
It's definitely not an diagnosis that garners sympathy or empathy that is pretty true Darkheart.
Another one would be anorexia, well all mental illnesses. But I've noticed a trend where anorexics a lot if the time fail to have sympathy or empathy even for each other. Maybe that's the competitiveness of that illness.
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Cf with migraines, another brain-based disease which is not a mental health disorder but a neurological one. I have both migraines and bipolar, and actually one of my meds, Depakote, treats both. But if I were to fake for attention, of course I would cry out "I have a migraine" - the disease easily garners sympathy of by-standers and empathy of fellow sufferers. When I was working, I once or twice excused myself with a "migraine" when I suffered from an intolerable anxiety attack and needed to go home to sleep it off.