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Old Jan 23, 2014, 09:14 AM
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Originally Posted by The_little_didgee View Post
Why does this matter? It feels like a comparison of symptoms or "I am legitimately mentally ill and you are not". During all my hospitalizations patients would do this.

Sorry, I just don't get the point of even polling this. How is this supportive?
I don't think it's about legitimacy so much as curiosity....I know when I got sick I desperately wanted to connect with other people who had similar hallucinations so I read books....people's experiences were pretty divergent and it was hard to find commonality with them...I find a lot more connection on the forum, even though individual hallucinations are different you start to see patterns that are similar like this forging a community. It's more like oh me too than you are different than me...
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