Even though I suffer from mental illness, I am quite an intelligent person and I am severely allergic to ********, and frankly the psych industry is filled to the brim with it, but so is most things in this world.

I spent many years desperate and reaching out to help because people always said that I should seek help, but in return I always got condescending advice and sarcastic remarks and useless platitudes in the form of "tough love", but I feel like nobody truly empathized with what I was dealing with, and even in various psych facilities across the country, nurses and doctors just wanted to take pot shots at me in a way of saying "oh, well just you just need to do XYZ, you have nobody to blame but yourself for your life..."

Ever notice how people's advice always begin with "oh" then a comma, then "well -" ? And hearing those kind of feedback when I was already was depressed ended up making me feeling hundreds times worse, because in addition to feeling like my life was hell and that I should die asap, having their cruel words only reinforced those feelings and made me even more depressed and feel like nobody truly cares.

And it sucks because when I feel completely desperate and then people give me "advice" but really it's stuff that I have tried hundreds times over and then they get offended as if they had the golden advice sent by God himself, and say "oh, well you just don't want to listen to good advice" or "oh, well you just don't actually want help..."

So nowadays I have pretty much isolated myself in a way, and I am actually doing a lot better, I have been out of the hospital for 2 years now. And its funny because if I tell anyone the say "oh, well actually isolating is bad, you need to go out more" - but really I've seen how much worse things are when I do that.