[Brentus]

The idea that you doubt your mental health and your eligibility for support. Do you ever do this? I find myself every so often saying "Maybe I'm not really as [insert disorder here] and I'm using up precious resources because I'm lazy, or stupid, or just unmanageable etc." Sometimes we compare ourselves to others, or just undermine our own struggles.


When you feel this way, what do you do to combat it? Tonight I'm going through some emotions in this area and I wish I had better skills to negate those feelings/thoughts, but sadly I don't other than maybe a mantra of "You deserve happiness, and therapy and medications have helped you get closer to that, and your goals. You're doing something right.... even if I'm wrong."

Anyway, anyone relate?

[OafFish]

That's me

[LadyShadow]

Hey Brentus, I can really relate to this in a lot of ways. I tend to feel okay at times or just not worthy of all that I have or what has been given to me.

To combat the feelings that I don't think I really have an illness or I'm just an imposter masquerading is to write it all out. I make plenty of gratitude lists and all kind of affirmations to remind myself that I am worthy and I am deserving of all the help I'm getting.

Hope you're having a good weekend.

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[Aurelius710]

I feel this. I found myself applying for assistance last year, and when my circumstances started getting better but not all the way there, the feelings of being a leech on the system started. I know my illness. I know what bipolar can do, but because I'm "better" than I was, I sense the hemming and hawing of others, their hesitation to help. It feels like I've been put on the tall rickety pedestal of relative wellness where I have to wait for one false move to send me tumbling down to rock bottom before I become deserving of help.

[Mendingmysoul]

It's more like ..I don't deserve help.....feeling for me.So I never reach out.That feeling of mine is justified when no body helps me.