[Psychotic_Phil]

While on the bus back from the school field trip to the Science Center, I was talking with some kids, finally exposing my problems. They came to the conclusion that my psychiatrist is evil, that I'm really normal and that I should stop my meds.

My doctor and I have agreed that after I'm settled on the Prozac, he'll try to tapper off the Geodon, as it looks like I've never had a psychotic episode.

This doubt makes me feel bad. I'm doing so much to combat this "black void" as I call it. Even if I have the opportunity, I won't take my own life. How can they say such things? Why? Have they no shame? No sense of morality?

This is why I hated people like I did. I thought they were vile and awful creatures that have nothing better to do than to hurt people like me. Only my teachers understand my illness. (By the way, I never gave those letters to them)

How can the world be such a terrible place?

[jefftele]

hi
there is so much ignorance re mental illness i'm very cautious to who i tell ,stigma is rife in my opinion, i have several ways of looking at it, why tell anyone? i've told people who i thought i knew for them to come back with 'are you violent,' my answer --yes ,but only to myself, i've found other people ok with it ,these are the ones i stick with, the others less so. if i had a physical illness i wouldn't get the same response, i'd say be selective who you tell but then you never know the response till it comes take care

[Perna]

It's not an exact science, depression and mental illness. Hard to know what to do, who to believe, etc. I guess I try to work with those who have studied it the most and seem to know the most about it and/or those who have experienced what I feel like I'm going through or have worked with me well.

[stefano]

You'd better choose carefully whom you can talk about your problems: only those who demonstrate do be able to understand.

[Fuzzybear]