what's the most ridiculous thing anyone's ever told you?

Being told by a debt counsellor that I don't have enough money to apply to the courts for insolvency.... "You can't afford to go bankrupt."

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A mediation service advising that my mother may be classed as a vulnerable person due to losing her husband and son to suicide, and should be offered counselling so that she can better understand how things affect her neighbour.

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The SHO in Psychiatry about my brother after a tearfully contested discharge from hospital two months before his successful suicide by heroin overdose:

"When I assessed his mental state at this time he appeared to be very drowsy and did appear to me to still be intoxicated. At time his eyes were rolling back and his eyelids would droop. In terms of thoughts he denied any current suicidal intent. One thing which is difficult to assess is that when he talked to the SHO in medicine he mentioned that he felt he wanted to die and that he had nothing to live for but this was not the impression he gave myself."

It was the second time he'd seen my brother in two weeks, he'd made two separate suicide attempts requiring hospitalisation.

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There are more, but those are the ones that really stand out for me.

I should not that all of the above are still at large, including that wacky doctor.

"Just get over it!"

I know it is hard for some people to understand people with psychiatric problems. I have been trying to deal with my step-son who was diagnosed with psychosis, then schizophrenia and frontal lobe seizures and at the beginning, I have to admit I was so confused and unsure what was going on, I was not very understanding. He would get so irate when I confronted him and his psychotic ideas and one time, he rammed his fist through a window and nearly bled to death before I could get him to the e.r./ Another time, he broke a glass table in a burst of anger. After 6 years of caring for him, I have learned what to do but I have another son who is not so understanding and still thinks his brother is playing and just doesn't want to work. It is very stressful to contend with this at times and I try to keep it as peaceful as possible here in the house because I know that is important to my step-son's recovery. But I think that anyone who deals with a person with any kind of "disorder" is under a lot of stress,too and sometimes it just gives way to frustration and not being as kind as we need to be.

Well, it isn't the MOST ridiculous...but it's on the list. As it turns out it was the last Thanksgiving I had with my mom and one sister.... they prepared the meal and I went to the store and bought other items for them as my participation.
Shortly into the meal, my airway began to close up... I was more shocked over why this would occur than that it was occurring... I had chosen only what I thought was plain food (and I'd even bought product that I wasn't allergic to when I shopped for them)... after using an emergency inhaler several times and drinking lots of water to help dilute...

I tried to figure out what was going on ... my sister and mother both shared that yes, they had put (something I'm allergic to) into the food but thought that if I didn't know I wouldn't react to it. (Which only goes to show they never believed my allergies as real physically caused ones. )

Could we, by chance, start a "what's the most ridiculous thing said by someone with your disorder?" sort of thread? Perhaps a ridiculous thing said in retort to a "most ridiculous thing anyone's ever told you" comment. Let's face it, the witty retorts of normies are neither insightful nor witty. Us "not normies," on the other hand, could undoubtedly come up with something worthy of note, or at least give each other ideas on how to respond to such nonsense, either for amusement or actual application.

I'll begin, for example...
They: You're a heartless monster.
Me: Yes, well, what I lack in conscience, emotional depth, empathy, compassion, love, devotion, and so on... I make up for ten-fold in sex appeal.

Sometimes my aunt tells me i'm a capable, attractive young man. I wish she would shut the **** up.

Accepting the truth is difficult in your circumstances.

Most ridiculous -

As a known lesbian, being asked "Could you just try a guy? If you try you'll find the right one" Hello........I did find the right one, and she is wonderful

I'm crying because I am stressed, in physical and emotional pain. My huband comes up to me and says "do you need to call your therapist or a crisis line?"

all because I was crying. Last I checked, it's a normal human thing to do (that's what my therapist would have me believe anyway...)

So why can I not cry without having to call my therapist???

Kind of like, whats the funniest comebacks we have come up with for people who say ridiculous things? You should go ahead and start it, sounds fun