If your illness was a person what questions would you like to ask them?

This post shall contain some justified bad language. If swear words are not your thing, or you are offended by asterisked expletives; please read no further.

Questions for my illness:

1. OK, so you've proved that you're a sadist, but I am not a masochist; can you please stop using me as one, and go find someone who actually enjoys the infliction of mental and emotional pain?

2. Why are you such an evil bastard?

3. Why are you doing this?

4. Do you think that attempting to destroy my self-esteem, self worth, self confidence, and giving me an inferiority complex is going to endear yourself with me, or anyone else?

5. Why are you so heartless and cruel, you malevolent ****!?

6. What have I ever done to you?

7. Can you please just lay off and give me one full day of peace before resuming hostilities?

8. How long is this going to last?

9. If you murder me shall you be happy with yourself? Is that what it's going to take to bring this torture to an end?

10. You're obviously in a lot of pain too, otherwise you wouldn't be doing this. If you would just stop being a despicable, faceless, ****ing coward and reveal yourself, I shall gladly proffer the remedy for your pain so as to put an end to my own. Can you find the courage to reveal yourself, and confront me face to face?

The first thing that came to mind when picturing that, was an image of me, 4 years old, crying, I guess that's who my illness is.

I'm not sure I'm kind enough to myself to ask "can I give you a hug?" Perhaps I'd just lie to her and say "I promise everything is going to be okay".

I would ask them where they hid the real me, and who am I right now. Am I another person?

Am I all that's left? Is the real me dead? Did she die back then?

Does he hurt like I do? Do you have the real him too?

Is he even a person? Am I even a person?

When are you leaving?

I think I'll probably be evicted before I have the opportunity to leave.

There's only one question I want to ask my illness, and Elli-Beth beat me to it!

how its feel to be an evil?

are you gonna stay with me forever?

Where did you come from? (I really want to know how much is genetic etc.)
Why are you still here?
What is your Achilles's Heel?

Turn me loose God damn it!

I asked myself those very same questions. Verbatim.

It's a long road to the answers - and a surprising one too.

I like this one. I used to say, I'm tired of being me - can someone else please be me for a while?! Then seriously I looked around at who I had available to trade with at my last job, and I was like - uh, no wait, alright, forget it, I changed my mind - or rather, I didn't! or I did... you know what I mean! see? not easy!

Leaving so soon? (sarcasm)

If you intend to stay, is there a way for us to work this through together? Clearly, antagonising each other is nonproductive. Perhaps we could do something great together?

My first reaction to this question was "When are you going to just **** off and leave me be?" But...I don't really see my illness as a seperate entity anymore. I guess these days I see it more as a symptom of my 'issues'... So hmm, maybe I'd ask my 'illness': "is there any way I can disable you short-term? Look, I'm doing the work in therapy, so long term I'll figure all this stuff out - I'll heal the inner child, I'll change the thinking patterns, I'll get all psychologically balanced and whatnot - I 'get' what I need to do, but in the meantime can you just stop making me a sick/tired/anxious mess? Let me function! I want to LIVE a LIFE! Let me sort myself out!"

1. Sees Nightlight from across the room
2. Picks up Barbies, accessories, and fuzzy blankey with one hand while still sucking on thumb of other hand
3. Plop everything at our feet between us except my favourite Barbie with the purple "wit a flowa on the side" dress
4. Stop sucking thumb, bend down, pick up, and hand Nightlight a different Barbie saying "Pink dress. You wearing pink too "
5. Respond to Nightlight pausing from crying, and looking at me funny, by pointing to scar under left eye and bruise at elbow and nodd....

more may come later as far as an actual response to the question. This just needed to be said right now though...

Well, at first I would just say SCREW YOU! Then... I would ask why now? How come in the last 6 months things are worse than ever before.. that would speed up my healing process pretty quickly if I could find the answer to that question.

I think my only question would be "Don't you have somewhere else to go?"

I don't have any physical illnesses and my mental quirks, I don't see as illness. It's me for bad and good...

Some of it is part of my history, scars on my soul. I went through things, it made me this way. It is something I have to work with. Some of it I cannot change. I will always be more anxious then others and always will be deconstructive and always will be bit more depressed than others and always more sensitive to things.......

I work with this though. I know I can. I am not a broken ill person, I am just somehow more troubled and vulnerable. I have quite a few quirks and issues, but they are part of me.

I think my symptoms/illness are efforts of my body to help me stay balanced/sane/healthy so I'm not anti them at all but accepting and thankful. My body chose these unique ways to "act out", based on my own DNA, aptitudes, and experiences.

I'd ask, "What can I consciously do to help you?"

My anxiety replies with, "Figure out how to take the cats to the vet, dust and clean up this environmental toxic dump you call a home, darn you!"

My depression replies with, "Get outside more and get some exercise!"

My physical illnesses reply with, "Get outside more and get some exercise; clean up your diet and pay attention to the details (when/how I take my meds, when/what I feel, recording blood pressure and symptoms)."

"If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.” (KJV Bible, John 13:17)

I know you're not just going to disappear, so how can we work this out in order to function better?

I want me back!
Bluemountains

Did you ever find you then?

Why are you here? Leave me alone! I was happy once, and I haven't been in a long time. You're ruining my life, you're making me lose the will to live, you're keeping me from succeeding in life, just stop it and leave!

Dude, what the hell???

Thanks for being sad with me.

Haha, SallyBrown! I was gonna say dude, WTF?!?