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Old Jun 14, 2013, 07:59 PM
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just grow up
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Old Jun 14, 2013, 10:00 PM
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Almost all cliches. I can't believe people are actually using them. I find myself using them at times and I think that they should not even exist. I also don't like idioms, which could fall under the category of cliches.

I think that the English language is much more complex than it is. There are so many words in the dictionary and the words have similar meanings. Sometimes I can't tell the difference between maybe and perhaps.
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Old Jun 14, 2013, 10:05 PM
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Nobody will ever understand until they are in the situation
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Old Jun 14, 2013, 10:20 PM
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As a recipient of services as well as a provider the one thing that makes me cringe and show all the signs of my illness is when us as "recipients" of services are called CONSUMERS. It makes me think of the food chain... and besides consumers what kind of crap is that. Not all of us choose or are consumed by our mental illness. I know consumer refers to receiving services but still it just gets to me.
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Old Jun 14, 2013, 10:44 PM
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oh my gosh, all of these.

just had another one come at me today - "just stay busy".
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Old Jun 14, 2013, 10:45 PM
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"Get Over it" or "get over yourself" these are words that I despise the most, I would have to say from the therapy side of things i'd say "unbalanced" is 1 phrase I hear too often
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Old Jun 15, 2013, 04:19 AM
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"You don't LOOK autistic."
"Oh, you can speak! You must be high functioning."
"You're so smart, you can't be disabled!"
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Old Jun 15, 2013, 05:21 AM
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Oh My Goodness Sila. I had a therapist who had her doctorate in psychology tell me and I quote, "You are far too intelligent to have a mental illness"
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Old Jun 15, 2013, 06:57 AM
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Yes. It seems to be the popular response in workplaces (& life) to Any concern. In other words "shut up, don't care, won't do anything about it"
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Old Jun 27, 2013, 08:48 PM
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"You can be/do anything you want" Of course this isn't true. Just because you like an activity does not mean you will be well suited to it.
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Old Jun 27, 2013, 09:18 PM
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You try too hard. You aren't trying hard enough. LOL
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Old Jun 27, 2013, 09:32 PM
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"Well, just stop thinking about it."
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Old Jun 27, 2013, 09:37 PM
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"Find a hobby"
"Try to look on the bright side"
"You're no fun anymore"
"What's with all the drama?"
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Old Jun 27, 2013, 10:56 PM
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Amen! Definitely tired of the stigmas.
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Old Jun 27, 2013, 11:02 PM
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"Stop whining about it"
"It's not the end of the world"
"It isn't a big deal"
"No one else has problems with talking about it."

etc etc.
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Old Jun 28, 2013, 04:01 AM
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I agree with bluewings. I can't stand "just get over it". Really, if it was that simple, none of us would be posting here.
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Old Jun 28, 2013, 10:49 AM
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"I don't understand, you have a good life"

"Stop wallowing"

"You can't go back and change your past so just get over it already and stop wasting what remains of your life"
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Old Jun 28, 2013, 11:11 AM
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"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger"

I have to call BS on that one, I think I'd be stronger if my self confidence wasn't destroyed/never allowed to develop and if I didn't have anxiety issues.
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Old Jun 28, 2013, 11:14 AM
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  • "Chemical imbalance"
  • "Feel good hormone/neurotransmitter"
  • "Fake it until you make it."
  • "Classic depression/anxiety" (New Pdoc diagnosed me this, kept calling me "classic." That may be so, but also felt like I wasn't being treated like an individual.)
  • And pretty much anything said in the relentless anti-depressant commercials.

Do you guys have anything to add to this list? Things that you are just tired of hearing? Let's all be a little cynical right now.
ha ha ha, funny! How bout It is What it is???
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Old Jun 28, 2013, 11:15 AM
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I am getting very tired of "It is what it is", it's being used for Everything, including those things we CAN/SHOULD change. And I'd like to get the corporate widget talk out of health care. People who are in a facility they have no choice to be in are NOT "consumers". "closure"=********. "You need closure".....AAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH I'm not a big fan of coping depending on how it is used. I once held that term against a nurse practitioner for years; the first words she ever said to me when she walked in the room (and we had never met) was "So. What is it? You just can't cope?" YIKES
yes, and also referring to the docs as the providers???? Hate that, myself.
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Old Jun 28, 2013, 11:16 AM
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I hate the obvious, what's-wrong-with-this-picture where the TV advertisements for medical "conditions", the side-effects of the medicine is worse than the condition. Why do the pharmaceutical companies keep advertising that on TV? Why do the doctors keep suggesting some of that junk? I had to tell my doctor more than once that I don't take any medication that has a side effect of death! (Truly, one of my possible asthma meds, you can die from an asthma attack caused by taking it!).
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Old Jun 28, 2013, 11:16 AM
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UHHH!

Pretty much any platitude, slogan, or popular expression with the underlying message that personal or emotional problems can be fixed with enough determination/will-power. The corresponding message there is that lack of ability to fix your "problems" is somehow a moral or character flaw.

It always seems as though they come from the mouths of people who've not been where some of us have.
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Old Jun 28, 2013, 11:22 AM
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I have really enjoyed the thread, embarassed that I've actually said a few, and I do mean just a few of these myself, and hate most of them listed by you all. Nice to vent and to smile over this stuff, too. Thanks, all
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Old Jun 28, 2013, 11:25 AM
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"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger"


Um......Sometimes what doesn't kill you winds up maiming you for life.
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Old Jun 28, 2013, 11:36 AM
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"Just give it to God." (you try to, if only it were that easy)

"You lived through it then, you'll live through it now" (when you dissociate from it then, it is like going through it for the first time)

"It was just a dream, dreams are not real" (no, but what the dream was about was something that was real)

"I'm sorry" (it just feels like oh,....just something to say)

"Just get over it, it is the past."

"It is not happening now"
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