What Actually Helped

sweetmadness · Oct 22, 2013, 05:03 PM

I wanted to share something with others, hoping that people might accept what I have to say. I'm dealing with intense emotions lately, but one thing that helped the most and has kept me grounded is psychology. After-all, while medications offer the quickest way to quell mania or depression....it took a really long time to build the necessary skills to truly balance myself. The mainstream practice is getting more progressive and in other ways less so, but I think the most accurate psychologists I've read was Carl Jung because he promotes such a deep look at human consciousness. I think if he hadn't ever taught and wrote on his psychology findings, that I might not have survived.

I'd still be the broken paranoid schizophrenic they diagnosed me as when i was only sixteen, after a major depressive episode that left me in the darkness threatened my entire existence, because of how they were "helping" me. They taught me that I was broken, sick, and that pills were the medicine that would save me. I know many people who still carry labels like this, that are still pretty deluded. The question in my mind was, how do you cure a thought disorder with pills? Can you induce correct thinking or behavior? The answer would be no. So then I realized they were conditioning me to become normal, when at the end of the day I had become trapped in the system.

It's easy to say, oh it's just a label it doesn't have to affect you. Today I finally explained how exactly that has impacted my life, that it destroyed my confidence. When my confidence was so battered, thus began my worsening symptoms. So I rejected the establishment, sure I was bitter, manic, had intuition, and the pills actually caused the symptoms to return when I expressed my anger for the first time at my mom for her abuse, by breaking one of her family heirlooms, a small antique piece of china. At seventeen, i was hospitalized for this reason. I was also rebelling against my parents. This was very very very traumatic to me. It ruined me almost.

So now IDK. Just expressing that the only one who ever helped me was myself, and that the willpower to fight against coerced medicines is what saved me from psychosis and delusion.

If you really want to help these people, learn about them first. I don't mean sit in a glass room and discuss your "opinions" about their behavior while they're isolated in the next room, with no one to talk to!
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