Most ridiculous things someone's told you about your mental illness?

Where do I start...

"Why would you try to kill yourself? What's wrong with you?" Said in the condescending tone one uses when faced with monumental stupidity and from someone in no way interested in what my actual diagnosis was.

"I don't care what's wrong with you. I just want you to get over it." Yet another reason I should be glad he's my ex.

You just need to turn it over to The Lord. Or people on mental disability are just lazy. Or "none of these things existed when I was a kid" (said by an old person)

A doc once told me he had thrown up his hands as to what to do with me. I was in the hospital, in a nightgown and holding a stuffed animal at the age of 36.

It happens, when someone try to give you advice you then think in the completely opposite Direction.

"You can't have OCD because you don't wash your hands all the time."
"You don't have a form of autism, you're not retarded."
"You choose to be depressed/anxious."

I don't think you have DID. I talk to you all the time & you're always the same. I don't think your T is right on this.

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My therapist told me he would have me good to go in a month. Now, it is a treatment resistant disorder and I may have to accept I will not get better.

"People will either tell you what to do or ignore you." Gee, that sounds like a future I want to work toward!

That I need a nap. lol!

"Just breath" Is probably the most annoy and unhelpful when I'm having a panic attack. I know I have to breath, no need to tell me. I hyperventilate really bad to the point of almost passing out and anyone that's around me typically just repeats like crazy "Just breath" "Take a deep breath" "You're going to pass out"

All the frantic talking just makes me ten times more anxious. I prefer if people just leave my service dog and I alone so she can help me and I can focus on calming down.

You be just a slacker.

just ignore it, it will go away. (well, that's clearly worked so well for you)
you enjoy being depressed. (yup, coz it's fun and ****)
you're doing it all for attention.
it's all in your head. (duh! i know. that's the problem...)
you'll never be a functional member of society. you'll never amount to anything and no amount of therapy will ever cure you.

That I must have done something really evil in a past life to be born into incest and abuse in this one and developed C-PTSD because of it ...

the best one, of which I am sure we all heard and stared off blankly questioning reality

"It's all in your head"

'PTSD is just a normal reaction to trauma'....just annoys me so much, if that was true everyone who was there the day crap happened at my school would have PTSD, well they don't.

PTSD is a f****ing disorder that develops after a trauma, not everyone exposed to trauma gets it....so to claim its just a normal reaction to me seems pretty dis-validating like 'oh there is nothing wrong with you.' BS if there was nothing wrong explain all the crap wrong since I developed the damn disorder.

/rant, just had to get that out.

If you don't mind me asking, where is it then? In the digestive system? Or perhaps the elbow?

PSTD is totally a disorder and ILLNESS because sometimes people don't have it after experiencing a trauma.

Nobody says that it's a pleasant or easy reaction. But if situation is effed up... of course bad reaction is "normal". The thing is to accept "bad **** happen to me and I have "right" to feel back".

I had a trauma issues from various sources and been denying it, been pulling the same "others got over it just fine" crap, blamed the reaction on me being a freak...

the disorder label seems so countraproductive. Sorry, it does.

I don't think having PTSD makes me a freak nor does it make anyone else with it one. Why should someone be considered a freak if they have a disorder? To me treating it as a disorder has been way more productive than when I was doing my best to refuse to acknowledge it and telling myself 'oh there's nothing wrong' my mental functioning isn't screwed up at all at least now I know its not to do with me not trying hard enough to stay in control its due to a disorder that messed me up. I mean I had what was normal for me, PTSD screwed that all up. Maybe when people say its a normal reaction they more mean its not unusual to get it from trauma.....I guess to me it seems like they aren't acknowledging that PTSD screws people up mentally and harms mental health, but perhaps I misunderstand? Or maybe some mean it that way and some mean it the other way.

I guess growing up I got a lot of 'oh that's normal' with certain things that where bothering me in a dismissive way....or when I mentioned what I later found out where autism related difficulties(didn't get diagnosed till like last year) it often times got dismissed as normal shyness. Or maybe its meant to be comforting, but it always seemed dismissive to me....I also got that for depression and anxiety just not having it acknowledged that maybe something other than 'normal' development was going on.

not perhaps.

For me "normal" is in... as it happens. If you break bone, it's "normal" it hurts. It's "normal" to have fever with a flu. It's way of saying that although it sucks right now, it is something that happens and it is very likely it will pass.

I am one who needs to hear "it's okay" when I am depressed... knowing I am not a freak, I am not causing problems by not being "just fine", that I am allowed to cry and that I am not "broken".

For me PTS(D) is "normal" and "natural" in a way that it happens to people and it's expection if person can shake off trauma easily. It's "normal" and one has right to be a mess, one has "right" to take time to recover, one has the "right" not to be the same person has before. Some things can be healed only with assistance of time I think. And it's perfectly okay and normal... despite the pressure to act like nothing happened (and hey here in my Bloc it's probably even worse. One is supposed to be tough at all times.)

Well, DUH! And I thought my depression was in my big toe!

"You can't be depressed. You go to work every day."

they say: "that i must ignore the voices and its not real" like duh and they also help me and then when an argument arise they throw my sickness in my face and that's hurtful to me

No I hate when people are clearly not psychiatrists or psychologists play psychoanalyst. And their tone is even know-it-allish .....

Sometimes, when I'm told it's all in my head, I say it is in some random part (such as the digestive system) with the straightest face ever.

Does nothing, really, other than make me feel a bit better.