Would you want to be cured of MI if you could be?

Yes I take my meds and they stop nearly 100% of my psychosis....that is a cure.....

It depends.

Do I want my illnesses and behavioral problems? No.

But, would I go through ECT or other means to erase it? No.

I know there is a lot of risks with ECT for one and for two I do not want to go through something like that. I know people who have and they suffered major memory loss. That is suppose to be a rare side effect, but I have heard it happening way more often times than not.

My mental illnesses have been with me for a long time. Some since I was born, some since I was a child, some since I was a teen and some since I became an adult. They have shaped me into who I am in someways, but they do not make me who I am and also I had to learn how to maintain and work on them through therapy and meds. They make life a living hell at times, but other times I feel without them I wouldnt have learned as much as I have in life and for that I guess I owe it to them.

Though, if I had the choice to have a life without them, I don't think I could accept it because its been such a major part of it, even if I hate what they do to me, its also been a life learning experience and I dont think I would be who I am personality wise today without them and the experiences I got because of them.

Without question. Depression and anxiety are crippling me at the moment, while getting sick again has probably saved my marriage (he came home to help me and make sure I was alright) there is very little else positive about how I feel. Iv spent from 2014 to now feeling relatively normal definitely stable to out of the blue be hit by it again. I hate knowing that I don’t think il ever be free from it. I’m greatly appreciative of my GP who is and always has been amazing however she has already told me that I have to learn to accept that this is always going to be in the background.
I don’t want to feel like this, suffocated by something that meds control. I’m still fighting but I’m tired.

Yes 100% yes. Cure me

I want the lessons and knowledge gained from it. But I don't want *it.*

Would I get rid of my MI if I could. If I could just get rid of the ruminations, worry of everything, SI then yes. But if it changed my compassion, empathy and personality then NO.

I don't want to be suicidal. I don't want to be depressed at all. I don't want to be manic and I don't want to have anxiety attacks or flashbacks. I don't want to be codependent or (even accidentally/subconsciously) manipulative. I want to be able to drink casually like everyone else. Other than that, I still want to be me.

I think, knowing what I know now and having gone through what I've been through, if I was cured I'd still be me, so if that were the case then yes I would want to be cured. I wouldn't if it would change who I am. And I most certainly would not wish that I never had to deal with any of it, because then I definitely wouldn't be who I am.

Yes I would!!!!!!!

A big fat YES!


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If there's something I want to cure is not mental illnesses, but whatever is causing them

If I were younger, yes. Now I really wouldn't care to be " cured ", because so many things would be too late.

If I were younger, no, because I think I needed my hypomania for my success.

Now, I say yes. I would love to be rid of the anxiety and side effects of meds.

I would in a heartbeat.

Yeah but then I wonder if I was normal that people wouldn't find me interesting. I happen to care a lot about my image for some reason.

I would like to be cured of my mental illness and meds seemingly do that for me. But I know there's no going back to a time before crazy when I was nearly constantly overwhelmed. Now I'm not overwhelmed as often but I'm not the successful person I long to be.

Absolutely. That's the whole point isn't it?

Absolutely!

I would love to not have had it at all...

100 per cent! I would not hesitate to be rid of this hell called bipolar if I had the chance.

Yes I would be happy to be have my mental illness to disappear.

I haven't been myself in 40 years. Of course I want to be cured. It's taken everything from me. I'm just existing and living on SSDI.

And ECT has been proven to be safe and has a good efficacy rate - much better than medication. Personally, I wouldn't try it again. It didn't work. And the memory loss is short-term. It completely comes back after ECT.

That's tough.
On the one hand, I most definitely don't want to suffer anymore. Without mental illness, i would be a lot less physically sick as well. Maybe I would be able to talk to others. Maybe I would actually feel energized. On the other hand, I've never not been mentally ill. It's always been a big part of my entire life, my personality, strengths, creativity, and my actions have been formed with it. I wouldn't be me, because this is who i've always been.
That being said, I probably would cure this mess, even if it meant changing the core of my being. I'm so over not being able to function on a day to day basis.

Yes. Because I have to work so much harder than most people just to be able to do things close to as well as someone without my problems can. My mental illnesses are horrible and they scare me. If I could get rid of them I would in a heartbeat.

There is nothing to be romanticized about mental illness imo. I mean, whatever floats peoples boat I suppose- but I dont like the limitations placed on me by mine. The constant need to be aware of my own moods so I dont lose control and... cause problems for both myself and others. The feeling that ‘not good enough’ is the best I can do sometimes. Its, I would have that taken away from me in a second

[QUOTE=jaynedough;5917641]This is something I think about frequently. If they could remove the "bad" parts of the illness; the parts that make my life hell, but leave the creativity and humor, I'd take the cure. But... I know that some of my creativity comes from the "bad" parts. My PDoc pointed out that so much of my photography is about finding beauty, even though my head is filled with not so beautiful stuff. That I use the photography to bring light into my darkness. And my brother said that I see in photographs. I get engrossed in trying to get the perfect shot. When I got my DSLR, it was like having a limb reattached that I didn't know was missing. So yes, I'm sure that curing the mental illnesses would deeply impact who I am. But then again, it would open up a whole world of new possibilities.

On a broader scale, I wonder what would happen to the world if mental illness was cured. Obviously, arts would take a hit. But so would progress. It takes out-of-the-box thinkers to come up with radically different ways of understanding the world around us, as well as new ways of doing things and new products. I think that people who have mental illnesses are less likely to accept the status quo. Unfortunately, rather than tapping into this potential wellspring of knowledge, we are usually disregarded and relegated to the fringes of society.

If it meant losing a leg and half my personality I'd take a cure. Any day

Honestly with my situational depression that has only dissipated in the last few years....I now have all the legal crap I am filing against the H along with the divorce.....I would HATE to go back to how totally dysfunctional I had been living around him for so many years. I have to say I am NOT able to push myself the way I did before the depression hit when I was a functioning computer engineer but I would hate to still be what I had become.

Also with this healing I have been able to bring out more of my artistic self since I am not consumed with the stress & depression.....so maybe the arts would be lost in some.....MAYBE NOT.....or replaced by those that healing has freed.