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And I apologize for what I said to you, it's just that--for reasons given--I become defensive when talking about my psychiatric health. I am going to keep bein

And I apologize for what I said to you, it's just that--for reasons given--I become defensive when talking about my psychiatric health. I am going to keep being defensive, but what will change is reevaluating afterward. So what I'm doing right now. Because we're talking about psychiatry, which includes lobotomy and roofies, I simply must shoot first and ask questions later. That is how I must react. But at some point I must still get around to the questions, and try to rectify mistakes. You reacted favorably, and did what the culture we're in told you to do. I apologize. EDIT: And you know what? After April 2009, I found no doctor willing to treat me for the lobotomy. They were all afraid of angering my lobotomist. So I had to treat myself, and did so with supplements and prescribed substances. So the organ is OK again. And while I didn't have to learn how to walk again, I evidently need to learn how to talk again. Baby steps.

cercatrova 5y ago
No worries. I actually favorited your comment above [0] because it really hits the nail on the head from what I've seen elsewhere on the internet. > You can't just give yourself a smug little pat on the back for telling me to seek help as though that will fix my wretched life, it's not automatic, there's a whole art to actually obtaining psychiatric care that isn't designed to harm you. > Dude you think it's a simple matter of calling a hotline? Oh oh, just google the number! The contempt is unbelievable, if you wound up in a psych ward you'd never get out, never get respect from the staff, get drugged with whatever was in the medicine cabinet when you consented the least, never get any insights into working with the system and also plain working the system. You are exactly right. People telling others to simply "seek help" is condescending in a way. They might mean well but really it's just lip service, most who say this don't really care whether someone actually gets help, it's more of a way to simply remain civil, or in the worst case, to virtue signal that they want to help, even if in actuality they don't. I see this all the time on the internet and real life, it's simply not sincere most of the time. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31077733 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31077733

cercatrova 5y ago

No worries. I actually favorited your comment above [0] because it really hits the nail on the head from what I've seen elsewhere on the internet. > You can't just give yourself a smug little pat on the back for telling me to seek help as though that will fix my wretched life, it's not automatic, there's a whole art to actually obtaining psychiatric care that isn't designed to harm you. > Dude you think it's a simple matter of calling a hotline? Oh oh, just google the number! The contempt is unbelievable, if you wound up in a psych ward you'd never get out, never get respect from the staff, get drugged with whatever was in the medicine cabinet when you consented the least, never get any insights into working with the system and also plain working the system. You are exactly right. People telling others to simply "seek help" is condescending in a way. They might mean well but really it's just lip service, most who say this don't really care whether someone actually gets help, it's more of a way to simply remain civil, or in the worst case, to virtue signal that they want to help, even if in actuality they don't. I see this all the time on the internet and real life, it's simply not sincere most of the time. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31077733 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31077733