In the most severe cases of ADHD or ADD, a person experiences constant thoughts, memories, images, and flashes of related emotions. Many people describe it as being trapped in an endless cycle of their own thoughts, like a form of dementia. To many, this might be a legitimately terrifying reality. To many, this might be considered almost like your mind torturing itself every single moment of every single day.
Yeah, I hate it when someone jokes that they have OCD just because they're tidy.
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I have scars from picking at my skin till it bleeds, over and over. I refuse to touch other people, even my own family. I very rarely get physical contact because I can't get over it.
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The anxiety is too real. I often shut down, stop talking, curl up and cry.
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The PTSD, I do have flashbacks, usually around unkempt, older men, when people shout in public and even when I'm alone.
I flinch every time anyone tries to high five me or even shake my hand. I shut down when people even raise their voice towards me.
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The Autism, I stay away from people because they don't want me near them because I can't act like a normal fucking human being. Stupidly common things trigger my other mental conditions and make me look like a freak.
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The emotional detachment. I hate feeling so apathetic all the time. I never smile. I don't think I even have the capability to love someone. I don't trust anyone at all.
While this post makes a very good point, I have learned that there are degrees of severity. Sometimes there are good days, but that doesn't mean your bad days are suddenly lies or invalid. It also doesn't mean the mild side is faking, mental and physical diseases present differently in everyone. If you do plan on incorporating a disease please research. Don't romanticize it as a positive, but the people can still (despite not because) be beautiful, even if they are in a dark place. They work very hard for their good days. In other words, if you're going to write an illness they aren't fictional and need good representation.
It can be both, I agree, I think the point they are trying to make is that people don't fully grasp the really bad side of it, and makes fun of you for having these thoughts and feelings, since: "if it's only that, you can just get over it. Just smile more.".
I have depression and autism and it's true. I feel lonely all the time, i worry my friends secretly hate me, i cry myself to sleep almost every night. I often wonder why i'm still alive, and when i try to think of a reason there just isn't one. I wish i'd just die.
There's times where my friends can't tell if I'm having fun or not. Like sometimes I am but other times I just don't feel much. Also difficult when you are trying to relate to people but can't find it in you and makes you look like an asshat
That's true and that's why it's so frightening to feel this way. It lasted for 3 months for me, I couldn't feel anything (including even hunger or cold), and I just had these "woke" moments where I thought I wasn't human anymore and was becoming a psychopathic monster. I'm so glad I slipped out of this state.
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I have scars from picking at my skin till it bleeds, over and over. I refuse to touch other people, even my own family. I very rarely get physical contact because I can't get over it.
.
The anxiety is too real. I often shut down, stop talking, curl up and cry.
.
The PTSD, I do have flashbacks, usually around unkempt, older men, when people shout in public and even when I'm alone.
I flinch every time anyone tries to high five me or even shake my hand. I shut down when people even raise their voice towards me.
.
The Autism, I stay away from people because they don't want me near them because I can't act like a normal fucking human being. Stupidly common things trigger my other mental conditions and make me look like a freak.
.
The emotional detachment. I hate feeling so apathetic all the time. I never smile. I don't think I even have the capability to love someone. I don't trust anyone at all.