- Username
- beautifully
- Date posted
- 6y ago
I understand and am with you girl. :( that must have been so hard but honestly who cares about her there’s ALWAYS going to be people who don’t understand because they don’t live in your head. Stay strong beauty
To be honest your sister-in-law sounds very inappropriate from the way she acted. This is just my opinion, but I think someone who refers to medication that’s for mental illness as “crazy pills” is not worth trying to explain anything to. Also you have absolutely no duty whatsoever to have to share about your mental illness to anyone unless you are comfortable to do so. She acted very inappropriately in that situation and she’s the one who should be embarrassed, not you. Let her continue on in her blissful ignorance.
When people make incredibly inappropriate comments about mental illness I just remind myself they are ignorant. Not ignorant as in rude, but rather uneducated.
@LaPink got it right, it is her problem, not yours!
@beautifully: I’m so sorry you had to go through that. I hope you know you have nothing to be ashamed of. Everyone has “crosses” they have to bear. Ours’ just happens to be OCD. The fact that you are taking medicine shows that you are a fighter who is taking action to get better. You should be proud of that! There will always be ignorant and unsympathetic people in the world. We can’t control how they act, but we can control how we react to them. Keep your head up, knowing that you didn’t choose to have OCD, be proud of what you are doing to get better, and always remember how special and important you are!!
How horrible! I’m so sorry that she did that. It sounds like she’s very difficult and immature. Next time she does something inappropriate I would say something along the lines of “you must feel really bad about yourself if you are trying to embarrass someone else. Is there something you are dealing with that is making you act so hateful?” Do it out of love and compassion instead of hate. Maybe she will see how terrible she is being.
I'm looking for some comfort. I'm having a hard time at work this morning unfortunately, because I mistakenly mentioned my OCD to a coworker who is completely ignorant to anything anxiety related. He replied, "I dont like labels, you just have tendencies" he seemed to scoff at the idea of needing a therapist. I was reminded of how fragile i am, because I got so angry at the thought of all the internal suffering and torment i went through because of ocd, and that some people have no clue just how severe it can be.. And to think someone completely ignorant to it thinks they know what I went through when they dont even have an inkling..I'm hoping someone here will reply and remind me there are people who get it. It's not a joke, it's not exclusive to keeping things orderly, it's not something you can just get over
How do you explain your daily torment to your spouse in a way they'll understand? I have pure o and huge avoidance behaviors. My husband thinks I'm lazy or I feel too much or I overcomplicate everything. He tells me I'm negative and I always think the worst and I'm exhausting. :( I wish more than anything he understood that I procrastinate making dinner bc I picture poisoning my whole family and it scares me so much that I just order take out again. Or I ask him to clean my daughters ear piercings bc I pick at my own skin and if I touch her ears she'll get a horrible infection and get septic and die bc I touched her newly pierced ears (even with the alcohol stuff). Or I lay around playing games on my phone because I need distractions to numb out so I don't think about hurting anyone or cheating on him. How do you say that to the father of your kids without him trying to take them away from you? He doesn't even believe in mental illness. He sees it as weakness. :( Any help would be awesome bc I don't know what to do.
I have a rare auto immune disease that attacked my brain causing me to have ocd. No one in my family had ocd and no one gets it. I had an incident tonight when I get home from a trip to notice that the pillows on my bed are put on there differently then I put them everyday, I also notice my lamp remote is on my left night stand when I always put it on my right night stand. I question my family and they said that my cousin slept in my bed the other night when I was gone. I broke down shaking and crying cause it’s 10 pm and I have school in the morning so I don’t have time to wash my sheets but there is no way I will be able to sleep in my bed after knowing my cousin slept on my sheets for a night. Plus I noticed a few of my drawers not pushed shut completely which I only do cause you have to push them extra hard to keep them shut which implies that she looked through some of my things and now all I can think about doing is disinfecting my entries room and excessively clean it. I just feel so betrayed but my family needs to understand that I have ocd and with that comes some things that they NEED to respect. I need to talk to them and tell them that this is not ok and that this gives me anxiety and distress probably causing me to not be able to sleep tonight. How do I tell them this?
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