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Qem (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} qem_chibati) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} unfunny_fandom, |
I read this comment yesterday and it's still really bothering me because it feels like it ties into what I feel is a pervasive issue that makes it harder for people to stay on medication long term.
Because for some people it does actually work that way and I find it hurtful to just have it written off as an overexageration. Jokes at least make an attempt to normalise the issue.
Medication for some smoothes out the emotions so that they are less reactive - they find it so much easier to listen to other people, to control their reactions with keeping other people in mind, to come to compromises and solutions instead of overreactions and arguments that go no where. Even if a person never becomes physically violent and only uses words, when they seem out of control, it can still be terrifying to deal with and for some medication can help keep that control.
There are also some that do become violent but have just enough control over their actions that nobody other than those closest to them gets to know about it, because it is shameful and abnormal and the attitude that only people on TV have it work like that. Along with all the other crap that goes with being dependant on medication to function properly and that people need to grow up and pull themselves by the bootstraps.
There is a person who I am quite close to and it is breaking my heart to see them off their medication, because once upon a time they were the person that always had my back and now it feels like I can't do anything for them. Now it is like walking on eggshells all the time, because what was fine before their break down and while they on medication, is not fine now, if they are not on their medication.
But it is so hard to get help, because most people don't get to see that because this person fakes it, fakes it as hard as they can in front of outsiders saying that it's "just depression", while they are on medication and have control they play down anything that does happen, as they have their pride and concequently I feel they have more pressure to cut back/get off their medication and become normal, than if people knew the full story, which in this case includes self-harm and violence to objects.
There is a lot of stigma attached with mental illnesses and while it's wrong to lump the milder cases as part of the extreme cases, the extreme cases still exist.
Because for some people it does actually work that way and I find it hurtful to just have it written off as an overexageration. Jokes at least make an attempt to normalise the issue.
Medication for some smoothes out the emotions so that they are less reactive - they find it so much easier to listen to other people, to control their reactions with keeping other people in mind, to come to compromises and solutions instead of overreactions and arguments that go no where. Even if a person never becomes physically violent and only uses words, when they seem out of control, it can still be terrifying to deal with and for some medication can help keep that control.
There are also some that do become violent but have just enough control over their actions that nobody other than those closest to them gets to know about it, because it is shameful and abnormal and the attitude that only people on TV have it work like that. Along with all the other crap that goes with being dependant on medication to function properly and that people need to grow up and pull themselves by the bootstraps.
There is a person who I am quite close to and it is breaking my heart to see them off their medication, because once upon a time they were the person that always had my back and now it feels like I can't do anything for them. Now it is like walking on eggshells all the time, because what was fine before their break down and while they on medication, is not fine now, if they are not on their medication.
But it is so hard to get help, because most people don't get to see that because this person fakes it, fakes it as hard as they can in front of outsiders saying that it's "just depression", while they are on medication and have control they play down anything that does happen, as they have their pride and concequently I feel they have more pressure to cut back/get off their medication and become normal, than if people knew the full story, which in this case includes self-harm and violence to objects.
There is a lot of stigma attached with mental illnesses and while it's wrong to lump the milder cases as part of the extreme cases, the extreme cases still exist.
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