Anyone have relatives who suffered from mental illness?

[Anonymous 54]

It will test you.

[Fr JackParticipant 926]

My son had a severe mental breakdown earlier this year and tried to take his own life. He is living with me while he recovers, which the psychologist said could take up to 2 years.

[743 roadmasterParticipant]

Have an Uncle that has a Doctorate in psychiatry who gave it all up to sell street drugs,..that count as mental illness? Family thinks so.

mgtow is its own worst enemy- https://www.campusreform.org/

[StealthParticipant 5406]

Like someone’s signature reads, all women meet the requirements for the definition of mental insanity. The women in my family are no exception, from the old grannies jumping on their beds screaming, to the young ones who deny reality.

"Once you’ve taken care of the basics, there’s very little in this world for which your life is worth deferring." -David Hansson. "It’s not when women are mean or nasty that anything is out of the ordinary. It’s when they are NICE to you that you have to be on high alert..." -Jackinov.

[RomulusParticipant 4667]

My sister suffers from mild mental illness. I found it hard to differentiate it from her normal bitchy self but apparently once the delusions get a certain distance from reality it isn’t just considered being a normal run of the mill liberal c~~~ bitch anymore. Anyway, they put her on medication to handle her wild mood swings and I guess she’s better, as in more subdued. I don’t spend a lot of time around her, but it has nothing to do with her current mental state.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

[narwhalParticipant]

What is your mother’s money situation like? Can you get help for her? I say this not for her well being, but for you. If she is properly diagnosed, it should help protect you if she attempts to harm you by calling the police or otherwise. I imagine that she can be diagnosed after the fact as part of your defense, but that’s going to be a lot more expensive.

A witness to her behavior would help, but it needs to be a professional diagnosis to really stick.

Of course, moving away from her is the best solution, but even then, I would do what I can to get her properly diagnosed.

Ok. Then do it.

[Puffin StuffParticipant 25018]

My mother has anxiety and depression. This culminates each day with a blow up at around 10am. She calls, starts a fight then hangs up. At 3pm she calls back like nothing happened.

It leads to a constant state of disquiet in my life. Just like being married. I’m her emotional tampoon.

#icethemout; Remember Thomas Ball. He died for your children.

[MonkParticipant 17064]

OneTrueMisfit wrote:

My mom has been having paranoid delusions lately. Making things up in her head and blaming them on me. As if a car parked outside is watching her and somehow I am involved in it. It is very hard because I live with her. She will call the cops at any moment and have me kicked out. She has done it before.

Her calling the cops is a real and present danger.

Until such time as you can get out, you need to be ready to defend yourself against a false allegation.

Sort out any paperwork saying that she is delusional, such as previous police reports.

You might consider speaking to her doctor. Patient confidentiality means that they won’t discuss her with you, but he/she should listen.

[Puffin StuffParticipant 25018]

Be very careful bringing up a prior police report. Remember, you, as a male, as suspect numero uno.

#icethemout; Remember Thomas Ball. He died for your children.

[Anonymous 1]

Autism and Aspergers is a life long condition you are born with, not really a mental illness in the normal sense like say depression or schizophrenia, in that it cannot be cured by drugs.
It’s just your brain ended up being wired up in an unusual fashion so you learn to work around it, in time.
I have a form of autism, I didn’t know I had it until I was 51, as the diagnosis resulted from a lying scheming wife having me taken to a psych ward for a few weeks by the Police. Although awful at the time, as it transpired, the best thing that could have happened to me.
Under UK Law, you cannot be thrown out of your home if you have a diagnosed disability, it’s called the balance of harm test.
A judge had no choice in law, but to find in my favour allowing me to return to live in my home and the ex having to leave within 24 hours of the court order being made.

Since autism is diagnosed 4-1 male to female and Autism is the only disability for which there is a specific act of parliament for in UK, this benefits men far more than women.

I’m not bothered by the diagnosis, I’m just good at engineering and electronics and not very good at the social aspects of life, like women, which I have no need of anyway.
Autism is historically lumped together under Mental Health Act 1983 amendments 2007 -17 in UK, so technically you still end up defined as vulnerable in Law. MHA 1983 Sect 1 states ‘A disability of the mind or theory of mind’ A very wide definition.
Practically, it has no effect on my personal life at all.
I still have all my friends from before diagnosis who come to get parts made for their old bikes.

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