Just snap out of it
Sep. 17th, 2008 05:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ailbhe(Just for reference: the drama is over, the person has apologised, but I'm still shaking, so here we go...)
Wanting not to be mentally ill does not cure mental illness. It's probably essential to being cured, but that makes it a necessary condition of cure, not sufficient to cure the illness of itself. Very, very few people with mental illnesses (broad, outdated category that it is) are enjoying themselves most of the time. That's what the "illness" part means.
So take your "just use willpower" and write a self-help book with it. Who knows, you could make millions.
Wanting not to be mentally ill does not cure mental illness. It's probably essential to being cured, but that makes it a necessary condition of cure, not sufficient to cure the illness of itself. Very, very few people with mental illnesses (broad, outdated category that it is) are enjoying themselves most of the time. That's what the "illness" part means.
So take your "just use willpower" and write a self-help book with it. Who knows, you could make millions.
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Date: 2008-09-17 04:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-17 04:43 pm (UTC)Of course it doesn't. Any more than you can cure appendicitis by willpower. Gah.
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Date: 2008-09-17 08:01 pm (UTC)Realising you have a problem and wanting to get better helps, but it won't get you back on the road without good support.
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Date: 2008-09-18 11:31 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-18 11:33 am (UTC)If wanting and trying to be different was all that mattered, then most of us would be paragons of success and virtue.
Unfortunately, it's not like that.
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Date: 2008-09-20 01:59 am (UTC)Sadly, if you're still wanting to get better and wondering whether you still have mental illness, you probably do. You're only cured when you realise you haven't even remembered that you had the illness in weeks.
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Date: 2008-09-20 11:31 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-22 04:00 pm (UTC)Unfortunately, mental illness is very hard to understand for people who have never had to struggle with it.