I Have a Mental Illness Stories of Experiences

I was diagnosed with bipolar type II at the age of 17.It was the most confusing phase in my life.I could not find a rational explanation to my sudden elation ,spiralling to being depressed soon after.I was struggling to excel in school...

I just want my psychosis to go away but it won't. I have actually thought I have had conversations with my cat. I just want to feel normal again...

I would love to do normal stuff, have normal conversations, be normal so why me?
There's nothing i wouldn't do to just fit in and still be myself.
I scare people away because they scare me.
Ever since i was a child, i've pushed...

I suffer mostly from Depression, (Clinical) At first my doctor up in CT thought it was Clinical depression, than a doctor here when I moved changed my DX to Bipolar Type II, but recently my DX was changed back to Clinical Depression. I...

Looking for Bipolar people that use Facebook. I am part of a great group called Bipolar Maniacs and its an amazing group! Contact me on Facebook, www.facebook.com/lovescreations

Please send over a friend request so that I can add you...

Someone recently asked me if I’d ever put my life on paper. Well I’ve thought about it many times but where to start? How to do it? What is the point? Can I even handle it emotionally? Good questions and they have answers...

I wish I knew how to fix myself truth is I'm just a crazy freak who doesn't know how to express her emotions I try so hard to be normal and fit in with kids my age but I feel like a needle in a haystack and 95 of the people who say they...

I just wanted to write about how my life has changed in the past 6 months. I was hospitalized twice for a week each time in September and October of last year. My outpatient treatment providers changed in January, so I really only saw...

I've suffered mental illness for a long time. One of the things is it makes it really hard to remember things but I would guess well over 20 years. I came off anti depressents last year cause things were ok and life was looking up. I...

When I experienced my first battle with depression, I was eleven years old. I could never accept that I had it at first. I would make up many excuses; I’m too young, it’s just a low mood etc. It all makes sense now, I had struggled...

I was a wake at 8 this morning and all these ours i wait ....i am waiting for solang right now! My mind takes over when i am alone and i cant help it. When i am working i am an hole other person.....untill i come home! I think that the...

Its hard to make a desicion that is for a normal brain not possible, and real life always proved that your where wrong each and everytime you tryed.today i have to do this and overcome that fear! And if i cant i most really close this...

I thinks its because of all my medications but I am retreating mentally. I'm a college student and still have slight tantrums. Well, still. They are new. I also have a desperate need for toys. I bought a baby doll and just today bought...

I know not many people care or want to read this,but I have to say this. I realized something today, the truth. That some people are beyond helping. I can never be normal, I'll just have to face it. I'll always be alone. I'll never feel...

They have told me when I was a teen I have borderline personality disorder after I attempted suicide and was cutting. I didn't like it and did nothing about it, and then I saw a psychiatrist who said I have major depressive episode...

I've written in other mental health groups on EP but I'm looking for a section that looks at mental health issues as a whole, purely because I have multiple mental health issues and despite the fact that the other groups are great and I...

My diagnoses in the past four years: psychosis, paranoid schizophrenia, depression with psychotic features, major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, borderline personality disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder...

Ever since I can remember, I've always acted differently than everyone else. Even the way I thought about things was different and no one could ever seem to understand why. When I was little, they thought I had dyslexia like my little...

I am a 13 year old girl but everyone says I seem much older. Mom says I'm 13 going on 35. The day before my 10th birthday, I lost my uncle to suicide. I have had major depression since then. When you're 10 and depressed, you don't...

I have a mental illness called PTSD. It stands for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. There is a lot of symptoms on this illness. This is an anxiety disorder which people suffers in fears. nightmares and flashbacks.
I have suffered and...