Bipolar Disorder Support Group
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( sorry, Im pissed )
If I'm having a crap day,let me have it... doesnt mean I'm ready to jump off a cliff
I hate when people do that. Invalidate what I'm going through because others are worse off than me. I mean yea there are starving kids in Africa, does that mean I shouldn't express my need for food?
I had a doctor once who did that same exact thing. I tried to explain to him that I was struggling with depression and pain. He basically told me I was feeling sorry for myself and there were people dying every day in Africa (he told me a long story about how he saw a man killed in the streets in Africa when he was a kid living in Africa). I had legitimate problems including a serious medical illness and very real pain. I didn't need a lecture... I needed medical treatment.
This is what I told someone while I was in the waiting room in the SS office when I was having a bad day:
She was complaining about some sort of petty disagreement with her husband, being very loud and bratty about it too. She talked like the whole office should shed tears for her in sympathy. I turned to her and said,
"Well at least your husband didn't beat you and starve you to the point it took a month-long hospital stay to recouperate like mine did!"
Ok, so that was almost as bad as the Africa thing and I should have kept my mouth shut, but that lady was just grinding my last nerve!
i cannot process what you're sayiing.
I don't feel like talking right now.
I'll go to sleep when I am ready to go to sleep.
Things I should do when having a bad day:
journal or simply write, review my DBT therapy information.
Things I shoud not do when having a bad day:
have access to a computer like yesterday. Sorry for that, I haven't acted with such anger in such a long time and then to make it worse I was very confusing to people I care about.