do you have a therapist? my therapist has helped me feel supported when i feel like nobody understands me because your family sounds like mine they just dont get it. i find comfort in my therapist.

There's kind of 2 sides to this: because normies have something going for them: they're normal.

how they work and how they tick - that's normal. And when they tell you to do a thing they're really showing you what a normal person would be coping with and how they would handle it.

And one day, when you are through this, you too will react to things the way they do. They're not wrong; they're just coming at you from a different location, and they're trying to help.

But you, you're in the invisible maze that they can't see. So what you need to do may be a bit different to what they recommend.

I think counselling is a really great place to start - was enormously beneficial for me, and helped me through the process. I also found the right medication helped too - but have not taken it for a long time, just a few years. Long enough for me to learn how normies think and how they operate.

It is a wonderful thing to discover. They are functioning properly. They are functioning properly, and we are not. But if we can get ourselves recalibrated, then we too will be able to be happy.

I was touched when I was very young in life which has lead me to believe that was the beginning of me cutting myself off. I have been seeing therapists and psychiatrists throughout my teenage-adult life while being medicated differently each time. Recently, Nardil was my previous psychiatrist's choice of meds and even that didn't work. I start getting rashes and having breathing problems and now I'm suppose to be to a more intensive outpatient treatment center since things have gotten as bad as they have. I find it hard to do anything nowadays because its like everyone around sees me asking for help and still turns me away. My therapist was ok, but I don't think someone who hasnt dealt with mental illness can really help. Besides, it was one of those intern programs where most of the time I felt like a school topic than a real patient.

"It makes me feel like I don't really have the support I'm suppose to."

I seldom get the kind of "support" I might want, but the kind of support I am supposed to have can still be found in the willingness of others to help me endure and move along within yet another day.

"...normies...just coming at you from a different location, and they're trying to help."

How other people try to be helpful can vary greatly from one to the next, and I think it does take someone who is more-aware and better-informed than most to be helpful to us...but I also think we are the ones who do the best when we are the most-aware and best-informed of all.