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Hi, everybody.
I was brought up by a severely schizophrenic mother and an emotionally disturbed father. Sad to say, both were abusive and neglectful of myself and my brothers and sisters (there were five of us in all).
I now find that when mentally ill people act out their symptoms around me, I will have flashbacks and unpleasant memories that can cause me to go deep into depression.
There are many mentally ill people in the city of San Diego, California, where I live. Because I walk or take public transportation wherever I go, I encounter them on a daily basis. They are on the buses and trolleys and on the sidewalks, talking to themselves, making violent threats against people who pass by, urinating and defecating in public, and exhibiting disturbing behavior in general.
Unfortunately, they remind me of the eighteen year period of my life that I want to forget: my childhood. My parents were a lot like these people.
Does anyone else have this problem?
I was brought up by a severely schizophrenic mother and an emotionally disturbed father. Sad to say, both were abusive and neglectful of myself and my brothers and sisters (there were five of us in all).
I now find that when mentally ill people act out their symptoms around me, I will have flashbacks and unpleasant memories that can cause me to go deep into depression.
There are many mentally ill people in the city of San Diego, California, where I live. Because I walk or take public transportation wherever I go, I encounter them on a daily basis. They are on the buses and trolleys and on the sidewalks, talking to themselves, making violent threats against people who pass by, urinating and defecating in public, and exhibiting disturbing behavior in general.
Unfortunately, they remind me of the eighteen year period of my life that I want to forget: my childhood. My parents were a lot like these people.
Does anyone else have this problem?
I guess the other thing is there are others here who were offended by the comments in this post also, but Unomas you came after me on my post. Cool...I get the it, it is time for me to move on and I am not welcome here because I call it the way I see it. Fine...I lived without this forum before I found it and I will live without it in the future. I have often wondered if it tended to keep my trapped in my world of PTSD anyway. Maybe this is the kick in the ass I needed.
All the best to those who have helped me find my way. I wish you all the best and thank you for your time.
a lot of people here no not like me and resent me....But as long as i do not break the DS rules i am not going to leave because of it.
Sorry if one person disagrees with you.You leave a whole group.
I just pointed out something i thought was overlooked.
Since i only meant to point something out and because people do not think like me they resent me and get angry...
And those are the same people that later talk about how anger is bad and holding on to grudges is toxic and let go of your anger.
But they hold to anger over internet posts!
Wow on a one hand they preach letting go of anger and on the other they can not let go of a comment in a internet chat????? r u kidding me..
I've seen this on FB.
You should not LET a comment onthe internet make you leave a group that supports you and welcomes you and everyone show they do.
But i don't think the poster intended to offend anyone...and i pointed out he even said "when they were acting out in front of him"....
I reserve grudges only for my family and very serious things that they did and did not do for me.Or people who made me lose something thta was worth quite a bit through deception ect...people who have had a really justifiable negative effect on my life.
I comment even a mean one here or FB or internet chat????!! OMG....i can forgive that.Not only forgive it but understand it.
Do not let someone like me affect you so much as to leave a place you like.
It doesn't me i could care less that some don't like me and i know who they are.
I've had disagreements with some here and i hold no grudge towards them.
I hold gurdges ove RAPE and things like that.
Internet stuff?? its risible.
I don't care i'm here for very few and i damire those which we have had disagreements are are still friends.......
Really don't forgive your father molesting you by all means.
And yeah stay angry over it..But a "fight" on a chat room??? its day old eggs specially cause we are all adults.
Yeah they forgive beating by therir fathers just don't mess with them on FB.
I could name mnaes here and in FB...but i won't i like DS i do not have to be accpeted and agree with everyone the majority always........and they are not run me out because i don't.
Sorry to say Canuk but i read your posts quite a bit and you are very lucky in a lot of ways.
Just like you told the poster to be more telaerant you should be a little more understanding and not assume so easy.
if i came on here and titled a post `my trigger is african-americans' based on one or two bad apples, you'd be quick to point out i'm a racist scumbag (rightfully so)
if i came on and said `all women are my trigger' based on one or two examples, i'd be a sexist pig (rightfully so)
so what do you call it when it is a derogatory blanket statement against people with mental illness' based on a few examples???
i'm not sure we have invented a word for it, but i will tell you that is what makes mental illness so damned lonely. talk about universal emnity.
Mojo the poster stated this? wha does that mean to you?
If someone came here and said latino people trigger me.I'm well mixed but i could pass for pure latino........My question would by why?? If the poster said because two latino nannies tortured me as a child.....
I would see the point.
Creolle way of speaking triggers me.Its very loud and agressive.Its not that i'm racist i find the Haitan cab drivers very scary.I'm not rcaist.
If you said "all women trigger me" again the question would be Why?
If you said because two women raised me and tortured me and i'm scared when women are near me.It would be understandable.
We are all staing why we were or were not offended by it.....that's all.
I have lived first hand psychotics episodes from a paranoid schizphrenic mother they are scary and if that is the source of your PTSD than yes i can see why you're triggered by what he said........."acting out when they are around me."
As far as some leaving because we disagree...........wow......
i just want beaumont to see, just for a moment that blanket statements do cause genuine pain to people undeserved of it.
i wish him, and you, and all of us growth and healing and peace.
pshkkkk ~ end transmission from this one-armed scissor :)
What is more, my best friend in high school had a schizophrenic mom who murdered my best friend's dad when my best friend was just in 10th grade. My best friend and I banded together and got each other through after that somehow. I was with him through his mother's murder trial, and she was convicted. Then he had neither parent. It doesn't get much worse.
Even so, I mentioned earlier in this thread that I chose exposure therapy for my own PTSD from it all so I would face the facts rather than just avoid an entire portion of the human race. Speaking for myself, I am very hesitant to come to conclusions beforehand about any entire category of people. That has led to madness itself, like racism and so forth. Not an improvement, imho.
Yes it could have been worded in a different way.But OBVIOUSLY the poster was sort of not counting PTSD as psychotic fits.
Maybe the ones that have the stigma about their own mental illness are those so offended by it.
I have pointed out that the poster did specified this:
"When mentally ill people act out their symptoms around me."
Did noone read that??
"When the mentally ill ACT OUT THEIR SYMPTOMS AROUND ME."
Did not that give anyone a clue?
There is a quot that states that when something really bothers you is because you see it in yourself.
Maybe he's not the one with the big deal about the stigma maybe is those who make a big deal about it bother by this post...
see ya all!
And we had let this post died we had discuss it up the ying yand and yes someone had to bring it up to continue to attck the poster.He heard it already and even ahd left.
That wasn't enough for you guys???
And he had left.What else did you wanted?.