Another language

[J PTSD]

Due to having an mental illness, do you ever feel you are thinking in another language or speaking in another language?
I do. I think this contributes to my inability to make friends or keep friends.

 

[Cat Dancer]

I feel very disconnected or distanced from everyone, but then I wonder if everyone else feels the same way too?

 

[J PTSD]

everyone else feels the same way too?

Everyone else? Depressed persons/mental illnes, or just in general, everyone else?

 

[Cat Dancer]

I know that lots of people with depression and other mental illnesses feel disconnected from others, but I think there are people without these problems that feel different and disconnected as well.

But maybe feeling disconnected isn't exactly the same thing as what you're talking about?

 

[forgetmenot]

feel misuderstood feel people are just not getting what is being said i know i see things differently then others but that is what makes one unique
disconnected very much so i think when one has been through all the past stuff one feel safer to be that way.

 

[NapsWithCats]

When that feeling comes to me, I just remember a song Robert Palmer wrote - one line which says: "It takes every kind of people, to make the world go 'round . . ."

 

[adaptive1]

Yes, I feel that way too, that things are different when you have a "mental disorder" than they are for other people that might not have this, there are unique challenges that other people dont have to go through the way I see it and sometimes that frustrates me. I am not saying it is worse, it is just different.

However, a psychologist told me once that everyone has got something and that it just isn't apparent to us, the more I get to know more people, the more I think he was right . Now I just try to be aware of the work I must do to keep myself feeling 'normal', sometimes I resent that I have to do these things but at least if I have some strategies that work for dealing with the symptoms than it is certainly worth the work and the effort.