You're 'normal'

[AmZ]

I'd love to feel like I am 'normal' and that I am not 'overdoing things'. Aparently I'm failing somewhere along the way.

Just had my dad on the phone - he said that I am 'normal' and 'not special or different'. He said for everyone, it's difficult to get up in the morning, difficult to make friends and many things. And that I 'need to realise this in order to get out of this mess I have got myself in to'.

He thinks this is all 'made up'. That I've totally lost perspective of life and that 'if you don't mind me saying' 'you've got a lot to learn about life'. He's telling me it's all struggles but I can't deal with it. I can't deal with life.

I don't feel understood. I feel like an alien.

 

[Retired]

Sounds like the old "Just Snap Out of It" misguided advice given by people who are either uninformed, misguided or in denial about the mental illness of the person they're talking to.

It's obvious from this comment and others you have made in the past your father does not understand your illness and is not working in your best interests.

The best you can do for yourself is to totally ignore what he says and focus on the advice of your doctors, which I believe has been said before.

 

[AmZ]

Thanks Steve. I'm just fed up of being told that this has been blown out of proportion. My sister says it too. When I felt really weird at hers the other day, she said that it just sounds like anxiety. But I've had 2 1/2 years of this and I know more than them what is going on with my own body.

I'm feeling very strange. Have just slept for three days straight asides from being woken up to eat and posting here.

I feel very misunderstood. I'm so fed up of this, let alone having to deal with family members that don't understand too. I'm lacking in support. Even if I do have my psychologist and psychiatrist, it's not the same.

From an onlookers perspective, I can see that my psychiatric care is somewhat 'crazy medicine' and psychotherapy has been somewhat hit and miss. I just don't know where this will all end up. This could be moved in to other topics but I'm trying to keep it here.