People need to stop self-diagnosing themselves with various mental illnesses. It's dangerous at worst and outright stupid at best. If you suspect you're mentally unwell, go see a doctor ASAP because what you need is to be referred to a psychiatrist to determine the problem and a mental health team to assist you into getting back to a stable enough level that you can at least somewhat function in society. I say this both as someone who is on meds for life for my mental health conditions and someone who worked in mental health for 5 years. Too many people are self-diagnosing and sometimes they're self-diagnosing illnesses they don't have, or alarmingly, don't even exist in the way they're trying to tell you it does.
If you are genuinely mentally ill, you cannot get better on your own. You need therapy and medication, which you are responsible for doing/taking. If you can't even manage that, then you need to be under far stricter care to ensure you do take the meds and do the tasks required to get to a functional level. But if you're functional enough not to need round the clock care/supervision, then you are responsible for yourself and your recovery, part of which is forcing yourself to therapy even when you don't want to go and it uses up all your energy plus taking meds.
If you haven't been prescribed meds then that's either because the doctor didn't feel this was more than an environmental/temporary bout of poor mental health that pretty much everyone gets, or you haven't actually been diagnosed with anything. If that seems wrong, then go back to them and explain why. But people with actual long term severe mental health issues cannot get better without meds and therapy, that's just a fact. You have to be willing to put in the effort to aid your recovery though, or it will never change.
I'm sorry if this offends anyone. But as someone who has seen both sides of psychiatric care, I'm becoming increasingly tired of seeing people self-disgnose issues they clearly don't have or trying to use issues as an excuse not to do anything beyond eating and gaming, which isn't what severe mental health looks like at all. I sympathise with any struggles, it's been a funny couple of years, but I'm also firm in my belief that you have to WANT to get better to achieve that and severely mentally ill people don't really know either way.
If you are genuinely mentally ill, you cannot get better on your own. You need therapy and medication, which you are responsible for doing/taking. If you can't even manage that, then you need to be under far stricter care to ensure you do take the meds and do the tasks required to get to a functional level. But if you're functional enough not to need round the clock care/supervision, then you are responsible for yourself and your recovery, part of which is forcing yourself to therapy even when you don't want to go and it uses up all your energy plus taking meds.
If you haven't been prescribed meds then that's either because the doctor didn't feel this was more than an environmental/temporary bout of poor mental health that pretty much everyone gets, or you haven't actually been diagnosed with anything. If that seems wrong, then go back to them and explain why. But people with actual long term severe mental health issues cannot get better without meds and therapy, that's just a fact. You have to be willing to put in the effort to aid your recovery though, or it will never change.
I'm sorry if this offends anyone. But as someone who has seen both sides of psychiatric care, I'm becoming increasingly tired of seeing people self-disgnose issues they clearly don't have or trying to use issues as an excuse not to do anything beyond eating and gaming, which isn't what severe mental health looks like at all. I sympathise with any struggles, it's been a funny couple of years, but I'm also firm in my belief that you have to WANT to get better to achieve that and severely mentally ill people don't really know either way.
