Living a Fulfilling Life with Serious Mental Illness: Tackling the Stigma Around Mental Health 

And this is a very valid strategy. I am far from suggesting that everyone be open about their mental illness. I wish for those that can safely talk about it do, but also keeping parts of it from people for any reason, safety or otherwise, is valid as well. And if its easier, that’s valid too. Hang in there, you’re not alone in this (and this comment has a few likes so you’re DEFINITELY not the only one!)

No problem Lisa!

And I’m in no way advocating for outing yourself (or anyone else here) to everyone. Believe me, there are people in my own life that I keep the vast majority of this illness from. I wouldn’t mind if they found the channel, it is public of course, but not everyone in my life knows I’m schizo, and that’s okay. I don’t say it all because its easier, or it;s for my own safety. Keeping it to yourself for any reason is totally valid. Stay strong, and even if you’re secretive about it, there are a bunch of us cheering you on from the sidelines, some of them hiding as well

@@SchizoKitzo ❤️❤️

SHE DOESSSSSSS

Glad to help, Roy!

Heck yeah, MJ, thanks!

I sympathize with your symptoms, since I had MDD and agoraphobia / sociophobia, lack of motivation. I know it's something very hard to get rid of. If you get rid of it, then you might have some kind of stigma, depending on your circumstances and ppl around you. The stigma is very bad and unintelligent, as if people madeup their mind with you and want you to go back to that state. You are put into a box in their minds. You have to be strong to defeat the stigma as well. So first defeat the mental illness, then the stigma. The lack of motivation (apathy) is coming back a bit for me, I think from my brain's memories. Maybe I'm just lazy or getting mature (old), and nothing significant or drastically new is happening to me. But I'm nowhere near depression or agoraphobia, those are gone. I don't feel sad at all, I just feel a bit empty and as a nobody. Nobody gives a f**k about me, honestly. Which is deserved, because I didn't give a f**k about ppl. Yesterday I searched for a spiritual counselor, because of my apathy. I found one close to me, and I will call her on Monday. I don't think talking to a priest is good for me, because they would just inject me with going to church and Jesus and blablabla, your sins are forgiven by God. Okay they are free, but they don't get to know you or even care honestly. Useless going to a priest for a mentally ill. Talking to a friend is not good, because you risk of him/her telling everybody, therefore damaging your social life. Going to a doctor is also not good, because they try to help you in a scientific way. Also they might tell you, that your illness is incurable, which rather damages the patients self-esteem, the patient will believe it, therefore will not be healed. There are some good doctors though, but most doctors approaches your problems as a scientist. They give you drugs and brain scan and nasty sounding diagnoses. I don't think science has figured out the mind yet, most likely they never will. But with a good spiritual counselor, I can talk freely about my years of depression and psychotic episode, and even about my new soul that entered me or my previous soul who had terrible feelings. I can talk about it (like here in the youtube forum), the way I see it, not the priest, not the doctor, not the friend. I don't think the spiritual counselor will laugh at me, but maybe she will have something to say. Since she's spiritual, I don't have issues talking about such stuff. You cannot tell this to a priest, because he does not believe in it, not to the doctor, he would just give me more drugs. So I think a good spiritual counselor can help the best. Or your mom, but your mom will stay with you, cannot be 100% open. In your place, if you only believe in drug treatment, instead of ketamine treatment, I would rather try magic mushrooms. But only if you really think only some type of drug can help you. Nature is always better than man-made atrificial chemical, because you are playing with your brain, which is very-very complex. I have heard magic mushrooms, if taken with responsibility and in an intelligent way, can have mind-blowing healing capabilities. I wish you the best, even if I don't know you. To SchizoKitzo: If you couldn't be a plastic surgeon, why not just be a spiritual counselor, it would fit you perfectly.

@@gellande227 Good luck, I hope the spiritual advisor works well for you.

@@horizonblack I have found one in my area, who I like, but if we do not have good chemistry, I have found another one, who I also like and looks very understanding and spiritual. But I think the first one will be good, who knows. Both are women, mothers, middle aged and look very spiritual and understanding on their homepages. People to whom I am most likely to open my heart and speak. Well, if I do not forget, I will share my experiences here. I just want tell my past and present problems to someone who can view me in a spiritual sense, open minded, maybe give a good advise or support, maybe some magic even, and does not view me as a scientist (doctor) or religiously (priest), the latter have tunnel vision I believe. The doctor only believes his scientific books and CT scan, for the priest the Bible is holy. Neither of them can heal. But if you decide to do drugs, then magic mushrooms, dont do ketamine. But first maybe try a spiritual advisor. I will do. I just have apathy thats all. I think the maker of this video could be a good spiritual counselor. P.S.: Apart from my mild apathy and mild disinterest in my life and my people, my problem is that I am too much into researching psychosis and schizophrenia. I am too much interested, I spend so much of my free time, reading books about past lives, going mad, catatonia, shadow people, various treatments...etc. I have experienced it, and it was the most horrifying "adventure" of my life, maybe that's why, I want to understand it completely, get to the roots of it. But why am I less interested in cars, money, parties, women? That's also a problem, my thoughts revolve too much about this topic, which is interesting, how to cure mental illness, but still I wish my thoughts were more about my current situation and current stuff, not this hocus-pocus. Maybe if I can tell the spiritual advisor (who is probably already immune to this, won't upset her)all my shit, then it comes out of me and it will be released, so much less interest I will have in this I hope.

I’m tired too

Will do!

The life expectancy thing is something I try not to think about too much. For those with schizoaffective it’s 25 years. I’ll live as long as I can out of spite though

@@SchizoKitzo Me to thanks for writing.

Thanks so much for saying so, Robert!

Thanks, Robert!

awww thank you so so so much! I appreciate this comment. Bees and fake candles together are my new obsession, so warm! Hang in there!

Beesling was there for the content haha. She and I TOTALLY planned that… yeah…. *sweats* Thanks for all the feedback GC! It was a hard video to tackle, and I waffled with wording for so long, but it seems I got my point across! I hate that you have to deal with stigma in the trans community…. It’s everywhere and I hate it :( I hope to keep helping for many more years, rock on!

WE ARE NOT!

It’s far from one, just gotta figure out what life is gonna look like with a few extra rules. Fulfillment is so so possible!

Thanks so much! Glad you liked it!

Exactly this!!!!

of course!

Just an apology, that statement about me not having good English for social studies and high enough IQ for natural sciences was really dumb and not well thought through, one needs both for either cases, so sorry if I offended anyone.

Awww the bees and I say thank you back! I’m glad you were able to share some of your story here, its so important! Peace is something I hope to achieve more of as I continue to live (stubbornly at that some days). Hang in there!

You’re far from alone, and you got this. Glad you found the channel!

Being sober worked wonders for me too! One of the best decisions I ever made. So same here, it might not work for everyone but it’s a good thing for me ^_^

I love how much Buddhism has helped you with your condition! I have sought out my own spirituality that works and it makes a huge difference. Society can be horrible. Thanks for sharing this, Mark!

I love everything about this comment 😂