Mental breakdowns

Status
Not open for further replies.
Not quite. Been to the verge a couple of times, but never gone over. I think most people just avoid ever thinking about their mental state by distracting themselves with work, television and other mindless stuff.

Once you've actually spent time getting to know your own mind and trying to understand the world around you I think willpower is the only thing that can keep you sane.
 
I've never had a mental breakdown, and I must profess a great ignorance on this subject. What exactly does a mental breakdown entail?
 
How weird, I was just thinking of this the other day. Been there myself a long time ago. Glad to hear you've sorted yours out.

R
 
You REALLY need to up your game if you're ever going to live up to your username. Creating a thread that's going to be either insanely boring or depressing ain't the way to go.

Never had a mental breakdown/gone too retarded, but I did lose it at one point and simply stay in bed. I couldn't be bothered to get up, get dressed, use the internet, eat...all I wanted to do was sleep. I wouldn't say that's a mental breakdown as I was still perfectly sane, though.
 
You could call it a breakdown, but I am not like normal humans. I have since ascended into a higher state of conciousness on that transgresses the barriers of this dimension. Muhuhahaha
 
CitizenGeek said:
What now just sounds to me like white noise
Click to expand...
Any ulterior motive in my post is all in your head, CG. I saw yours very shortly after you posted it and thought I would simply answer your question quickly in a way that would prevent a long ugly battle about what it is exactly that a mental breakdown entails, by giving you (and anyone else who might think of responding to your question) the facts.

Perhaps baiting people on delicate issues you clearly know nothing about is your preferred way to approach things, but I'm not about to enter into your own special brand of "debate" with you about something as serious and close to my heart as the issue of mental illness.

For me that's the straw that broke the camel's back. I've had enough of you. I know at least two others on this forum who feel the same way, and I suspect there are many more who avoid any thread you touch. And I'm not surprised. After all, look at the time I've wasted typing out this post. This massive urge you have to "stimulate discussion/debate" which I now know means you get to state your views in an overly superior manner and then argue in a long, insulting manner with anyone who disagrees, all the while ignoring anything meaningful they have to say. Feel free to disagree with this assessment (I've no doubt you will - I'd say you'd call at a petty character assassination again, now that I've said that however I imagine you'll deny the thought ever crossed your mind... I could go on.) but in order to convince me I'd need you to provide an example of where you have ever conceded a point to anyone. If there's no give or take, there's no debate. It's just an argument. While I don't believe you are deliberately or consciously a troll, the way in which you conduct yourself produces the same response in others as if you were.

I'd like to say it's been fun - for a while maybe it was, before I knew there was no way to get you to acknowledge the relevance of any viewpoint other than your own, but now it's just tedious. I may have stifled this thread (though you'll notice I did make a short post about my own experience with the subject - all I care to say really, I don't particularly enjoy discussing my mental state, and if you make any comment about this you'll prove conclusively you're not worth anyone's time) but I take comfort in the fact that at least my presence isn't stifling an entire forum.

Learn some respect for others and their opinions, CG, and maybe we can talk again someday.

Edit: 1200th Post!
 
CG, please keep any problems you have with ayase to PMs - for those of us who don't follow every single flamewar on here it's just confusing to have threads derailed all the time like this. I don't think posting a wikipedia link is particularly singlehandedly stifling a discussion. Being rude seemingly out of nowhere looks bad, and what was said was rude.

Now anyway, on with the breakdowns. When I had mine I didn't know what it was at the time and am only relatively recently comfortable with calling it that. I'm sure it's happening more and more in this country - we seem to grow up ill-equipped to deal with the bleakness of life and have to figure things out for ourselves a little too late when it hits us. Those who avoid it, either by figuring out a coping method before it becomes a problem or just by focusing on other things, have my respect ;)

R
 
Rui said:
CG, please keep any problems you have with ayase to PMs - for those of us who don't follow every single flamewar on here it's just confusing to have threads derailed all the time like this. I don't think posting a wikipedia link is particularly singlehandedly stifling a discussion. Being rude seemingly out of nowhere looks bad, and what was said was rude.
Click to expand...

my image is still available if u wanna use it ;)
 
Ryo Chan said:
my image is still available if u wanna use it ;)
Click to expand...

I don't dislike the guy personally but I'm getting tired of the stifling of debate lately myself caused by everyone leaping to confrontational insults instead of talking like adult human beings. Whether this topic is a genuine reaching out or a lighthearted troll, there was no need to bring dirt from a completely unrelated flamewar in and ruin it for everyone else.

R
 
Rui said:
I'm sure it's happening more and more in this country - we seem to grow up ill-equipped to deal with the bleakness of life and have to figure things out for ourselves a little too late when it hits us.
Click to expand...
I don't think kids are any more coddled today than they have been in the past, it's perhaps just that nowadays young people know so much more about the world thanks to constant stream of media - not to mention the internet. You can more or less find out anything at any time now, and even if you don't want (or aren't ready) to know there's no way to hide from it.

I'm with those who say our technological development has outstripped our evolution (both mental and physical). Our world is a place that you can learn as much about as you like but can never (if you care to think about it for long) actually understand. That's something I wasn't comfortable with for a long time - I'm still not to some degree, but I'm more resigned to the fact that that's the case now.

Rui said:
Those who avoid it, either by figuring out a coping method before it becomes a problem or just by focusing on other things, have my respect ;)
Click to expand...
I find that once you realise you have a problem then figuring out a coping method is the much preferred option. If you just distract yourself things can get a lot worse without you realising it, then the next time it comes back it can hit a lot harder. Listening to music and artistic stuff is my personal outlet - I write like crazy or go slap some paint on a canvas.
 
ayase said:
I find that once you realise you have a problem then figuring out a coping method is the much preferred option. If you just distract yourself things can get a lot worse without you realising it, then the next time it comes back it can hit a lot harder. Listening to music and artistic stuff is my personal outlet - I write like crazy or go slap some paint on a canvas.
Click to expand...

On a personal level I definitely agree there - distraction doesn't work at all! I've seen some people though who seem to pull it off. Perhaps it will all blow up for them much later in the form of a midlife crisis, or perhaps they'll manage for the rest of their life somehow.

It seems something of an affliction of more introvert people that being avoidant is doomed to fail eventually. Most of the people I see who appear to genuinely skip over the feelings of misery are quite extrovert and tend not to dwell on things.

I think that's the best way to try to live. I'm not so good at it and doubt I'll ever suddenly start being outgoing or bubbly, but finding some silver linings to every sad story and learning when to let go helps me cope :)

There's something in what you said about the onslaught of tragedy served up to us with global awareness. It would be nice for the biggest worries to be mundane things such as whether we remembered to put the cat out or what we can cook with the leftovers, not whether we'll all die in a hideous war at any point in time etc.

R
 
In the space of a year and a half my parents divorced (was not amicble either) had to move house my pet dog and 3 of my grandparents past away and I was told I was being made redundent from my job. Then I was being used as a scapegoat by my own family for everything that was going wrong (I dont blame them now, this is what happens)



Now I dunno, maybe I could have dealt with all these things if they had happend over a longer period of time. And despite all of those things that happend I still had a concunsce about others and I allways watched the news a lot from a very young age.



But recently I just took a step back from everything I was doing (playing video games without moderation and not going out) and I swear to god I have done more stuff over the past 2 months than I have in the past 4 years. I went to an open day at college for starters.
 
EpicLulz said:
In the space of a year and a half my parents divorced (was not amicble either) had to move house my pet dog and 3 of my grandparents past away and I was told I was being made redundent from my job. Then I was being used as a scapegoat by my own family for everything that was going wrong (I dont blame them now, this is what happens)
Click to expand...

That's rough. Under all that pressure it's no wonder you didn't know what to cling to.

In my case there was no trigger at all. I think it was just the gradual toll of living that all became too much one day, and once I realised I couldn't carry on. I literally just turned my back on my life overnight and didn't resurface until years had passed by.

Sounds like you're living more satisfyingly now though. A positive attitude is the route out of the mess, once you manage to take the first steps to creating one!

R
 
I've actually had a bad one of these a few years back and not afraid to admit it. I was on medication at the time and it made be depressed. I was rescued by my family. It took them a while to realise as I lived in my own house but I was drinking a litre of vodka almost everynite to make myself numb. The only reason my family realised there was something wrong was when I called their house at 3 in the morning to speak to my little sister. I don't plan on being in that situation again anytime soon. I sympathise with anyone else who has been in a similar situation.

I've said my piece, so please continue.
FLAME ON!!! :roll:
 
You know somthing, I was acctually allways carrying a bag round with me with some of my games in for no reason what so ever, and I didnt realize what I was doing at the time

I now know why, because I thought I lost everything and tryed to keep the only other thing that I liked close to me.
 
EpicLulz said:
You know somthing, I was acctually allways carrying a bag round with me with some of my games in for no reason what so ever, and I didnt realize what I was doing at the time

I now know why, because I thought I lost everything and tryed to keep the only other thing that I liked close to me.
Click to expand...
(Bugger. Lost my post in a phpBB error thing. Here goes again:)

I can sympathise with that, we often cling to our possessions when circumsances and relationships seem unstable, as it's something that's definately yours, that won't change as long as you take care of it and know where it is.

And Voddas, the demon alcohol eh? Never been down that road myself, as I've known people who had (a fairly close relative for one) and it ****** up their lives and relationships pretty bad. Glad to hear you're one who made it out okay. :)
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top