The lower you are in society the less people associate with you on their own free will. I am neurodivergent, bipolar, and visually impaired and every decade I've been treated worse (though the outlier to this was junior high where I had the typical crappy experience)....
It's encouraging some people bounce back from mental illness but I'm bipolar. The results of the comparison showed that about 10% of Canadians with a history of mental illness met thriving criteria, compared to about 24% of Canadians who did not have a history of...
Don't have a visible physical disability along with the neurotic personality type (like me). A neurotic personality type is STARVED for positivity from their environment but a visible physical disability makes every interaction with the abled world an incursion. So...
From an NYTimes article on Autistic burnout: Autistic adults are also more likely to feel suicidal; a 2018 study published in Molecular Autism found that 72 percent of autistic adults scored highly for suicide risk, compared to 33 percent of the general population....
People don't realize I no longer much have that feeling where I have good feelings to cap off something challenging I did. For example I don't have that clean feeling after taking a shower. And when I do hard volunteer work I often don't have the feeling of...
As you know I am someone with a physical disability (moderate visual impairment with weird-looking glasses) and a mental illness (bipolar 1). I think a physical disability plus a mental illness adds up to more than the sum of its parts. At least it has in my life....
I'm starting to see why some people can be Christian while others can't. I think a lot of it comes down to brain power. Brain power is something separate from intelligence, brain power is more about how you can organize your mind to get what you want out of it,...
It's just a sad fact about any mental illness that involves psychosis that in a majority of the time treatment must be forced upon the sufferer. In 2004 when I was psychotic in the mental hospital for ten days my parents forced treatment upon me and then made me live...
I think one of the best arguments against the existence of a personal god is the fact that suffering is so isolating. God's people dropping out of your life like flies. Me and many others on the bottom experience is that the people who claim to be closest to God are...
I want more money. Money in the real world lets you go on all kinds of fun trips (at least pre-COVID) and gives you all kinds of health and security. Money in your brain does something similar, you can spend it to produce beliefs in happy delusions. That's why...