Today, my mother threatened my psychiatrist with legal action because he told her the organic and herbal "medicine" she swears by don't actually "cure" mental illness like she claims. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my mom got pissed off at my doctor and called him a quack. She did this because he reassured her that I don't show any signs of the mental retardation that she's convinced herself I must have. FML
Today, my mother threw a fit because the psychologist she got me suggested I visit a psychiatrist. Apparently, it's my fault because I "choose" to be so "crazy". FML
Today, my mom read my diary. Then she frantically booked me an appointment with a psychiatrist. FML
Today, my mother won't give me any painkillers for my migraine. She believes that "When medicine goes into your stomach, the acids stop the medicine from working" and that "It's all in people's heads when medicine works". FML
Today, my mother has taken her drug paranoia to a new level. She threw away an open but nearly full bag of dried mint because she's sure I emptied and refilled the bag with marijuana to hide it from her. She then tried to ground me in my own house in front of my wife and daughter. FML
Today, I woke up with one of the worst migraines I've had in months. My mother (who thinks I'm a hypochondriac) began to scream at me about "making up an illness". When I asked for my meds, she called me an addict, and dumped my $300 prescription down the sink. FML
Today, my mother took a bunch of sleeping pills, then went driving. I followed her and dialed 911. Now she thinks that I was "trying to get her arrested," and she refuses to talk to me ever again. FML
Today, going to my psychiatrist's appointment for my PTSD and depression, my mother yelled about how useless I am and how I torture her existence with my "abnormalities." She told the doctor how much I've improved and become such a delight at home for her and our family. FML
Today, I got into a heated argument with my mom. Apparently, my seeking medicinal treatments for my cancer is blasphemous. According to her, I should just pray my cancer away. FML
Today, after years of having seasonal allergies and months of having my throat close up, my mom agreed to see a doctor, only to insult me in front of the doctor, saying I just find new ways to make their lives harder and I'm probably making it all up. FML
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_Peppermint_ 34
Sounds like she's the one that needs a psychiatrist !
xxDeeStar 27
So sorry you have to go through that. Ignorance does this.. And especially to people who don't want to learn and remain ignorant. It can be so damaging to one's life. It's insane. If only they knew that "medicine" is just purified "herbs" anyway.
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_Peppermint_ 34
Sounds like she's the one that needs a psychiatrist !
mfmylifesrsly 30
I'm so sorry you have to go through with that, OP. My uncle suffers with mental illness and for the longest time his wife thought herbs and prayer would cure him. It wasn't until they were married 5 years and he went on a manic high she realized he needs professional help. Hopefully your mother will come around.
MessedUpLife00 13
So sorry, actual medicine is what we need sometimes, not just natural, not saying that natural medicine isn't real. I'm just saying we need the meds that were made to deal with it! Best of luck!
Lalala579121 28
Well pretty much all medicine is natural to some degree. But yes sometimes we need actual medicine and not just the placebo effect from thinking some herbal remedies actually do anything.
IHaveThePower 18
Plant-based medicine isn't placebo--we're still exploring medicinal uses of a lot of common plants, which is how we found out about St. John's Wort and marijuana. It's just not very well-studied or very strong medicine, so it's usually a good idea to try pills first, and use other medicines to supplement. You also VERY much have to research the effects and what people say about it, and learn to filter the religious claims from the scientific, so it's not something you should be working on unless you're willing to do a lot of research on how your disorders work.
HoboMeth 36
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Keep smoking that dank cush, forget what your mother says.
DravensTheName 16
*kush. (;
xxDeeStar 27
So sorry you have to go through that. Ignorance does this.. And especially to people who don't want to learn and remain ignorant. It can be so damaging to one's life. It's insane. If only they knew that "medicine" is just purified "herbs" anyway.
RichardPencil 32
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Neither do the pharmaceuticals.
ShotaSammy 17
Wtf does this even mean? Mental health drugs can literally make every symptom of mental illnesses away sometimes?
RichardPencil 32
As long as you take them, and hoping their effectiveness doesn't diminish. They don't "cure" any mental disorders, they merely treat them.
201chasew 22
I agree that meds usually help, but they sometimes dont help enough, or they have severe side effects. Schizophrenia, for example, has meds that treat some of the symptoms (usually only positive but sometimes negative symptoms as well), but they have severe side effects such as diabetes.
rodrigun449 16
You all should just get down with the sickness
Yourheadache 19
time to have an educational talk with her.
wmayrhofer 18
Assuming she is the patient, this is not unusual behavior and he should know how to handle this. Don't feel bad unlesd you drove her crazy...
ShotaSammy 17
Its says its Op's psychiatrist, meaning their mother wants to sue ops psychiatrist for wanted op to take mental health medication and not their mother's "treatments"
cutie64840 2
Nor does the meds he will prescribe.