Is it good to want clarity on a mental illness even if you think it's nothing major?
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katielass · F
What do you mean clarity? To understand it better or something else? Any mental illness has the potential to be major if not addressed.
Sroonaka616 · 31-35, M
@katielass work out what is wrong and try to get an official diagnosis.
katielass · F
@Sroonaka616 Absolutely, it's good to find out. That way it can be treated, or perhaps you find out it isn't a mental illness but you're just going through a difficult time. Sometimes just knowing is a relief because it's scary to think you might have any illness.
Sroonaka616 · 31-35, M
@ Salix75 When you have had some mild anxiety that you have been able to deal with other than the odd funny turn. But suddenly find yourself unable to cope.
Salix75 · 46-50, F
@Sroonaka616 That's sort of what my original question was getting at. Mental illness is so tricky to catch, we often are halfway down the rabbit hole before we recognize how far we've gone. That's why I think any instance should be given due consideration and attention. In my experience, it's not one big event that plunges people into mental distress (anxiety, depression, for example), it's more like "death by a 1000 cuts"...all these little things that build up, wearing us down bit by bit, until - as you said - we find one day we suddenly can't cope
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Salix75 · 46-50, F
yes. But when is mental illness 'nothing major'?