For those of you who have been diagnosed with a mental illness, how have you dealt with it?

it's hard to answer on the survey up there because i used multiple methods.. medication for a time, coping skills, drugs, and whatever other ways i could manage. i had to learn to deal with the stigmas, people calling me names, misunderstanding me or what it is i have. and not only that. beating myself up over it, because it's frustrating, and i feel as though i should be able to overcome it on my own.i've even dealt with people abusing me physically because of it thinking i could make myself stop thinking the way i think or being the way i am. i got to a place of a lot of peace, and every so often, i lose some of it and fall down in a deep pit. and it's the hardest thing EVER to claw my way back out of that hole. sometimes it feels so easy to let go and stay there, to drown, and wallow init. to not care, but you can't help but want better for yourself.

I have spent a long time pretending that I was ok. It makes for a hard life. Since getting help I have done cognitive thinking skills and medication mix. Staying in the moment is a huge thing too. I find that with all of these it makes for a much more managable life, especially since I cannot control and do not understand other people unless they have BCD too. Good luck and I hope you find some peace.

Meds and therapy.

Meds and a steady stream supply of work that never ends

Therapy and one day at a time.

Meds, some cognitive therapy and relaxing.

Well, just knowing that I have Asperger's Syndrome lets me know that I have to make significant mental effort to suppress it, which I can do most of the time. I do need space to just be myself, though, as I can't suppress it every waking moment.

Straitjacket and meds

Weed

I use a combination of medication, meditation, and coping skills to deal with mine.

i found someone that loves me no matter how screwed up i am ,no meds can ever do that.

Screw conventional medicine. All diseases are mental anyway but the shallow minded doctors don't realize it. So why would you trust someone who is as blind as you are and the only difference is the white apron. Drugs won't help. you have to figure it out on your own

Probably more meds than I've had cheezeburgers in my lifetime, but roughly 75% of the time I've been under treatment has been with just 1