lizbethrose wrote:I read some of these posts and am completely at sea...What exactly are you talking about?
I've been seeing psychiatrists for years--I've been on psychiatric drugs for years--I'm not 'sick', I just ran out of serotonin years ago... Since I was born without a mental epidermis, I react to things other people can take, with only a hiccough or two, in their mental strides, in an apparent 'abnormal' way. Sure, it's abnormal--but what's abnormal? Isn't that simply outside the 'average?'
Most of us are 'outside the average' in some way(s)--my way is just my way.
I don't see a psychiatrist for me. I see a psychiatrist for the people I have to deal with every day.
I take drugs that help me become less "different" from the people around me as well as to be able to express myself in ways that, hopefully, those people, including my psychiatrist, will try to understand and accept. At the same time, the drugs help me to understand my reactions and, again hopefully, to enable me to 'govern' my reactions so that other people understand why I've acted the way I have--or, at least, can try to accept me as I am.
"Oh, that's just Liz...She weeps for every tree that's cut down for no reason...That's just the way she is..."
My psychiatrist gives me drugs so he can understand me, as well. How else would he be able to know me, if he weren't able to give me what I need to be 'normal?'
How else would he be able to 'listen' and, through talk therapy, even begin to try to help?
Good to hear from you again. After seven years of this thread, have we come any closer to discovering the conditions of what it means to be normal?