A Disclaimer Of Sorts

*** This blog contains a lot of material that may be potential triggers for some so a little bit of caution is required ***


The problem with putting your soul out into the open is that everyone gets to see it and some will jump to the wrong conclusions which is to be expected. The intent of this blog was never to be a place to come for concrete information surrounding a bunch of different diagnosis but a place where I allow complete strangers into my brain to see the world as I see it. There are and will be posts that will have hit the nail completely on the head but at the same time there are and will be view points that are completely distorted as that is the reality of mental illness.

I am not trying to paint mental illness with a wide brush but give people an idea of what goes through my head and why I do some of the things that I do to serve a specific purpose. There are and will be posts that will completely offend others but at the same time it may help others see an issue more clearly but all I can do is offer my perspective and let others decide.

If you want concrete information about a specific disorder there are a lot of valuable resources out there but if you want to experience mental illness from one persons view then this may be the blog for you. The purpose all along is to share my perspective and hope it shines a different light on an old problem which leads others to question the stigma that is associated with mental illness.

There are a lot of people out there whose whole view of an illness is due to the interaction of one or two people and do not like this blog or me as it does not fit neatly in the box that they have created to put everyone with a specific disorder in. This blog is just me and my life in a odd form of therapy where everything that is on my mind is shared with others.

I am not a doctor/therapist nor do I pretend to be one on TV, I am just a man who is in the middle of a battle with mental illness who decided to make it public in the hope it will help others.

3 comments:

Suzie Cheel said...

Hi this is an important area to be discussed. I have a friend who was diagnosed with this after several suicide attempts.

Also hi a i a fellow member of SMC stumblers so off to stumble

Untreatable said...

Thanks for the comment. This post was a bit of an over reaction from my end and part of the blog learning curve.

Anonymous said...

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy was developed by Marsha Linehan (she published her book & workbook on this in 1993)to "treat" BPD.

I heard mental health professional on CBC radio this morning saying they don't "treat" anymore - they 'educate a person' so that he/she can 'manage himself/herself'.

I think if a person is conscientious and self-disciplined they can "retrain" their brain themselves by using well-written workbooks (such as the 2 listed below).

The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook, published in 2007,
written by 3 guys & based on Marsha Linehan's work. This is an excellent book - check it out.

Depressed & Anxious by Thomas Marra, is Dialectial Behavior Therapy skills manual written especially for those who suffer from depression. This is also a very good book.