I have been surfing a bit on mental health related forums and blogs lately and I am truly curious about if people suffering from depression, panic attacks and anxiety are too tired or even lazy to do something about their problem and actually enjoy being “a little person”, or if they are just lacking in knowledge when it comes to curing their illness and therefore can’t do anything about it.

One thing that really struck me is how in the bottom of each post where you can put your signature, a lot of people had put their illnesses and medicines and how much of each medicine they were taking as if that was some kind of merit or there was a prize for being the one that is the “poorliest”. This may sound harsh but before you get angry I must add that I am also guilty of that crime! I’ve also been guilty of showing off my medicine list and illness list! Oh yes! So if you are one of those that did write down your illnesses and that, I totally understand why, and this is not a personal attack on you! But it is interesting..

So why does one show off the illnesses? I suppose one reason might be to find other people with the same problems to relate to which is fair enough. But another reason might be that they are stuck in a pattern from childhood whereby they get attention when they are poorly and know no other way to achieve attention as adults. They live as “little people” and enjoy it. And who wouldn’t? Wouldn’t it be nice to not have to go to work! Just sit at home taking drugs to keep you from the real you. Some people are probably so good at playing the “little person” that they have family members doing all sorts of things for them.. like going to the super market, shopping, cleaning or whatever.

I used to be a master at playing the little person and had everything and everybody controlled. The problem is however, that the triumph of being in total control as the little person makes you smaller and smaller and finally you disappear….. Poff!

What I mean is that you’re not doing yourself any favours by playing that game in the long run because your comfort zone becomes so small that you soon will be totally eaten up by your anxiety. You have to do the work yourself! No medicine is going to do it for you!

What do you think?

Do you think people are uneducated in their illness, ie. stuck in old patterns of thinking?

Or just comfortable being the little person?

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