Hands up if you DO NOT have anxiety/depression/panic disorders in life.

[jpgray]

This will probably not be as popular a thread.

:hi:

[Wat_Tyler]

1. It's always good to have an excuse for your failings and bad behaviour.

Besides, mental illness is fashionable, y'know?

[Kathy in Cambridge]

4. That's not a fair statement. Mental illness is never 'fashionable'

people are ostracized because of it.

[Wat_Tyler]

8. It's a fair statement.

Mental illness was fashionable among people I was at school and university with - they claimed to have one or other disorder in order to be more interesting. Of course, if you asked them about it six months later, they'd be magically cured.

[jpgray]

18. Obviously you've never witnessed how hip pellagra makes you

:shrug:

Seriously though, a lot of people who admire someone with mental disorders, particularly an artist, will emulate the disorder in an attempt to identify with or have a shared experience with their hero. Like sax players who took heroin in imitation of Charlie Parker, they may be looking for a way to tap into the "secret" to the artist's talent, or just because that person is hip the drug-use/mental disorder may be seen as a way to have a small part of that hipness. That the talent was developed with a lot of hard work doesn't matter, usually it's the easy superfluities that draw imitation. :)

[Tyrone Slothrop]

25. While that may have been true 20 years ago,

I hardly think people are ostracized due to mental illness anymore. The pharmaceutical companies have made sure of that.

It seems like I can barely go out with my friends anymore without at some point hearing people comparing their medications and side effects.

[jpgray]

6. Whereas sometimes I'm just a douche

No further explanation is necessary. My mental proclivities toward douchery don't really interest me, since I can decide to douche or not to douche, and thus sometimes I douche in perfect awareness and acceptance of my douchery.

[Wat_Tyler]

9. I've been diagnosed with disorders,

but maybe the truth is, that they are an excuse for failure - that's what I suspect.

[jpgray]

11. And that too is probably a disorder

Or your Scottish heritage--I also second-guess anything and everything and myself most of all. Have a drink:

:beer:

[Wat_Tyler]

16. It is, I suspect, a very Presbyterian trait.

Not that I am in any way religious, but it's in our social DNA.

[Susang]

12. No Comment

:evilgrin:

[Wat_Tyler]

15. Yeah, yeah.

I have failed at a lot of things I should've succeeded at. Still, there's time yet. :hi:

[Susang]

19. It that wasn't what I not commenting on

Diagram that sentence, I dare you! :P

[Wat_Tyler]

21. Brain not working today, I'm afraid.

Unless it's some oblique reference to my real initials, or something. :shrug:

[Susang]

23. Just making a joke

You said you'd been "diagnosed with disorders". I thought that was funny and my "no comment" was directed at that phrase.

Now it's not even remotely funny. But that was your intent all along, wasn't it? :mad:

[Wat_Tyler]

24. If someone makes a better joke than yours, simply drag it out

to an utterly insane degree, thus removing the threat. Always works.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

2. Me-just normal, run-of-the mill worries about money, bills, this country

etc.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

7. Same here. n/t

[Freebird12004]

3. No anxiety here !

:hi: :hide:

[crispini]

5. No, no anxiety, depression, or panic disorder.

Just plain ol' fashioned paranoia. :7

[XNASA]

10. Right now, at this point in my life...I would say 'No'.

It hasn't always been that way, but at this moment I'm more or less worry free.

[BigMcLargehuge]

13. I'm cool...

:hi:

[BBradley]

14. OMG OMG OMG OMG

[tridim]

17. I should have all three, but for some reason I don't

I guess it's just not in my genes.

I only had one panic attack in my life.. It was on the Subway in NYC. There was a track problem and the jam packed train was stopped for 45 minutes in complete darkness. After about 30 minutes I started sweating and getting really dizzy due to high blood pressure, I almost passed out. It was one of the main reasons I moved out of NYC. Daily 45 minute subway/bus commutes (and the constant urine smell) got on my nerves after a year.

[sui generis]

20. I'm snarky sometimes

and my desk is a freaking mess.

[ZenLefty]

22. Not me.

Well, I have a little bit of depression once in a while. I mean, it's not easy waking up every day, having to look in a mirror and realize that yes, I am ZenLefty. Total bummer, y'know? :+

[Tyrone Slothrop]

26. My hand's up

I've been a little lonely since breaking up with my gf, but I hardly think that counts as a clinical-type depression.