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[-] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago

If that's happening to anyone, it lowkey just means that you're really stressed out about something(s), and not talking about it. In my experience, it's because the person in question is either bottling it up, or spending too much time alone.

[-] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago

If that's a sign of mental illness then ADHDers are in shambles.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

More than just ADHDers, but… Thought this was just normal life

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Go on the ADHD meme subs here and absolutely everything they post is normal human behaviour imo

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

ADHD is a mental illness though.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

ADHD is a neurodivergent category. 🤌🏼

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

One definition I saw suggests a mental illness is treatable.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It's general practice to provide a reference when one claims to have such, all due respect.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

I was arguing with a wife I made up in my head about not wanting to go to some event and her being mad at me because I was mopey the whole time. Even though I told her I wasn't going to have a good time and she could just go without me. This happens every time and I don't know why she keeps asking.

Anyway my fantasy wife and I are getting a divorce.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

For anyone wondering: No, this is not a sign of a mental illness. Talking to yourself is completely normal.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

But you still might have a mental illness, talking aside

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Normal if you have a mental illness

(It’s a joke)

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

See, that's why you build a therapist in a box inside your head, so it can mediate between the other aspects of your inner processes

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Is a Therapist in a Box just a DLC for the Jack in a Box?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Of course. Comes with a free skin though

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

It's the leading cause of spontaneous crying in the car.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Well, excuse me for crafting such moving mental narratives! 😔

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Why am I feeling just fine while the world is burning? /s

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Copium® is a muthafucka 🙇🏼‍♂️

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You don't need a sign, the tiktok watermark alone shows you're in need of professional help.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

How is it "mentally ill" to converse with yourself?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

It's not and I've been telling myself that for years.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The idea is not that the conversation is illness, but that one might 'hear' what was said by the objectified self inside their head and recognize it as the sort of thing they'd more easily recognise as a sign of mental illness if said by someone else.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

right, that's evident from the OP image. I'm asking why they'd "recognize it as the sort of thing they'd more easily recognise as a sign of mental illness if said by someone else"

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Ah. Okay then. Sometimes looking at yourself from the perspective of the other can help you see things that are more visible from outside.

For example: you could 'hear' yourself make a joke in your head about not wanting to go home and, because you have the perspective granted by being both the joker and the listener, you might be able to read that as the sort of joke someone might make when in an abusive relationship. Same goes for a joke about suicide, paranoiac explanations, etc. Finding a way to give yourself enough emotional distance from your own thoughts to judge them objectively is actually a part of certain styles of therapy. OP is essentially describing a certain kind of epiphany that can come from introspection, whether alone or guided by a therapist.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

gotcha.. sorry I don't know why I got fighty

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I was trying some anti depressants and they didn't work well for me but the bizarre side effect from taking them is that i couldn't stop talking to myself. I go on walks in the evening and when i was on these meds i would be out there walking down the street having conversations out loud with myself, every day! I do this in my head sometimes but with these meds it wasn't silent and i just couldn't turn it off.

[-] DominatorX1 1 points 2 months ago

Stop spying on me

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