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[dragonlady7]

I'm going through one of those phases now where I'm having trouble dealing with the real world, connecting with it I suppose-- I see things and react to them but don't communicate with them. Problematic. Annoying. Difficult. Confusing.
I am running off to work now. Just having the presence of mind to get out the door is a major effort.

On the one hand I wish it were a diagnosable mental illness so I could treat it, but on the other hand, having seen how they "treat" mental illnesses, I'm happy to just be eccentric and leave doctors out of it.

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[(Anonymous)]

The only difference between weird and eccentric is the amount of money you have. Right now I don't have enought to be eccentric, so I have to settle on being weird.

KW

[kkatowll.livejournal.com]

I feel the same way. If this is a mental illness, the world is doomed. :)

[heebiejeebie.livejournal.com]

where do you work?
(I'm too lazy to read back in your LJ)
my mom is a shrink... I'm sure I could diagnose you, but not like it would really make much of a difference in your life

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

:) I work at the airport-- I tend bar and wait tables there. What do you do?



I don't think I'm really mentally ill, I just get fed up with not being normal now and then. But you know, even if I was normal to start with, I'd mess it up and be weird again in no time, so I don't let it bother me much.

It's just a pain when I'm having trouble dealing with the concept of the passage of time. Which is one of my particular problems. (I believe in a lot of things, but try as I might, I really can't make myself believe way down in my heart that time really does move only one direction at a consistent pace. It just... doesn't! Either that or I just can't pay attention, which is more likely. Either way, I've lived this long, so I can't be that screwed up.)

[heebiejeebie.livejournal.com]

I have been diagnosed with ADHD, OCD, depression, and and SID (sensory integrative disorder).
While, yes, I do have all of these things, and each causes me it's own trouble, I think everyone has their mental problems. There isn't a person in the world that cannot be diagnosed with something.

But the ocd really helps me accomplish goals. When I get it in my head that I want to do something, it gets done (like learning to garden), but goals like those only happen once a year or two.

I work at GEICO, as a claims adjuster. It's crazy.