I mean, like - Isaac has PTSD and understandably so. And I did my homework about it, because - well, a lot because I'm a perfectionist but mostly because I don't like when things I or people dear to me deal with are messed up, so I should be careful about other people's stuff. (Although some of Isaac's deal is drawn from my own junk ahahahahhahaha blargh.)
Like I have friends with bipolar disorder, friends with OCD, people dealing with depression from SADS to dysthymia to 'fuck this I'm not getting out of fucking bed because existence as a whole means nothing and is going to end anyhow' (which was a song and dance I did intermittently - comorbid issues is like a bunch of bad roommates in your head :B and I'm very glad that with you guys I can SAY 'yeah I have a mind that does some very peculiar things both because of heredity and chemistry and because of my childhood being weird in a very insidious way' and not have people think I'm trying to brag or make excuses or self diagnose or blahbleeglugnargh) - I have triends with PTSD and C-PTSD - and I want to depict what they deal with properly and RESPECTFULLY. It's crummy enough dealing with your brain going 'doot de doot doot doo de doot de doo *kicks in nuts*' without your having to deal with stupidness like mediafail on top of it.
Especially from friends!
And - yeah. WORD on the medical profession thing. Yes, there are jerk doctors; no, no system is perfect. But i've had AMAZING doctors and damn it I wish everyone could have docs like mine.
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Date: 2009-12-28 05:44 pm (UTC)I mean, like - Isaac has PTSD and understandably so. And I did my homework about it, because - well, a lot because I'm a perfectionist but mostly because I don't like when things I or people dear to me deal with are messed up, so I should be careful about other people's stuff. (Although some of Isaac's deal is drawn from my own junk ahahahahhahaha blargh.)
Like I have friends with bipolar disorder, friends with OCD, people dealing with depression from SADS to dysthymia to 'fuck this I'm not getting out of fucking bed because existence as a whole means nothing and is going to end anyhow' (which was a song and dance I did intermittently - comorbid issues is like a bunch of bad roommates in your head :B and I'm very glad that with you guys I can SAY 'yeah I have a mind that does some very peculiar things both because of heredity and chemistry and because of my childhood being weird in a very insidious way' and not have people think I'm trying to brag or make excuses or self diagnose or blahbleeglugnargh) - I have triends with PTSD and C-PTSD - and I want to depict what they deal with properly and RESPECTFULLY. It's crummy enough dealing with your brain going 'doot de doot doot doo de doot de doo *kicks in nuts*' without your having to deal with stupidness like mediafail on top of it.
Especially from friends!
And - yeah. WORD on the medical profession thing. Yes, there are jerk doctors; no, no system is perfect. But i've had AMAZING doctors and damn it I wish everyone could have docs like mine.