"Oh just shut up - it's not the end of the world"

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Don't you just hate it when you confide in someone about something that is deeply troubling to you (say, suicidal ideation) and the response is something tot he effect of "Oh shut up! It's not like the world is going to implode. Get over yourself!".

Yeah, f**k you too, as*hole!

It's no f*****g wonder that so many people never talk to others about their mental problems with people like this that exist.

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Last edited by SpiritBlooms on 04 Dec 2012, 2:05 pm, edited 1 time in total.

The trick is to tell it to someone who cares.

It's surprising how many people who are supposed to care actually don't. Y'know, friends, family, medical professionals, etc.

That is sadly very true.

My mentor in the past would often tell me to "get over it" before I found out about my diagnosis and told him. Apparently this is comforting to normal people...

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Last edited by SpiritBlooms on 04 Dec 2012, 2:03 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Yeah, my key to happiness in life is to drop all of the "friends" who don't give a damn and look for people who actually do care. Though some people who are supposed to care don't, most of them do, and if they don't, and yeah, they're out of my life! Life is too short to have people around who won't bother with you, might as well take them off the hook and catch another, who knows? They'll probably be the best friends you can ever have!

All I know is that there are no excuses. If I'm not going to use ASD as the reason why I'm not where I want to be in life, then I won't let others use their own problems in their lives as an explanation to why they don't give a damn. I'm sorry, that might sound selfish and harsh but the lack of understanding is why this world is doomed in the first place. That needs to come back much more than a political or economic revolution!

We all have problems in life, and it's a misuse of knowledge if we don't try to help others with their's.

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Last edited by SpiritBlooms on 04 Dec 2012, 2:03 pm, edited 1 time in total.

That's a reason why I don't tell my family about my own mental problems anymore. If I'm in a crisis, I call the appropriate people. They're not always helpful, though. You can tell some of them just get sick of you.

It's not nice when something is important to you and other people just brush it off like it's nothing. Well, maybe it is nothing. Maybe in the grand scheme of things, nothing that concerns me means anything. Sure, I can dig that. That doesn't change the fact that it's important to me. I know my feelings are stupid, irrelevant, pathetic and unimportant, but it affects how I cope with everyday life. It's hard enough to approach someone at all and tell them that you feel this way. To get that kind of response is a slap in the face.