Do you attract hippies, weirdos, and otherwise crazy people?

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Have you ever thought that maybe it's more likely a distorted perception of yours rather than you actually being so frequently accosted by "crazy" people. I mean you say you "sense" that they are crazy and you also said you weed them out and avoid them, yet you say their psychiatrists "label" them for a reason.

First, I think it's important to recognize that psychiatrists diagnose patients with specific mental illnesses in order to treat them properly and help them become more "normal" as it were.

Second, I must ask if you at least occasionally have a psych evaluation to determine the state of your mental health? Being that you are genetically predisposed to mental illness it might be a good idea. Mental illness is often unrecognizable to the sufferer, they often think everyone else is the problem and they are perfectly sane and normal. I do think a psychiatrist would consider your belief that you have the ability to "sense" when someone is mentally ill and you feel like they are out to get you for some reason. It's above human abilities to "sense" mental illness just by looking at someone or speaking with them briefly. It's odd that you somehow find out that all of these people are also labeled by psychiatrists.

I mean no harm, I'm trying to offer the best answer I can. I too come from a family rife with schizophrenia and various mental illnesses. I am not schizophrenic but I am mentally ill and I am on a cocktail of psych meds that help me see the world more clearly and I suppose they make me less crazy and more normal. If I don't take my medications, within two days I'm a danger to others and myself, I'm incredibly destructive, I do things I don't remember later, and the whole time I feel fine and like I'm being perfectly reasonable and when I'm back on my meds and understand what I did I can't even comprehend how I could possibly feel normal or like my behavior wasn't appalling.

My mother is schizophrenic, as was her mother before her and as is her sister. None of them trust doctors. Unfortunately for my sister and I this has lead to us having to cut our mother completely out of our lives. She's destructive, she's irrational and illogical and hateful and just... she stalks and harasses and... I do hope I'm never like her but I realize that without my medication I am just as awful. It's terrible to have a parent who is mentally ill and unstable and harmful.

I suppose what I really mean to get at is that your complaint of being frequently accosted by mentally ill people, whom you know to be mentally ill because you can "sense" it might be a symptom of some type of mental illness in yourself. I could be absolutely wrong, but I think given two options: is it more likely that you are actually a magnet for insane people, or is more likely that you have a delusion that you can be certain that most people who approach you are insane? I'd have to guess it's much more likely that there aren't hoards of mentally ill people who are out to get you as soon as they see you... and very unlikely that you are actually capable of sensing mental illness in complete strangers.

In either case I do hope you find an adequate solution to your problems.

I don't really understand why you have such a terrible opinion of anyone who's different from the norm, when you say people can sense you're different from the norm. Do you have an issue with yourself you could be projecting? not trying to be mean, but it just seems like you have an unhealthy amount of dislike for anyone who does not strike you as 'normal.'

I don't trust them, is the thing.

And I also don't like people who try too hard to be different because they think it's cool.

I don't know, I guess when you've been told that you're "weird" from a young age ( and I was bullied pretty mercilessly up until 8th grade) you start trying to be normal or at the very least start trying to appear less than crazy (which I've also been called, YEARS ago lol, but according to doctors I'm not).

I've had some pretty bad experiences with schizophrenics in general and I know they aren't all the same, but they have similar qualities, or else they wouldn't have a diagnosis.

And it's not that I immediately fear the ones that I don't know, it's that if I can't even trust my own family members, I see no reason why I would ever be able to trust them and the fact that the seem to stick to like glue legitimately does scare the sh*t out of me.

I'm still trying to shake off my father, it's been HELL for the last few years, he's nearly impossible to get rid of and having people who are similar to him approach me so often when I'mdoing something as simple as grocery shopping really drives it home for me.

I know they aren't actually out to "get" me but having that feeling that I can't escape them for some reason is enough to scare me.

And also, being different from the norm is something I try to downplay in myself. I guess some people think it's a positive trait, I don't dislike people who are authentically different/quirky/eccentric whatever. I DO dislike people who are very clearly trying to be different from the norm and really aren't, I see this more often that I see truly (harmless) eccentric people.

Anyway, that just me. I'm not saying the shouldn't exist. I'm just saying I VERY strongly desire that they leave me alone lol.

Just because I am myself different from the norm, doesn't mean I automatically have to accept everyone else who is different from the norm. Some people who are different, are basically harmless. And some people who are different, are quite dangerous and malicious types to be around.

Also sometimes one person's way of being different could clash horribly with my own. Not that there is anything "wrong" with either of us being the way we are, just that I don't mesh well with that person.

I reserve the right to make my own judgements about people at all times.

You don't trust them as opposed to who? and if you feel you're also one of these different types one can sense.......why would that people who fit the norm be more trustworty. I have found it to be the other way around a lot of times.

Trying to hard to be different is a whole different topic then people who just are not the norm, and I think it annoys anyone if people try to hard to be something they aren't.

I always got called weird even at an early age, and when I was younger sometimes I did try to figrure out how to be more normal and act that way. Then I figured if no one was going to put any effort into trying to understand or relate to me why should I pretend to be normal just to satisfy them? So now I don't even try to be normal anymore

I can also understand being reminded of negative family experiances may make you want to avoid certain things, however keep in mind avoiding anything abnormal is not going to make you any more normal, and its not nessisarly going to ensure you only come into contact with people you trust.

Quoted for truth.

I'm sure the feeling is mutual

This is what I believe, DEEPLY.

I don't necessarily consider myself eccentric, I SUPPOSE mildly so but iIve been called eccentric and WEIRD all my life, so that's what people think of me.

Some people like it, other people don't.

But yeah, I might be weird or different, but that damn sure doesn't mean I group myself in with the rejects of society. If anything it means I'm going to work harder to put distance between myself and them.

If a "crazy" person can make something out of themselves, good for them. I would be less likely to be repelled by them in this case (given that they were't potentially dangerous or extremely manipulative) and I know that isn't fair, but I don't care.

I don't want to be associated with them, it isn't just the crazy part (or even necessarily the fact that they are crazy in and of itself, more so it's the qualities they are likely to posses) that I don't like, it's that I have goals and planning on doing something with my life, hanging out with these types or even dealing with my family members who fit into this category is not part of the plan.

I attract hippies like MAD for some reason. Just hippies.

It gets a little weird sometimes.

I'm glad you know what I mean about the hippies.

It's not like I think they're dangerous because they're anything but, but I (hope) that I appear nothing like a hippie myself.

That's ok, us rejects of society probably prefer to distance ourselves from

people like you as well