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How did you first learn you had mental illness?
How did you learn you had a mental illness?
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It depends on the person and the situation. There is no blueprint. Let's take depression for example. We may have some idea of what that looks and feels like but for each person it hits differently and is diagnosed differently. An individual's diagnosis is always different and based on factors that solely exist with them if that makes sense. No two people have the same experience being diagnosed or same set of factors that led to the illness either.
Statistically with the more complicated disorders such as bipolar, schizophrenia, personality disorders etc etc. it's a case of being brought to the hospital by family, police or those around you who believe you are in crisis. You're then put on. 72 hour hold fo evaluation and may spend quite some time (months) getting better in a hospital setting.
Mental illness is nothing like it's portrayed in media and on TV. Most people have their first experience with it while in crisis and don't think that there is anything wrong because the illness has convinced them that there isn't.
A lot of disorders build towards crisis slowly and people don't always see the signs until having been brought in to a hospital in crisis. It often is the first meeting they'll ever experience with a psychiatrist or in a mental health ward.
The short answer to your question is that everyone is different and learns of a problem like this in ways that are unique to them and it's not a cookie cutter scenario with everything unfolding the same way. Hopefully, this answers your question that every person with a mental health issue has a set of circumstances that are their own.
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I am wondering at the reason you came up with this question. It could be simply curiousity, or maybe tied to some kind of homework/school project for health class. Last of all, you may be suspecting that all is not well for you mentally. Others telling you how they found out will not get you the help you might need in that csse. There is mental illness in my family, both a sibling and by marriage. I don't have mental illness but I know about my ex husband and oldest child. The ex was tol by a retired counselor to go see a Dr. because he was exhibiting traits of mental illness. The reason he's an ex, is that he only pretended to go for a couple times and then stopped because he felt there was nothing wrong with him. The child told me about 5 years after graduating HS that they felt they had depression. Dr. never fully examined for mental illnesses but i knew by now from ex, what some of that behavior might look like. Can't say what the child has. They were put on medication for depression but quit taking it due to side effects. Shortly after not taking it, this adult kid disappeared out of state and cut off ties to all family including aunts and uncles and cousins, not just me, the father and siblings
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