Why do people who never had Mental Health problems seem to answer them?

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I have bi-polar1, BPD, OCD, agoraphobia, anxiety disorder, and i sincerely try to answer peoples questions on here with insite. but when i read some responses about people saying oh your just lazy there is no such thing etc it gets under my skin the ones that talk about having faith in god instead of getting medical attention infuriate me the most why do people do this? if u havent walked in the persons shoes u shouldnt judge them. and before people get on the band wagon and say oh "everyone" seems to have a mental illness nowadays i will agree. but some are legitimate. As in it actually takes a long time to correctly diagnose bipolar disorder and alot of people and drs say a person has it just by looking at them. how would these "religous" people feel if a person actually had a mental illness tried and just turn to god for it and wound up dead? so again why do people judge when they havent a clue?

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i couldn't agree with you more however there are some who will judge another not fully understanding that some with medical problems go through an awful lot and others will judge someone rather curelly for giggles and laughs. it don't make such an act right seldom do i find in this day and age anyone putting themselves in the other guys shoe

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I'm sure their heart is in the right place they just really don't know how to give the right help.

i dunno. thats a good question. i think that they are just trying to get the 2 pts as soon as they can. tell me about it!My mental health counselors have never experienced what 's happening to me so how can they help either?
Just give me the drugs and let me out of here.
MAXIMUS-now I feel bad for saying that cause you're right

As for me i think people that have never had mental issues sometimes try to understand what we are goin through. Its like people like me and you trying to understand how not to have mental problems. Its imposable and for someone that has never had a problem its imposable for them to know what it is like. But like you i don't have the problem of not understanding mental problems because i have a lot of them my self Mostly ignorance, I'd say. Combine that with the idea that most people answering really want to help, but they're "clueless'; so they just ramble on with ignorance. They're trying to give some hope [because they know that they don't have the answer] Hope is good, and all that some people have.

A lot of people only view the world from their very limited scope.

Thank you for helping out other people with mental health issues. Education is one of the best ways to change people's minds about the issue. Unfortunately, some people prefer to be ignorant.

I have a good friend with BPD and it took years for her to be diagnosed correctly. She only went to the doctor when she was "down" so she'd always been diagnosed as having a depression issue. Of course, as I'm sure you're aware, giving anti-depressants to someone who is bi-polar is not a good way to treat the disorder. She finally found a doc who correctly diagnosed her condition, was able to get her onto a better regimen. She's doing SOOOO much better now.

I'm with you on that whole judgement thing, too. I don't get it. People with that holier-than-thou outlook irritate the piss out of me, regardless of what the subject is.

Again, thank you for taking the time to attempt to educate or help others. I'm sure you've made a huge difference for someone who wasn't sure what or where to turn.

I agree with you. I am a Registered Nurse so I have had about 5 classes in Psych, and clinical experience in a psych ward. But, reading about the disorders is one thing - experiencing them is different all together. I will say this unfortunate fact, we are at the same level with mental health as we were with regular medicine in the 1800's, scary thought. I do hope that you do better. Remember dont take anything some of these people say personally.

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