Forbidden words??

My big one is "you SHOULD" or "why can't you?"

Mine is when people who are close to me ask if they can help. There is not a magical fix! Only time and me taking my meds on a regular basis will get me through my phase…whichever that may be at the time. I love them, but by them wanting to help, it makes it worse.

My trigger is when people who are close to me ask if there is "anything they can do?" It's as if they have the ability to help me…I can't MAKE myself feel better…there is nothing that anyone can do. It takes time in addition to staying on my meds. They do not understand.

I hate it when someone says "chill out spaz". Or when my boyfriend is like "did you take your meds yet??" It's not an instant cure all. We recently fought cause he said I need to learn to let it go and just go with it. If it was that easy, I would need help. I'm angry just posting about it really cause its so upsetting.

I frieken love this post. Seriously. As far as terms, you've pretty much covered it, but things that tick me off besides that are when my brothers get mad at me for whatever reason(mostly stupid) but they'll say "did you take your medicine today"? Or "dont have a bipolar spaz on me" etc. i cant stand it. They really dont understand what its like.

"Sick." Just "mental." And I don't like when people use "ill" in a hateful way.

When people are surprised when I start acting all bipolar on them like duh I am bipolar

Yeah I go craz… um, I mean nutt… oh boy.

lets just say I get a little… um, wishy washy when I hear the word… Ni !!

I can't handle "calm down". It's a trigger phrase that ignites my irritable irrational side.

You and me both!!!

:)

Don't mind "crazy" or "you ain't right" 'cause, well, I plead guilty to both. I is what I is. Greatly dislike "normal" because, even if I wasn't BP I still wouldn't want to be normal. If you say something like "chill the !!!! out" or "get over it" and are not part of my accountability team, get ready to fight.

"How dreadful and passionless normality is." The word 'normal' is a joke to me. What is normal? Show me someone who is "normal."
I agree with you on all the rest!

What aggravates me even more than that is when someone looks at me and says "don't give me your attitude"… I don't know why but it REALLY aggravates me -.-

Being called a silly little girl by people who are too ignorant to believe mental illness exists

I hate it when people tell me to just stop worrying so much or caring so much. I cant just stop worrying on the spot or just stop caring! Its my nature to worry and over analyze everything.

I understand exactly how you feel worry and caring are part of my nature and I've never been able to change it. Though I have cut people out of my life because I care to much and they couldn't seem to give me the time of day unless they want something

I hate when someone tell me to get over it and just do it.

"Relax"…I get that a lot. As if I wouldn't relax if I could? Really? As if I LIKE being wound up so tight? Yeah, this is freaking awesome!

"Drama Queen" or being referred to as "dramatic"
Ughhh

It's all in your head…um duh

I know what u mean. That is one phrase that urks me.some one that is not in our shoes would never understand.

I hate "chill out" "quit freaking out" and being asked why I need to get so angry.

Ditto

Psycho is a medical term which is ruined by stupid people, now in regular communications psycho has a totally different and inaccurate meaning beamed by undereducated ppl. Am I psycho? Yes I am and it's a disease condition like fever or appendicitis, so next time if anyone calls u a psycho, just ask him if he is a doctor to diagnose that u do are having psychosis.

"You never" do this or that… "You are always" can make me want to blow the person into pieces. Often it's referred to my lack of energy to socialise I have in periods. In periods! Not never or always. -_-

Another is "you should…" , it never comes anything good after that phrase…only other people's demands without any thought on what I need or want.

When husband says "Can I talk to the other Sue?"

My husband called a person bipolar the other day, and I nearly flipped out. He should know better.

I hate it when people assume people are bipolar just because- they dont even know what it means, and dont know what I am

One of the things that tic me off is when my sis tells me to snap of it when I get depressed I just can't thou.

When some one who has not researched bipolar says I understand. You can't even begin to understand. The words normal, crazy to name a few. I'm sure ill run into a few more. :)

Crazy. Used in any context.

I know! Then for those of us who probably need therapy, makes it a little uncomfortable.

All these words I try not to tell to myself.

Depressed, manic and bipolar. When people say they are depressed at getting a parking ticket, have had a manic day and the papers are describing the economy as bipolar, I think these words have lost their clinical meaning and that doesn't help. It leads to conversations like people saying to me, "when I depressed, I just pull myself together and get up and get on with things". That by it's very logic, means to me that they are by no means depressed (and depressed doesn't actually mean or describe to other what it is we call depression in it's true medical sense).

I think it's almost good for people to use the words to mean things they don't really to make it seem more normal; I guess unless the economy is really fu##ed or something. I agree the words have no meaning and that people have no idea what its like though. I also think psychotherapy is a stupid word. Unfortunately scientists care more about what dead scientists who made up certain words think than what consumers of services, us, think. Little political power because of stigma and insurers don't care. Some schools and have gone more patient centered though. One of my therapists was legit

"You're not trying hard enough" If I wasn't trying, I would be dead cause of the mania.. Or so depressed that I would never leave my room.

I have had a few friends say "lay off the meth" sarcastically when my speech is pressured and I am manic and shakey. I just want to slap them. I am already insecure about it. Then there are times I know people assume I'm high and I'm not. While my mom tries her best to be understanding and supportive, she is my biggest stressor of all. The constant pecking and overloading. She knows exactly how to catapult me straight into a panic attack. Then I am am out of commission for hours. She calls me out on every symptom as if I don't already know. I have never been one to dwell on what other people think but now I am so insecure that I rarely leave the house at all because I feel like an unstable freak. I used to be so social and pulled together and now I am an unkempt hermit.

My Neurologist tells me I have a physical illness of the brain.

I'm moving back home in a week and my doctor and I are wrapping things up now. She asked me the other day in my opinion what I think would be the best way to "terminate" our sessions with each other. I felt like after a year and a half with her and sharing so much, that word didn't sit well with me. We're trying to think of a word with a more positive tone to refer to the end of our time spent with each other every week, especially since i made so much progress with her.

"Calm down" and "Slow down" are mine. If I had that ability don't you think I'd use it?! Morons! LOL

I hate when people tell me to just calm down. It is so frustrating that people don't understand.

Crazy. Psycho are mine

I have many catch phrases that "get on nerves" -that being one ;)
"You need your head read" - my head is red lol
Just get over it!
"your just like your mother"
"whats your problem

Weird. Normal. Stupid. All the words that separate humanity,as if we weren't all the same.

I still have a problem when someone throws the word "normal" around, too.

Disabled. Like im quadraplegic on a ventilator.

"Mental breakdown" "breakdown" just do not like it.

Take it easy… Not really worthin you are who you are… I believe that every human being got something wrong with the chemicals in the brain I guess every brain is created in a different way and bipolars share that way… Not that big deal…

Or I don't mean wrong there is no wrong in this it a way of creating the mind

I dont like the phrase Black dog. I freaks me out and also the word sectioned!

I hate being told to "calm down" or being asked "what's wrong". Another one is "you have to help yourself" If I could be calm I would be and if I knew what was wrong I'd fix it!!

People think I'm stupid like that. I do everything I can to help myself…do they really think I enjoy feeling like this?!

It's horrible not having control, but having that obvious fact that you're not in control pushed on you is so annoying.

I feel u completely here. Just 5 months ago, I said the exact same things to a friend. Its like u took the words right outta my mouth.

"I have a problem when people say something’s real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very Personal and subjective. I’ve always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words" - Tim Burton

I have this quote in a poster in my room

I just want a bit of advise from some one that suffers from bipolar to see if the problems I am haveing are sim alar to them

Hi iv been feeling all the tipical sighns of bipolar but am worried about seeking help about it or don't understand it myself can anyone help me x

Send me a private message. Let's talk. I'd be happy to share my own experiences with you.

No it is what it is

Was that to me ?

It was to forbidden words I don't have any.i would definitely get help ASAP talking with a professional might help

I love it when people swap words around…
Kath and Kim (oz comedy series) who say 'pacifically' instead of 'specifically'… Another Kath and Kim ism is 'I like a good veneer of monogamy' instead a mahogany veneer… :D

If you take the word "therapist" and break it down, it spells out the/rape/ist. I break words down in my head. I believe this is an ambigram and that bothers me a little bit and I'm a therapist. Lol.

Oh damn- never thought of it like that before! Thats kinda freaky!

excellent

Argh!!! Never saw it like this and just mentioned to Erica and she laughed and said 'mind ——ers'… :D

This is what I get for breaking words down. Ever saw the series Weeds? It's huge on Showtime I believe. They did live in an area called Agrestic and that can be broken down to A/grass/stick which is weed! Then they moved to Majestic which can be broken down to My/grass/stick. I just howl. LMAO.

Yeah to me normal is the word I hate most because everybody has a different baseline. I was diagnosed with bipolar in December so my parents still think that I'm "playing it off." They use this phrase quite a bit after multiple overdose attempts and icu/inpatient stays you think they would just believe that I have a mental disorder and try to help rather than criticize.

I hear you. My father tells me to "lay low" on the Bipolar thing. As if it's something I can just shrug off for a vacation.

WTH? Lay low? That is retarded.