as small as a world and as large as alone

9:05pm August 12, 2014

lichgem:

Do you know what I’m tired of hearing when I see psychiatrists?

“You’re very lucid,”

“You’re very intelligent,”

“You’re very well-spoken,”

“You seem very focused,”

and all variations thereof. Because it tells me they don’t think mentally ill people are those things in general.

And just because I can carry on a conversation, doesn’t mean I can do any number of other things that are in no way connected to my conversational skills that people lump under one vague, amorphous definition of “intelligence.”

Sure, I seem focused when I’m sitting there talking to you, but you should be there when I haven’t even noticed two months have passed by, or when I burn pots to the point of having to throw them out because I keep forgetting shit is on the stove, or when I can’t even handle reading small paragraphs because my brain is so burned out.

I hate those things because they always seem like they come right before invalidating everything you’ve got to say.  And then they get to lecture you on your inability to “take a compliment”.  >_<

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