Manage me, I'm a mess.

Brain disorders.. Mental disorders.. Mental illnesses. Whatever you'd like to call them. Most likely, we all know someone that has one. In fact, we may even have one ourselves. There are so many different types of disorders, and they're all interesting to me. I like learning about them. Though often that can bring out the Hypochondriac in me. Does it make me a Hypochondriac to call myself one? I suppose I'm not entirely one if I do have actual mental disorders. But chances are, I don't have every one that I think I do.

I know a bit about a few disorders, such as Insomnia and Fatal Familial Insomnia, Depression, Bipolar Disorder, OCD, CSP(Compulsive Skin Picking, which also includes Trichotillomania), Anxiety, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Depersonalization, and probably more that I currently cannot think of.

In fact, I know a person who probably has Dissociative Identity Disorder and Depersonalization. I first heard about DID when reading Identical. It's like MPD, except you're aware of the other personality. My friend has quite a few of the symptoms. He's also basically convinced he's possessed by a demon, which I think would be his other 'identity'. His 'demon' can communicate with him. It has also made him do things before. Things that he was either aware of or unaware of. For the things he was aware of, he had no control over. This, I believe to be Depersonalization. Yes, I'm aware of how weird this sounds. However my other friend brought this up to her Therapist, and she agreed that he probably has DID and Depersonalization.

"You'd never say "It's just Cancer, get over it." So why do some say that about Depression?"

Honestly, I hate when people refer to mental disorders as diseases. They're not diseases. You can't catch them. You can't cure them. You cannot take some form of injection to prevent them or lessen the chances of getting them. They're most often caused by imbalances in the brain, right? That does not make it a disease. I say you can't cure them, because I don't believe you can. If you don't take medication, they don't go away. And even if they go away with medication, that doesn't make them cured. That just makes them less severe and easier to live with.

I hate when people joke around about disorders. I really don't find them funny at all. Especially when you have certain disorders. You never know what it's like until it happens to you. And even then, you don't fully understand what the other person is going through.