Today's blog title refers to the fact that once again I got myself so worked up over something that I made myself physically ill. Due to a throwaway comment, that my therapist was surprised that I got into Hafal as I didn't have a care worker. This got into my head and as a result my brain blew it up and convinced me that I was a fraud and would be found out. As a result instead of being able to go today I have had a bad tension headache and have been sick. Dad contacted Hafal and told them what had happened, as a result it is sorted, once again I have worked myself up out of all proportion for something that was easily sorted.
One in four people will suffer from some form of mental illness yet so much stigma is still attached to it and discussion of it. This even extends to those suffering from it. When I saw my psychiatrist recently he mentioned that part of my problem comes under neurosis, as soon as I heard this word all I could think of was the bad connotations that link neurosis with hysteria. Language has become perverted over the years, we hide the truth within it as a result we can become afraid of it. We need to talk plainly not to hide the truth about the wide variety of mental illness behind a curtain of euphemisms.
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