In answer to the person who said, we shouldn't treat our artists for mental illness, both the neurologist and pediatrician said without treatments, we wouldn't have more artists, we'd have more dead artists.
This attitude irritates me because sometimes what looks like mental illness is another type of chemical imbalance.
And while treating both is incredibly important, this attitude means that people who buy into this stupidity might not ever realize their weight gain and hallucinations and period problems and depression and heart condition are all related, because of course "artists must suffer for their art."
For a long time, I couldn't get anyone to take my sudden onset of massive manic-depression and ear problems seriously, until I had a major cardiac episode (at 22).
Then with a simple blood panel, we discovered that I had a major thyroid imbalance causing every single one of my problems. The thing was, that it had been left so long at that point, I now had to fix all the problems left afterwards.
And I'm really thankful that it was finally caught and two years later I'm finally doing better.
But I wish more people would have treated what I was going through like it was a medical condition to be solved so I could actually get on with my life, rather than acting like it made me a typical college student, or a girl, or more creative or any other stupid rubbish that meant I was going to be dead sooner rather than later, you know?
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This attitude irritates me because sometimes what looks like mental illness is another type of chemical imbalance.
And while treating both is incredibly important, this attitude means that people who buy into this stupidity might not ever realize their weight gain and hallucinations and period problems and depression and heart condition are all related, because of course "artists must suffer for their art."
For a long time, I couldn't get anyone to take my sudden onset of massive manic-depression and ear problems seriously, until I had a major cardiac episode (at 22).
Then with a simple blood panel, we discovered that I had a major thyroid imbalance causing every single one of my problems. The thing was, that it had been left so long at that point, I now had to fix all the problems left afterwards.
And I'm really thankful that it was finally caught and two years later I'm finally doing better.
But I wish more people would have treated what I was going through like it was a medical condition to be solved so I could actually get on with my life, rather than acting like it made me a typical college student, or a girl, or more creative or any other stupid rubbish that meant I was going to be dead sooner rather than later, you know?