Grace clearly has MH problems, there’s no denying it. However, she comes across as so insincere. Everything she’s saying are phrases she uses again and again and hopes no one questions her. Even if you have years and years of “practice” at anxiety or panic attacks, they don’t get easier when they happen. Yes you can work on avoiding them and the triggers and coping mechanisms but you can’t come on and say you’ve just had the worst one ever and pose on a blanket with a bag of chips an hour later. By all accounts I think most of not all people commenting here have MH issues or know people that do and her ways of dealing with it are so strange, that’s what we’re all discussing. You can fake your way through social events and work when you have depression or anxiety, it’s hard work but most people do it daily just to get by but when you have an episode, and as severe as grace is describing, you can’t just continue on an hour later. She’s saying she was crying/bawling and hyperventilating.. most people’s faces would be red and puffy for hours. She gets breathless walking up the stairs.
She’s mentioned no tangible ways of coping. She goes on and on about her 15 years as a sufferer and all the therapy and medication and says she’s done it all and invested so much in helping herself including“reading, researching and internet searches” (she probably googled everything and did no more).One minute she’s a MH advocate offering advice, the next she’s saying she’s only speaking from her perspective. Either way, she says lavender, incense, meditation and medication is the cure. No mention of CBT or things to actually work with. Nothing below a superficial level. Has she helped anyone? Has she normalised the stigma? All I’ve seen her do is use it as an excuse time and time again. And it’s a valid excuse for a lot of things, but she pulls it out for every little thing. Things don’t add up. She’s selective in what she addresses and she knows people won’t criticise someone going through a bad phase of MH. I think she has had bad episodes in the past, and even now, but conflates every feeling of sadness with a full blown panic attack. She doesn’t seem to cope with normal day to day emotions or responsibilities. There’s no way a good GP and therapist, or her family for that matter, would let this continue where she’s debilitated several times a day. It’s not normal or safe. They wouldn’t let her drink, definitely not on her meds that she said have doubled. The reason they don’t do anything serious is because they know deep down that She’s overexaggerating and dramatising it for her own benefit. She gets her house cleaned, kids minded and she can take to the bed. Unless of course there’s a free brunch going, then she’s up and dressed and out the door. They’re enabling her behaviour. It’s easier to just pander to her than to get her to take a proper look at herself because they know which road is easier.
ew ew ew ew ew.
the person literally said the truth .. truth hurts hun
