Write: January 23, 2011
Updated: April 23rd 2025
People with mental illness feel alone.
Depression makes you feel alone. Depression makes you feel like you are the only person in the world who feels the pain and sadness you make. Depression causes negative thoughts of thought that convince you that there is only darkness, nothing and that you are completely alone in the world. This loneliness is a symptom of depression.
Mental illness and lies of loneliness
The bipolar makes you feel alone. The bipolar makes you think you are alone because you feel that no one else is experiencing the tall mania and the low depression. Then there is loneliness with schizophrenia, thanks to the rest of the world that you are unjustly thinking that you are violent and dangerous. And there is an identity disorder that convinces you that you are alone and that no one on the planet is as “crazy” as you.
In short, mental illness makes you feel alone and like no one else like you in the world.
‘High functional’ mental illness and loneliness of pretended
I have written about what it is like to be considered to have a “high -functioning” bipolar. I’ve written about how this persuades people I’m not really sick. I have written about how lonely and exhaustive it is to fake normal at work, to fake normal socially, to fake normal outside in the world. This behavior allows me to lie a life and work and communicate and live despite the fact that I am crushed as I walk through the door of my apartment. “High Mode” should be renamed “High Action”. (Academy can simply send Oscar to my house.)
The power of common experience in mental illnesses
And when I say such things, many people leave comments about the emotion only that is just like this blog comment:
“Thank you thank you. Thank you. You put the words that I was trying to think loudly for decades.”
And then there is this blog comment:
“… It’s comforting to hear that I’m not alone in it. I feel like a freak for years. Thank you.”
The above comments are actually what I have from people all the time. I am a great pride, as my writing is able to influence people in this way. If all my writing ever does is help people realize that they are not alone, that they are like so many others, that there are thousands of us out there, that they are not “freaks”, then my writing is worth it.
Human beings feel like a freak. Human beings feel alone
Every teenager in the world, at the moment, feels like a freak. Each of them feels alone. Each of them feels like it is unique and no one understands their pain. This is just a universal teenage experience. There is something about the human condition that convinces us that we are alone, at least when we are teenagers. If we return to our teenage years, we can begin to understand how people with mental illness feel.
This is useful because I have found that even those who talk about mental illnesses really find it really difficult to express what it is to have their mental illness. It’s not their fault. Their brain is ill. And need their brain to express themselves. It’s a catch-22.
When we grow older, we come to know that there are many people like us. Their hordes. We learn that we are not alone. There are people who were just like our teenage self everywhere. Unfortunately, people with mental illness often do not have this experience. People with mental illness often know no other person with mental illness, as no one wants to talk about mental illness. No one wants to talk to be alone with depression or bipolar.
You are not alone: Proof that others also feel that
It doesn’t matter if you are experiencing depression, bipolar, schizophrenia or anything else – I can guarantee you with all the certainty that tomorrow the sun will grow, that you are not alone. All the frightening feelings of mental illness are the same feelings that someone else has with mental illness.
- People believe they are alone because they were injured-many people were injured. I have the signs to prove it.
- People think they are alone because they are suicidal – many people feel suicide at the same time and pass through it. I have the signs to prove that too.
- People believe they are alone because of psychotic, delusional or irrational thoughts – almost everyone with mental illness has these thoughts to some extent (although not everyone is increasing at the level of psychosis).
Whatever you are afraid of, whatever your secret is, what keeps you at night, what hurts your life, you are not alone.
Final Thoughts: Don’t Believe Lying of isolation
The one thing to remember is this: As long as you are hiding from the monster of mental illness in the dark, so is everyone else. People don’t want to talk about their pain and pain. Mentally sick often cannot find words to talk about their illness. But just because you haven’t heard their story doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. This idea that you are alone? This is a lie. This is a lie that your mental illness feeds you. Don’t believe this lie.
