Month: October 2022

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), a mental disorder occurring when an experience causes detrimental problems. Causing a person to not be able to recover and move on from that experience. PTSD is most commonly seen with people in the army, in women, and in different ethnic and race groups other than Caucasian. When having PTSD it can come with symptoms such as: flashbacks and nightmares, sadness and anger, and being detached or estranged from people around. These multiple factors coming from this mental health disorder causes people to not live their life to its full potential. Someone full of life once before strayed away because of this traumatic experience. Some experiences to the extreme or some small experience that most move on from. None insufficient. The constant fear dragging around with this person. Most mental health disorders cause a person to feel like a double to their own self. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is one of them. There is this person they were before the traumatic experience and then there is this double of them that can’t seem to recover after the traumatic experience. PTSD not only affects the person themself but also the people close to them. Family and friends can grieve the person that was left behind and hate the double that is now. Now all these people see is a dull person not seeing the future ahead. They feel sadden for this person, wanting the best for them. For them to get better.

How do you get help for the mental health disorder Post Traumatic Stress Disorder? There is treatment available for people suffering from PTSD. There is medications and therapy available to help treat PTSD. In about 15-20 sessions of therapy it is proven that over half of the patients are relieved or helped with PTSD. Therapy and medication may not be a parament solution but will help tremendously with symptoms shown with PTSD.

Bipolar Disorder, “a disorder associated with episodes of mood swings ranging from depressive lows to manic highs”. Bipolar Disorder is quite literally not feeling yourself. Bipolar episodes can last days and even months at a time. To not feel like your “normal” self for so long seems like a big challenge battling the inner double that lives vicariously through the brain. Bipolar Disorder can come from genetics or developed over time. A person with such mental health disorder will never know when their true self is showing for if it is their double. The double to them can feel like this empty person just feeling the space. They are not truly there. Bipolar Disorder is one of the most hated mental health disorders. It causes a person to lose friends and family. Not that they can help it. This emotional damage is causing damage in someone’s real life. A person can never really know who they will get dealing with a person with bipolar disorder. Because of this a person actually dealing with this mental health disorder will distance themself and avoid confrontation with other people. They are scared of this double. To have bipolar disorder can mean you have many more mental health diagnoses, like anxiety or an eating disorder. Bipolar disorder is one of the mental health disorders that can have more than just a double. there isn’t just this one thing causing them not to be their true self, but multiple other factors. There are doubles on top of doubles on top of doubles and a person with bipolar disorder is fighting through all of them trying to live as one.

There are medications and other forms of treatment available to help with bipolar disorder. It can cause a person suffering with bipolar disorder to somewhat feels like those multiple doubles are away. It can maybe make them feel as though the doubles aren’t as strong and taking over that person’s life.

To feel “black and blue” means to feel down or unhappy, the mental health disorder Depression means so much more than that. Clinical Depression can take away common things in a person’s life. It can make someone feel as though they are not themselves anymore. Depression can range from just not wanting to get up for the day because of something bad that happened or it can mean not wanting to get up for the day because you just can’t. There was a time when a person could be their normal self. Now, with depression, they can’t. A person then feels like they are living this double life, and they can’t get away. There are 3 million cases of Clinical Depression a year, 3 million. These people having to keep their true self put away and live in this double of themself. They can lose friends and family because of this obnoxious double. No one wants to be a part of this double’s life, they aren’t cheerful and can’t do ordinary activities. This double then becomes a reality for a person with depression. The person they once were is now the double. It is hard for people with Clinical Depression to overcome their mental health. So much so a person can feel like they can proceed no longer. That double was the final form.

Some on the other hand can ditch the obnoxious double and can live their true self again. They get the help they need to face Depression. Some ways a person can do so is by talking to a professional. More than 80% of people with depression say talking it out can help.