My latest pet peeve, with a somewhat backstory:
So, when I was a teen, I had attempted to off myself. That is all of the backstory I will give.
I told every detail to a certain someone who claimed to have bipolar and depression. Several months later, she and I were talking and lo and behold, she told me of a time that she tried to kill herself. And every detail matched the ones I gave word for word.
Like, seriously!? You are trying to cheat the social security people by using my damn stories so they will give you money each month and you do not need to work!? What you are is lazy, and sad because you cannot stay home on your phone all day. You are not depressed. Depression and bipolar cause you such despair and misery and it frigging shows in your daily life. You do not go to bed every night with tears streaming down your face praying to every god that could possibly exist to just give you death. With the level of depression that you claim to feel, I highly doubt that you would have broken down the way you did when you first heard you had cancer (she does not. I was in the room when they gave her the results of her MRI and she does not have it; but a few pieces of garbage had told her that she had it for sure and even gave her a stage number.); instead, you would have felt such a great sense of relief that you are finally getting what you had prayed for: Death. You do not feel as low as you claim. You can and do find joy DAILY in everything so long as you are not working. Your clothes are always immaculate. Your hair is perfectly styled. You take great care of your teeth and you shower daily, sometimes multiple times. When I am low, I cannot even get out of bed. I go a while without changing my clothes. I hack at my hair with a knife just to get rid of the rats nest that gets created when I physically cannot take care of it. I go weeks without being physically capable of brushing my teeth. All of these signs and symptoms show when you are as low as you claim to be. And using my stories while looking immaculate and clean and happy? Psychiatrists can SEE if you are in the mental state that you claim to be in constantly.
And before people say that people react differently: I have seen this person almost daily for the past however many years. These are classic symptoms that someone with these disorders show and they CANNOT HELP BUT SHOW THEM. I have seen this person sad. I have seen them break down and have a few days of just flat out despair. But this person is claiming my symptoms, my stories, and my life, and I know what she is doing with this information, and I am now royally pissed off.
