Rant about mental illness/PDs (ironic I know)

[SparkStillLit]

I know I have shut down rants, and this one too. Sometimes, though, he zings this one in particular when I'm trapped or engaged and it's more difficult for me to get out of it or get him shut off. (Lol)
He "doesn't believe" in all these doctors handing out PD or mental health disorder diagnoses, it's just so they can "push pills", and "mark my words" in years to come antidepressants will be like the opioids of today and we will be having the same conversations about them. (Both YA and I take antidepressants and he absolutely is aware of this. It's new to both of us and she has had to go through what seems like every kind to find a hit. I struck gold first time.). He says if people would just fix their diet and exercise like him, there wouldn't be these issues 
I just had to get that out there, written and out of my head. Thank you. I know, I KNOW it's absolute garbage. I mean, the one small thing is that good diet, exercise, and therapy go together with meds. That's ok. The rest is invalidating ugly garbage. How about some yoga now.

[losingmyself]

Absolutely, and they know more than anyone in the world, ever. About everything.
I hope YA finds the right med soon, I imagine it has to be extremely frustrating to keep finding that this isn't the one... on to the next. There will be one. My family struggles with depression of one sort or another, diagnosed or un, and I know it just takes time, but once you get there, things get better.
Rant away, you go girl.
But then, just...deep breath....
God Bless

[Poison Ivy]

I think that my late (former) father-in-law probably struggled with anxiety and depression throughout his life. I know that he did not believe in mental health treatment, although I'm not sure what all his reasons were. I don't know whether treatment would have helped him, and he was never incompetent, so I accept that he had the right to not get treatment. But I think that if his beliefs about treatment had been different, his life and his family members' lives would have been better. At the least, he might have sought out treatment for his oldest son, my ex-husband, who likely would have benefitted from early intervention (versus not getting any help until he was an adult, in his late 20s or early 30s).

[Fae Greenwood]

I know I have shut down rants, and this one too. Sometimes, though, he zings this one in particular when I'm trapped or engaged and it's more difficult for me to get out of it or get him shut off. (Lol)
He "doesn't believe" in all these doctors handing out PD or mental health disorder diagnoses, it's just so they can "push pills", and "mark my words" in years to come antidepressants will be like the opioids of today and we will be having the same conversations about them. (Both YA and I take antidepressants and he absolutely is aware of this. It's new to both of us and she has had to go through what seems like every kind to find a hit. I struck gold first time.). He says if people would just fix their diet and exercise like him, there wouldn't be these issues 
I just had to get that out there, written and out of my head. Thank you. I know, I KNOW it's absolute garbage. I mean, the one small thing is that good diet, exercise, and therapy go together with meds. That's ok. The rest is invalidating ugly garbage. How about some yoga now.

Well isn't that ironic. I wonder what he'd do if he was told that living with a high-stress person like him, someone with a PD, was likely exacerbating his wife and daughter's depression requiring them to take mediation. Perhaps if you lived with someone like you, as HE does, all you'd need is exercise and good diet too.      
He likely thinks living with him is a daily treat. My uNPDh certainly does.

[SeaBreeze]

My uNPDh says psychiatrists are quacks, psychologists are witch doctors, etc. When 2 of our 3 kids took turns attending counselling (after they each came to me privately and requested it themselves) he speculated they were likely complaining about what a bad father he was. (uNPDh was not totally wrong...but they were struggling with other issues as well.)

The two times in the past that I was prescribed antidepressants -- and actually felt happier, better about myself, and confident enough to stand up to him --  he expressed "concern" that the meds me "manic".

He sought counselling 2x after I put my foot down and demanded it (yeah I know better now, this was years ago) . The first time, he circled back around to psychiatrists are quacks, psychologists are witch doctors, and stopped going. The 2nd time, after only one session, the psychiatrist supposedly cleared him of having any type of PD so  that was proof I am the one with the problem, not him. (Guess it wasn't quack science anymore...)

I learned, as others have posted here on Out of the FOG, not to let him see me reading any books on mental health, PDs, marriage advice, abuse... Thank goodness for Kindle, and Out of the FOG, although I'm still super careful and look over my shoulder a lot. PDs don't want us nons to educate ourselves, or feel better about ourselves, because then they lose control over us.