What is Your Pet Peeve?

Nika said:
Hear Again: I can totally relate to you. My family denied my PTSD for years. Now they oscillate between believing and denying me, and when they believe me, they think it's self-induced, despite the obvious name--Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, as in the stress disorder that occurs after trauma. I'm glad to see your sister is starting to vaguely understand.
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i'm sorry to hear that your family doesn't fully accept your ptsd. <sad> you'd think they would given the definition of what ptsd is, but then again, i know alot of families who are in denial when it comes to certain mental illnesses and disorders. hopefully your family will be able to achieve full acceptace of your ptsd at some point.

if truth be told, according to my therapist and new psychiatrist, i was exhibiting symptoms of bipolar in my early 20s (which is the typical onset of the illness and the time between first symptomatology and diagnosis is an average of 10 years due to people with bipolar being incorrectly diagnosed with other disorders like major depressive disorder). to my surprise, when i told my sister that and explained some of the behaviors i had back then, she agreed, so i think she is finally starting to understand!
 
I hate it when the downstairs cafeteria runs out of those little coffee creamers. I get very testy when my coffee isn't right. :evil:
 
Nika;1195036[B said:
]I'm more peeved at the fact my parents never believed me when I told them I'm blind.[/B]



I'm really glad to hear that. The few times I've eaten out with friends at nice places and asked for a braille menu, they said they didn't have one. I have taken to suggesting that they have braille and large print menus, and that they also have braille signage, especially on the bathroom doors. (This one drives me nuts cause the doors are usually side to side or adjacent to each other so there's really no telling which is men's and which is women's.)
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Geez, it sounds so eearily similiar to my parents not believing that I am really deaf but did believe that my brother is deaf when we were growing up. I was their "hearing' child. A heavy burden to carry!
 
shel90 said:
Geez, it sounds so eearily similiar to my parents not believing that I am really deaf
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I'm really sorry to hear that. It's amazing how parents can deny something so obvious and miss all the signs, also obvious.
 
society's_child said:
I hate it when the downstairs cafeteria runs out of those little coffee creamers. I get very testy when my coffee isn't right. :evil:
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Do others around you notice it? Something tells me they don't. Yer just too nice n' all.......:lol:
 
David said:
Football quarterbacks lick their FINGERS (not hands) for a reason.
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Still, it's nasty.

Imagine the germs he put on his fingers and then he touch the football and throw it, and the guy who catch the ball gets his germs from the ball so...I dont think I even want to shake hands with anyone who do that. :ugh:
 
Nika said:
I'm so happy to hear that your sister is finally starting to understand!
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thanks, nika! i saw a positive sign of this yesterday when we started talking about my move to arizona and the first thing she asked me was, "where will you receive therapy, inpatient psychiatric treatment and a psychiatrist?" that demonstrates to me she's considering my bipolar and knows it is a very real diagnosis.
 
my pet peeve is walking along a clear sidewalk, then finding knee deep snow and walking to the corner only to learn that it hasn't been shoveled causing me to have to find a driveway and walk in the street. (this happened to me today. i left my home at 1:30 and it took me almost 2 hours to get home!)
 
Nika said:
I have PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and some things trigger me meaning I get flashbacks from certain sounds, sensations, or emotional situations. Most of the time people think I am just being inflexible or selfish, but it's actually completely involuntary.

Don't worry you won't be hearing anything about "oh that's just an excuse" from me. I completely understand. <smile>
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Why do you think you have PTSD?
 
Another pet peeve... I really hate it when people talk about their over-hyped, over exaggerated mental illnesses (and other conditions) just to draw attention to themselves.
 
David said:
Another pet peeve... I really hate it when people talk about their over-hyped, over exaggerated mental illnesses (and other conditions) just to draw attention to themselves.
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if you don't like it david, then don't read our posts. consider yourself fortunate that you don't have a mental illness.

this is alldeaf -- a forum where we can talk about *all* kinds of topics. if you don't like nika or i talking about our mental illnesses, put us on your ignore list.

by the way, i could care a flying fig what you think about my bipolar disorder.
 
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my pet peeve are people who think mental illnesses aren't legitimate and only serve to bring attention to the sufferer.
 
back to pet peeves. i hate it when i think i have enough money in my wallet for something i need and then find out differently. (i always check this ahead of time before i go shopping, but if i find out that i'm low on cash, this means yet another trip to the bank since i don't like to use sighted assistance at atm's nor do i like to carry my debit card except in cases where the amount of money i'm paying is $100 or more)
 
Hear Again said:
my pet peeve are people who think mental illnesses aren't legitimate and only serve to bring attention to the sufferer.
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I hear ya! I have bipolar and major depression as well, along with ptsd due to my childhood and my ex husband. People that don't understand or believe in mental illness do like people who don't understand deaf/hoh, blind or deaf/blind and make fun of us because of ignorance of the issue. Just like the kids in school on lunch break making you sit in a different place because you aren't like them and they call you names and pick on you, it's the fear of what they don't know or don't understand. If he went through what any one of us has lived through and understood anything about it then he wouldn't say things like he said. I dare him to live through being raped and beaten or left for dead or something just as horrible... ok my little rant is over.....
 
Hear Again said:
my pet peeve is walking along a clear sidewalk, then finding knee deep snow and walking to the corner only to learn that it hasn't been shoveled
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Same here! The worst is inconsistency (shoveled, unshoveled, somewhat shoveled, then unshoveled again, etc.) cause then you think, oh no more snowbank, and then it comes right back! I get so confused and nervous.
 
David said:
Why do you think you have PTSD?
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You sound a lot like my family right now.

David, you don't know anything about me except that I'm blind and dating a Deaf person. You don't even know how old I am. So your statement holds no ground. If you knew something about me that led you to believe I don't have PTSD, and then questioned me, then I would answer your question. But seeing as the only thing you know so far is a few pet peeves of mine, I won't even bother to answer.

Suffice it to say that I fit the criteria listed in the DSM-IV under section 309.81.
 
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