False Emotion Disorder **STRONG AB/SU Triggers**

[Suzi]

Hi and welcome to DWD.

Whilst I think I see where you are coming from, it's not something that I think is applicable for everyone.
I don't think for one second that being seen by mental health professionals or taking medication for mental health makes you less than "sane." Is it only those two medications you have taken? There are so many different types, you may have found another one or a combination which helps better? Do you have a support network around you?

As someone who has had post natal depression, I don't think it was linked at all to my face feeling overwhelmed, and I have nursed my husband through several breakdowns, severe depression and panic attacks so bad that he couldn't leave the house - again, I don't think it was led by his face either..

However much I disagree with your opinion, I'm not muting you and your thoughts as we all have different ways of dealing with our own mental health.

[Ken Willidau]

Thanks for putting up my post. As one psychiatrist put it, 'You have absolutely no mental issues. None that I can treat. If there is something wrong with you, you are doing it to yourself.'. I have been on a couple of other medications. They just don't help. No effect starting them, and I quit both the Effexor (highest dosage) and Prozac (2nd highest dosage) cold turkey after a year and nothing. I can't remember the other ones.

This theory would be more for the people who are sitting there thinking about something like what someone said to them at work 30 years ago. Where you are constantly thinking about issues that have no relevance, anymore, other than they just keep popping into your head making you mad, again, and again, and again. It wouldn't apply to people suffering the real depression of a tragedy or loss.

As for a support network, never heard of it. (LOL) It's hard to get support when you're the happiest person people know. When I'm engaged with them.

Thanks, I'll be interested to see what anyone else thinks of it.

I hope your husband is doing better. And you as well.

[Paula]

Hi and welcome. I have a question, if you are the happiest person people know, and I assume therefore have positive facial expressions in general, how is it your face affecting your mood?

I have to say I found your ideas difficult to stomach. I am by nature a positive, optimistic person and don’t go around with an angry/worried/sad face (even when I’m struggling - you’d never know I’m ill from my expressions most of the time). I find it difficult to believe that my 3 decades of illness is caused by me having a sad face all that time. Mental health is far more complicated than that and our brains are immensely intricate - we know so little about them - so your theory is over simplistic and doesn’t pay any respect by the wonderful complexity of the human body and mind