Hi, new. Just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on what to do when the people around you invalidate who you are. My family does not believe any diagnosis that a doctor gives and do not believe most anything I say (I have to convey things through my brother to have the family believe me even when it comes to simple things that I have knowlege and experience with). Part of it is when I have been off meds in the past and erratic I spent as much time as I could away from here because of the above mentioned. Because of this I am looking at being thrown into the streets (I don't have anywhere to go). Not sure how to deal with the situation and what to do. IT has been recommended several times by my doctors that I get on disability, but I have trouble getting things like that done and have not yet. If I apply now it will be too late to help this situation. I feel like by being invalidated I am being denied the right to be me. What to do?