Dear "Like Me's",, what a lovely set of posts~! bigotry is rampant in this culture, we all inherit it,, even after we become disabled often we hate ourselves~! but it is a terrible burden to carry a Psych Dx. my worst experiences have been with docs, who don't think i am competent to manage my own life, even tho i am doing it already~! i own a house, a car and have a good credit score, i'm always well dressed and well kept (when they see me). I have never had any encounters with the law, yet docs all assume i am incompetent, just because i haved BiPolar and can't tolerate meds... how they would like to poison me again, and again, just to see if it still works~! I was a client of Voc Rehab, and they did nothing for me, to help me get ready to try to work, to find a volunteer placement, or to get a job,,, it was a really bad joke, and as i was nearing the end of my 5 yr "service plan", the counselor told me i was "unemployable",, 2 months later, i had developed my own job as an outreach worker for an Independent Living Center~!! when i was applying for In Home Care with housekeeping, i was told it was a program for little old ladies dying of cancer,,, what a crock. The senior/disabled bus thought it was only for disabled seniors,,, Really ?? i live in a very small town, and everyone knows that they don't have to help, cause they never have, and it didn't hurt them. Then this week, I got a new doc, cause my old one retired, and he totally stigmatized and traumatized me, and banned me from access,, to the only place in town that takes new Medicare patients~ it's 50 miles to another doc. So i posted in here, under Medical Treatment/Abuse, and guess what,,, the response from a Poohbah was that i was probably delusional~! please go read it and see if i sound delusional ? Thanks so much for sharing these feelings,, just at the right time, for me~. Gus