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Originally Posted by shortandcute
I go to AA and I've had people tell me things like, "Do you have a sponsor?" "Have you worked the steps?" "Maybe you should share more at meetings" "You need to own your recovery." "Your doctor's not your mother!"
I've had other comments like, "You're not that disabled" "You just want people to think you've lost it" "You just want people to say you're mental because you like that."
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This.
Also...
Coming from someone who, my whole life, through alcoholism and everything else life threw my way, held down a job, paid my rent, managed to be a 'functioning member of society', went to school, maintained relationships, moved out on my own, moved all around the place, essentially did what I wanted when I wanted...
And now I can't do too much or else I have a breakdown. I'm on disability and afraid to go back to work because I don't want to have the same thing happen that happened when I left my job. I sometimes can't even leave my house. I get so ****ing sick of people who judge people who live with mental illness or are disabled, whether or not their disability is 'visible'.
I wish I could live my life how I wanted. I wish I could make decisions without having to second guess them all the time and analyze them into nothing. But I can't. And instead I have all these ***holes telling me what to do with my life, and that I'm taking the easy way out.