And this is not the only time this has happened. I see posts from people claiming to be mental health nurses and techs online who show little compassion for the mentally ill.

One (alleged) nurse told me that people "like me" were violent and dangerous and shouldn't talk to each other. She basically said her years of work made her opinion the truth and said a bunch of other offensive things about mentally ill people.

When I told her how rude and judgmental she was being, she responded that she didn't hate people with mental illness, she found them "interesting". Gee, thanks?

It makes it hard to confide in doctors, social workers, etc. when I know that behind their masks of understanding, they really just think I'm disturbed and crazy.