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Jun 20, 2014, 04:42 AM
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Member Since: Dec 2012
Location: Australia
Posts: 635
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Stigma is definitely alive and well! I cannot begin to count the number of people who have treated me badly because of their own assumptions of what mental illness actually is.
Most recently I've been verbally attacked, repeatedly, by someone who is medicated but has no real understanding of MI. She honestly thinks it's as simple as taking a pill and "getting over it". It's caused serious issues in my relationship (she is my fiancé's friend and her attacks have been in regard to our relationship) because I won't sit back and take it. As the OP said:
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Originally Posted by MotownJohnny
If people can't accept me for who and what I am, I don't need them in my life. If they want to make a fight out of it, so be it, I'm ready for that, too.
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