Thank you, both for sharing your experience living with our diseases. This is exactly why I sought this site and the reason for my post. It's my first thread as I feel intimidated in sharing my thoughts out loud.
Since my second return for medical treatment and compliance for 2 1/2 yrs now. I was able to be out of work which, made my treatment plan much easier to follow through. I've had visits to pMD that has taken a slow weeded to every 2 months. My therapy was weekly until now being every 2 wks. so my treatment plan has been intense and frequent that I couldn't help but, living, breathing, eating my disorder.
I love it. All this regurgitation has helped increase my self worth, find forgiveness, and feel less shame. It's made me passionate about wanting to bring mental awareness to the lay folks who can't relate and minimize their poor judgement.
Believe me when I convey that as a nurse in the medical profession, I was taken off guard by the level of discrimination I received. You would be surprised how rumours spread through an organization from one hospital to the next.
There was a time in my profession when we nurses empathiezed a fellow nurse with mental illness and provided the support by holding her position. Those days are long gone.
Did the media or reality shows encourage the changing social increase of discrimination seen today? I just don't know but, I do know I have found a new purpose and passion to share my life's story and bring whatever hope and faith that I can that our disorder is not something to be feared, or stand us in judgement, more importantly, pretend we don't exist.