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Originally Posted by A Red Panda
No one can lock me up because of anything in my medical files, as there is no access to them outside of the medical staff. As I don't do anything illegal, there is no way to be locked up.
Medical staff are required to treat me respectfully as that is their job - if they didn't, and if they discriminated against me, I would file a complaint.
Other people do not discriminate against me, nor look down on me, because they are unaware of what I go through sometimes.
My diagnosis doesn't define me. It was simply an explanation of a part of my life that I knew had been f***ing with me for years. I didn't need to accept it because I already knew exactly what I experience.
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I disagree with just one thing. There is a stigma and they do discriminate against people with mental illness. It is a known fact that people who are mentally ill, when they present with physical ailments, are just not taken as seriously.
They may be required but they don't always do what they are supposed to do.