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Originally Posted by A Little Lost
I don't understand your response - please clarify. If you are saying that you agree with the way this has played out and that you have no problem with what I have gone thru here - I take serious issue with that.
What do you mean you have "been in it" for 44 years. What is the "it" you refer to? Is "it" a hospital, or might "it" be a reference to your being in counseling or as a counselor for 44 years, please clarify - this thread is very important to me and don't want to leave the wrong understanding in perpetuity.
I hope I am wrong and that you were not attempting to blow off what happened to me. Please clarify as to whom you respond, the issues involved, etc. Right now I cannot understand what you were meaning to convey. And like I said, this discussion revolves around something in my life that has been rife with potential misunderstandings and so I don't want the discussion to be misunderstood either.
Thank you for clarifying please.
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I hope this helps. I just wanted you to know that in my experience what is happening to you is nothing new. It is what I and many other people with mental illness endure. I am not trying to minimize your pain or your experience at all. Sorry that I upset you. What I meant by "being in it" for 44 years. Is being mentally ill, being told to fix myself, being blamed for everything that had gone wrong in everyone else's life, getting no sympathy, being abandoned etc. It is a horrible lonely life. The people who succeed in life with a mental illness are the ones that isolate take care of themselves and stay as far away from people with no mental illness, never go get a full time job etc.