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Originally Posted by AlwaysChanging2
People have no clue because they haven't been through the wringer like we all have. They try to sympathize for a moment, but they just don't know. But when we persist because we feel that they just don't get it, they get defensive and turns on us.
My family has disowned me and chalked me up to crazy. My present family thinks I'm crazy. Nobody will get it as much as I champion the cause, then they accuse me of being crazy. I quit.
All I want to do is just cry and melt away to nothingness. It's just me and some of y'all because I got to fight some here and there also. I think MI is the loneliest illness. If I had cancer or something else terminal (not knocking cancer because it's awfully the worst), there would be a genuine concern because they can get it, but MI is not.
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yes. i had experience where two family members had physical illnesses, one cancer and one had multiple system atrophy, similar to ALS. one family member was doing all they could for them (this was years apart) and treated them way different than me. i needed help at one point for an eating disorder but was treated like i could just get over that if i 'wanted' to and was treated like it was a choice. they could have fundraised for me to help with treatment like they were more than willing to for my two family members if needed for medical treatment for them but not me. never me. i was not even on the radar for anything like that and actually received help from someone i only knew for a short time online. they saved my life.
i have limited people to talk to about things which is why i came here...and dissociation i think is one of the harder things to struggle with too because it has another element of confusion and so many layers..trauma in general.