It's hard to explain fully without giving away information I'd rather not (just because I'm skittish about the internet in general). Suffice to say they're trying to use this information against my husband.

For the most part it's pointless because I've never hidden the severity of my mental illness. The worst of it is hearing someone say nasty things about me *because* of my mental illness. It digs up a lot of hurt from being bullied in school and having had people tell me it was a character flaw and if I just "bucked up" and did X (insert favorite activity here) I'd suddenly get better.

And it makes me angry because my transparency in this has brought me into contact with people in our small town who have mental illness and have lived with stigma in silence.

What the hell is it with people using mental illness as a personal weakness??? Will someone explain this to me because I have had it up to my eyeballs with stigma.

Sorry. Hurt makes me ragey