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Old Dec 01, 2016, 07:49 PM
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Originally Posted by LauraBeth View Post
I am so sorry. Stigma has long,choking arms. Is there any hope if you gather some good, solid mental health articles, print them out, and give them to family members? Usually the kind of shaming you've experienced comes from ignorance. Education could provide some enlightenment.
That's something I did a few months back. Didn't make a difference. If anything, it made it worse. According to them, people with mental illness are weak and need to be weeded out of the strong. It's pretty disheartening, to be honest. Even my fiance says my family is ignorant as ****. I recently found out that after I went to the hospital, my fiance did a bunch of research on all of it and learned as much as he could, just so he could help me. I love him for it but it opened my eyes to my family. They all said I needed to grow up and get over it. That they didn't need to learn about a fake illness.
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