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Originally Posted by hartbroken
It's like, leave me alone because I am tired of stigma and stress. If people would willingly educate themselves on symptoms they wouldn't make you feel so stupid and cold and insensitive by their remarks when I'm stressed from a social situation, for instance. We all have computer access now, with internet, and no one should say, "I don't know that much about schizophrenia." Because the only reason why they don't look it up is because they either don't care about you or they care but they don't believe you really have a problem with symptoms.
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It's funny... Some of my friends have looked up SZA and mental illness in general to try to understand what I am going through, and most do not: they just take what I give them and made broad comments based on that. People who have known me for a while (say, a few years) know my triggers because I have told them what those triggers are, and they avoid stressing me. I think people are concerned, but in all the things they have to do every day, my illness takes a low priority.
As to whether they believe you're really sick or not, well... Certainly President Trump does not believe most disabled people are really ill:
Donald Trump on Social Security. This is the message coming down from the top, and it sets the tone for how government officials will respond to disability issues. Mental illness already suffers because it's an "invisible" illness: if you have a leg blown off, people can
see you're disabled. With MI, unless you're babbling and running out in front of trains, you're just a phony. Sad, but true...