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I accidentally overdosed once and the hospital psychiatrist believed it was intentional. My mother and personal psychiatrist convinced him otherwise.
Have you ever experienced stigma due to your illness? How did it manifest?
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859.
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