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Originally Posted by Balthascar810
My friend says that nobody really said anything bad to her either except her sibling said for a joke: let's dump her somewhere. I have faced so much prejudice and discrimination that I am sick to my back teeth goes the saying. I was pushed pretty hard. Nobody has called me crazy even though I was wild and have done some crazy stunts. But as you can see from my story I have had a really tough time proving myself to my family and escaping a bad relationship where I was not respected one bit. All because of the hospital stigma MORE than handling the mental unwelll phases and managing a condition. The stigma has had just as much of an impact on my life than my experience with clinical depression. It is a mad world.
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I am so sorry you have had to face all of that. My family has a major history of mental illness so they understand it all including the alcohol, hospitalizations and even when I was facing the possibility of not only losing my job but also my kids in December.
My mother is horrible though. She made a comment about my father that caused me a hospitalization because she was telling me about how horrible he was while she was with him. He is bipolar and she was telling me this just weeks after I was diagnosed. I was so upset that I convinced myself I was in a nightmare and needed to die to wake up. I havent talked to her since.
I quit my last job and didnt work for 3 years and during that time was when more noticable episodes and then really bad ones started. Before that it was only really depression. I have been lucky with this job. I was so close to losing it though because I started missing work because I was blackout drunk and as I said my work is in the hospital so the police had to keep taking me there for medical check while I was drunk and then mental check once I was sober. Plus right after that was a month in hospital(a different one though, we have no psych ward or extensive medical care that I needed then)