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Originally Posted by newtus
It's weird being in the mental health field and everyone around u is talking about schizophrenics they've encountered. And you're just like thinking, "I'm a schizophrenic you'd encounter."
I dont say anything tho. I just listen to them talk about stories of people they've had to deal with. I think only my supervisor knows about my disorder because I put it on the application since it was required to apply. Not required to disclose but required to tell your story in some way, so I put it in there.
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I feel similar while majoring in human services and psychology in college. Especially in the abnormal psych classes I've been in with the professors talking all about people with schizophrenia and bipolar symptoms, medications, etc and then other students commenting on people they've seen or worked with and some of them being shocked by some of the symptoms and stuff. It's strange. I know there's people who have experienced anxiety and stuff in those classes and can relate to that but then the psychotic type stuff most don't understand personally or haven't had that experience and only know of the schizophrenic people they've seen in movies or walking down the streets yelling and whatnot, and it's weird hearing about all that stuff knowing I have the disorder I do and what I've experienced
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“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” -St. Francis of Assisi
Diagnosis:
Schizoaffective disorder Bipolar type
PTSD
Social Anxiety Disorder
Anorexia Binge/Purge type