Post by Jedi on Mar 25, 2019 13:01:07 GMT -5
Sometimes I feel like the world knows I'm not right. Other times I think I have them all fooled. All my years in retail have helped me act semi-normal in public and with the public. But I have my days where I have to adult and I'm wearing yesterday's clothes and I just don't care. Or I'm irritable and everyone is going to know........etc. The stigma remains. Luckily, I have not had many just drop me as a friend. I lost more friends coming out as a lesbian. But.......jobs don't like to promote the mentally ill or even really employ them with reasonable accommodation. And the ones who refuse to be medicated or were medicated and then stop their meds........they are the ones who make it that much harder for us (the ones who stay medication and treatment compliant). The world doesn't look at individual stories or any of that.......they look at statistics and what gets reported. No one will ever know that that fireman who rescued their kitty from the tree or that lady from the crushed car was on psych meds and being treatment compliant. That stuff never gets reported. All the public knows are the non compliant ones who act all crazy in public or worse gain weaponry and shoot people. It really is a shame for those of us who are responsible about our illness(es).