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Post by Sketcher2 on Aug 4, 2017 2:41:22 GMT
Do you do anything to help with de-stigmatization of this illness. I show all my friends the real me so when I am sad or in an attack they can tell that I am ill and they know me as a kind and considerate person. So that helps de-stigmatize the illness.
How about you?
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Post by David on Aug 4, 2017 3:34:52 GMT
By introducing members of the outside world those who have schizophrenia..
Which is what happens when we have open days and charity events
in a fellowship we have here aptly called MIND...
Covering all forms of mental illness across its wide remit.
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Post by sue13 on Aug 6, 2017 20:14:00 GMT
I am very open with my illness these days and although they have changed the label from schiz to temporal lobe dysrythmia/ epilepsy w major psychcotic depressive disorder...those who fled when I was dx with schz can keep running, dont want to see anything but their back.When they found out that a dormant brain injury had caused it they were back like a flash...I simply say it presents the same as SCZ...that gets them going...no I start the CONVERSATION...too old to waste time on people who tell me their third cousins daughters nephews wife had a condition like mine and cured it by standing on her head drinking cabbage juice....I simply tell them my pdoc gets a $1000 for every pill he prescribes and they look at me....IGNORANCE SUPREMO....people...a spectator sport.
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Post by David on Aug 7, 2017 1:28:35 GMT
I find what you say here most welcome Sue
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Post by sue13 on Aug 13, 2017 20:01:35 GMT
If it werent so true it would be funny David x
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Post by walterchang on Aug 16, 2017 6:20:33 GMT
I fear that others know about my illness and I told one of my classmate who I am get well along with in my university. There are too many stigma to the mentally ill.
you can look over the media news about the patients with szhicophrina and always find the negtive ones.
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Post by sue13 on Aug 17, 2017 18:05:31 GMT
Nobody wakes up and thinks...oh today I will go psychotic...it is not a choice Walter but I hear what you say...if we had diabetes, cancer or some other ailment we would get support and love but as we have an illness that is so misunderstood we are alienated...it is easier for others...well they can go to hell I am sorry...this was not a life choice, it is a chronic illness that we do our best to manage..it is time they put some cement on their weeties and treated us like the individuals coping with a debilitating illness...we deserve that...sorry to be abrupt.
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