This is common situation lots of places. My city had lots of new psychosis cases, mostly people who went to the churches to make it stop and now do not mind being a hate monger. Is very common to get harassed about being on disability check after mental care like it is ethics issue we could control as the job situation is my city is so bad, it is not worth it to stay here for this bad wages and work harassment (as normal due to stigma).
Middle age men have snapped and regularly working over coworker ladies and trying to get them fired to land a relationship. Sometimes they brag about driving someone crazy & ended up with child custody. Rest of the men are so poor or screwed up, they have to ruin some girl to use her for a while for $$$, sex, housekeeper or babies. Situation here, even for the churchy stable ones is causing lots of divorce and crazy men who just challenge someone as passive aggression.
Lots of discrimination in schooling too to keep some where they belong…City up the road put the mental illness victims into service jobs like retail and restaurant from which there is no other option but drug dealing or join military. Some say this is running like old segregation in some places.
Also have some churches (baptist is common) telling their people to shun someone on disability for mental as it causes some of their members contact-psychosis for being around the community’s mentally ill. Really likely to get dumped if someone is embarrassed by you or their family member/spouse is one of the church conservative, hate monger types. Rest of the adults at my age 40s have family or grands they are caring for so no time for dealing with friends who want some attention except for the kid-friendly singles…Most demanding friends are dumped by parents.
The causes, organizations, politics, some churches are ruining people to make slaves to serve demands from the local wealthies…
You are going to have to be alone a little bit to get through this. Try to find some friends online – craigslist has some normals on platonic if it is written like someone is literate. Meetup.com has lots of groups in most cities who keep their event calendar on this…The day program, consumer run organization like NAMI or another support group you find may be a good fit…Dating4disabled.com is nice place to meet some like people too.
Some churches are ruining some schizos and even throw you out. Is not fit place to socialize at all, you need to go to church services and I would not attend any of the churches unless I knew a few members just to make sure someone has your back up or you could get screwed. Some churches people are harassing unwanted members for several years after dumping someone…
If anything looks wrong, you need to leave as there is no defense except getting lost and forgotten if you come across something that is disturbing to you and you don’t want anything to do with it.
I find it best never to discuss my diagnosis as nothing shows, except the insomnia problems, unless I am in the company of another person who is part-time psychotic…these always know another schizo victim and most will not hesitate to mistreat you so better off to avoid anyone who is off to you.
Hope it helps.