It seems like everywhere I go, other people seem to take advantage of me.
Its definitely because of my mental illness and because I’m too passive.
I really need to stop letting others walk all over me.
My new case manager cancelled on me.
I was relying on her for a ride.
I’m tired of this crap.
Do others take advantage of you?
Just wondering.
“Do others take advantage of you?”
almost everyone.
tis why I’m grateful that I only know family.
People can try, but I don’t let them. I’m fairly assertive.
Yeah, but they usually only get one chance.
Sometimes but I’ve learned to put my foot down. Also people take advantage of other people regardless of mentally ill or not. Maybe don’t take it too personal. I know I’m very sensetive about being mentally ill.
your case manager gives you rides!
depends how much you pay them
Yes, she is supposed to.
Why, don’t all Case managers do this?
I don’t pay her anything.
It’s through a Charity
You’re kidding?
Mine never did anything but look across the desk at me for 15 minutes.
She dropped me when I asked what it was she was managing. That was my first, and last case manager.
Yeah I’m not impressed.
I only let the right people take advantage
i am suppose to see a case manager through my current clinic but they are swamped , i am too nice to people. my in laws take advantage of me for my money and my parents take advantage of me by emotionally draining me.
Since becoming ill? I can’t recall. But just through out life, yes.
Oh my gosh yes! My family takes advantage of me. I recently came into some money and I couldn’t have it and didn’t need it,so I gave it away. I gave away $4500! My neighbors found out I had it and kept trying to break in to steal it. But I rarely leave the house and have 2 little alarm dogs that would go crazy everytime they jiggled the front door to check if it was locked. They never broke in. I warned them if they ever broke in they’d get a shotgun blast to the chest.
Yes. Constantly.
Sometimes people take advantage. I sometimes lose the ability to kind of control how I respond to others. I just listen and do what people tell me. It is usually my mom though. I think it is part of negative symptoms and executive functioning loss.
I have a hard time taking care of myself around certain people.
I have a hard time with others partly because of the initial stress, that is, I was raised in an alcoholic home.
Also, my schizophrenia limits me in my ability to understand what others mean when they say something.
J.
I scare some people but damn teenagers never miss an opportunity to bug me. A lot of them are cool but a lot of them are also total assholes who take advantage of nice people. Basically I feel a lot of people in public use me but a lot of them are not using me and they are actually friendly people.
I have been preyed on immensely in my life. We live in a world where many prey on the weak. I wish it wasn’t like that, but it is. People sniff for weakness and an opening to strike. I have tried so hard to get along with people (too hard) that it left me open and they struck.
I am sort of grateful that I am alone now. At least I am not being preyed on.
The same thing happens to me as well.
I think that Negative Symptoms has something to do with it also.