Posted this in the lounge because I wasn’t sure if it would work in Dx’d.
Anyway. Couldn’t sleep and began to think about a topic I posted and one particular response. It really made me think deeper into entitlement. Then that led to entitlement as humans and any type of person you can imagine.
But…as people who suffer from a severe form of mental Illness are we entitled to anything?
On a deeply personal level I feel that we all do. We didn’t ask for this. We suffer from horrible symptoms and even abuse from others. Overt to casual abuse. People avoid us at times. Stop pursuing relationships with us. More.
We supposedly are protected by law for disabled people. But how often do we see sz portrayed as sociopath in TV and Movies? It isn’t fair and I believe we deserve and are entitled to better treatment in care and from others in general.
Our only responsibility as men is to accept the lot we were given. We aren’t owed anything. We borrowed our bodies from the earth our spirit from the unknown.
Maybe not from the Universe. I mean from fellow man and society that persecutes mentally ill. Sz and sza in particular. Apologies could be a start. Better access to treatment would be as well.
The problem is society is afraid of us and they like drama and crazy ■■■■ on tv…it seems to be getting worse. I feel as if we are categorized and put in a box and labeled to keep us from being “alive” and in that box we are zombies from medsfucking zombies
I do dislike how media makes us out to be monsters or whatever in movies and such. And every other shooter has a MI because they need reasons that don’t reflect poorly on their affiliation (NRA/whatever else)
There’s just so little desire for an honest conversation. Everybody has a point in my opinion, they’re just too defensive to have that conversation and too reliant on cheap tricks in conversation to get the other side to look bad rather than try and understand them.
We really didn’t and the people who put us down need more perspective as they’re FORTUNATE to not have this illness. That’s the main point they should get from it as an outsider. Count your blessings. Be grateful! Be humble! Of course tons of terrible other things that can happen to u in the world. But be grateful for what u do have. Be grateful for what u do not have to deal with. And be nice. I gave up on being owed anything by anyone. But I used to feel owed. And it was probably a natural emotion. Like an apology rather than continued scrutiny and abuse. All I’d really want. But some people are too shallow minded to apologize. Oh well. Gotta learn to make peace with myself really.
What do you feel we can do to get the understanding that (I feel) is owed to us? Is there anything we can do? It is like no one cares about anything unless a celebrity comes out about it.
Depression is all the rage right now because of stars, both internet stars and Hollywood, coming out. I’m not minimizing depression, BUT (my famous but) there are more MIs and damned if sz/sza isn’t demonized worse than almost any.
I don’t think there’s a way to manufacture acceptance. It’s going to take people widening their circle of friends or family, and that’s something that occurrs naturally. Of course, the internet has helped this along for as long as I’ve been observing.
This forum, for instance. I would not think half the things I do about mental illness and people with mental illness if I had not gotten to know you all, albeit anonymously. It helps us sound out different viewpoints at least.