I don’t mean to throw shade at narcissists. You deserve what you earned for sure, nobody can take that from you. I wouldn’t say it was luck either. Getting those things requires some degree of agency.
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When I see a woman insane and ranting in the street I like to tell people that that’s what I’m like if I don’t take my meds
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In general nobody owes us anything. They didn’t do anything to us in general although individuals who hurt us in reality may owe us individual apologies. Even then you may find you did something bad to them. I would like to thank those people who saw fit to allow me to have a roof over my head, food in my stomach, a bathroom to clean myself up and poop in. I am also thankful for my meds. So many other places provide so much less.
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What you say is not true!
This isn’t about a symptom it’s about respect on a personal level, but potshots are cool.
There are 45 posts in this thread so far and I haven’t read them. But I do believe the world owes us for what we have had to go through. The worst case is this: we have several anti-social traits. I know I look sad and I don’t have much of a smile most days. I know that paranoia is sharply unpopular socially. I know that for years I have been silent socially and this is also very poorly received by most people of society. So we suffer socially. But also we suffer inside of ourselves for no good reason either.
I wonder why we are put through all of this and I happen to believe we are serving a function in the world, and that someday we deserve a reward.
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I’m not really owed anything, I’m thankful that people care enough to subsidise my meds and force inject me wen I can’t think right for myself
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I think it’s mostly peculiarities of world economics. Basically the rich can make money through real estate and various means of loan sharking and other usury. Most of the rest of us can never hope to reach that wealth threshhold where our money can do the “work” for us so we are forced into substandard healthcare, poorer food choices, toxic neighborhoods, renting and seeking escapes through drugs and other distractions which further chip away at our meager savings.
Furthermore, if you solve any kind of problem for another person or enhance their life in any way you are doing valuable and real “work” regardless of whether or not they have the dignity or ability to pay you for it.
Ummm! I feel it doesn’t owe me anything. I would like to see my sexual assailant punished but now the law is on his side. Other than that i can’t say I’m bitter about life. Right now I’m just trying to improve myself.
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they owe me shelter and foood
i just tick along and if i am owed anything its up to the karma police to dish it out and balance it up. i’ll have a bit more respect please and a dash of common sense
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Does anyone care about anybody, really? I think we live in a self-centered society…with that saying, what people don’t understand makes them judge or be nervous about. And unfortunately the media plays into people’s fears as if we are monsters like zombies in the apocalypse. I do not disclose my mental illness and I was hanging with some friends and they were talking so “harshly” about a friend with depression. I mean harsh, I stuck up for him without disclosing my diagnosis because I realized it was falling on deaf ears. People don’t accept us. It’s reality. Do I still want them as friends…hmmm…find me a group of stable nonjudgmental people…wait even my family doesn’t accept me because I’m mentally ill…wait I lost my job due to my illness…wait…my team of drs…umm, I rent the…nope, nobody will ever accept me. But I also don’t think we should be treated as normal, either. Guns available for me, ummm nope. I woulda used one on myself many many times if easily accessible…not in my current state cuz I’m healthy atm, but many times my mind has flipped to the I’m “better off dead drama”. So, where does that leave me…not wanting to have mentally ill offspring and loving animals and their unconditional love. As far as healthcare, pfft…I receive pure hell…I can’t even pay my healthcare bills…if it weren’t for my loving hubby I’d be dead.
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You make a lot of sense
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Omg, did you fall down the rabbit hole, too…I’m sorry. No, ty for the positive feedback…I tend tick people off some🤗
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Nah. I’m just here.
Lying on my porch bench with a purse pillow. Forgot my keys and no one is up til 6
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Ugh, I’m sorry. Hopefully it’s nice outside 
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Chilly but tolerable
It never occurred to me to sort of overturn things to make us in the right. I grew up conforming to “normal,” whatever that is, and now we’re saying we deserve respect and honor just for having the mentally ill lots we have. I’d never seen it that way before, but I hope you’re right. Maybe we do deserve equal respect.
Great wisdom here.
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Ty for the positive feedback
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