Internalized stigma happened to me

I remember early on in my diagnosis people would consistently give me the feeling that there is nothing I can really do with my life. No one really said just go home and take your meds and exist due to the fact that you have been diagnosed with sz. But that is the feeling I had. I have schizophrenia so I internalized that and for the longest time that was my life. I just took my meds and internalized the stigma. That I thought negatively of myself due to the fact that I had schizophrenia. I later learned that this mode of thought or way of thinking just doesn’t work. I really believe that the way one thinks of themself is the way they will be. So I started learning about recovery and how to get on with my life. and do something with it. My recovery was so difficult and took so long to happen I decided I wanted to help others with sz in their recovery process. I started having hope again that I could help other people to get to their goal. To find a purpose in thier life and to discover a passion that they could make some money at. That is make a living. That’s what I did and became a peer support specialist. Plese don’t internalize the stigma and move on with your life. Find your passion and make some money to find some independence. And hopefully find love like I did.

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My first doctors took away my hope and left me broken. It was friends in AA who gave it back and I have never let go of it since. I decided I deserved to live a life I enjoyed and I have been working hard at it from that day on. To the point that the thought of not fighting back against an illness is foreign to me.

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Keep up fighting to live your dreams!

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My daughter thinks that I have reached “peak stubborn” where if I die I’ll just climb out of my coffin, pick up a camera, and head out for the afternoon like nothing happened.

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Pretty imaginative stuff!

Ä° diagnosed 2011 and i m working since 2013.so it will be 11 years so far.my doctor suspicious that i have schizophrenia she thinks that i have non organic pschosis

People treat me like a criminal, even though I think criminals caused all my problems. There are so many people helping the real criminals. It’s like; who do you think you’re kidding, you’re all helping the real criminals?

I’d like to do all those things. I’m not passionate about anything but I know I should probably try to make a living somehow and move out of my dad’s house.

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Ä° m feeling like same.i feeling like criminal.i always ask my wife if i look dangerous

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