Who else has had this problem or something similar who can sympathize with me.
My boyfriend’s dad’s side of the family thinks I’m being lazy for trying to use government assistance.
FIRST OFF, government assistance is the best god damn thing we do with out ■■■■■■■ tax dollars. Not a single person should make someone with a disability feel bad for using what it was intended for. I have just as much right to the persuit of happiness as the next citizen.
People have been asking me for a couple years now, why Dont you get a job? That part doesn’t bother me as much as this did 
Allen and Kevin both told me on seperate occasions that mental disease is made up, that I’m just weak, and that schizophrenia is fake and that it’s all in my head.
YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE IS IN YOUR HEAD!?!
Your brain.
The system that controls all function of your entire being.
Tell me again how mental diseases aren’t also physical.
I should NEVER have to be embarassed by my schizophrenia, just like I never made you feel embarassed by your thyroid cancer, instead I made you feel like a hero for trying to fight it.
I never made fun of your diabetes, or told you it was fake. I instead incouraged you to eat well and check your sugar.
So don’t for a single solitary second tell me I’m unworthy of my medication, clothing, and shelter because you dont believe in science.
-end rant-
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Most people are stereo types, everyone think you are supposed to be productive and positive everyday. I have Schizophrenia and have worked all my life, I had to or would be homeless on the amount of benefits they pay here, but it has been hell, I also have other health issues which will soon bring it all to a end work wise.
You don’t have to feel bad for accepting help and were not all born equal, which means we are not able to do things others might be able to. Just live your life they way you feel you need to.
Everyone here is asking me what my plan B is, I have Schizophrenia, will be physically disable in the near future and they still want and argue with me that I need to work, like 45 years of hard labor was not enough they want me to crawl to work and keep going pffft
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I feel you sistah! I am now considered to be a needy over dramatic burden and a pill popper by friends close/family/relatives. It is very subtle but I know they look down on me. My mom drinks too much wine and calls me a pill popper to say that I have an addiction also. I am not addicted to my meds. I take them exactly as prescribed. My mom told me once, when I was in a mental hospital going through a commitment for suicidal ideation and psychosis, that I could not come back to our house after I got released from state care. I had been working up to that point and paying rent. She bullied the ■■■■ out of me and I still hate her for it. Schizophrenia is no joke and it’s no fun. Lower educated people tend to believe that mental illness is a weakness. But, my mom has a Master’s Degree but no common sense. She is an overeducated fool. Why would I give up my law practice to be on disability and take scarey meds with all sorts of possible side-effects? To make matters worse, after my mom threw me out for “Not having a job”, NO ONE I KNEW WOULD TAKE ME IN FOR ANY PERIOD OF TIME. I literally had to live outside on the streets for 2 days. Ok after that I convinced my wicked mother to let me come home. That ■■■■■■■ b itch!
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You go girl. You’ve got to say that. I wish I could’ve been articulate enough to communicate that way to my ex boyfriend. He would always say schizophrenia is fake and he told me to “master the war within” in my mind. He sucks!! Schizophrenia is real. It made me feel entirely misunderstood, unappreciated, and useless and I hated that I can’t explain schizophrenia to people as well. Just want to let you know that I’ve been through it and I deeply sympathise with you. I had to let him go…it still hurts to this day because i love him and cared for him and i got barely nothing in return, but weed that ■■■■■■ me up even more and landed me to the top and final dose of Latuda which is scary for me because what do i do if i get worse?
I sympathize. I hope all is better