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Mental Health Support

Neoma

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4. For some people it is denial though.

Reply to hunter (Reply #2)

Fri Feb 24, 2012, 03:37 PM

Feb 2012

Was for me at first, and once and awhile it comes back in the thought of, "I wonder what I'm like off my pills." and, "It can't last forever."

Plus I remember a new patient in the hospital saying, "No offense, but I'm just not like you people." Great way to introduce yourself, gotta say.

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A lot of us are in the closet about our illness. [View all] Neoma Feb 2012 OP

thanks for the OP mdmc Feb 2012 #1

Another big reason: You'll never get a job. hunter Feb 2012 #2

you raise a very good point in your fourth paragraph fizzgig Feb 2012 #3

I agree... pipi_k Feb 2012 #14

For some people it is denial though. Neoma Feb 2012 #4

Yes, calling it "denial" is punitive EFerrari Feb 2012 #8

I don't hide that information about myself Tobin S. Feb 2012 #5

Hey, I'd like to see those stats, haven't seen them. Neoma Feb 2012 #6

Okay, here we go. Tobin S. Feb 2012 #7

I can get what you mean on the stigma part, Tobin. Odin2005 Feb 2012 #10

I understand, Odin Tobin S. Feb 2012 #11

I almost never tell people I get SSI because of my Asperger's. Odin2005 Feb 2012 #9

Ha, looking normal never has had anything to do with it. Neoma Feb 2012 #12

Same here... pipi_k Feb 2012 #13

I can understand why someone would be in the closet easttexaslefty Mar 2012 #15