That's one of three messages that one person sent to "Lena Kochman Boston," 2 hours ago at the time that I'm publishing this page.
His other messages said:
"lady, you need to get some fucking help," and "you need help."
I hope that the people who read my blogs have realized how much mental illness is stigmatized and how abusive a lot of people are about it. Mental illness isn't causing me to think that people harass and stalk me; however, many of the people who have written messages to my blogs think that it is, and most of the people who think that it is write very abusive things. Even the people who think that mental illness is causing my problems and who try to be nice while saying that I need help are usually condescending and have no idea what they're talking about. Nobody who writes me messages saying that I'm mentally ill seems to be worried about what people who read those public messages will think of them.
Discrimination against mental illness has not gotten the attention at a social or political level that other types of discrimination have. That is why people who get diagnosed are instantly turned into second class citizens and are at high risk for being abused for the rest of their lives.
The stigma of mental illness causes suicide a lot; unfortunately, that it causes suicide is ignored. The suicide of someone who had a diagnosis is almost always attributed to the diagnosis and not to what the diagnosis did to the person's quality of life.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, March 15, 2016 @ 9:02 p.m.
