Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Is there someone who doesn't understand why the stigma of mental illness discourages people who need mental health treatment from trying to get it?

October 19, 2016


Anyone who wants to exploit you can.  Nothing that you say will stop someone who's exploiting you that way.  

NOTHING that you say will stop that person, no matter how logical it is or how you say it.  The only think that stops the exploitation is an intervention by someone who has the power to stop that person, and you can't get that intervention if the person who has that power doesn't want to help you.

Once one person is stopped from exploiting you, if he or she is stopped, someone else starts.  It happens everywhere.  

It is always like that; it is never some other way.  Almost 25 years after the first time that I was in a hospital, nothing has changed.  

Copyright L. Kochman, October 19, 2016 @ 10:52 p.m.