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Society and culture demonizes the mentally ill. I once earned $150K/year as a programmer until I had a stroke that gave me a mental illness of schizoaffective
by orionblastar 12y ago
Society and culture demonizes the mentally ill.
I once earned $150K/year as a programmer until I had a stroke that gave me a mental illness of schizoaffective disorder. After that my career was over and I ended up on disability.
I am trying to get off disability, but it seems the business culture does not want to hire mentally ill people and blackballs us.
Many in my situation just kill themselves because we cannot do the work that we love to do for a living. I really don't know how I survived this fall, but I can honestly tell you nobody cares about me.
- muonneutrino 12y agoYeah, society sucks for that - I think it may be getting a bit better, with a lot more media attention addressing mental illness and the stigma associated with it (granted, much of this overemphasizes depression and ignores other forms of mental illness). I'm sorry to hear about your experiences, and while I don't know what I can personally do to help, I hope you know that there are certainly people out there who care about you. Mental illness sucks, and society's ingrained stigmas suck, but often individual people (friends, family, random strangers you meet at a coffee shop) can help. I wish you the best.
- poopchute 12y agoSince you are on disability anyways, can't you just start doing some freelance type work up until you're making enough to drop disability?