i will go out and make some contacts with people about i having mental illness, oh, wait, this is something i have already done. when i finally decided to share what i have lived with all my life and how certain things affect me. you should have seen the look on their faces and i mean at work and relatives on my wife's side of the family.

  but, you know what it didn't last long due to i not giving them any impressions i was any different now then i was before. the deeper i took them into my darkest parts of my mind the more they realized that i could do anything they could and maybe a little better.

  on the other hand had i been able to recognize fear and humiliation towards myself or do what most people do an assume something from a look or what was that which is something i have never done.

  throughout my life i have tried and failed at many things such as school and work, but, i never had a clue i was mentally challenged. i have read articles on people who weren't as challenged, only difference was that they knew they were and hated it. sad to say they lived with problems their whole life, they were so wrapped up in having condition and being different they had failed to recognize what they needed to do to get better.

  i hope someday there will be a new breed of therapist who are not afraid to make somebody better, or take a risk and try something new. i know to many people who hate being on medication and who are on their third or fourth psychiatrist.

  too many of these people believed they could read other people's mind, they knew what somebody was thinking by the look on that person's face. i asked them, shouldn't you have asked that person a question instead of assuming. don't go believing something unless you have the facts straight and know first hand. i went on and asked them, have you ever used your illness as a crutch to get away with something and slowly over the next few meetings they started to open up and admit they had used their mental illness as acrutch.

  how can we expect to erase the stigma, if, we are going to hide and be afraid to ask questions and we need to show people that we can do anything. i never pass up on an oppurtunity which will put me in front of other people, i am not afraid to face being humiliated or made fun of for eventually i will shine and they will still be who they are and i will have gotten better how else could i have made it this far in life.

  nobody ever told me i was mentally retarded growing up or helped me to do better with things as a kid. my mind could only focus on what was in front of me and i couldn't relate to anything going on around me. yet, as i look back on my childhood and most of my adult life it was clear to see i faced being humiliated by doing something without knowing if i could it or couldn't do it. there is no such thing as making a mistake or doing something wrong, its a matter of one's perception to what they believe.

  you want my secret, do not spit your thoughts, think and focus on what you are doing, meaning one thing at a time, forget what is going on around you, apply yourself with an open mind and the most important thing of all have fun with everything you do, meaning enjoy what you are doing. remember all things came to life from somebody's imagination, so nothing in this world is perfect or nobody has it all figured out and i have proved this many times. success comes to those who are willing to explore all things with their imagination.

  i cannot think of anything on the face of this planet i would have a problem with understanding and accepting, for all things came from somebody's ability to create with their imagination, so, for a person to believe they are different or beneath somebody else, only needs to apply their imagination and create what they believe is correct and will soon be on their way. without failure there can be no success, if, this were not so, the word PROGRESS wouldn't be in our dictionary.

Tags: Mental Illness Stigma

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