stigma
People with mental illness represent one of the most deeply stigmatized groups in our culture. Learn more about it here.
Callow. Content Warning.
One of the loneliest and saddest things about being schizotypal, at least for me, is that people often stop seeing you as a person and start remembering you as an experience they had. They remember the strange parts. The frightening parts. The parts of you that made them uncomfortable, confused, guilty, or scared. Years later, you can come back with insight, treatment, language, humour, softness, self-awareness - and still realise that someone isn’t looking at you. They’re looking at the worst period of your life and calling it you.
By Suzanne B.4 months ago in Psyche
The Prison
How unresolved pain keeps us trapped, and how we find the key to freedom Locked Behind Invisible WallsFor most of her adult life, Sara lived in a space that looked like freedom from the outside, but felt like a prison within. She had a stable home, a loving family, and enough to live comfortably — yet she felt constantly trapped, as if something heavy was holding her back from truly enjoying life. Long ago, she had gone through years of emotional hardship and uncertainty, experiences that had left deep marks she never spoke about. She told herself, “It is over now. I should just move forward and forget.”
By The Curious Writer4 months ago in Psyche
