Anonymous
ID: OixiECHw
6/24/2025, 1:10:15 PM No.508569422
Subject: Mentally ill people are treated like subhumans, even when stable.
Nobody talks about this, so I will.
If you're officially diagnosed with a mental illness (schizophrenia, bipolar, etc.), your life is permanently restricted, no matter how well you're doing:
You can’t get a driver’s license in many countries — you’re blacklisted by default.
You can’t get visas — you fail medical commissions automatically.
If your employer finds out about your condition, you're out. Doesn’t matter if you're in full remission.
If you apply for disability (which pays almost nothing), your name ends up in a government database. Good luck finding a job ever again.
People treat you like you're a ticking time bomb. They don’t take your words seriously — everything you say is "just the illness."
You’re stigmatized, infantilized, and locked out of society.
And the worst part?
With medication, we’re stable. In remission. Fully functional. Taking care of ourselves. Holding it together. Without meds, yeah — some of us would be homeless or dead. But with treatment, we live like anyone else.
Still, society would rather pretend we don’t exist. Or worse — keep us hidden, drugged, silent, and unemployed.
We’re not “dangerous.” We’re not “crazy.”
We’re just unwanted.
Nobody talks about this, so I will.
If you're officially diagnosed with a mental illness (schizophrenia, bipolar, etc.), your life is permanently restricted, no matter how well you're doing:
You can’t get a driver’s license in many countries — you’re blacklisted by default.
You can’t get visas — you fail medical commissions automatically.
If your employer finds out about your condition, you're out. Doesn’t matter if you're in full remission.
If you apply for disability (which pays almost nothing), your name ends up in a government database. Good luck finding a job ever again.
People treat you like you're a ticking time bomb. They don’t take your words seriously — everything you say is "just the illness."
You’re stigmatized, infantilized, and locked out of society.
And the worst part?
With medication, we’re stable. In remission. Fully functional. Taking care of ourselves. Holding it together. Without meds, yeah — some of us would be homeless or dead. But with treatment, we live like anyone else.
Still, society would rather pretend we don’t exist. Or worse — keep us hidden, drugged, silent, and unemployed.
We’re not “dangerous.” We’re not “crazy.”
We’re just unwanted.
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