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Victor_c3

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101. I'm right there with you

Fri Dec 2, 2016, 03:19 AM

Dec 2016

I'm 36, in great health (physically) but I'm receiving SSDI as a result of severe psychiatric problems.

I don't know what your story is (and I'm not trying to pry or even ask) but most of the time I'm out in public people are seeing me on my good days. They wrongfully assume that I'm fine most of the time or that I'm faking or exaggerating my issues.

I've even found that my own wife, kids, and the rest of my family often don't fully understand what I'm dealing with either. "Why can't you just pull yourself together?" Or " just put on your big boy pants and deal with life like everyone else!"

Similar to what you said, incarceration would impact the benefits I receive that my family depends on. Me personally, I could care less what happens to me. I'd be perfectly happy living in a tent in the middle of the woods or spending the rest of my life in an institution. That's where all of my friends are...

Those non-visible issues are a bitch to deal with. Aside from dealing with only the issue itself, you have to deal with the burden of the stigma that goes with it too.

I completely get what you are dealing with and the urge and desire to help and make the world s better place.

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