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Mental Health Support

Odin2005

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10. I can get what you mean on the stigma part, Tobin.

Reply to Tobin S. (Reply #5)

Sun Feb 26, 2012, 08:54 PM

Feb 2012

Several years ago I was physically assaulted by a bipolar co-worker and so I get an intense, reflexive fear when a guy (not a woman, thought) says he is bipolar and I feel really guilty about it.

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A lot of us are in the closet about our illness. [View all] Neoma Feb 2012 OP

thanks for the OP mdmc Feb 2012 #1

Another big reason: You'll never get a job. hunter Feb 2012 #2

you raise a very good point in your fourth paragraph fizzgig Feb 2012 #3

I agree... pipi_k Feb 2012 #14

For some people it is denial though. Neoma Feb 2012 #4

Yes, calling it "denial" is punitive EFerrari Feb 2012 #8

I don't hide that information about myself Tobin S. Feb 2012 #5

Hey, I'd like to see those stats, haven't seen them. Neoma Feb 2012 #6

Okay, here we go. Tobin S. Feb 2012 #7

I can get what you mean on the stigma part, Tobin. Odin2005 Feb 2012 #10

I understand, Odin Tobin S. Feb 2012 #11

I almost never tell people I get SSI because of my Asperger's. Odin2005 Feb 2012 #9

Ha, looking normal never has had anything to do with it. Neoma Feb 2012 #12

Same here... pipi_k Feb 2012 #13

I can understand why someone would be in the closet easttexaslefty Mar 2012 #15