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<blockquote data-quote="matti" data-source="post: 534142" data-attributes="member: 14634"><p>Yes, InsaneCdn, I agree completely.</p><p>When we finally shared with my husband's family why my son was acting so strange around them, suddenly it was as if he no longer exists. We were met with blank stares and a general attitude that my son is a throw away person now. No one takes the time to ask how he is, or how we are. We get a lot of "well, he's 23 now - time to grow up and snap out of it" attitude. They really don't understand how devastating this diagnosis was to my son and us, and they don't understand that there is a real grieving process we are going through with this news.</p><p>It's really sad how mental health is dismissed in this society. I've often said to my G.P. that if my son could walk into an ER with an anvil sticking out of his head he would get immediate and decisive treatment. Unfortunately, mental illness is hard to gauge physically, but it is just a disabling as any other sickness.</p><p>Until people start coming out of the closet and talking about mental health and how it's affected them personally, this stigma will continue, and people like my boy will continue to live a marginal life because society shuns the sick.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="matti, post: 534142, member: 14634"] Yes, InsaneCdn, I agree completely. When we finally shared with my husband's family why my son was acting so strange around them, suddenly it was as if he no longer exists. We were met with blank stares and a general attitude that my son is a throw away person now. No one takes the time to ask how he is, or how we are. We get a lot of "well, he's 23 now - time to grow up and snap out of it" attitude. They really don't understand how devastating this diagnosis was to my son and us, and they don't understand that there is a real grieving process we are going through with this news. It's really sad how mental health is dismissed in this society. I've often said to my G.P. that if my son could walk into an ER with an anvil sticking out of his head he would get immediate and decisive treatment. Unfortunately, mental illness is hard to gauge physically, but it is just a disabling as any other sickness. Until people start coming out of the closet and talking about mental health and how it's affected them personally, this stigma will continue, and people like my boy will continue to live a marginal life because society shuns the sick. [/QUOTE]
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