I'm really at this horrible place after 2 1/2 years of therapy, etc - because I need my immediate family to 1) accept that it's a "real" medical thing, just like cancer is a real medical thing; 2) cut me some slack and not always act like I'm the bad guy 24/7 because I don't "do things like I used to" or "have the same interests" or whatever; 3) view me as weak or flawed or a bad person.
How do you get other people to understand that what you have gone through is real and you're really suffering in a way that is beyond your control? Especially if they have the attitude that it's something you made up in your mind as an excuse for whatever ...?
How do you get other people to understand that what you have gone through is real and you're really suffering in a way that is beyond your control? Especially if they have the attitude that it's something you made up in your mind as an excuse for whatever ...?