Recent content by JessicaLee

Thank you for the encouragement, I know the way I've going about it is financially detrimental and obviously holding me back. With my income being nonexistent I hope I can find a solution better than the clinic that won't even return my calls. My only concern is that when I took my retirement...

Thank you so much for the resources, that's kind of my big goal in being here if that, especially with mental illness. Sometimes our biggest resource is talking to other people from this community. Stigma has really made that even more necessary. And you know what? I think that's one if not...

Hello, I have had a very poor experience with doctors and diagnoses and one of the things I hope to clear up in the next few months is what is a misdiagnosis and what is not. I don't like this long and likely inaccurate lists of diagnoses following me around. So yes and no. The last...

Hi! Thank you for responding so quickly. I did a little research into getting coverage that way when I first moved home, but at the time my income was still existent because I was a teacher and my paychecks went through the summer. It was not affordable then, although to be honest with myself...

Although it's been years, I still struggle to feel entitled to my pain. It sounds silly, but I attribute it to part of the stigma surrounding mental illness. In fact, I've started this post four times already and closed the tab. I'm more likely to respond to other people in support than ever...

This is not appropriate or acceptable behavior for a partner, illness or no illness. Mental illness is not a pass to treat others without love and respect. Maybe there's a degree of codependency between them, or some kind of acting out that is somehow part of it. But everything aside, it's not...

I'm so sorry to hear about what you're suffering with. I recently joined this support forum hopes of finding other people who can mutually relate. When I read what you wrote, part of that breaks my heart because it sounds like what I felt for a few years. I went through a variety of diagnoses...