Posted by kid_A on July 22, 2001, at 20:56:53
In reply to Why isn't it enough . . ., posted by AKC on July 22, 2001, at 15:01:06
> that one cannot just say that she (or he) is in pain (of any type), and another person just except that fact and not judge?
Not that it matters what people think about us, but maybe because the 'symptoms' are so difficult to see... Maybe because we dont turn blue in the face or grow bat wings and scaly skin, maybe we're to blame because so many of us don't even know ourselves, can't see that we are 'depressed' are diagnosed with clinical depression, we have general anxiety disorder, we have social phobia, we have ruminating thoughts... there are so many words to describe what we have but know way to show people that its real other than the difference between when we are having a 'good day' versus when we are having a 'bad day'... but sadly, they still dont get it... they think that we just 'got over it'... get on with your life, buck up there young man... take it on the chin and roll with the punches... but i get punched and i get knocked out, and im falling down in the sewer, trying to get out again, rats rally.
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