Why Having a Mental Health Situation and Getting Picked On Is Traumatic

People who pick on those who have a mental illness are causing the victim of this bullying further suffering because their symptoms can’t be helped. In college, I didn’t have a formal diagnosis beyond major depressive disorder. As it is, I’m more stable now than I was back then while trying to get stable without a psychiatrist’s help since I wasn’t allowed to see one. Of course my family would gaslight their way through this little fact. But anyway, in college, I had to blow up at the kids in my holistic health class for harassing me passing a pen around to me that had the names of mediations on it.

I blew up and stated that you do not know my situation so why are you pestering me when I was talked out of taking medication that semester. I didn’t apply for SSI until 2008. I got it in April 2009. But for starters, I was fed up with them implying I should get medication, since it would be on my family’s whim to get it or not with their blessing or not. Somebody flat out deserved my aggression that day since I found their behavior aggravating, and lacking in compassion. I went all out with “you do not know my situation, so quit pestering me.” I had to remind her that nobody in school is allowed to take me to the hospital, if I needed to go. Today will be an exercise in dropping off my sharps containers, and finding the psych ward. I may have to look into escaping certain people when they come, by hospitalizing myself since their mental health symptoms impact my mind, body, and spirit.