Posted by partlycloudy on May 10, 2004, at 7:43:17
In reply to The stigma and loneliness of mental illness...., posted by KindGirl on May 10, 2004, at 1:19:37
Oh, KG you articulated so much of how I feel. I can be in a room full of people whom I KNOW love and care about me, and feel lonely. I am trying meditation (and it is working) to open up my heart to the love that people are trying to give me. It is the hardest thing I have ever undertaken. Mostly I have a huge knot in my chest of emotional pain. I am trusting that the medication I'm on will help with some of these feelings. Sometimes I actually feel like I'm part of the world, but usually not.
As for stigma: I think we mentally ill are at the same stage that alcoholics were regarded in 60or 70 years ago. Shunned, dismissed, put away from sight, misunderstood. I think the whole mind-body connection that is only now being explored in the Western world will open up many eyes eventually.
That was a rambling response, but although you're lonely, you are not alone.
partlycloudy
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