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10 Aug 2014 10:11 AM
10 Aug 2014 10:11 AM
Hi,
I love your monniker, it's excellent. 🙂
The teacher's behaviour was disgraceful - completely inappropriate and ignorant. Very hurtful too - sorry you had to hear it. Unfotunately this sort of attitude is quite prevalent.
It is hard enough dealing with the confronting issue of being on medication one's self, without other people adding their ignorance or spite to the mix.
Thanks so much for the link to the excellent article, I really appreciate it. It has very proactive suggestions on responding in ways that turn something very negative into a potential opportunity to educate others on mental health – and thereby hopefully grow societal compassion, or at least diminish the ignorance!
Kind regards,
Kristin
11 Aug 2014 08:49 PM
11 Aug 2014 08:49 PM
11 Aug 2014 09:16 PM
11 Aug 2014 09:16 PM
It was Jake who talked about speaking up.
I am probably a bit soft when it comes to those things but I do have a go occasionally. As far as my friend and I going out shopping its actually nice how the high school temps working on the checkout treat us. They show us which aisle to go for the stuff off our shopping list and as I said the shoppers themselves help us out. We have never been shortchanged with money and usually have great fun shopping even if we buy too many chocolates.
16 Aug 2014 09:36 PM
16 Aug 2014 09:36 PM
16 Aug 2014 10:21 PM
16 Aug 2014 10:21 PM
I think you're right, the less we need to take offense at what's been said and can question it fairly calmly the more likely people are to actually be able to hear some of what we are saying.
I keep telling people this on online forums where people get really very rude and insult each other about politics. Once insults start flying around no one is likely to be convinced of anything beyond the "otherness" of the "opposition" - no common ground is found and precious little education occurs. I know it's somewhat different but surprisingly many people say "thanks you're right".
Cheers, Kristin
17 Aug 2014 11:38 AM
17 Aug 2014 11:38 AM
"A soft word turns away wrath." I think its from the Bible. Usually I just glare at the offender.
"I have a mental illness and I object to what you said."
Followed by "We walk among you. Beware."
IDK. Usually I don't say anything. Water off a duck's back.
27 Aug 2014 09:11 PM
27 Aug 2014 09:11 PM
My first piece of advice is choose your battles, some people are worth 'confronting' over this sort of thing, others kind of fall into the "might as well beat my head against a brick wall" catagory.
I have found that rather than accusing or berating the person, encourage them to think about their words, and if they respond in a positive way then you have someone worth your effort, who may in fact become an advocate of people who have mental ill health, if their response makes you feel like they don't care about or are simply incapable of realsing the harm they are causing then let them wallow in their own crapunalence.
Lastly,( and if you ever master this please share how!), be aware that people will do and say upsetting things, no matter what the stigma is based on, there will always be stigma in our lives. We as individuals can't change the world's thinking all at once, but ripples are a beautiful thing. Change one person's mind, make them see or think in a new way and they will do the same for another, who in return does the same. Which leads me into my final piece of advice, choose your battles.
13 Sep 2014 06:54 PM
13 Sep 2014 06:54 PM
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