I've gotten the "Get better soon" line too. I suffer from schizophrenia. Many people have tried to shame me for not being able to ignore the visual and audio hallucinations ("Just function normally!). It's not like I can put in earplugs or leave the room. The hallucinations are always there. 🤣
My niece likes to claim she could cured my mental illness with weed. Well, I do use weed. It helps more than some medicines. It's that she thinks she knows what I deal with, that I'm just daydreaming, not hallucinating. Having Crazy in her family is too upsetting to believe my struggle is disabling
Yeah, it goes well beyond daydreaming. The imagery and voices are intrusive.
Since my mother died her voice joined the gang. I will say my mother told me something, others assume I mean something I learned while she was alive. Actually the voice is 100% hers. She appears sometimes. I'm 61, they treat me like an old lady, like it's dementia. If it was I've been demented 45yrs
I'm sorry to hear you're being treated poorly. That must be frustrating. Many of the people I interact with give me the impression that they could handle the illness better than me, if they had Schizophrenia. They have no idea what it's like.
My niece took a few psychology courses 25 yrs ago and thinks she knows more about my illness and medicinal needs than I and my doctors do. She diminishes how bad I struggle because she doesn't think I have MIs. Its frustrating when one of the very few people in my life basically calls me a liar.
That's horrible. No one should be calling you a liar. 😞