Have you ever worked with someone who's been mentally ill?
I'm talking, legit clinical disorders.
Not the, "oh no my dog died, and my GP gave me Lexapro", kind.
When I was like, 14, there seemed to be some kind of glamorization surrounding personality disorders: "oh goodness, he/she's a PSYCHO!! That is boss".
Probably just rebelliousness of that age group.
Again, I'm not talking about some kind of juvenile self indulgent self validation orientated, skew-ways interpersonal/social incompetence - desperately attempting to compensate.
I'm talking, devastating, life destroying illness, precipitated via endogenous neurologic dysfunction.
Primarily psychotic disorders, generally consisting of visual and/or auditory hallucinations; schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
And mood disorders - depression/anxiety - normally relative to serotonin/noradrenaline.
I know via Pieta house and the HSE, regularly mentioned on Newstalk fm - there's somewhat of a drive to deal with "stigma", surrounding mental health issues.
Surveys suggesting, 80% and above of employers, would hesitate to employe someone with a history of mental illness.
I worked for a company one time, that was basically - put it this way - we had homeless people working there.
It was a company, that paid the lowest of the low, and drained employees for whatever they could - but they took on, pretty much anyone; illegal immigrants - you name it.
I worked alongside what, in retrospect, had to be many people with mental illness.
I saw this primarily in terms of their deficit of functionality.
I walked in on a lady from Ghana one day (that's in Africa), and she was basically just - sitting on the floor.
She couldn't move.
Point I'm making - are the mentally ill - perhaps because of difficulty in dealing with them on a personal level - are they deemed, socially unacceptable??
Akin to, criminals; just unpredictable people?
That's the key point I'm trying to address.
Anyhow - enough rambling.
Stories plz.
