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I’ve had far more experiences with mental health stigma that I ever want to. My earliest experience would have started around age 12, that is when I started to have panic attacks. These were totally situational – my new school was huge and crowded, something I wasn’t used to at all. At first the school counselor believed me – after all, I’d stayed home from school for a week from the anxiety. As my condition worsened though, things changed.
I began to show signs of depression and PTSD from past abuse. My grades suffered and I outright began to disclose past abuse I had been through. I was not met with much sympathy at all. I was told I just wasn’t trying as far as my grades and was constantly threatened with being kicked out of the school’s gifted program, As far as telling about the abuse – that was handled even worse. The guidance counselor told me she wouldn’t help me with the situation of me alcoholic father because she’d grown up with an alcoholic father and no one ever helped her! Yep, I was denied her because she was never given any. I disclosed more and more past and ongoing abuse to her, yet she did nothing.
8th grade came and I was in a deep depression. It was then the school counselor announced that she believed me to be a pathological liar. She said everything I said was a lie and there was no way things I said could have happened! She even reported me as suicidal once when I wasn’t and then said I must’ve lied to her. She had none of my teachers believing me and I was branded as a liar throughout the entire school. My self esteem shrunk to the size of a grain of salt.
If I was any ‘typical’ kid, my reports of abuse would’ve resulted in a child abuse hotline call each time I said something. Because I was depressed though, I was labeled as attention seeking and ignored. A few weeks after finishing 8th grade, I was hospitalized for the first time due to severe depression. This was caused directly by the events of the last two years.
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Now I know why you behave like that for you have been "pathologically abused". I am very sorry to learn of that. It is good that you are aware of such panic depression you have had. And you are willing to cooperate with those who will treat you by giving them the needed information they want.
They have, of course, to believe you. You are consistent in making a record of the things you've done, good or bad. That would serve as a better evidence or documentation of treating you.