It’s undeniable — the stigma around mental illness is alive and well. It can cause immense damage to someone’s life, affecting everything from their self-esteem to their career and more.
As someone living with schizoaffective disorder, I am no stranger to stigma. But over the course of my time with this disorder, I’ve found myself in situations where stigma was minimal or even absent, but my fear of stigma was so strong that I remained silent when it actually would have benefitted me to be open about my mental illness.
Here are three situations where my fear of stigma hurt me much more than disclosing my diagnosis would have. 1. Saving my college scholarship. I had just finished my first year of college and second year with schizoaffective
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