在我恢复的过程中，我花了很长时间做一些基本的事情，这对我来说很难，因为我一直很独立。我甚至不会写简历，尽管过去我为别人写过很多成功的简历(有时不太成功)。有一次，我按照社工的建议，去了一个职业培训中心，只是为了让自己运转起来。我确实记得我当时的感受和你一样，在参与这件事时感到有些惶恐。我从来没有申请过失业，从来没有休过残疾假，或者在我的生活中有任何类似的事情——我从16岁起就一直有一份工作。我和一个社会工作者交谈，他问我为什么没有工作，我顺便提到我患有抑郁症(认为这比BP更容易接受)，有一段时间无法工作。从那以后，每次见到我，他都会居高临下地问:“你抑郁吗?”这就是你找不到工作的原因吗?你吃药了吗?”没关系，这是在房地产市场崩溃之后，每个人都很难找到工作，不管有没有药。 Needless to say, I was livid and reported him to my case worker who felt BAD because she had been referring people there. The minute people hear any reference to MH - even social workers who really should know better - they automatically dismiss you as hopeless. What an eye opener! I wondered what the hell did he actually learn in school (shockingly, he had a master's degree)? Or what the hell did his sociology program teach him? I'm sure somewhere in there a chapter or two on the disabled in society was slipped in, but maybe he was too busy looking at the hot chick two rows down to absorb it, I don't know...
我一直致力于履行我的义务，无论健康方面的事情有多艰难，这并不总是容易的。这件事让我士气低落，并影响了我很长一段时间。但这种情况发生在我刚被确诊时，接受的想法似乎是一个白日梦。在很大程度上仍然如此。我还了解到，高学历并不意味着毫无意义。