Posted by Tomatheus on May 10, 2015, at 14:14:58
In reply to Re: Destroyed reputation and how to live with it, posted by Lamdage22 on May 10, 2015, at 13:55:25
> I dont usually meet any of the people that witnessed my delusional rant.
For the most part, neither do I, although I shared a number of my delusional ideas with my dad. But I don't think it's just "in your head" that there's stigma attached to having experienced psychosis. I think that there's a tendency to view those who've experienced psychosis as being less predictable and less trustworthy than those who haven't experience psychosis, and I think that such views (even if there's some degree of truth to them) can have an impact on our reputations. I worked as a newspaper reporter at one point before the onset of my psychosis, which is a line of work where credibility is key, and I definitely think that if I were to attempt to go back into news reporting that I'd have a battle to fight to re-establish my credibility. So, I definitely think that the struggle to rebuild the trust that others have in us is very real, even if the individuals from whom we're looking to gain trust weren't necessarily around us when we were saying things that were off-the-wall delusional.
Tomatheus
Has long-standing difficulties with energy and concentration, as well as psychotic and cognitive symptoms
Taking Abilify & supplements
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