Just one stigma experience? I’ll choose the most hurtful.In October 2007, I was hospitalized for alcoholism and sent away for three weeks to get clean.
My early sober years were full of sedating medications and intense talk-therapy to keep me alive while I faced the debilitating depression I had been numbing since graduating college.
When the medications didn’t work, I cut. When the cutting didn’t work, I laid motionless in bed, unable to get up.I couldn’t understand why I was depressed.
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