My biggest problem is finding a job that’s the right fit for where I am right now. That does not make me “low functioning.”
How would you know if this man is low functioning or just feeling bad?
I can have great energy, great focus, good ideas, etc. etc. for a certain time. Then, all of a sudden, I crash and can’t do much of anything. When the crash happens, I can’t live up to the obligations I’ve committed myself to, and that makes working on projects with other people difficult.
Judgmental mental health words, like “high functioning” prejudice care givers and prevent recovery when people believe and internalize them.
Stop using mental health words like “SMI” (severely mentally ill) or “high-functioning” or “low-functioning.” Sitting in judgment of others is not part of your job description. You can hardly give hope if you hold others in such low regard.
If you’re too busy passing judgment on others, applying mental health words, you won’t have time to engage them and find out their hopes and dreams and what happened to them to shatter those hopes and dreams.
I was labeled “low-functioning.” Of course that was a punishment label.
If you can’t help others because labels, like “low functioning,” and treatment plans, are in your way, you should step aside and find some other calling. Not everyone is cut out to do this work.
I’ve known many doctors (MD and Ph.D.) who should never have any human contact because their people skills were so meager. They should be in some back room laboratory somewhere, torturing poor rats. At least they’d never get to torture us with their holier than thou attitudes.
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