Your Mental Illness is Not Who You Are

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[@mykso69]

Oh, that's such an important topic! Thank you very much for discussing it.

[@ranc1977]

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Five themes of microaggression against people with mental illnesses
1. Invalidation
When other people dismiss their illness or symptoms through minimizing their experience, symptomizing their normal experiences, and patronizing
2. Assumption of inferiority
When other people assume that people with mental illness have lower intelligence, are incompetent, and that they do not have control
3. Fear of mental illness
When other people fear them because they believe that they may be dangerous or unpredictable
4. Shaming of mental illness
When other people tell them that they shouldn't let others know about their mental illness
5. Second class citizen attitudes
When other people treat them as if they don't have the same rights as the dominant group of society.
Mental Health Forum, 2016

[@ranc1977]

This is what happens with social anxiety. CBT labels it with limited research (survivorship bias and researcher bias) done on people who responded for research but who did not have social anxiety that came to research in mid 1990s and then offers solutions that does not work for the socially anxious. And the labels and names that were not covered in really socially anxious remain hidden - like Complex Trauma and socioeconomic issues and shame culture ambient - external triggers.
What happens is due to toxic shame and inner critic - which is not seen or observed by CBT - becomes problem when CBT starts to label social anxiety as lack of social skills for example. What happens next - is that people with true social anxiety will suffer with identifying themselves as someone who lacks social skills - and then toxic shame and inner critic will basically torment socially anxious people as abnormal - and then socially anxious people will become socially weird and awkward - due to labels. While ironically true socially anxious people are extremely empathic and hence have high levels of superior social skills which neurotypical people do not have at all.