Does mental illness count for anything

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  • I was institutionalized for disorganized schizophrenia during my junior year of high school and my teachers worked around that pretty well. Though it was a private school and private owned institution. Was a straight A student with all AP's and Honors except my junior year. I blame myself for it, yes I can't help that I went schiz, but I still am of lesser use. Survival of the fittest. I couldn't keep up psychosis wise and I payed the price I deserved for it.

    The rest of my highschool career and when I attended university I started with my OCD and BDD through refusing to let my skin be exposed. Didn't effect my schooling too much, and my schizophrenia has been in a latent state for a while now.

    Bottom line, mental illness does effect people, no doubt, but you have to take responsibility for your shortcomings no matter what reason they're there. No excuses. I am a lower quality person because of my psychosis and my ticks.

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    • what do you mean you're a "lower quality person"? you seem pretty cool and intelligent, you realised you had problems and overcome them. that must've been really hard to deal with

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      • Oh I'm plenty cool and intelligent, but I am flawed in heavy amounts. Not a lot of overcoming has been done, I didn't overcome schizophrenia I medicated it and it happened to go dormant, I'll be sick with this disease till the day I die. I still cover my skin in thermal wear head to toe. And with these problems I struggle greatly, making me lower quality in many ways. I kick ass in my studies and could outrank my peers any day, but my brain gets messy, making me less of a scholar, and less efficient.
        If I did not medicate, I would not survive or meet the requirements of success in today's world, I would fail, and I would deserve the failure.

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        • Do you wear a balaklava or something? Or niqab?

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          • Balaclava.

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