
Personality Disorders Support Group
Personality disorders form a class of mental disorders that are characterized by long-lasting rigid patterns of thought and behaviour. Personality disorders are seen by the American Psychiatric Association as an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the culture of the individual who exhibits it.
To get this type of help, and any benefits that go with it, and the space needed to heal, you have to be dis-abled ie. unable to work - totally.
I don't think it is a horrible term intentionally, but it does seem so. Nor do I think they are downing you, just giving you the space needed to heal and not relapse the minute pressure happens at work.
IThe term used sounds a bit like calling mothers-to-be who are over 30 years old "geriatric".
Make the most of your time away from work, but try to find something to do each day that will take you somewhere that keeps you linked in with people.
I'm trying to get disability soon, but it's becoming so difficult to get it. I can't work due to chronic pain, mental illness, and especially agoraphobia, yet they still deny me. I just need some income... not much, just enough to pay my phone bill and sometimes buy things.
But never forget, a career and such does not make you anything. You make yourself something simply by being kind and loving of one another. That saves lives, slows the corruption of humanity, and most of all, is contagious. Kindness rubs off on others. I know that's cheesy, but it's true. I see a kind, selfless person as far more than any person who is at the top of their career.
Could I ask what you are disabled for, though?
~Chris