Has anyone found a resource that can help friends and family understand HOW our symptoms create secondary and tertiary problems in life. Disempowerment, poverty, needing to be dependent on others, loss of choice over where we live, if we date have social interaction, inability to work, loss of dreams, loss of independence, feeling alienated. I don't think my family can sympathize or relate to any of these things.
They don't understand why I'm hurting and why my situation isn't as simple as they believe it is. To them, I need to stop overcomplicating and just accept that despite being able to live alone physically, financially we can't afford any other option but to live together and be treated inappropriately for the circumstances.
I'm able to live a more simple, positive life when I'm alone, but financially there's no other option. I feel like my parents just don't want to accept the responsibility and burden of thinking about my situation any more than they have too. Like looking the other way when they see someone who is homeless. They don't believe they can do anything about the problem so they look the other way as much as they can. It's dismissive, divisive and alienating. The act of being impassive and disengaged sends a message to me, that my parents have given up. When I have a medical problem or lose my insurance, they say- "uh huh, yeah, well I need to get back to Jeopardy, but you'll figure it out you always do."