{"id":147437,"date":"2015-07-02T12:21:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T12:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/07\/02\/for-those-not-working-due-to-mental-illness\/"},"modified":"2015-07-02T12:21:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T12:21:07","slug":"for-those-not-working-due-to-mental-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/07\/02\/for-those-not-working-due-to-mental-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"For those not working due to mental illness."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phiasmir.tumblr.com\/post\/122229776794\/for-those-not-working-due-to-mental-illness\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">phiasmir<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"xkit-colorquotes-border-item\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crystalsoulslayer.tumblr.com\/post\/121233293397\/i-always-hate-it-when-people-are-all-so-do-you-go\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">crystalsoulslayer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"xkit-colorquotes-border-item\">\n<p>I always hate it when people are all \u201cso do you go to school, or are<br \/>\nyou working, or\u201d and I either have to<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>make up some lie, or<\/li>\n<li>eventually get<br \/>\n around to \u201cI am not working because of depression\/anxiety,\u201d and<br \/>\nsubsequently have to deal with whatever bullshit-riddled and completely<br \/>\nunsolicited opinions on mental illness this stranger feels obligated to<br \/>\nshare with me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So my therapist was like, \u201cYou don\u2019t have to do either.<br \/>\nYou can just say you haven\u2019t worked in a while because you\u2019re recovering<br \/>\n from an illness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I tried it when the home inspector was here today, and <i>it fucking worked<\/i>.<br \/>\n He was like, \u201coh, I\u2019m sorry, are you doing better now,\u201d and I\u2019m like<br \/>\nyeah, and don\u2019t worry, it\u2019s not contagious, awkward laugh, and we moved<br \/>\non.<\/p>\n<p><i>MY THERAPIST. IS A GENIUS.<\/i> Because it <i>is<\/i> an<br \/>\nillness, so it\u2019s not a lie to say that, and it\u2019s also none of his<br \/>\nbusiness to know specifically what it is, and I clearly don\u2019t want to<br \/>\ngive more details, so we should move on from this topic. <b>MY<\/b> <b>THERAPIST IS A GODDAMN GENIUS<\/b>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To all my friends recovering from or living with an illness, brain or otherwise.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>phiasmir: crystalsoulslayer: I always hate it when people are all \u201cso do you go to school, or are you working, or\u201d and I either have to make up some lie, or eventually get around to \u201cI am not working because of depression\/anxiety,\u201d and subsequently have to deal with whatever bullshit-riddled and completely unsolicited opinions on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/07\/02\/for-those-not-working-due-to-mental-illness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;For those not working due to mental illness.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[352,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}