AmandaContributor
Why are they taking advantage of me?
I have been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and depression and while some family members have been supportive through the years, some others have tried to take advantage of my illness to manipulate, bully, and steal from me. When I did try to speak to the people doing it they would completely deny everything and make a big deal about saying they don't know what I'm talking about, it's all in my head, in a completely over the top fashion, combined with their laughter and ridicule. Then they would say barely a second later now give me some money. They have done a lot of things to me over the years but I have never understood how and why they would do this, as I believed they were my family and that they cared about me. They have also encouraged members of the public to ridicule me in a behind your back, never directly kind of way, so that these so called family members could try to blackmail and extort money from me, and now I just get verbally abused everywhere I go, among other things. I have publicly humiliated time and time again but no one will help, in fact it is treated as an enormous joke that everyone knows except me. I don't know what I am supposed to do and the cruelty shown by these people is remorseless. How am I supposed to get help and get this scenario sorted out when the people involved, and the people I reach out to all deny it and/or refuse to give me advice. Why would my own family do this to me when I never had anything but love for them? I do not understand why they have chosen this path of both private and public abuse.
