Stigmatized

I have now experienced how it is like to be regarded as seriously mentally ill. (although I didn´t have a heavy diagnosis.) It´s far worse than I could ever have imagined. It´s like one is garbage. Worthless trash. And of course most people think one is DIFFERENT from them. (like belonging to another species. Or an alien from Mars.) How on earth can people get well under those circumstances?? (people do. People actually do get well.)