What stigma have you faced cos of your mental health/disability?

I have an invisible disability. Half of my problems are people assuming I can do the things I can't.
The other half are those same people trying to help me with the things I excel at while being much worse than me at those things and thinking they're helping.

If you want to know how to help a disabled person, just ask them. They usually understand their own disability pretty well.

I ride a bike and fast so I am not physically disabled. I don't look disabled. I have full mobility. I can mask a lot of the pain for short appearances. No one knows the years with a lack of sleep; how fast I fall apart when sitting up or standing; the countless times I've gone days not able to do anything because I carried a grocery bag or reached for a dish; the sharp pain that lasts for weeks if I turn my head left; what real pain is like when it is a constant noise that never fades; when the volume of the white noise of pain is so loud it is all you can hear, when even your internal thoughts fade; constantly feeling a need to consciously try to relax the tension over my entire body that builds in clinching muscles and grinding teeth; to wake up every day feeling exhausted; to watch everyone around me progress in life while in limbo unable to move on; the days and years fading together; the fear of a terrible helpless future both within and without; the indignity; helplessness; vanity of life and purpose; forever morning one's own loss through the torment of prolonged time; profound loneliness countered by embarrassing moments when isolation leads to acting unlike one's true self; the haunting regrets; the unfounded accusations of a mental cause and not a symptom; the lack of competent medical professionals that figure out hard problems without excuses. There are so so many things

I’ve been denied promotions and high value projects after disclosing to my boss I have anxiety.

I’ve never disclosed it since.

Now I just need a personal day or am sick, and no I won’t elaborate.

I've been clinically depressed for over two decades but am fairly high-functioning. So people assume my withdrawn nature and low social drive just mean I must be aloof or feel too good to be around them, which isn't the case at all. When I really am in crisis, people make it fairly obvious that that's just... not acceptable and that my chances with them in such circumstances are limited at the very best.

So, stoicism it is then.