I think that anyone who's been diagnosed with a chronic psychotic disorders and has been subjected to family or domestic violence faces the same issue of having their experience invalidated and disbelieved, and that has tragic consequences for us, however it is a terrible fact that people don't have to believe us...and that's often where we have to rely on our own emotional strengths, such as we may feel or get from friends.  I've often found even friends aren't terrific, sometimes they're just as turncoat.