And now the cropping is fixed, so the comments deriding the cropping don’t make sense anymore.
The confusion it will cause…
If you say ‘mental illness’ 3 times in the mirror, someone with a Live Laugh Love t-shirt will appear behind you and ask if you’ve tried going outside.
I’ll be honest, going outside does help. The problem is when you don’t have a compelling enough reason to (in my personal experience. This might not be everybody’s experience)
You can go buy beer or something.
Mental illness and alcohol is not something I want to mix
ok, but in america this IS how physical diseases are treated
In the four european countries I’ve lived in as a physically disabled person unable to work, this is exactly how I’ve been treated as well.
It’s not comparable. Whenever I see these posts, it always feels as if the author is suggesting that mental illness is just like a flu, you just get it accidentally and can’t help it and you just need to rest to get over it.
But that is completely wrong. Unless you have developed schizophrenia or bipolar etc, that’s a whole different kettle of fish which will likely require medication for the rest of your life. You need to help yourself out of depression and anxiety etc. You can’t wait around for it to disappear, you need to see a therapist, take your ass outside and force yourself into uncomfortable situations.
You’ll have days you can’t do anything and that’s completely okay. But I feel like the ‘nurturing’ of mental health can do some harm.
I feel you might be missing the joke, from my interpretation of it you are in agreement.
My read is that it is implying that mental illness are real diseases, but they’re treated like you should just get over them, which would be ridiculous if you were bleeding out, but since they aren’t usually visible people will just tell you that you should just be better.
