A lot of people are living with mental illness around them. Either you love one or you are one.
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One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.
Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.
Love is a serious mental disease.
Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.
People get really irritated by mental illness.
Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.
I had known a couple of people in college who went off the rails, who had significant bouts with mental illness.
I think the stigma surrounding mental illness and also the stigma surrounding self-esteem issues or insecurities or just even feeling different is something that doesn't really get enough attention. Everybody struggles with feeling alone or that they are going through something they don't quite understand.
People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.
Any other illness, any other disease that we're faced with, there's sympathy and understanding. We get help for those. With mental illness, our go-to is to categorize them as, 'Oh, they're crazy,' to belittle the problem.