> It's looked down on as if "you just can't handle life" so you "just feel sad". Loved ones have mental health problems and those reactions just piss me off. I

> It's looked down on as if "you just can't handle life" so you "just feel sad". Loved ones have mental health problems and those reactions just piss me off. If someone has a broken bone sticking out of their leg, nobody questions why they have a hard time walking. If they have a heart attack, nobody questions that they can't go to work today and need medical attention. But when the most powerful, essential organ in the body has a problem - well, just buck up and get over it, which is similar to, 'just buck up and walk off that heart attack'. Or they say, 'I'm depressed sometimes too'; which is like telling someone who is paraplegic, 'my leg falls asleep sometimes too'. 'Why didn't I think of that? I'll just get up out of this wheelchair and walk it off!' In fact the symptoms of mental health problems sometimes can be just as obvious as broken legs and heart attacks. But because we don't understand the functioning of the brain on a physical level, IMHO people assume that what they don't know doesn't exist; and of course they fear what they don't understand, its implications for them, and don't know how to handle it, so they deny it or minimize it. I think these questions provide perspective to people: Would you rather be unable to walk the rest of your life, or live feeling true hopelessness the rest of your life? Would you rather be blind, or be unable to form relationships with people and be trapped in isolation? Of course, 'none of the above' is everyone's choice.