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Mental illness is absolutely seen as a weakness. You just need to hear how people gossip in quiet about someone who’s having mental health issues. Statements ab
by village-idiot 7y ago
Mental illness is absolutely seen as a weakness. You just need to hear how people gossip in quiet about someone who’s having mental health issues. Statements about people needing to “man up” or it being “their time of the month” are far from uncommon.
- apacheCamel 7y agoGrowing up, my parents would make fun of my aunt for taking anti-depressants behind her back in front of my sister and I. When I was a kid, I didn't think much of it. Now being older and having gone through some dark times of my own, I am truly sickened by the fact that they see her in this "weakness" light. Imagine all the kids who faced the same thing but never saw the other side and wound up feeling the same way their parents did? My parents taught me a lot of great things but I am glad this was not one of them.