(December 29, 2015 at 1:55 pm)Faith No More Wrote: Thanks, guys, but I think the point may have been missed a bit. I wasn't posting this to focus on my issues personally. I just wanted to used them as example of what I struggle with and to stand up and say that I am mentally ill. I appreciate the kind words, as times are rough right now, but I really was hoping to be part of the bigger picture when it comes to the stigmas in mental health and how that affects our laws and culture.
People are afraid to admit to something that millions of people suffer from, and that is a sad fact to digest. If people don't blow the lid off of these stigmas by standing up and saying "this is who I am, not the person you believe me to be," nothing is ever going to change. We will be seen as weaklings with character flaws, not people with legitimate illness.
I want to show the true faces of mental illness.
ETA: What I should have said is that I am one of millions of faces of mental illness.
I get what you're saying. When my ex- took a job working as a job coach for the mentally disabled (both developmentally and psychologically disabled), I had to reexamine my assumptions and cast off my stereotypes. And I guess what I was getting at with my above post was that even so, it's hard for the non-afflicted to understand mental imbalance until we suffer a taste of it ourselves.
