Reply #34: Even more to the point, stop the social stigmatizing of mental illness. [View All]

[AngryOldDem]

I wish I could remember where I saw it, but in a story on this guy it was said that he hated to be known as someone with a mental illness. Thus one of the reasons why he went off his meds.

Mental illness is just that, an illness, like cancer, the flu, or any other thing physiological. It just affects a different part of the human being. It's an illness, like cancer or the flu, that can be treated, and treated successfully, at that.

Just how many more people like this guy are out there who are afraid to seek help, or are in denial, because they fear what others might say/think, or afraid of how society will treat them? That is also a true crime here.