People underestimate mental illnesses. They believe that it's "all in your head" that you can just feel better by thinking differently. What they don't understand is it's not that easy, not even close. It's a chemical imbalance in your brain, caused my trauma or certain other things. You can't just stop feeling the way you feel because someone else tells you to feel differently. Don't they get that we don't want to feel like this? If we could be happy and joyful we would do it in the blink of the eye. It takes so much time though: medicine, therapy, help from others. It's not as easy as 1 2 3. It's HARD, so very very hard. People struggle for years with these illnesses. Sometimes they never completely go away. I can't fathom the people who make fun of it, who use it as adjectives, who pretend to be like this when really they aren't. If they truly knew how it felt, they would never say the things they do. How the second you take a blade to your body you're labeled as a "cutter", how the things you post that are sad you're labeled as "depressed". It's so much more than that. People are so uneducated and ignorant, they don't even understand. These illnesses change us for the worse, they turn ourselves into people we promised we'd never become, they take out all the happiness we once knew so well and replace it with darkness and coldness. It's something you have to go through to understand. It's not like a cough where you take medicine and a week later you're back to new. It's different drugs and so much time, changing your mindset and going through dangerous addictions. It's not as beautiful as it sounds, it's scary.
& I can't stand the way people treat the ones who deal with mental illnesses. We're hurting and they're making it worse.
