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Monday, 15 August 05 ::
sick of it
i just read a comment in another blog.. "And like most mentally ill people, she sees no error on her part."
i'm so tired of generalizations like that about those of us with mental illnesses. i'm sick of hearing about the latest criminal and having the first line about that person describing the mental illness they suffer from. i'm sick and tired of hearing about those with mental illnesses being treated like they are less than.
dammit. dammit. dammit.
just stop. just stop demonizing those with mental illnesses. just stop demonizing mental illness.
i know so many people who suffer from one form or another of different illnesses. they are all upstanding, kind, good hearted people. they are move about in every facet of society. they -- we -- are everywhere. and unless we behave in a way that you would expect, you'd never know it.
how about describing a friend you love and adore and throwing in that s/he suffers from mental illness? how about attaching these diseases to some of the kindest, hard working people you know? maybe, just maybe their experience with mental illness has made them that loveable person you know.
it has for me. i am the person i am today because i have struggled with depression.. severe depression. it has made me a hell of a lot more thoughtful, more aware. it has taught me that i can hit the bottom and make it up to the top. it has made me strong. it has forced me to learn things about myself that i would have never learned otherwise. the person my friends know and love wouldn't be the person i am without the depression.
i'm tired of the stigma, and i'm tired of people who you would think would be thoughtful about things like stigmas continuing that stimgma. i'm tired of worrying about whether someone will find out about my history and think less of me. i'm tired of society demonizing an illness. just sick of it.
posted by brooke at August 15, 2005 10:36 PM
