05-12-2008, 04:30 AM
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Only time will tell...
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Discrimination against Mental Illnesses
Mental Illnesses is becoming a world problem with depression becoming the second-leading health problem after heart disease in the year 2010.
Just today during school, I was under the risk of self-harm since I am currently suffering from severe depression as I have been diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder. I had to be taken away to an emergency ward and I am now under anti-depressants to control my depression. What triggered it? A shattered and broken heart...
What I am disgusted about is that there are many people in my school that are avoiding me as they label me as a 'Bipolar Disorder' or 'an extremely sad person' sufferer instead of a normal human being. Most people who see individuals who are suffering from a mental illness often avoid them, or joke about them because they don't fit in the category of being a 'normal' human being.
Most of us see schizophrenic sufferers as 'mad' and 'dangerous' individuals because they are known to commit more crimes than people who don't have a mental illness. But it isn't their fault because they didn't choose to be bron, or develop a devastating mental condition. Knowing that I am now a threat to myself, all my school friends and some teachers are avoiding me since they think I am out of my mind most of the time and that I could hurt them. But people like me need social support and positive reinforcements to make us a little distracted of our depression and to feel just a little lighter after sitting in a world of darkness.
More sympathy to these people is needed as they are going through so much to be normal like everyone else. I'm currently battling with it and it hurts to know that even my best friend is avoiding me and doesn't communicate anymore.
This thread isn't about just me, but to all the other people out there who find this problem everyday and it's just a struggle to keep up with everyone and to socialise normally. People treat you nicely and fair, until you mention that you have a mental illness and it changes their veiw on you. It really hurts both mentally and emotionally which can worsen the mental condition.
I think the love in this world is just stale. Now that I have been diagnosed, I am just hurt and disgusted at the discrimination against individuals suffering from a mental illness. You need to go through it or know someone who you dearly love who is a sufferer to know exactly what it is like to be discriminated and unloved.
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