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    1 year ago

    Many mental illnesses can be equated to a broken bone.

    For example, If someone broke their femur (upper leg bone), that’s devastating and definitely would cause someone to “bark” in pain. We rushbto care and help them. We sit by them, hold their hand say comforting things and get that person help and sympathize with the pain. That poor guy.

    With mental illness, it is treated as a problem and looked at with disgust.

    If you needed help and no one would help you because they are “uncomfortable around you, think that it’s your fault, that you did this to yourself”?.. you will stop reaching out for help. Then it just gets worse from there.

    The people who have the mental capacity to help are neglecting those who are at their lowest.