Stigma of Mental Illness. I think many talks about it without knowing about it much, it sounds to me, the words are overused. If it's personal in nature, that's just resentment or something, lacking empathy and understanding on the part of who's saying it. "You don't understand what I'm going through, and you're treating me unfairly.". That's just not stigma of anything, professional are studying how badly the stigma works against mental health professionals and patients alike, my point is that poorly defined words and uses of the stigma accusations are unfair, losing credibility on their own.

I understand the concern mentioned in the OP though.

Clinically depressed or not, the article was selling something, it belongs in this whole ridiculousdom of this system, which someone denies. Are you a good talker? This complicates matters understandably to me. The lines are always blurry, a doctor might ask "What seems to be a problem today?", some gets asked questions that goes along with the symptoms, words describe them. It's a conversational dance between two people, not everyone can handle tango like Obama, not classy enough I suppose. Seriously, you don't know what's on doctors minds, asking the same level of professional courtesy on friends and family may work, it's just that money don't exchange hands, so the conversation may fail, and it's not stigma if someone finds any mental illness related lack of understandings outside of professional settings.

The issue that I'm talkins about here overlaps between normal people and people who are supposed to learn about the mental illnesses such as care takers or maybe your dentists or something, they are still the same. The blaming game, the accusation of calling bad reactions from people a stigma seems fishy on a lot of threads on PC. "Do I open up about it at workplace?" The consensus would probably be answering no to that question. Has anyone informed them enough? Who's the criminals... talking on the same level of human characteristics on any situations is vital. Let us all be awaken, grant us the opportunity to gaze into the Multiverse.

To me personally, whoever saids anything is he/her own experts of their own brain, others talking about it sounds like undervaluing of human brain capabilities, devaluing it, flexing the expectation accordingly would do anyone a favor. Exaggeration also works if the listener believes it. It's a convincing technique, isn't it? It'll always be a tough proposition without proper evidence.

Ordinary folks fight against each other verbally, demands things on another, someone claiming "I'm like this", and be demanding what's not acceptable to another party will end badly. It don't look right. It goes both ways. Mental illness are not something to be valued in people's character, the decision making of what to say and how to say things come from whole another part of the person, disabled cranky person is a cranky one, I wouldn't mind being mean to that person, I hold the lines of acceptabilities. The mental struggles too are happening on both ends.

People are smart enough to find weaknesses and it's just human evolution, we owe ourselves to that a little. Prove it, the procrastinations and tv watching and stuff, ain't gonna happen with me, at least. I believe every mind states are reality to them, unless it's noticeable from the outside, even if it is... One simply gotta behave for the acknowledgement, drop the correctness of your knowledge, be advantageous with what you have, with every tools available. Aim for the master's degree of human mind(s).

All the directions and coordinations of our brains, followed by breaking and rebuilding of comprehensions of little things, one will get insightful, I don't see myself 'up/high', I could spit on that sort of unfit explanation. I'm not fan of categorizations inside of my brains, it's only possible probably because there's no big scars there, wounds heal, I just know it can be pushed further a little more towards healthier and usable state, that'd be an upgrade, something to look forward to.