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Originally Posted by shattered sanity
it does seem unfair, I agree.
I think an issue is (probably the main one) is that people don't want to do the research- they don't want to find out about these things- they just don't want to know, they have their own opinions- we're lazy, we can't make decisions, we're murderers, etc etc
and them edia doesn't help with that.
I don't know why depression seems a more acceptible diagnoses to have.
maybe it's a case of saying, well, everyone gets depressed at some stage- mental health or not, the world's cruel to everyone at some stage
I know it doesn't seem right, but sadly that's the world we live in
it's okay and normal to be "depressed", but get on to the subject of mood swings or obsessive behaviour, people are like... well why. are you making this up?
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I’m not sure about the ‘research’ part — god knows that there are a lot of websites with different explanations of the same mental disorders. But I believe that you’re right — “they just don’t want to know.”
(Crazy Aunt Ethel lives in the attic.)
I think that mild depression is acceptable because many people feel a bit blue now and then. Most people, though, don’t end up in the hospital. Or comfortably sedated for yet another ECT session. Every mother takes an antidepressant. But antipsychotics? No, we don’t mention those.
When I tell people that I’m schizoaffective, they inevitably ask how many split-personalities I have and bring up that god forsaken book/movie “Sybil.” Try to correct them? Might as well spit into the wind. “They just don’t want to know.”
It’s infuriating — all ignorance is, I guess — but I don’t see any improvement on the horizon.