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Originally Posted by MuseumGhost
Thanks for your response, rdgrad 15. I agree---people are not very educated about the different forms of depression, and they rush to commonly accepted generalizations about it all.
It's laughable, really, when someone who has never personally experienced a certain illness seems to know "everything" about it.
At least the conversations have started. I believe that with education efforts on the increase (at least here in Canada), the topic of mental illness will not be such a taboo, fear-inducing subject in the future. Only understanding can reduce both the stigma and the preposterous misconceptions.
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Yeah people like to assume they know everything about a certain mental illness, they also assume that everyone experiences mental illness the same way. I'll be honest, I used to think everyone with depression experienced it the same way but after taking lots of psychology classes in college, I learned that wasn't true. It's rather annoying when those who don't have a mental illness feel the need to put others down and even reject the idea that mental illness exists. I hope the stigmas and misconceptions are debunked at some point but the problem is too many people refuse to acknowledge that depression is real or that everyone has depression, I've heard people say stuff like that to where they believe literally every single person alive on this planet has depression so it's better to just suck it up and not complain and I wish I could give people who say that a taste of their own medicine.