How dare you cough? Don’t you want to be well? You’re not even really sick, you’re just being selfish. Can’t you just be healthy?
Those comments would be absolutely ridiculous if someone said them to a person with pneumonia or the flu. But for some reason, this is how people react to mental illnesses. The following posts will delve a little deeper into various mental illnesses and maybe shed some light on what it’s really like to be mentally sick.