Talk about your mental health.
People don't realize how effective this is. A perfectly normal conversation in progress and in a perfectly fitting manner a mental health response and.. radio silence. It's true. Try it sometime.
It's not a malicious thing from the silenced person, it's simply a convo-stopper. I haven't quite figured out why this is yet other than mental illness makes people uncomfortable.
Still.
The stigma still exists.
Let's discuss this for a moment.
Why? Why is mental illness such an uncomfortable topic? Because you don't experience it? Presumably you don't experience amputation either. Or Ebola. Leprosy? No, not any of them.. Um, lets use autoimmune disease as an example. Ohhh. Wait. You do? That's more common, huh?
So let's use that.
I can't see that you have an autoimmune disease. You can't see that I have a mental illness.
I don't shun you for your intractable pain, or your fatigue, or your.. wait, what? People don't get that either?
Bad example.
How about the C-word?
Yeah, that probably stops conversation too.
Do better, people.
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