Mental health

So many people in the world today are still extremely ignorant regarding mental health. They have no idea how hard it is for people with mental disorders or diseases. Why are people with depression not allowed to take a day off work? If you have the flu you're allowed but why not depression? Depression is as much as a disease as any physical disease. Mental diseases can be worse than physical diseases. Mental diseases can kill you just like physical diseases can. But the difference between them is - physical diseases you have support from everyone around you, people will empathize with you and help you out. They know you're suffering.

But what about mental diseases? Some people go as far as mocking mental diseases instead of trying to empathize with these people. Some go as far to say that they're not real, that it's their own fault. For example anorexia - some say the person is stupid and that all they care about is looks and being skinny... if they weren't so self absorbed they wouldn't have it. But it couldn't be more from the truth. You can not turn anorexia on and off. You can't just decide "I want to be skinny so I'll turn anorexic". NO. That is not how it works. IT IS A DISEASE. People do not want to be anorexic or ask for such a horrible disease. People do not enjoy the fact that their own brain has turned against them and has taken over their own body. They do not enjoy the fact that the first thing on their mind when they wake up is how they're going to get out of eating breakfast. They do not enjoy waking up in hospital from passing out. They do not enjoy panic attacks when the thought of even consuming food enters their mind. They do not enjoy loosing their hair and being out of breath from just walking up the stairs. They do not enjoy having to be secretive towards their family. They do not enjoy having their friends and family constantly worried about them and looking over them. They do not enjoy finding out they will never be able to have children. They do not enjoy loosing all their energy and the simplest of tasks being the hardest thing. They do not enjoy not knowing whether today will be the last time they see their family. Does anorexia really sound like something someone would want to go through?

Mental disorders create war in your own mind.

 Another example is addiction. Casper lee explains exactly what addiction is.

With addictions and most mental diseases it's not just the person with the disease suffering. It's everyone around them who is suffering with them. They call addiction a family disease. Not because addiction runs in families but because it ruins families. You cannot stop an addict from drinking or taking drugs or stopping them from doing whatever they're addicted too the only person that can stop them is themselves but sometimes the disease is so strong that it takes over them and they just can't stop and that can be the hardest thing for families to go through because there's nothing anyone can do and you have to sit back and watch them destroy them self and their life. That's why I think mental diseases are so much worse than physical diseases. Not only are people with mental diseases judged and not given enough support or understanding but in most cases you can try and try to help them but at the end of the day it's up to the sufferer to help themselves and sometimes they cannot do that. Yes there's councilors, psychologists and psychiatrists out there but there's only so much they can do. It is completely up to the person to fix themselves and the hardest thing is knowing you are the only person who can help yourself but no being able to do so.

Imagine feeling so powerless?