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It just sucks to be mentally ill
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 666262" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>Isn't it interesting how different attitudes are towards physical and mental illnesses?</p><p></p><p>When someone has overindulged food and is overweight and gets diabetes, they are of course advised to try to lose weight, but they still get treatment if they are not able to do that. If someone gets addicted because they overindulged substances, they may be denied all health care not only for addiction but other illnesses till they first stop substance abuse.</p><p></p><p>When someone has cancer and after remission it comes back no one tells them that they didn't try hard enough, don't blame them if they didn't stick with perfect diet and other health habits during remission. When someone with mental illness has a new episode after remission, they get criticised if their health habits were somehow lacking during the remission and people seem to assume that they did it for themselves by doing this or that or not doing this or that.</p><p></p><p>Also with most illnesses side effects many psychiatric drugs do have would not be scoffed off like they are. And people would not be blamed by not wanting to take medications that have such serious side effects or side effects that so much decrease quality of life. </p><p></p><p>When some one has bad knee and they do something careless that causes the re-injury it is considered bad luck. When person with mental illness does something careless that causes the illness to have a turn to worse, they get often harshly blamed by their choice or it can be even considered intentional.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 666262, member: 14557"] Isn't it interesting how different attitudes are towards physical and mental illnesses? When someone has overindulged food and is overweight and gets diabetes, they are of course advised to try to lose weight, but they still get treatment if they are not able to do that. If someone gets addicted because they overindulged substances, they may be denied all health care not only for addiction but other illnesses till they first stop substance abuse. When someone has cancer and after remission it comes back no one tells them that they didn't try hard enough, don't blame them if they didn't stick with perfect diet and other health habits during remission. When someone with mental illness has a new episode after remission, they get criticised if their health habits were somehow lacking during the remission and people seem to assume that they did it for themselves by doing this or that or not doing this or that. Also with most illnesses side effects many psychiatric drugs do have would not be scoffed off like they are. And people would not be blamed by not wanting to take medications that have such serious side effects or side effects that so much decrease quality of life. When some one has bad knee and they do something careless that causes the re-injury it is considered bad luck. When person with mental illness does something careless that causes the illness to have a turn to worse, they get often harshly blamed by their choice or it can be even considered intentional. [/QUOTE]
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