Mental Illness vs Physical Illness
aka stop making those fucking comics
(decided to make this a separate post because that other one being on my dash bugs the hell out of me)
stop doing these articles. stop. stop making comics like this. stop writing posts about how physical illness is treated respectfully and taken seriously and mental illness isn’t. for the love of god, STOP.
first of all, a lot of times people compare mental illness to acute physical illness, which isn’t really a valid comparison in how people react at ALL. you break a leg or whatever, you’re probably going to get better. people understand that most of the time and feel like there will be a satisfactory conclusion to the issue.
mental illness is CHRONIC. so if you want to compare mental illness to physical illness and how people react, compare it to CHRONIC physical illness. you will see no fucking difference in how a chronically physically ill person is treated compared to a mentally ill person. the sympathy runs out. when they can’t just say “get well soon” or get an answer for “when will you be back to normal”, people drift away. doctors ignore you, tell you you aren’t trying hard enough. because people in general seem to have a hard time remaining empathetic to people who are chronically ill for whatever reason (mental or physical).
mentally ill people lose friends, lack sympathy, have people tell them it’s in their head, have people tell them they should use alternative therapy, have people tell them they aren’t trying hard enough, etc.
guess fucking what
so do physically ill people.
so stop this fucking nonsense. stop the perpetuation of this false fucking comparison. I’m so sick of it.
source: I am both mentally ill and physically disabled due to chronic illness. I have seen personally both sides of this fucking argument.
Yes.
