Posted by Penny on January 20, 2004, at 9:16:14
In reply to Would cancer be taken so lightly?, posted by jay on January 20, 2004, at 3:41:40
I totally agree!!! There is still a lack of understanding when it comes to mental illness, and I am most frustrated when I hear things from people who aren't convinced that it's even real. I like to say, "If you don't believe in the reality of mental illness, you should spend a week in the psych ward..." Not that I hadn't suffered from depression for years before my first hospital visit last summer, but being there, surrounded by others 'like me' made it all really hit home...
Of course, then there's the reality that the docs and nurses and b.h.techs in the hospital were still, even after working with those of us with mental illness, ignorant as to what it's really like. Sigh.
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