Illness, mental and physical

PS If you're ex used your mental health probs to be contolling, he had mental health probs as well.

Is it deemed offensive?

That is how it is commonly seen, vamp, but my point is that I don't see it like that at all. And people getting outraged (see the article I linked to) when someone says that someone with mental health problems is 'disturbed' and should see a doctor is what causes the stigmatising.

I'm probably not putting it very well, but we have to 'allow' people to have mental illnesses in exactly the same way as we allow, by accepting it, that people get pneumonia or whatever. And that in either case medical help would probably be a good idea.

We won't get rid of the stigma attached to mental health until we are more up front about it as something that just happens, like common colds and other infections.

Maybe it's because of the stigma attached and the fact that referring to someone being 'mental', 'mad' etc. is often used as an insult.

My ex used my mental health issues to keep me under control. He told me that if I left I'd lose my girls because no judge would give custody to a 'mad woman'.

People are afraid of being deemed different and admitting that we have mental health issues makes us different.

stigma