Why mental illness needs to be taken seriously
This is going to be a dead-serious post about a topic that is very personal to me: Mental illness is something I believe everyone should take seriously. First off, I'm a diagnosed autist with Aspergers who suffers from an anxiety disorder. I see a therapist regularly, take medication for it, and dearly want to minimize the limitations it places on my life. I have been deeply depressed, to the point of attempt suicide and thankfully not succeeding. I still wake up at night from nightmares of my more messed up days and I never want to be as much of a mental basket case as I was then. With this in mind, I just want to say I despise how social media has given people the belief touting your mental disorders as a proud part of your identity is a good thing. I refuse to consider my own problems a good thing and seek every instance of being able to do something constructive about them. I do not want pity for those mental disorders, I refuse to celebrate them, and if I could live a perfect...