Mental Illness – It’s Your Fault
One of the frustrating things about having a mental illness is how often people say (or intimate) that the mental illness is your fault. Oh sure, they might not come right out and say, “You’re to blame for your bipolar,” (although some people do) but they might just say:
- You wouldn’t be bipolar if you didn’t take all those meds
- Your diet [eating wheat, dairy, etc.] is causing your mental illness
- You wouldn’t be depressed if you exercised more
- Your mental illness is “all in your head”
- Your bipolar is made up by your psychiatrist
- Mental illness is your punishment for not being Christian (or not being faithful enough)
And so on and so forth pretty much until my head is about to explode.
But here’s a newsflash – mental illness isn’t your fault. My bipolar isn’t my fault. No illness is the sufferer’s fault and I’m tired of having to defend myself to others just because my illness is “mental.”
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