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Originally Posted by NettoSuperstar!

I can think of a few reasons why people would hide their distress, maybe because of the stigma and maybe they misunderstand what mental illness is, its not the way we used to view it... as something you "got" and cant recover from or something that makes you different from others, apart from obvious things like hearing voices the experiences people with mental health problems have dont differ from experiences everyone else has from time to time, theyre just exagerrated and more extreme. I like to think of Sane-Insane as being on a line and all of us are on that line somewhere and most of us a times in our life probably fall in to what is considered abnormal but wouldnt even consider that we have mental health problems. Anyway point is anyone in mental distress can recover if they want to and are honest about how theyre feeling, if not theyre really only hurting themselves... and their loved ones

Yeah I know what you mean. It's not always easy to talk about and the stigma and some of the names of the labels aren't too plesant either. That is why i'm half and half with labels really. I mean a Personality Disorder would not be a nice label to have. But with like Bipolar and Scitztophrinia, you can use those labels to get the treatment that is right for you. And say like with ADHD, you get more help at Uni and that. It all depends on the person I guess, cos some people wear their labels with a badge of honour which is not good.