I'm not really sure what I'm trying to say here... just that I keep reading things on here (and hearing IRL) things along the lines of "she sounds like an utter loon"; "she is unbalanced"; "bonkers - avoid avoid avoid"; "life is too short to bother with a crazy person" etc etc. And I know they're just talking about someone who's behaving in an unreasonable way, not someone with a mental illness (that they know of), but I don't know if that makes it better or worse. None of my colleagues or acquaintances know about my MH issues, I lie about psychiatrist appointments and scars and stuff, because I don't want them to think "better back off from her, it's not worth getting involved with someone so unstable"... and I wish that was just me being paranoid, but it's obviously an attitude that a lot of people have, and that depresses me. Basically, I'm just saying I wish people were a bit more careful with the pejorative language they throw around when it comes to MH.
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