To be annoyed with this friends attitude towards mental health?

[Mamabird3]

Long story short (ish), last night I went out for a few drinks with a few friends, whilst getting ready we had a conversation about my anxiety and depression as another friend is also suffering and I was encouraging her to go to the doctor as it isn't as bad to talk about it as I thought it would be. Anyway, df1 decided to pipe up with an incredibly anti medication view. Telling me that I shouldn't be taking anti depressants as they mask the problem not cure it. I disagreed and the night moved on.
Later that night she decided to tell the whole group of people that I was on medication and lecture me about it again. To which I said I didn't want to discuss it. When I was about to leave to go home she told me I couldn't walk to get a taxi because I was "a liability" due to being on citalopram and that I was disgusting for taking it because depression and anxiety aren't real Illnesses. This woman is training to be a midwife. I am so angry at her ill informed opinions! How can she support women who have had mental health issues and pnd etc with this attitude? Aibu? Or is she?

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My eyebrows got so high up my face reading your post, they were practically mating with my hairline! Wow, she's really lacking any kind of empathy and YANBU!

That's a midwife I wouldn't like to meet.

Your friend is a nasty, ignorant little bell-end.

She's no friend........drop her

OP truly disgusting behaviour from your 'friend' & it seems the only thing she achieved on your night out was showing you & the other friends her ignorance & complete lack of compassion.

Sadly some people see those with a physical or mental health issues as attention seekers, because there is so much glory in ill health

Don't even attempt to educate her when you next meet, just smile sweetly, distance yourself & never divulge information to her again.

Drop her. Seriously, drop her. My SIL made some comments about it that are still bothering me.
I am on citalopram for much the same issues (have also tried the cbt course) and it astonishes me how breath-takingly ignorant some people are about mental health. In retrospect I have been depressed since my teens and I am only just starting to recognise that, now I am feeling more "normal".

It has taken me the best part of a year to admit to several close friends that I am on medication. Thankffully they have been fantastically supportive.

Oh and for you, and for supporting your other friend at a time like this. Depression is a bastard and some dways I wonder if I will ever feel 'normal' again.

Thanks for all your replies, you are all lovely I've been depressed since my teens and had problems with anxiety since I was a child so it took me a long time to get help, and have had concerns from my gp about bipolar traits that I have, I think I'm going to be keeping that quiet because I'm sick of people's negative reactions to mental health. Eventually when DCs are older I want to be a mental health nurse, to provide support for people who need it, and to fight the stigma that's attached to it.
I've had so many negative reactions since diagnosis, but people would never dream of acting that way for a diagnosis of a physical condition.
I saw her when I went to collect my things from hers and was just cool towards her, in and out in minutes.
My boss was out with us last night and when she heard what my "friend" said she was disgusted, and I'm actually lucky that she's been fantastic at work.

I've had a number of MH problems, mainly anxiety and depression following a trauma. My least sympathetic, hardest-to-deal-with friend through this horrible time was - a doctor. (Not a GP luckily, or a psych doctor, but still.)

It has really put me off her as a friend and I'm struggling with seeing her these days tbh.

I think the stigma is reducing and more and more people are gaining more understanding. I have been able to talk to plenty of friends openly about it and I have a friend with quite serious bipolar who has made a big stand in being completely open and unashamed about it and getting on with his life in a way that's inspired me. BUT there are still some ignorant, rude and insensitive people about. I think some people who have this reaction are very scared of mental ill health and want to pretend it doesn't exist. They may fear it in themselves - much like homophobes.

Whoah!!! She said all this utter bile AND knew your boss was there? Seriously OP this woman is toxic! Cut her off mercilessly!

You don't need this person in your life, she's no friend.
I'v been on medication since my teens. Nothingelse except for tablets have worked for my anxiety and depression.
Thankfully none of my friends judge me. they simply support me, because they are my friends.
I would report this woman to her boss.
I'm scared that she's going to be working in healthcare with this view.
I came off my medication years ago due to a doctor who was stuck in his ways, believing i was too young to be depressed and had nothing to be depressed about. I nearly killed myself.thankfully my friends were around to support me and i went back onto it .