For me, someone who suffers from a major anxiety disorder, there is nothing worse than having someone tell me to suck it up and stop freaking out. For people suffering from anxiety, depression, and the other innumerable emotional disorders out there, ‘not freaking out’ or ‘being happier’ or what have you are things that take an immense amount of time, aid, and effort.
Unfortunately, mental health issues have often fallen by the wayside because they aren’t something that you can, for lack of a better word, see. You don’t have your brain in a sling, like, you know, if you had broken your arm. There are no stitches, no coughing, and no runny noses. This, along with the general naiveté of most of the world exemplified above, leads to the stigmas that mental …