Especially your mental health problems. Oh, you want to hurt yourself? It’s because you think it’s funny and cool (a quote from my lovely mother, who thinks mental health problems have to be earned)

No, even women with serious, obvious illnesses are ignored and dismissed until things are a disaster, and then the doctors want to know why YOU let it go on so long. I’m not sure where the artist gets her physical healthcare from but I’d like a referral.

Truth. My 17 years of physical health struggles look EXACTLY like the picture here of memtal health striggles Me at home, struggling by myself, because i'm not sick enough to need hospitalization, but am too sick to function "normally" on a regular basis. People see me on my "good" days, when i'm well enough to be out and about, socializing and exercising. They don't see me in the weeks i'm not well enough to even shower, much less leave the house -and very very few people in this ableist society are open-minded, compassionate or respectdul enough to listen to me talk about these struggle, to even try and understand.

Even if you reach out, people will distance themselves and ghost you because they think of you as a downer or they'll downplay your problems cos they believe theirs are worse. Why can't it be mutual? I always listen to people's problems and provide some moral support. Can never go to them for anything I'm struggling with.

I have fibromyalgia and mental health issues and people treat both like I'm just making them up for attention. Just cause you can't see someone suffering doesn't mean they aren't.

This. As someone living with a chronic intractable migraine since November 2000, I've been accused of faking it for attention (even though I'm the baby of the family and had enough attention for 10 kids), that the pain is all in my head (har har har), and now with the 'War on Opioids' that I'm a disgusting drug fiend who's only after pills because of addiction, not because I need them for actual pain relief. How many times have I been told "just get some exercise" and my fatigue will disappear, or "just get out and do more" because it's just that simple and all this time I've just been lazy, I can't even count any more. To say the medical establishment is ignorant when it comes to chronic pain and mental illness is putting it mildly.

I fully agree. Yet, when you have a mental health illness.... every medical problem is seen as a mental health problem. I'm bipolar. I went to the ER with severe chest pain (during a pandemic) and they gave me an anti-psychotic drug first thing. I've never had a psychotic episode in my life. I was not agitated in the least until they injected that into me... And lied when I asked what it was for. The craziest episode I've ever had was when they did that. 15 minutes later I ripped the IV out and walked out. My daughter took me home but I was stripping in the car, something I've never done before. For the first time in her life, I scared her.

Exactly. 💔 I live that one.

Fair. I have lupus. I deal with chronic pain, fatigue, depression, immunity issues, basically everything is a potential threat to my health and just taking my morning shower exhausts me for the rest of the day, but I don't look sick, so I must be exaggerating...

Very true.

Physical health issues that are chronic & invisible get literally NO HELP and NO SUPPORT. I'm lucky that my disability & physical health issues are visible. But I do not get support or anything like what she is implying.

So disappointed with docs. I'm 36 never had a good doc. Ever!!! Mental or physical. They literaly are just about getting you out of office. We can't call em out on it cuz haven't gone to med school. That and it's shameful either way. Really bad. Same reason docs are being shamed n canceled too. Covid, gender. Man. It's bad. Really bad. That's political n be run by Google or Amazon soon. Then what

Not even then, I have juvenile arthritis so bad that without treatment I have such crippling pain I can’t move at all without help, and it took roughly a month and a half and four doctors to find someone who didn’t immediately say “it’s probably just anxiety” or “how often do you exercise?”

100% especially if its chronic pain then your a druggie

I just wanted to comment the same.

Honestly yeah. It's sad 😥

Did you mean physical?

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Even more so for men. Man-up and carry on, then they jump ((

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1st of all, most doctor cares about the well being of their patient as a whole. 2nd most of the significant others of all the depress people cares. the problem, most patient with depression tend to go unnotice due to the patient not seeking help from professionals. they tend to hide their problems from their love ones, feeling that they don't want to bother them.

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Thats completely baseless and false.

Indeed. People with visible known diseases like cancer get a lot of attention. But msot chronically ill people just gaslighted and abandoned

There's also a lot of overlap between the two.

I think that's true of disabled people, who are seen as "less than", but not so much people who are having problems that might be fixed. My mother had cancer and the 3 years before she died she got a lot of help and attention from all directions. Same thing with several family members that had heart attacks and another family member that tore his ACLU in a football game. I don't know of anyone who had temporary physical ailments that were abandoned to suffer alone.

Exactly, thank you.

Have you tried it though? They're not saying it as the only treatment, but part of the treatment. You can take pills, but those cause a lot of side effects for which you'll need more pills to cure. If you go into therapy and expect the therapist to solve all of your problems for you, there's no point in going because that's not how it works. If you really want to get better with your mental illness, then you need to approach it the same way someone with a physical illness would - open to trying anything to get better.

That was meant for the 2nd picture.