Health
Let’s Stop Romanticizing Mental Illness As A Cute Personality Trait
On our quest to recognize the importance of mental health awareness, we’ve crossed into the dangerous territory of unwittingly minimizing it by cheapening the severity of it.
By Mia C. Gonzalez2 min read
If there’s one thing many Millennials have in common, it’s growing up with parents who didn’t understand the whole “mental illness” thing. Often, our parents would have a just get over it attitude, or chortle at the thought of anyone needing therapy. In short, for far too long, people who suffered from mental illnesses like depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar disorder, autism, and so many others were treated like abnormal, medicated weirdos.