Depression Treatment Care

It is my understanding that a fragility to mental illnesses runs in families. I have noticed in my own vast and multi-marriage clan, that there are some branches which have NO challenged individuals, and branches with several. For some reason, the branch with alcoholic tendencies are very grounded and not prone to mental illness.(?)
I speculate that the intolerant simply have no experience or knowledge of real live people with mental illness, and simply make up the lack from slasher-movies and sitcom TV.
Bad PR, in other words.

We fear what we don’t understand.

I was also told I have atypical bipolar disorder.
People are scared of manic depressives. Some like you and me are harmless old loons. But others are dangerous.
One poor guy I knew stuck a knife in this young womans door and he broke my windshield as I watched. He was running amok and hurting people.
I usually keep it to myself I have it unless the other person tells me aobut his first like you did.

so now you want a candy bar since you have this handicap or would you just settle for the closer parking places?

Unfortunately, that is the stigma. Mental illness has become slightly more accepted, but it still has a long way to go. Unfortunately, those “crazy guys” make the news because they did something bad. How many news stories do you see with the headline, “Bipolar man gets a job”? As a society, we seem to enjoy pain and misery, because that is what we talk about, how we focus.
Also, as a society, we fear mental illness. Most people don’t understand it. Read some of the questions here and so many people have so many misconceptions about mental illness. As said previously, people fear what they do not know or understand. Its all about the status quo.
It just takes one person diagnosed with Bipolar committing a crime to cause the rest of the world to view all people with Bipolar the same way. They overgeneralize. A man with schizophrenia in this area stabbed a little boy in broad daylight. All over the news. Suddenly, patients with schizophrenia in the hospital, ready and awaiting discharge, are left hospitalized, because no one wants to be the one to release the guy who kills the next little boy. Those patients in the hospital could be highly functioning with great insight. They did nothing wrong. But due to our fear and tendency to overgeneralize, they are punished.
Don’t feel bad. All my old friends knew I have infertility and they NEVER let me babysit their children. Even when I offered to help, there was always some excuse and they went to great lengths to avoid leaving their child in my care. I think they believed that I was going to kidnap or murder their kid because a woman with infertility killed a woman, delivered her baby, and took it as her own. However, I have taken care of my baby nephew on several occassions and he has never had a scratch, is always laughing and smiling, well fed, and under my constant supervision.

OK, did the news say all mentally ill people will freak out and go on a crime spree? No, you are looking at certain instances where these people have done bad things, they are just reporting on it, don’t take it so personally. It would e the same as getting upset every time someone with something else in common with you was on the news. Their disease is part of who they are, and it is of course included in the news report, they could however use better terms to describe these peoples illness.

Because the news only shows one side of things, they do not understand it, so therefore it is wrong.

It’s because people always fear the unknown! When someone seems afraid it’s only cos they’ve got no understanding of the whole matter. I wouldn’t fear you if i saw you and i’m sure there’s many other people out there who understand and know what you mean. Don’t worry about it.