I sat on my floor the night before the fourth of July. To be exact, I was sitting in front of my fridge like one of those movie scenes where the person slides down the wall, holding their head in their hands, crying their eyes out. Yeah, that was me, living like a movie star, basically.
Everyday I live out my life, going to work, exchanging smiles, laughs, everything that everyone does but little do you know I am suffering from something, and just because you don't see it does not mean it isn't there.
"Just think happy thoughts" or "You don't need that medicine you have a good life" or "You're fine, don't be dramatic".
Easy for you to say because it is invisible to the naked eye. Could you imagine us treating other sicknesses like this? "You have a good life, don't worry about your cancer" or "don't be dramatic, needles aren't too bad; you'll only be getting them for the rest of your life". To treat any sickness like this may make you a little sick (no pun intended).
Funny that something so frequently plaguing peoples lives still does not get the people equal treatment. 1 in 13 people globally suffer from anxiety and depression. But we still live in this stigma bubble that everyone is just dramatic and nothing is wrong with them and they want attention.
This may not being body crippling, so you may not notice me as different when you walk by me, but it is mind crippling. As I speak to you I push my hardest to fake well, not sick. So weird, right? As a child, we fake sick, even I did, and here I am now faking well. I am faking well just to try to fit into the society because apparently our society doesn't have room for "dramatic people".
We happen to have a society that is just as crippling as the illness itself. Our society seems to not take this things serious. Mental illness should be just as serious as any other illness someone is going through. Take into considering that it alters your whole entire brain and thought process, and your brain is the master mind of your whole entire body.
To be taken lightly is never a good feeling, especially when it comes to your health. To go through life with something you are dealing with forever and hear that you are faking or your dramatic is just as crippling as the illness and the society. "Don't judge a book by its cover" is the quote I believe we all learn in preschool, probably the first memorable quote. When you look at me, remember just because I am smiling with makeup on or whatever it may be does not make me cured. I am suffering, internally, from the famous invisible illness.
Lets look harder people, let's look past the covers and the fronts.
