Why is mental health still stigmatized in 2020?

Yes I agree with you there.

(I’ll talk purely from my own experience) Having to live with mental health issues everyday, the pain that it creates and always overthinking everything warps my own view of myself and the world around me; always thinking I’m a burden to myself and to others, that I’m worthless, not normal, full of self loathing etc. But often, people are way more understanding, or could be, if I was more open about whats going on.
I’ m incredibly blessed to have a boyfriend who sticks with me and my « issues », been together for 6 years, and he’s been the one to ask of me to open up/talk to him whenever I would act « crazy » and irrational after a panic attack, instead of pushing everything away and hide in my gilded cage. I remember one night, early in the relationship, we were fighting over me acting irrationally during a really bad panic attack, he pushed me to talk, I broke down and blurted everything out: my thought process, the pain, the guilt, the shame...It was messy but I opened up. Got scared and told him right after that I made a mistake by engaging in a relationship. He replied by telling me that he didn’t care that I was the way I was, but what was infuriating him was the fact that I wasn’t talking about it. Mind blown.

I’ve fought my battles with my condition, I am way more opened about it today outside of my close surroundings, some people get it, some don’t and it’s ok. I’m lucky to have supportive people in my life even though I still feel like a burden sometimes, but Ive learnt that initiating conversation sometimes break down some walls I’ve actually built myself.

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