“People will say, ‘You’re depressed because of A, B, and C. It must be something you’re doing to yourself.'” The uniquely American pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps mentality convinces people with mental illness that they aren’t doing enough.
. For Lewis, the impact of stigma wasn’t that people dismissed him when he asked for help — he simply did not ask for it.
“The only education about mental illness that I’d ever gotten before I sought help was from grade-school health classes. We only spent a week on all the mental illnesses,” he said. “I worried that if I was up front about what’s going on with me, I might end up in a very bad situation,” Shepherd said. “That made it very hard to seek any kind of treatment, and even once I was there, it was very hard to be honest. Like a lot of bipolar people, I have a lot of suicidal thoughts and impulses that are just kind of like a constant, low-level hum. That’s obviously very upsetting to somebody who cares about me.
Dr. Ellen Littman, a clinical psychologist, says she sometimes has to ask patients 15 different ways before they share their suicidal ideations.
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