#I wish this education on common disorders was more widespread ig

[lovingk9z]

So many people don't understand how severe mental illnesses and disorders can be; instead of asking questions, people just sit with the assumptions that lead them to treat us poorly.

I get the same with OCD, I have to think way too hard about how I talk about my disorder because hardly anyone understands how awful it actually is.

This is undoubtedly the case for anyone else suffering from an illness or disorder, but it shouldn't have to be.

anxiety is so insane bc ppl will treat it like it's no big deal, like it's "one of the "easy" mental illnesses" or something, and then you have it and it's insanely debilitating and you lose most of your life and your time and energy to it. yesterday i spent 2 hours sitting in my bed trying to convince myself to go to a water fountain to get some water. one time i got so scared to take a bus i passed out. like sure it's a spectrum and i'm definitely at the more severe end of it but the fact that milder cases exist doesn't mean it's not still a problem? and it doesn't mean that those people aren't struggling too