StoneByStone
It's OK to Be White
I disagree, Mentally Ill tend to suffer the most in America.
Although it used to be a lot worse, when they were in padded cells mistreated with shock therapy.
None the less, a lot of people don't understand the mentally ill, and don't want to understand them.
Absolutely, a lot of people do think that mental illness is fake.
Mental Illness makes people miserable, to make matters worse, most of them can't work, and therefor get chump change through Social Security Disability.
I think we can agree that today the mentally ill have it worse than the gays. Though we had a mentally ill president before an openly gay president, so who knows?
But historically speaking, I think gays had it worse and that's why Gay Pride became a thing. If a person was mentally ill and found to be a disturbance, they would be sent to an insane asylum that didn't take care of them, but they weren't hunted down, beaten, and locked up like gays were.
If anything, this shows that the gay rights movement has been successful in destigmatizing gays and that's what should happen for the mentally ill now. Mental illness, therapy, medication, all of these things should be destigmatized.