Okay you guys. This is going to be a serious post. I have stumbled across an article on Thought Catalog called "9 Signs Your Mental Illness Is Made Up For Attention". I read it and I am honestly so disgusted.

Mental illness is so serious and people like this are so detrimental. Just because YOU don't understand how it works, doesn't mean that everyone who isn't your stereotypical mentally ill person is faking it.

I'm so tired of people who don't understand telling you to "get over it". The insinuation that it's for attention is even worse. Mental illness is a real problem and it definitely needs more attention and awareness.

I don't blame people for not understanding, I don't even completely understand it myself, and we don't expect you to understand. But we do want you to try.

I feel like there are still so many people who believe that mental illness is a trivial think that you CAN just "get over" or grow out of, but you can't. It NEVER goes away. It's something you have to deal with for your whole life.

And depression isn't just 'being sad sometimes'. Anxiety isn't 'getting butterflies or being nervous'.

People that say things like this when it obvious that they have no clue what they're talking about disgust me.

Sorry for the rant.