Hiding your mental illness only increases the stigma
The propensity of people to distance themselves from the mentally ill in a bid not to be assumed “crazy” or “insane” can be quite dangerous. Studies have shown that much of the social stigma felt by people living with mental illness is actually created by their fellow sufferers.
Every patient who shirks their diagnosis with the defensive comment “but I’m not a crazy person” implies that they are above or beyond the mental instability of others in similar emotional states.
