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Originally Posted by Burrcold
It's encouraging to see all of you open up like this. The stigma behind mental illness is precisely why people don't reach out for help, whether it be on a anonymous board like this or to family and doctors, please keep up speaking out.
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I'm also really floored at the response here. It helps that this is such a great community but everyone has so much intelligent input as well. And above all there is no judgment. I've recently been fully comfortable with opening up about the disease but even then it's so hard to convey just how serious it is to those who have been fortunate enough to have never dealt with it. My mom and I are extremely close,and even speaking with her for days on end about it she still really struggles to understand it even years later.