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Originally Posted by snowy
Mental illness is not a weakness. It's a fact of life. Would you say that a man with a congenital heart defect is "weak"? No. There is little people can control about their own mental illness, due to the variety of factors that go into causing and creating it. What you do have control over is how you deal with your mental illness. For some people, yes, sharing is constructive. For others, not so much.
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I don't consider other people "weak" because of the mental illness, I consider *myself* weak because of it. I won't look down on someone for having these problems, I look down on myself for letting a chemical imbalance in my brain affect my life. I do talk to people about it and it helps, but I just don't like sharing to much. I only let a few people in and those are a select few. I am taking steps to help myself deal with issues in my brain and some of them help. I just wanted to clarify that, didn't want to bash people unintentionally.