Suicide Isn't Just a Personal Issue
The U.S. has a long history of misunderstanding mental-health struggles.
It wasn’t all that long ago that many people wouldn’t say “cancer” in polite conversation. Because the disease was so deadly and so poorly understood, mentioning that someone had The Big C could seem to imply that the person had brought the misery of the disease on himself or herself.
Although that stigma persists in some ways—lung cancer, for example, is still with tobacco use—things have gotten a lot.
