A GUIDE TO THERAPY
What does someone with a mental health condition look like? In my experience it certainly isn’t how ‘mad’ people are stereotypically represented in the movies or on TV. The mentally ill are often portrayed as mumbling, erratic, incompetent, dangerous, chaotic, slovenly and undeserving, which only serves to distance ‘them’ from the rest of ‘us’, perpetuating fear and ignorance.
Despite having mental health conditions from a relatively young age, my mental health knowledge, prejudice and language were severely lacking for an embarrassingly long time. My internal cringe-o-meter shoots off the scale when I think about all the times I
