A/N: mentioned depression, self harm

Is it right that mental health and mental health care have so much stigma around then? Especially since the mental health can affect the physical health and contribute to the tendency to have some diseases, and affect the weight (maybe you're not simply overeating it not exercising enough) added to the fact that while you can do some things to try to control your mental state, you can not completely change it?

Why is it that mental health should be so expensive that people dealing with mental health issues can't access it?
(I have personal experience with this. My mom gave me a self help book because therapy was too expensive {without to my knowledge checking our insurance}, and I can never get through to the USA's crisis hotline)

Why can you talk about sex, drugs, and other issues more freely then your mental health? Why are people who struggle with self harm forced to view their scars are "bad" while scars from surgery, etc are viewed more increasingly as telling a story about survival?

Why is it that teens are educated about sex, and other issues (but always properly and that definitely needs work, but that's a entire different can of worms), but not mental health?

Why should we have to worry and stress about people viewing you as a less then a person because you struggle with mental health? Who got to decide that? Why do we let them decide that? And why do they get to decide, who lives, who died, who tells their stories, and who just become statistics, whether they're alive or dead?

(And on a different note, I'm thankful to the therapists who are volunteering their time to help essential workers for free, and for the essential workers themselves. They work doubtless working very hard, and honestly deserve more recognition then they get.)