Monetizing mental illness

[Funeralprincess]

Sooo this is something that definitely makes me a bit angry. There are people who do not have mental issues, but will certainly claim to in order to profit from it. I remember listening to a controversial music artist who spoke about how there's people in all large industries from music, film, advertising, etc who all try to play this game of being "relatable" to the masses who suffer from mental health in order to financially reap the rewards. To me, this is bothersome because those of us who are mentally ill, we can't just turn it on and off. We lose our lovers, friends, jobs, and families over our serious diseases due to the symptoms they display that are out of our control, self sabotage, different ways of thinking, etc. I even notice some illnesses are glamorized such as bipolar. When I developed bipolar it took everything from me and I see it being so glamorized in the media, to the point people think it's a trend. I watch people treat it that way and I'm like, if only you knew what it felt like to actually have it and lose everything because of it… it's kind of sick how mental illness at times is used to make someone money who doesn't even have said disease.

Those of us who are very mentally ill do not get the choice of when we decide to have it because it's always there, lingering, waiting for another chance to ruin our lives even
More than it already has. I just see so much glamorization of mental illness and people make money off of it, but people who truly suffer with a disease of the mind struggle every day to obtain proper healthcare and life quality… it just angers me is all, because many of us have lost happiness over our neurodivergence, and we cannot remove that whenever we feel like it.