Choices

We often hear (even within the mental health fraternity and medical community) that a large part of recovery from mental illness is a matter of “choice”. That when the person “chooses” to no longer be depressed, recovery will follow.
How come we never hear that people who don’t have mental illness are CHOOSING not to educate themselves? Choosing to “not know what to do”? That they choose to do nothing instead of getting involved?

Why is it the mentally ill and substance abusers who are making “bad choices”? Isn’t it a “bad choice” to remain ignorant about scientifically proven illnesses?

We all know that mental illness is stigmatized, what is never said is that stigmatization = intolerance.

Isn’t it a “bad choice” to stigmatize a group of people?

Mental illness is the only scientifically proven medical type of condition for which ignorance is accepted, even promoted.