The Rise of Romanticizing Mental Illnesses

This needs to be stopped as soon as possible

Hugo Li
Published in
6 min readJul 18, 2020

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Many years ago mental illnesses were a taboo topic that was rarely discussed and those who suffered were misunderstood. They were just told to stop being sad or stop being stressed, which still happens to this day, as if that ever works. Saying things like these meant that they thought depression was just a switch…

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Hugo Li
Invisible Illness

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