Reply To: Mental illness in the frum community

My family is pretty supportive but I don’t feel like I can discuss it with any of them openly. I do feel like some family members look down upon me because of it (the fact that I need meds to help me feel better)but I try to ignore it. It’s hard though. If my family looks down upon it, how can I expect others not to?

I think a very important thing to remember is that not all mentally ill people are mentally unstable, b”H I am not unstable. Have been stable for months already. Months might seem like a short time to some but to most people with a mental illness it feels like an eternity.