Does mental illness count for anything

They better care because I have OCD! Sometimes if things don't go my way I'm not functional. I don't know how to answer this question with "is it normal" but i would say that mental illness counts for a lot!

I was institutionalized for disorganized schizophrenia during my junior year of high school and my teachers worked around that pretty well. Though it was a private school and private owned institution. Was a straight A student with all AP's and Honors except my junior year. I blame myself for it, yes I can't help that I went schiz, but I still am of lesser use. Survival of the fittest. I couldn't keep up psychosis wise and I payed the price I deserved for it.

The rest of my highschool career and when I attended university I started with my OCD and BDD through refusing to let my skin be exposed. Didn't effect my schooling too much, and my schizophrenia has been in a latent state for a while now.

Bottom line, mental illness does effect people, no doubt, but you have to take responsibility for your shortcomings no matter what reason they're there. No excuses. I am a lower quality person because of my psychosis and my ticks.

Mental Health is very important and don't let anyone tell you that it is not . It could be just as debilitating as a physical issue>

Never expect work to care about your mental health unless there was a death in the family (human only, I've learned the hard way that pets don't count apparently), or you make your mental illness known by making it super obvious (having a meltdown at work, openly talking about suicide or death, etc). Problem is, you'll get your day off, but you'll also get labelled as crazy, cry baby, etc by your peers; and some may lose respect for you or try to avoid you, which will make work difficult if your job requires teamwork.

As for school, just go to the guidance counselor (yeah, they have one of those in college, should be in the student center). They're there to try to help you through whatever is bothering you so you don't have to miss school (some are good, some are bad though; so hope you got a good one).

In the end, just accept that life isn't fair and that many people out there are assholes.

I meant like college, i wouldn't really consider kids' school as an "important engagement" especially since they're more lenient and I was never forced to go to school anymore than kids are "forced" to do anything, so i'm not really sure what you're talking about

I've called in sick by saying I'm not comming in today I'm sick so I'm taking a mental health day

I would say in general, no, the average person in our not-so-great society doesn't count mental illness for anything, regardless of severity or what you do behind the scenes to fight it and appear normal for their ungrateful asses. Additionally consider that many mental illnesses are not "illnesses," "diseases," or "disabilities," rather you just happen to think differently than the cookie-cutter person. Some mental "illnesses" are labeled as such to dis-empower you, to make you feel lesser than the normie, to feel like something is inherently wrong with you. Not saying many disorders are difficult to live with, and some make life very, very hard, but keep in mind that not only are you worth more than anyone's patronizing eyerolls, but are also worth more than their sympathy.

Mental illness counts but as someone who has experience with it first hand and has someone who has been pushed to my limit by someone else with a different form of the same issue.

The Americans with Disabilities Act covers the liability aspect. It's not even necessary to specify what specific diagnosis etc. That said, all the ADA does is give reasonable accommodations for someone to function on the job in the same way as other people.

It is our jobs to tow the line too. We have to do our part. We also need compassion for the stable/people without mental illnesses in our lives. Many times I see many of us shitting on them and I have been there. When I realized what my responsibility was, I woke up. When I was riding the manic highs and living a recurrent train wreck of a life, I really wore people down to the ground.

Mental health is no different than being sick. However, we have to understand that nobody owes us anything.

The people that don't understand mental illnesses and OCDs are the ones that tend to think a person is just making up excuses and being slack which label the person that has the mental illnesses or OCD. However, those people need to open their minds and educate themselves. They are usually the first people to cry that it is not fair if the roles are reversed.

Mental illnesses and OCDs are a sickness and they can start in many ways. The worst thing for these types of people are judgemental people like I mentioned above. There are people though that do understand what it is like to have a mental illness or an OCD. Mental health is very important, if anyone tells you it is not tell them to "have some compassion" and don't listen to them.

They think its a shitty excuse. Unfortunately life isn't fair and it's not gonna wait on mental illness. One has to find a way to somewhat overcome it in order to get by. Then again I work at a shit place called Target, so other places might be different.