Personal Narrative: My Experience With Mental Illness

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I don’t know. Is that a genuine answer? Considering my lack of understanding and experience with mental illness, my answer seems rather fair coming from the perspective of an upcoming college student. I suppose I could offer an intellectual explanation regarding my uncle's portrayal to the world with statistical data, interviews, witty quotes, and what “psychologists” have to say… but does it count? If I were someone with a mental illness, would I really enjoy the idea of someone telling me how the world views me (the reader) when they (the writer) have no substantial evidence of what it is truly like living with such an illness? I suppose I could gather data, conduct research, and come to many conclusions, but the description of mental illness, the struggles and hardships, are not always scientifically reasonable. There are small details of information that linger in the everyday lifestyle of an individual suffering from mental illness. Details, that without first hand experience, would not be properly portrayed in an article written by someone who only has science on her side. …show more content…

How does the world perceive an individual suffering from mental illness? Well, that depends on an individual's concept of the “world.” One world could easily exist of everlasting support, while another could be a swirl of judgement and ridicule. The world exists of fluctuating opinions. Opinions are hardly ever valid as society evolves, new information is gathered, and an individual's mind changes almost as quickly as the thought can be processed. I can not form an adequate hypothesis based on the opinion of five individuals when there is a population of 7.4 billion and each of that 7.4 billion have their own opinion that differs from the opinion before

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