The problem.

Mental illnesses are a taboo because they have many stigmas associated with them. Because they cannot be seen, some may interpret someone who claims to have a mental illness as melodramatic or something of that field. They’re hard to be understood by those who have never experienced one and even harder to empathize with because of the lack of visual evidence, which also disables people to determine how severe or minor it is from a superficial standpoint.

People don’t want to associate themselves with things they don’t understand. Many don’t know how to respond to someone with a mental illness, they don’t know how to treat them. From my experience people tend to walk on eggshells around me which is irritating. People are ignorant, especially with the only knowledge they know about it coming vastly from the media, which misrepresents mental illnesses entirely (from what I’ve seen)