Mental Millennials

Mental Illness is not Immaturity

Mental illness. Whether it’s something that people self-deprecatingly admit to or swiftly assign to the latest mass shooter, mental illness is frequently and way-too-easily appropriated for anyone’s purpose. As a not-proud sufferer of it, I grit my teeth when people describe their quirks as OCD or their assholeness as bipolar or their Monday funk as depression. I’m glad that…