Mental Illness Persuasive Speech

In recent years, I'm sure you'll have seen that mental illness has been discussed a lot more and more and more people are being made aware of it than ever before and personally, I think YouTubers and bloggers have had a big role to play in that- especially when they talk to an impressionable young audience. I'm not saying that this is a bad thing, I think it's amazing that more people are being made aware of mental illness because it can crush the stigma surrounding them as well as making people more able to see the signs, so they can help people around them who may have a mental illness. It's great that people are sharing their experiences and making it more known- but these people get so much hate for it! There's a huge issue with people glamorizing and romanticizing mental illnesses on social media - especially on the main culprit, Tumblr.

Messages like these can be found all over social networks, people saying self harm is 'beautiful', encouraging anorexia like the image above, making depression seem 'deep' and somewhat 'sexy', even. When messages and photos like these are going all round social media, it really does make it hard for people (including me)
So what if someone smile and laughs in front of you? Maybe behind your back and everyone's eyes, they're crying themselves to sleep and have scars over their body. If you're shy, that doesn't mean you instantly have social anxiety. If you're nervous before an exam, that doesn't mean you have generalized anxiety. I'm no doctor here, don't get me wrong, but I feel like people these days are very quick to diagnose themselves without truly looking at the symptoms and other's experiences and going to a doctor themselves. It's quite sad that some people can see mental illnesses as 'cool' or 'quirky' or even