As an American, I don't know what that first image is supposed to be, but it sure looks expensive.

Mood

When the treatment is clear and the recovery virtually guaranteed, the support is freely given.

When the problems aren't visible, the treatment plan is more improvisation than schedule, and recovery is hard to quantify. Support is harder to give and rarer to receive.

Mental problems are more likely to fall into the later bucket, but there are a swath of physical ailments from the metabolic and hormonal to the structural that also get lumped in.

maybe if the second girl took some time to look nicer then people would be more willing to give support

If you are rich they both can look like the top one.

Then again, if you eat the most nutritious food and live without ANY stress your entire life; you probably wouldn't get mental or physical problems either.

I get stress induced hives, and my old doctor's advice was, "just don't be stressed".
Thanks for not helping, I guess.

"You're not depressed, you're just lazy and need a job" 🫠

One of life's universal truths: "Just push through it" is rarely a good plan and never good advice.

In America the bottom picture follows the top one.

That is what the spas that wealthy people go to are for.

Once AI renders us redundant, which will happen, whether you like it or not...

...it will be possible, but they will instead, leave us to die, without even a humane way to euthanize ourselves.

They will take everything from us, and watch us squirm in our own trash and waste. Watch us struggle.

Yes, particularly people with chronic physical health issues are significantly overrepresented in both depression and suicide.

There is an enormous stigma attached to the mental struggles, so people are afraid of scolding and mockery

That’s a survival tactic learned from having talked to people about their mental health issues.

Probably been burnt from talking about it and then being dumped for being such a downer.

It's completely bizarre how people who are victimized by society are expected to heal through immersion in that same society.

They're bringing flowers because they had to amputate her legs for easily preventable diabetes complications.

Top or bottom panel?

I'm guessing you're also an American. I feel you, friend. The US has a cultural toxic positivity problem, amongst other issues. Got a problem? STFU and turn that frown upside down! They're not problems but opportunities! It could be worse! It is... what it is. 🫠

So people bottle up their negative emotions and don't learn how to deal with them. They don't know how to seek OR give support. Some feel threatened when presented with someone else's negative emotions, and it doesn't help that the other usually doesn't know how to present them, so they try to make it go away.

I have no idea how to fix it on a societal level beyond learning to do better ourselves and setting a good example for others.

That's the way it is with any disease. If you hobble into a party with a compound fracture and turn all the conversations to that, it's going to make people uncomfortable. They're not doctors. They don't know how to deal with it. It's not that they think you're lesser. I have a dozen physical ailments plus bipolar disorder. The best thing to do is not to focus on it. If you can't do that, you need meds. And they work. Trust me. Go to the doctor and get treated.

While true in some backwater countries (like the US), that also illustrate the problems with metal health: you mostly cannot measure it.

A broken bone can be easily seen, a cancer too (in most cases). But how can we measure that your brain fucks up at a fundamental level? Sure we can see some anomalies (hormonal unbalances, parts that are less active than usual, but other thant that...).

So the standard response in many case is that it is your problem to take care, often with tons of unwelcome "help" ("can you try to be happy", "try X I saw on tiktok", or similar "advice")... If you are lucky.
I saw a friend loose about all her "friend" once she became depressed. She's almost homeless these day, living with her family in a motel she barely can afford despite working full time. I help her the best I can (paid for groceries, phone bill, some of the motel nights when she couldn't), but because of everyone turning on her she blame herself for not being good enough. Which in turn make her depression worse.

Capitalism made empathy a sin. Anyone not helping paythe shareholder their next yatch is seen as a deadweight only deserving to be left to rot.

If the person with mental health issues goes to the hospital, their stay is not spent in a room with flowers where others can visit.

people with mental health issues end up at home alone.

Are you sure? I thought they were both hospitalized and that was the point. The second pic doesn't look like someone's bedroom.

Wooosh... The second person is in a "mental hospital". You can tell by the bars on the window.