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What it would be like if we treated mental illness the same as physical illness

What it would be like if we treated mental illness the same as physical illness

"It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting," writes the author Jennifer Niven in All the Bright Places.

In a bid to combat some of the ignorance that surrounds mental illness, one man has created a video which shows a different sort of suffering.

It shows exactly how ridiculous it would be if people treated someone with a physical ailment in the same way as many people with mental ailments are treated.

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