5 Reasons why Mental Health is Still a Massive Taboo

Because it’s difficult to see any form of mental health illness. When someone have lost his hair because of chemotherapy or have an amputated leg for instance — people tend to care about you. Mental health? Oh well…get over it…we all have bad days.
It’s difficult to see mental health, each person have a different level of tolerance. Even with all the technological progress lately, it’s still impossible to correctly quantify or even qualify mental illness as easily as something you say in an X-Ray Machine.
Being weak is not well seen. Among your peers. Whatever you are a men or women, the fear of losing face is a massive problem among some who have challenges related to mental health.
When someone have a mental illness, it’s not usually one thing-it is in many cases a combination of different things which makes it even more difficult to treat or even to assess correctly.
For some people, medication is one way to help sustain a part of their mental health challenges. But there are many combinations and sorts of medications which makes it difficult even for a specialist in the domain to know well about this — especially while knowing that everyone is different and have a different reaction to medication and dosage.