The Biggest Minority

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The biggest minority on the planet, there are so many of us, should we even be considered a minority? The mentally ill. Beaten, abused, misused, raped, sodomized, insulted, and more. Sometimes even in the care of mental health professionals. We are people with depression and people with schizophrenia. We are your neighbors...and sometimes the homeless begging for something to eat. We are the elderly and the children. We are everywhere and anyone. NO we aren’t aliens taking over your planet. We are sick, one of our organs is failing to do it’s job properly, it just happens that it’s our brain not our kidneys. Yet we are victimised, stigmatised, and yet at the same time glamourised. We are called childish when we deal with anxiety, bitchy when

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