Some falsely accuse me of being too needy.
When the truth is - if I had been receiving the help I NEED I wouldn't go online and ask as often as I do.

"The biggest misconception about mental health is that it lives inside individual minds.
Distress is treated as a personal defect, a disordered brain, or a failure of coping. From an Interpersonal Neurobiology perspective, most suffering reflects what happens when human systems are forced to adapt to chronic threat, unmet needs, isolation, and hierarchy.
People don't break down on their own. They respond to conditions that do not allow settling, repair, or mutual care.
Mental health is not something you fix internally and then return to a harmful world. It emerges when people are consistently treated with safety, dignity, and enough support to meet basic human needs. When those conditions are missing, distress is a predictable outcome, not a personal problem.
The misconception protects systems. The cost is borne by vulnerable p