Mental Illness

Have you heard these commercials on the radio about how your friends would react if they told you they have a mental illness? There are at least 2 different ones. The first one I heard has a large group of people saying they were the friends that would help you do X and then another group, slightly smaller, saying they were the friends that would help you do Y and the group gets smaller and smaller until its one person saying they are the friend that would help you if you discovered you had a mental illness. The second commercial has a narrator asking would it would sound like if your friend told you they had a mental illness: the resulting sound is just silence. These commercials bug me. First of all, any "friend" that wouldn't help their friend who has a mental illness is not a friend at all. Now that the Sesame Street response is out of the way we can get down to it. Say someone has been living with bipolar disorder and has just never been clinically diagnosed. The chances of you not noticing their off kilter personality are slim. The fact that they would have been living with this condition without medication would almost guarantee it. So this makes this commercial useless in that sense. Now, lets say somehow you were able to keep your condition under wraps and you are just now making it known that your ill and it truly is a shock to all your friends, the commercial gets down to ONE person saying they are the friend that would help you. ONE PERSON! Are human beings really that terrible? Do these people really believe that out of the dozens of people that the commercial started with only ONE person would be willing to help a friend in need? These commercials are RIDICULOUS!

By the way, I have just been diagnosed with Multiple Personalities Disorder...turns out those friends I was always telling you about, were not real. Don't know why I thought that a giant pink rabbit and a leprechaun could actually be real. Silly me.