@Piss_Ant Oh gotcha.

I wonder how widespread stigma really is. I don’t hear a lot of it myself; even my conservative dad kind of grasped my anxiety when I explained it to him.

Most of it comes from the right, I believe. If you hang around sometimes in RW places (as I do to escape the left, not because I like it) you’ll hear more stigma. And I think because of the MH issue itself as well as feeling shame for it, people internalize that viewpoint and unintentionally repeat it to themselves, creating the impression of hearing degrading/dismissive comments more often than they actually do.