it is still commonplace to see people using "mental illness" as an insult, would they do the same with cancer or dementia?

Sadly yes I have a serious bone marrow failure disease and a non-alcoholic fourth stage liver cirrhosis and people think I'm lying or attention because I'm making it up cuz I want to sit on the couch and watch TV at 60? Most people are terrified of nothingness. Death is 100% real

It baffles me why people have these attitudes, presumably they expect never to become unwell or to die.

In the accessibility fields we call them tabs temporarily able-bodied people. Something's going to get us in the end no matter what better to deal with it now than later in my opinion

Idk, I can't do it, though I am constantly in my head, and burning out from frustration due to it regularly, though I decided to chill out a little, however, I am able, about it, to even be able to function at all, and not get even worse more rapidly due to stress. Anyway, I went

off the tangent, but it seems that even ill and/or disabled people can only accept certain ways of being ill and certain actions and experiences, and expect everyone to conduct themselves in that manner, so they are also judgey.

And I am in that "common, "mild"" illness/disability section, so I am expected to just get over myself and go to the doctor and be a good patient as they try things on me (command me to do things they don't care if I am able to, whether it retraumatizes me, etc).

When they have very little knowledge about it, especially with the combo that I have, who also tried common remedies that were prescribed and they didn't work, so I wasn't even believed but was emotionally abused for it. And it's not that I don't have a clue what I am dx with,