(lack of) Mental Illness Education

     Something upsets me on a daily basis and that is how the school treated me and continues to treat others who suffer from mental illness. Not only school but society in general.  While I was in “normal school" (i am enrolled in online school atm) and started to have extreme anxiety and panic attacks the school treated me differently. They treated me as if I was an inconvenience and that I was crazy.  They had in their mind this was just some behavior I was choosing to do to get back at them or some shit. Basically punish me and my parents for something I could not control. When I would go to teachers who said I could talk to them about anything about my mental state and how I was feeling, I was either shunned away and told to just deal with it or that they had already made changes for me so why should they make more? I know I am not the only one who has felt this way. It simply is frustrating. Society doesn’t take mental disorders seriously. As there is a part of society that uses mental disorders as adjectives. For example “I lost my phone, I’m so depressed." Which when a depressed person hears this they become extremely frustrated because that isn’t remotely close to the feeling of depression and when they tell others how they have been suffering from it they take it lightly. Also calling someone who has a mental disorder crazy or psycho EVEN IF YOU ARE JOKING is never okay. Also teachers if a kid is getting bullied simply just saying “ignore them" is not going to solve the problem. Action needs to be taken. Most kids who had been mistreated by school systems like I had resort to other alternatives like online school. But what if they didn't have to? Maybe it is better they do and stop being in schools where ignorance is a trend.