If you have a broken leg, it would never occur to you to hide your cast nor to be ashamed. It wouldn’t occur to anyone to make remarks like “Get yourself together and throw away those crutches, it’s all in your head…” or anything like that.  This is not so much the case when it comes to mental illnesses. Not visible and not leaving any visual clues of any inhibition, they are often overlooked, misunderstood, and not taken seriously. Mental illness is still a big taboo in our society, an issue we don’t like to talk about, uncomfortable, and something we would like to push far away from us. The…