Living hell

Mental illness and physical illness are different in some ways and the same in a few aspects. I have grown up watching my older brother deal with a mental illness. He is not physical unable to do things but getting him to keep a job, go to school, keeping friends and graduating has been a struggle for him his entire life. Mental illness definitely makes life hard, but there are medicines that can help make things better. Physical illness is in my opinion would make life harder because you are physically unable to do things. There may be surgeries to help but sometimes surgery goes wrong and can make things worse. Even today medicines and surgeries have side affects that can cause more problems than you were dealing with in the first place.

Mental illness and physical illness do have some similarities. Mental illness causes a lot of people to not be able to do things that other people might be able to do not problem, and the same thing goes for physical illness. Mental illness and physical illness have a lot of differences. To have a mental illness, you may be depressed, anxious, or manic. Manic is usually when the person has bi-polar disorder, they go through periods of being depressed, then happy. Mental illness comes in a lot of different forms and doses, where some people are not as bad as others. Physical illness usually causes mental illness. There has been many cases of physical illness leading to mental illness, usually in athletes because they become disabled and are not able to do the sport they love anymore, leading to depression.  Having either illness makes life extremely difficult. Doing ordinary everyday things is not easy to accomplish, and to accomplish it is rare. I have grown up watching my older brother deal with his mental illness and it has been hard on the whole family, because having a severe illness such as mental or physical illness effects everyone around you.