text: Mental health has been stigmatized for years and unfortunately that stigma prevented me from getting a quick diagnoses. My mom decided to take me to the doctors office after intense panic attacks, dissociation episodes and, seizures. The doctor had claimed that I was simply a nut case and that i was to be institutionalized. Even at the age of six I felt like I should hide my issues, that I shouldn't tell people how I felt because they would think less of me or they would think i was crazy. Until I met with a neurologist. The neurologist told me all about what was actually going on inside my brain and how I shouldn't be ashamed of it, but she also told me that some people are biased when it comes to mental health, and how some people don't believe that these issues even exist. I spent a while thinking about how many of the nurses and doctors I had seen and how they told me that i was just a little girl throwing temper tantrums, or that I had been sheltered too much as baby, and how no one ever wanted to talk about my mental health. Thats when i realized how a bias can change someone's opinion.