For labeling it, casting it out, walling ourselves off from it. Any illness can make us uncomfortable, even when we are not the sufferers. To see someone else in pain and not be able to help is difficult to bear. Illnesses that strike at the mind and emotions are even more unsettling than purely physical illness. To most of us, our mind is what makes us human, our mind is us.
Mood disorders are uncomfortably common.
Everyone has moods. Everyone's moods vary. Sometimes I'm up, Sometimes I'm down. Oh, Yes, Lord. But most people's moods correspond to something going on around or inside of them.