Many, many times in my life, I have heard people dismiss mental illness and mental health as issues that only affect weak minded individuals or that it is simply a made up concept, that we can simply move past, if we will ourselves hard enough.  Mental illnesses are illnesses that affect the brain---the brain is an organ, and a physical one. Could you imagine if we told ovarian cancer patients to just get over it? That is was just in their ovaries...no big deal right? Of course not.