Living with mental illness

I just read a blog by someone and they were talking about what its like to live with mental illness. To live with the effects of bipolar disorder or Borderline personality disorder. How it can screw up your life your relationships every thing.

Also how people make fun of mental illness like its a game or just some silly little thing that doesn't even matter when really it does. It matters a lot. People throw out suicide threats all the time just joking around but they don't know the real pain of someone who's really going through that. The lonliness, pain, sadness, depression. Feeling so bad that you hurt yourself. you actually take a razorblade and slice into your skin. They don't know that kind of pain. Or how about to take a lighter to your skin and hold it there. Or to hold a lighter to your clothes hoping they'll catch on fire and you'll die.

What about when the pain gets too much and you take that almost fatal overdose. They aren't sure whether you'll wake up or not or if there is damge done or not.

People who don't feel this who don't experience it don't know about it and therefore they shouldn't joke around about it.