I agree with what you've said. In fact, last fall, when I participated in the KU CAP training program for my CPS Certification, I had a classmate that tried to tell me that there was NO way I could have a mental illness because I wasn't struggling...
I think maybe we tend to look down on our peers whose functioning is at a lower level than our own...or perhaps there are those of us that are jealous of another peer whose functioning level is a little better than their own- for whatever reason. ...