I like the way you describe these things.

“”If there were a physical disease that manifested itself in some particularly ugly way, such as pustulating sores or a sloughing off of the flesh accompanied by pain of an intense and chronic nature, readily visible to everyone,

and if that disease affected fifteen million people in our country and further, if there were virtually no help or succor for most of these persons, and they were forced to walk among us in their obvious agony we would rise up as one social body in sympathy and anger. We would give of our resources, both human and economic, and we would plead and demand that this suffering be eased.

There isn’t such a physical disease but there is such a disease of the mind, and about fifteen million people around us are suffering from it. But we have not risen in anger and sympathy, although they are walking among us in their pain and anguish.”” R. Hampton, The Far Side of Despair (1975).