see i hate it when people with “privilege” (i HATE THAT WORD SO MUCH) complain that their mental illnesses aren’t taken seriously because they’re “privileged” and mental illnesses affect can affect anyone regardless of wealth or whatever other “privilege” one might have 

because honestly it isn’t about being affected by a mental illness

it’s having the privilege of being able to get your mental illness treated and the environment which you’re exposed to

let’s say we have a “white college girl living with her parents with clinical depression” (let’s call her idk alice) versus a young black girl living in the slums with clinical depression (let’s call her bobbie) 

which one of these girls with mental illness will be able to be better treated? alice could take time off from school. she could stay at home. she could get professional help and medication whlie her parents take care of her. meanwhile, bobbie has to work to get food on the table for her younger siblings. she might have to drop out of school because the stress of a necessary job AND school does not fare well for her depression. she would certainly not have parents to take care of her. she would be under such stress just to survive, and her depression would encroach upon her. and bobbie would CERTAINLY not have access to professional help or medication. 

if you still think that alice’s situation is just as bad as bobbie’s, then i bid you reread that last paragraph i wrote and consider how much likelier alice is to recover than bobbie is.

it’s not that you’re not “underprivileged” enough to “earn” a mental illness, it’s that you have access to treatment while the many, many people with mental illness and are without the luxuries you might have DON’T. 

the world doesn’t revolve around your situation only good grief. if comfortably middle-class white kids can get depression and anxiety then imagine how much worse the depression and anxiety would be for a kid in the slums.