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10 “Harmless Things” You Say That Hurt Me: Mental Health Awareness
I’ve blogged on mental illness on occasion here. Please read Elizabeth’s enlightening piece below.
I’m letting my heart spill out through my keyboard… metaphorically, of course, and I’m offering it all to you. Today, I’m going to talk about my mental health. This is something that I’ve worked to conceal for a long time, mostly because of the negative stigma attached to mental illness. I’m sharing for two main reasons; (1) to educate people, and (2) to show people like me that they are not alone.
For the record: I’m living with Bipolar Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder… In this post I’m sharing 10 “harmless things” that people have said to me that actually cause me a great deal of pain. I’m also sharing how they make me feel, and why, while giving you an inside look at my life.
So, these are the things I wish you wouldn’t say to me;
“You don’t look like you have a mental illness.”
More commonly stated as…
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Warriors Invited To Raise Mental Health Awareness
Please check out this insightful post written by Stoneronacoaster. Help end the stigma against Mental Illness.
I need help from all of you. Not for me only but for everyone who is dealing with a mental health problem.
Friends, in our part of world mental health problems are still something we feel too ashamed to talk about.
Either they are misunderstood as some sort of witchcraft or the person is conviniently labeled a psycho and abandoned, mostly emotionaly.
A loved one of mine is living with serious disorders.
I have no strenght and adequate knowlege (as i haven’t seen it myself yet) to write about it, i will hold back my own stream of words for a while until i know what i am talking about.
But i want to raise awareness on the subject as this is consuming our lives and pretty much this era.
People don’t even care about it until unless it doesn’t happen to a person very close or them and then…
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Mind Matters
If you look at the graphic above, you can see that a lot of things encompass Mental Health. I’ve written about Mental Health before, particularly Depression, since I have had personal experience in this.
I usually watch CBS Sunday Morning on Sundays. I woke up later than usual and missed a great deal of it, but happened to catch a piece that actress Glen Close was doing about Mental Health. She has had personal experience with it as well because it runs in her family. This is a link that will give you the highlights on the entire show’s broadcast. There are some wonderful links included in the article that you should check out and a video of Glen Close’s interview.
The Thief
Depression is a thief.
I haven’t written about depression in a long time. The reason I haven’t written about it is because I’m NOT depressed. But with depression being swept under the rug or shrugged off by most of society, I feel that it’s important to write about it. The subject needs to come out of the shadows.
