I take what you said, and I turn it into a monster of my darkest beliefs. My brain works hard to defeat me, but I didn’t choose to have a mental illness.
Should you show your scars?
By Alan D.D. People who self-harm often have the problem of dealing with those looks from others when their scars are visible. We’re in a world where mental health is seen as a lie, as a call for attention, and anything other than a serious problem that kills people every single day. So to let Continue Reading
Stop trivializing mental illness
By Jobi This past Tuesday was World Mental Health Day. This marked another step in bringing mental health out from under the shrouds of secrecy and misplaced notions of what it means to be normal. I applaud the strides that my generation has made in acknowledging the importance of mental Continue Reading
Mental Health Stigma Awareness
By Christopher Naylor “The stigma associated with mental illness harms the self-esteem of many people who have serious mental illnesses. An important consequence of reducing stigma would be to improve the self-esteem of people who have mental illnesses.” Source: ps.psychiatryonline.org. Mental health stigma damages self-esteem and delays recovery. It was Continue Reading
‘The Flight of the Bumblebee’ – A Story about Life with Mental Illness
By Catherine Neish If you were going to write a book about your life, what would be the title? Who would you want to read it? Would you cover anything up? Would you expose an area of your life into the light? I want to lend you a story: ‘The Continue Reading
Criminalization – The mental health crisis in the US
By Eddie Kedge “Lucky I don’t shoot you,” said the man standing over me in my garage. He’d already brought me to the ground and I was lying face down trying to do what he was saying to me. Well, trying to understand what he was yelling at me. “Lucky Continue Reading
I have done nothing wrong
By Meg I feel like a criminal. It started in hospital, where many of the nurses thought it ok to shout at patients. Back then, I felt I had done something awful. Funnily enough, the night the police brought me home they treated me with compassion. They didn’t make me Continue Reading
You can tell when you are starting to heal again when you put on a stone
By Victoria Jane Starting to heal again You can tell when you are starting to heal again when you put on a stone. Rediscover your former self again, no longer give a shit what other people think of you, no longer feel like you are losing the plot, know your Continue Reading
“What have you got to be worried about?” and other unhelpful comments
By Neil Hodge ‘DEPRESSION ISN’T REAL!’ Just recently, this Twitter account has been brought to my attention. It’s full of hateful, unhelpful comments about mental health. Andrew Tate ✔ @Cobratate Depression isn’t real. You feel sad, you move on. You will always be depressed if your life is depressing. Change it. Continue Reading
Stigma and Mental Illness – 7 Ways We Can Fix It
By Wendy K. Williamson It is Mental Illness Awareness Week October 5 through 11, making it the perfect time to bring up stigma. Unfortunately there exists a huge gap in the public perception of mental illness and the reality of who we are as human beings. If there wasn’t, we Continue Reading
The trouble with assuming
By Justine Hemmestad My car was hit by a bus 27 years ago in California. I sustained a severe brain injury – but my PTSD has long outlived my physical struggles. A Veteran approached me about a month ago as I was walking into Walmart with my 14 year old Continue Reading
Reasons To Stay Alive by Matt Haig – Book Review
By Anne-Marie Gawen Anxious in some ways as a child and not quite comfortable in his own skin, Matt had a ‘meltdown’ aged 24 whilst living a hedonistic lifestyle in Ibiza with his girlfriend Andrea. Alcohol seemed to have played a large part – whether just because that was what Continue Reading