Topic: stigma
Organizations like TWLOHA are here to help you figure out the challenges of mental health. Hogwarts Running Club is here to help you figure out the challenges of physical health. Combined, the results are a force to be reckoned with.
13 Reasons Why is causing thousands of people to think and talk about mental health, and many of these people are thinking and talking about it for the first time.
The one thing I had never heard about being a guy with an eating disorder is that you can be a guy with an eating disorder.
Mostly Human took a (fittingly) humanizing approach to portraying the struggles of mental health by highlighting just a few of the incredibly impressive people who have experienced it first-hand — depicting it not as a choice but as a condition.
Don’t punish yourself for having depression despite all you may or may not have in your life. Don’t require a justification from yourself for something you can’t control.
My depression was like getting stuck in traffic. I was there against my will. I was running out of fresh air. Everything was blurry. My thoughts and feelings were crossing and running around, and I didn’t even know if they were mine or someone else’s.
This piece is for the girls, the boys, the men, the women, and the non-binary human freaking beings of the world. This piece is for anyone who has ever felt like their struggles and their pain doesn’t “count” because they don’t “look sick.”
Secrets so often are associated with shame. In keeping these pieces hidden, I feel like I would be endorsing the view that mental illness is something to be ashamed of and it’s just not.
"Depression is not a failure, just as winter is not a mistake among the seasons. Denying depression is like expecting summer to supply snow or autumn to bear blossoms."
"Here’s what else I’ve learned since I started telling people about my mental illness: They can surprise you."
"If we all spoke out, maybe we could make a difference. Maybe at least we would all stop feeling so alone."
"Part of me still hears this nearly instinctual internal voice saying, 'Everyone gets it. You’re depressed. Stop bringing it up already.'”
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