To Those With Hurting Bodies and Minds
"No matter the source, your pain is valid. And you deserve to feel as if your body and mind are yours."
Topic: stigma
"No matter the source, your pain is valid. And you deserve to feel as if your body and mind are yours."
"It’s so important that we are proactive in taking care of ourselves early on. It’s important to never allow ourselves to reach a place of hopelessness."
"It’s possible for a Christian to be depressed because I have been."
"But somewhere inside of me is still that 15-year-old girl who went home and cried because a friend claimed people with depression were useless."
"The stigma surrounding mental health boils down to one thing: that if pain can’t be measured or seen, it doesn’t exist."
"All the while, the whisper told me, 'But your life isn’t that bad.'"
If the lie is that depression and suicide are things we can't talk about, this week we certainly saw the truth.
“Realize that even the smallest things can mean the difference between living and being alive.”
"Suicide: There is a part of me that believed it wouldn’t be real as long as I didn’t say the word."
Do you know how many times I have thought that to myself? What if I had been there in those minutes before?
"And it’s a devastating cycle: The stigma is rooted in silence, and the silence feeds the stigma. Talking about it is the only way to break the cycle."
"Suicide means a story ends too soon. Hope means believing that tomorrow can be different, that life is worth living, that it's possible to change."
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