RE: Opening up about being mentally ill
December 29, 2015 at 1:55 pm
(This post was last modified: December 29, 2015 at 1:58 pm by Faith No More.)
Thanks, guys, but I think the point may have been missed a bit. I wasn't posting this to focus on my issues personally. I just wanted to used them as example of what I struggle with and to stand up and say that I am mentally ill. I appreciate the kind words, as times are rough right now, but I really was hoping to be part of the bigger picture when it comes to the stigmas in mental health and how that affects our laws and culture.
People are afraid to admit to something that millions of people suffer from, and that is a sad fact to digest. If people don't blow the lid off of these stigmas by standing up and saying "this is who I am, not the person you believe me to be," nothing is ever going to change. We will be seen as weaklings with character flaws, not people with legitimate illness.
I want to show the true faces of mental illness.
ETA: What I should have said is that I am one of millions of faces of mental illness.
People are afraid to admit to something that millions of people suffer from, and that is a sad fact to digest. If people don't blow the lid off of these stigmas by standing up and saying "this is who I am, not the person you believe me to be," nothing is ever going to change. We will be seen as weaklings with character flaws, not people with legitimate illness.
I want to show the true faces of mental illness.
ETA: What I should have said is that I am one of millions of faces of mental illness.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell