May is Mental Health Month, so what are you doing to support or help? One major thing you can do to help is to help rid the Stigma that is still attached to Mental Illness. Mental illness is a real and genuine medical condition that affects a person's thinking pattern, their feelings, mood, ability to relate to others and function in their daily activities and routines. People with mental illness have just that...an illness, they are not lazy, they're not just negative thinkers by choice, it's their illness. I get so aggravated and annoyed with the overly "positive" people. Being positive and telling people to be positive is all well and good, but there are some of us who don't choose to think negative or we simply can't be positive thinkers all the time. We would certainly love to if we had a choice in the matter, but just like cancer or hepatitis, we don't have the choice of when we are going to be feeling 100% or even 50%.
Mental Illness is real, it is a disease an illness. So please, if there is just one thing you do to help support Mental Health Month, please help Stomp out the Stigma! For more info go to NAMI Stigma Busters Another great article for May is Mental Health Month can also be found here. Please won't you show your support?
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