For five years I was passed from one mental health professional to another. These appointments were months apart, often less than half an hour, and I wasn't offered any treatment. I was asked to remove my clothing, and a …
Category Archives: Stigma
Video takes a bipartisan approach toward treating mental illness …
If you missed it, the short documentary film about mental illness, including depression and anxiety — “Opening Minds, Ending Stigma: A Young Person's Perspective” — that first aired Saturday night on WDIV-TV can be viewed …
Debunking the Myth of Mental Weakness in PTSD Sufferers …
One of the biggest myths about posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is that those who suffer from it have some sort of mental weakness because they developed PTSD. I understand why people think that way. When I was …
Mental health care explained from eye of storm | The Columbian
“Our care has been lacking,” Hamilton said. She said a mental-health system that's tilted strongly toward the pharmaceutical industry winds up overmedicating people in desperate need of compassionate, therapeutic listening …
sometimes i wonder …
I know that bringing awareness to ending the stigma of mental illness is one of the best things we get to do with the platform we’ve got up on that stage. But there are nights when I hear about fans of ours who have committed suicide that I wonder if we’re doing the right thing in talking about it. …