The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) just got done with their annual National Mental Health Awareness Week campaign. This campaign is designed to educate the public about all mental illnesses and the statistics people with mental illnesses face. Furthermore, this week is meant to get people coming together and simply talking about mental illness. Most importantly, trying to encourage people with mental illness to come out of the shadows to get the treatment they need. But also getting the entire public to talk about mental illness not as an adjective or as the person is the illness. We need to all come together as a community and support those who are ailing and need the help and treatment they deserve.
Whether it is an eating disorder, mood disorder, or any other mental illness, I ask anyone and everyone who knows anyone to simple post a comment to this blog, post a tweet on your Twitter page, post a Facebook comment, or even take an Instagram photo. What about may you ask? Whatever you want! We need to start talking about mental illness! People need to know it is ok to say I have depression, I have anorexia, I have binge eating disorder, I have bipolar disorder. They need to know that they can be accepted for who they are and not be judged for a diagnosis that does not define their character.
LET'S STOP THE STIGMA OF MENTAL ILLNESS!!!!
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