May is Men­tal Health Aware­ness Month. The month is about real­iz­ing how com­mon men­tal health issues are, sup­port­ing each oth­er through them, and remov­ing the stig­ma about them.

A few statistics:

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I finished reading New Moon, which was much, much more dramatic (emotionally) than Twilight. As in, Bella goes into a zombie state for months, and the book just has blank pages with the names of each month as placeholders-October, November, December, January, etc. I (and most everyone I know) have handled divorce better than this kid handles a ( Read more... )

My therapist, L, is no longer with the practice I’ve been seeing for the last couple of years. It took a year to get to her-first, they assigned me to M, who was a total pain in the ass and didn’t listen. Not that I was inclined to talk to her, anyway. And she didn’t return phone calls.

So I finally got beyond the “getting to know you” stage with L ( Read more... )

“Mental illness robs you of your right to be a weirdo.”

But actually, the whole danged thing is a good read. There are many parallels to the discrimination that fat people face, too, especially women. If we’re carrying any extra weight, every sinus infection results in an admonition to lose weight before the doctor ever pays attention to the actual ( Read more... )

"Mental illness robs you of your right to be a weirdo."But actually, the whole danged thing is a good read. There are many parallels to the discrimination that fat people face, too - especially women. If we're carrying any extra weight, every sinus infection results in an admonition to lose weight before the doctor ever pays attention to the actual ( Read more... )