stigma

i am angry!! i am very sick of depression / mental illness always copping it!! the stigma, the negative attitudes, the lack of basic knowledge, for expletives sake it is a medical condition alike many. sorry i am just very fed up. this is 2014, expletive me and we are still in the bloody dark ages.

conversely there are good programs and agencies (hw and others) that are doing good but we need more exposure and funding, funding that is an evil word to our governments. i feel that more education is required and i believe fully that it should happen in the class-room. high-school, uni, etc. some are doing it but more is needed. this is my usual unhappy rant at this time of year. i just feel so deeply about this, the cost to the person with the condition, the lack of understanding and basic empathy, etc.

i seen a program awhile back with a bloke that lives with narcolepsy. people didn't understand so he goes out wearing a shirt saying 'i have narcolepsy-get over it!!' i liked that. i just want to see change. it happens all to slowly for my liking. you know that mental illness / depression is alike any other serious illness, but because it is mental it just gets left by the way side. my diabetes gets far greater exposure and funding and resources than any for of depressive illness in my whole state, and the whole bloody country for that matter.

sorry i'm like a bear with a sore head. i am grumpy. i have participated in programs in the past to help bring about exposure, but i am not well enough to fully engage at this time. keep speaking out guys. by doing so you are directly educating people and the more we educate the more that will understand and less will be the stigma.

ditto. cheers for that.

Jamie so many people feel as you do. I go to a support group called New Beginnings and we all feel the same. We change peoples minds one person at a time.

Slow and steady wins the race, sweetie. Frustrating I know.

Anyway, that leads the stigma on suffering the effects of "childabuse" and "it happens so long ago, just forget about it" That 6 of us are starting a spin off group this month just so we can support each other, see how it goes or grows!

Problem is most people are stuck in their own little sand box and do not want to let anyone else in to play and do not want to see anyone elses sand box.

Peace and courage.
Trina

I think my problem is the cats keep using my sandbox as a litterbox! :P. Sorry, couldn't resist.

I agree jamiee, it is poopy that mental illness is treated like a plague rather than a realiillness. I sometimes think that mental health issuess are far worse than aids or something, for the simple fact that remission is possible with such things and not really something we can have. No remission from depression, bipolar, or anything like this. When you have a painful disease you can have meds and even pss, but you must live with depression for so many years before you pass. The pain from this alone causes people death before their times. So sad that it is not taken more seriously.