Today is World Mental Heath Day.
Anyone who knows me at all knows how important this topic is to me. I’ve been very open about my own life-long struggles with my own mental health. I’ve been very vocal about how the stigma surrounding mental illness has hurt me and people I love.
Mental illness is just that- an illness. There is no logical reason to treat it differently than any other kind of illness. Do you look down on someone with thyroid disease? Do you think less of someone for having MS? Of course not.
Today is the day you can be more sensitive in the way you talk about mental illness. Today is the day you can let a friend dealing with a mental illness know you are there for them without any judgement. Today is the day you can make a small change to make the world a more understanding place for those of us with mental illnesses.