I have recently become aware of an organization called Make It OK.\u00a0 This organization is all about normalizing conversations about and removing the stigma around mental illness.\u00a0 Last Friday my employer encouraged us to wear green to support Make It OK and I was happy to participate.<\/p>\n
This is, of course, a cause near and dear to my own mentally ill heart.\u00a0 I was diagnosed with clinical depression and anxiety in my late 20s, but I believe I had been dealing with it since I was quite young.\u00a0 And while medication and 2 stints in therapy have been instrumental in my treatment mental illness is often like an other chronic condition- you manage it, but you are never cured. I have more good days than bad, but I do have bad days and likely always will.<\/p>\n
We have come a long ways in our acceptance of mental illness since I was diagnosed, but we still have a ways to go.\u00a0 I still have conversations with people who think I should be able to “Just snap out of it” or that people who consider suicide are “just looking for attention”.\u00a0 \u00a0And it’s incredibly frustrating!\u00a0 Would you tell someone with cancer to “just snap out of it”?\u00a0 Would you tell a diabetic they are “just looking for attention”?,\u00a0 Of course not.\u00a0 I can no more control this can someone with a thyroid condition can will that to work properly.<\/p>\n
I encourage everyone, whether you have personal experience with mental illness or not, to check out\u00a0https:\/\/makeitok.org\/<\/a> \u00a0.\u00a0 They have a ton of great information there.\u00a0 You can also sign up for their newsletter and even sign up to become an ambassador for the cause.<\/p>\n Let’s all work together to Make It OK.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have recently become aware of an organization called Make It OK.\u00a0 This organization is all about normalizing conversations about and removing the stigma around mental illness.\u00a0 Last Friday my employer encouraged us to wear green to support Make It OK and I was happy to participate. This is, of course, a cause near and dear to my own mentally… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advice","category-its-all-love"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021-05-21-12.32.36-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}