YouTube Clip of the Week: “DHTV Mental Illness Stops Traffic”
Make no mistake — if you have depression, you are mentally ill. As I write time and time again, having mental illness does not mean that you are dangerous, insane or will one day be forcibly thrown into an asylym. Many people can read this again and again and it just won’t sink in. They will be afraid to get help because they will afraid to be ostracised by their friends, employers or community. Many others are afraid of the cost of getting treatment.
Provo, Utah (not known exactly as a hotbed of liberal thinking) last month held a Mental Illness Awareness Week and had a very well-attended march with the mayor, a lot of citizens, homeless advocates and mental health advocates participating. Although the title suggests that “stops traffic” means that there was some sort of confrontation, no confrontation occurred. The only problems was the breeze that kept blowing out the candles of the candle-lit daytime march.
I recommend this YouTube clip because it shows you that anyone can be mentally ill (and probably is), that you are not alone and that life does not come to a firey cataclysmic end when you are diagnosed with any type of depression or other mental illness. I was pleased to see that people brought their kids to this thing, to help teach them that mental illness is really no big deal and is a physical illness that can be treated.
The group mentioned is NAMI, National Alliance on Mental Illness, which is a great resource for learning about how to get help treating your depression or other mental illness.
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