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Mental Health Awareness & Stigma

The document discusses how mental illness affects over 43 million adults each year and is a leading cause of disability worldwide. It can lead to suicide and rates are increasing among many groups. The document outlines how mental illness impacts people in many ways such as losing interest in activities, affecting relationships and causing feelings of worthlessness. It emphasizes that mental illness should be taken seriously and discussed openly instead of being stigmatized.

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Mental Health Awareness & Stigma

The document discusses how mental illness affects over 43 million adults each year and is a leading cause of disability worldwide. It can lead to suicide and rates are increasing among many groups. The document outlines how mental illness impacts people in many ways such as losing interest in activities, affecting relationships and causing feelings of worthlessness. It emphasizes that mental illness should be taken seriously and discussed openly instead of being stigmatized.

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Every year 43.8 million adults experience mental illness.

Depression is a leading
cause of disability worldwide. It is a common and serious mental disorder. How
serious is it? It can lead to suicide. Suicide rates continue to climb among adults,
adolescents, and even children. Yet, why is it something that we’re still afraid to talk
about?

Mental health. Mental health is more than the absence of mental disorders. This is
about our emotional, psychological and social well-being. It affects how we think,
feel and act. We all have mental health, and we all deserve the help that we need in
times of mental health crisis. Everyone could be affected. A Father, Mother, a
Daughter, Son, a teacher or a student. It could be anyone. You may think
someone’s doing just fine because they often laugh, joke and talk a lot. But I want to
tell you, that one can easily mask or hide what they are truly going through, even the
happiest person you know could be having silent battles. Now how does a mental
illness really affect one’s life? There is a lot, but let me mention to you a few of them.
It can make someone lose interest in the things that they have always enjoyed. It can
also affect someone’s social relationship. Uncontrollable emotions, sleeping
problems, tiredness, and the consistent feelings of worthlessness, self-hate and
inappropriate guilt. Most of all, the hopelessness. At its worst, it can lead to suicide.
According to the World Health Organization, over 700,000 people die due to suicide
every year, and over 50 percent of all people who die by suicide suffer from major
depression. I just want to share to you this one quote I read somewhere last year,
someone on the internet said, most of the people who thinks about suicide doesn’t
actually want to die. They just want their silent battles to end. And it made me
emotional, because I personally experienced it. The part where I lose my will to live
and I can’t do anything but just breakdown. Everyday I’d ask “Why me?”, “Why does
it have to be me?”. That is how much mental illness affect an individual.

Mental disorders are silent killers, just because you don’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not
real. We have to take it seriously, and stop going around saying “You’re just being
dramatic”, “It’s not that deep”, “Just think positive”, because NO. This is not just a
mood we’re talking about nor is it just a bad day. We should end this thinking.
Depression is more than just being sad, Anxiety is more than worrying, OCD is not
just about being tidy, Bipolar is more than mood swings, PTSD is more than just
flashbacks. The issue is the fact that most people are not aware about mental illness,
and when they meet someone who is experiencing it, they’d see that person as
someone different, incompetent or even crazy. That is why mentally ill people would
just hide it and suffer silently, all alone, feeling invalidated, until they decide to go on
or just give up because of how heavy it is. But let’s not let that happen again and
again. Let’s all be aware about this topic and stop the stigma on mental illness.

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