I'm open about my mental health. Anyone who knows me, reads this blog or follows me on twitter knows that. Many would perhaps say too open, but I don't listen to them. The fact of the matter is that my issues with my mind are just who I am, and i'd rather people knew that and just dealt with it.
I do have aspergers syndrome, I did have subjective depression, I did cut my arms up and try to kill myself at one time. It happened to me, that's just who I am and i'd rather people accepted that.
And for the most part they do. I think it was best summed up by one of my flatmates, that is, the people who's flat I hang around in, rather than the one i technically live in. I digress, anyway, the conversation went something like this.
Me: "She looks at me like i'm properly mental."
Him: "You are, the difference is we don't mind."
Just a simple thing, but it really made my day. Because it's true, I am a bit weird, a bit special, a bit mental. And the people i've actually become friends with don't give a flying fuck either way. Most of the people i've come across don't either. They just go, "oh right, well, anyway…" and we carry on with whatever it was we were talking about.
From that it seems that, yes, maybe there is something of s stigma surrounding mental illness. But perhaps we're breeding a new generation who are less concerned by it. It's going to take some time whilst we all grow up, but hopefully we'll grow up and teach our children not to care.
1 comments:
That's a cool quote form the conversation.
And yeah, trying to chalenge taboos/stigmas s no bad thing. Sure, there will always be people who wish we would keep our issues to ourselves but by being open, hopefully those people become the minority. And the "the difference is we don't mind" people become the standard.
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