Tag: disease

• Stop Being Dicks

  

  Whenever a well-known entity commits suicide, we’re subjected to at least a month or two of everyone spreading messages about suicide prevention. The main take-away is usually something along the lines of ‘reach out to your loved ones’ and ‘seek help if you need it’. The people who spread these messages and advice are well-intentioned,…

  Maeby

  31 Aug 2018

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  anxiety, bipolar, bpd, clinical diagnosis, depression, disease, healthcare, help, mental health, mental health care, mental health treatment, mental illness, OCD, paranoia, psychology, seek help, stigma, suicide, suicide prevention, therapy

• Depression is NOT Sadness

  What many people cannot seem to be able to fathom is that circumstances and situations do not dictate one’s mental health. No matter how you try to communicate to them that depression is an illness, they will continue to confuse it with sadness and become frustrated with you for not “being more positive” or for…

  Maeby

  8 May 2013

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  depression, disease, illness, life, mental health, mental illness, pain, sadness, sickness

• Socially Awkward

  A lot of people have been talking about a new trend rampant on the internet, which we all seem to attribute to the use of tumblr. It seems that, in teens and young adults, it has become the new “cool” to be “awkward”. People seem to boast of being socially inept and preferring the company…

  Maeby

  9 Apr 2013

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  anxiety, awareness, awkward, cool, disability, disease, disorder, fad, health, life, mental, problem, sad, social, socially awkward, solution, teen, teenager, trend, young adult