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As a Society We Lack the Will to Care About Mental Illness

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https://www.quora.com/Why-in-recent-history-have-we-respectively-committed-many-probably-too-many-people-afflicted-with-mental-illnesses-and-then-becoming-reactionary-and-releasing-almost-all-to-the-streets/answer/Kristin-Bell-2?ch=1&share=bba85263&srid=8eZO&fbclid=IwAR22pUG1I1nlsYN-Ra_1FHKpAFcMUaxOvw0PKvTBBngjjZoOZZIbAQg_hQ4

Must Watch Video!

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This is a great presentation/speech. I hope you can watch and share it! It really needs to go viral! Hopefully the correct video will play. It is a TED talk about mental illness and community.

Bring Change 2 Mind!

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Hi! As you might know if you have scanned my blog, I make it a point to talk about mental health/illness, because I have schizophrenia and I believe in stomping out the stigma of mental illness. Well, I have this cute story to share! I was waiting outside of the classroom for my biology lab class to start this fall and started talking to a supernice girl who was in my class. We got to talking and to try to explain why I had been in school so long I decided to tell her that I have schizophrenia. Lo and behold she says “oh yah, my mom has bipolar and my brother has schizophrenia too!” What a small world!!! It turns out her whole family is active in the mental health field in advocating for the erasure of stigma related to mental illness and they have a website called http://bringchange2mind.org/ . I am always surprised when I talk to people about my own illness and then they also know someone or are someone with mental illness too! It is such a big thing in peoples’ lives and when we talk about it, it is surprising/amazing/wonderful that we aren’t alone in our struggles. So, I just wanted to share this little story and a link to the Bring Change 2 Mind website. It was a wonderful feeling to meet someone else at school who knows first hand about mental illness and to be able to talk openly about it! :) Three cheers for no more stigma!!! :)

Wonderful Video Documentary About a Mother with Schizophrenia

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I’m taking a Women’s Studies course at school and we are looking at the topic of Motherhood. This week we are discussing motherhood and disabilities, and I came across this wonderful video series that is made by a student about a mother who has schizophrenia and how it has impacted her life and the life of her daughter. I think he did a really good job! The video is divided into four parts and I hope you watch all four parts! :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx6j_Tyb8Uo&feature=share&list=PL81E9C419F7641FD8

Suck It Haters!

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This video has over a million views already and the video is barely a week old. Don’t tell me that gay boyz can’t rock your socks off! Suck it haters! Long live gay boy love!!!

President Obama: It Gets Better

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Mrs. Clinton: It Will Get Better

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It Gets Better…

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Saddlebacking

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Okay, boys and girls.

Here is the link for the saddlebacking website: http://saddlebacking.com/

Basically, this term has been coined in protest to Rick Warren, a cowering homophobe, having been invited to speak at the presidential inauguration. For more background on the coinage of this term, see this link and scroll to the bottom.

I hope that you will help by making this term popular! Enjoy! :) hehe

Notes on Schizophrenia: Probability/Social Aspects

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So, schizophrenia sounds like a really friggin’ scary deal, and, it kind of is, but the odds are that you probably will not develop it. Interestingly enough, schizophrenia effects about 1 percent of the population worldwide according to most statistics. There also seems to be little variation to the 1 percent figure. In other words, developing and developed countries seem to have the same rates of illness. It seems that there is not one place that has more or less of the disease.

Here are some other figures provided by narsad.org,

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