Solace
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I need all the help I can get!
Usually my mom is my sounding board at the planning stages. But I am trying to
get her to talk with me about it and i'm getting mad at her for reading that
stupid news site and laughing about something while I was explaining what I wanted her feedback on.
And i hate that i'm acting differently about this homework agsinement than the
others. It's stigma. lol. I have to battle it even as I write this speech. I'm
getting snappy with her. FINE if you don't want to help me with it I don't even
care, I said. And she said she was gonna help me, and Isaid I was sorry, I just
was stressed out cuz this should have been done already...
Anyway!
So to open the speech i'm going to start it out asking for a show of hands on
various mental health issues starting with ones that are easy to admit. like
insomnia, and phobias. Everyone has had a week where they couldn't sleep.
Everyone is afraid of something liek spiders or public speaking.
Then I am going to move down the list to the more stigmatized, and observe and
comment on how people get more hesitant.
Any sugestions on things to add to my list? I need things that are easy to
admit, things that are in the middle, things that are taboo also.
And why should struggling, hurting people be afraid to get help because of how
it will look? How their family might see them?
Why should a man who has recovered from a breakdown after seeing some hard
things in the war, have to be ashamed?
--Solace
Usually my mom is my sounding board at the planning stages. But I am trying to
get her to talk with me about it and i'm getting mad at her for reading that
stupid news site and laughing about something while I was explaining what I wanted her feedback on.
And i hate that i'm acting differently about this homework agsinement than the
others. It's stigma. lol. I have to battle it even as I write this speech. I'm
getting snappy with her. FINE if you don't want to help me with it I don't even
care, I said. And she said she was gonna help me, and Isaid I was sorry, I just
was stressed out cuz this should have been done already...
Anyway!
So to open the speech i'm going to start it out asking for a show of hands on
various mental health issues starting with ones that are easy to admit. like
insomnia, and phobias. Everyone has had a week where they couldn't sleep.
Everyone is afraid of something liek spiders or public speaking.
Then I am going to move down the list to the more stigmatized, and observe and
comment on how people get more hesitant.
Any sugestions on things to add to my list? I need things that are easy to
admit, things that are in the middle, things that are taboo also.
And why should struggling, hurting people be afraid to get help because of how
it will look? How their family might see them?
Why should a man who has recovered from a breakdown after seeing some hard
things in the war, have to be ashamed?
--Solace