NEW GROUP "EMOTIONAL SUPPORT NETWORK"

THIS IS THE FIRST DISCUSSION IN THE NEW GROUP. I hope members will join and support one another. The group is by invite or approval as this is a sensitive subject. But remember members can support one another through messages, email or private chats.

MENTAL ILLNESS AFFECTS ONE IN FOUR PEOPLE

So its more than likely mental illness will touch the lives of most of us. That one in four is only for those reported much mental illness goes unreported, where people struggle along, frightened of the stigma attached to mental illness. Mental illness is no different from a physical illness, the changes that cause it are organic in origin, often due to an inbalance in neurotransmitters, those are chemicals that facilitate nerve transmissions, akin to the hormone imbalance that causes diabetes. So why is there this stigma? Why is there so much ignorance around? Why do people refuse to talk about it, when it affects so many.
In these days of recession many of us are suffering from stress, stress, anxiety is a type of mental illness, why is it ok to say you are stressed and anxious? but OMG you daren't say you are suffering from depression or that you are Bi-Polar or worse that you suffer from Schizophrenia. If you break your leg and people see you with a cast on you will receive all the sympathy going but if you tell someone you are suffering depression, what tends to happen, you tend to be shunned. Well now is the time to take the lid off, be open and discuss this can of worms. These biast opinions are the result of ignorance and a lack of knowledge and understanding. For those who call people who suffer from any kind of mental illness crazy, Well I have news for YOU, You are not immune, it can strike YOU and at anytime.

So lets open this discussion and dispel all the myths and untruths and fabrications broadcast by the ignorant.

CLICK HERE TO READ HOW STRESS AFFECTS US

IN CASE THAT LINK DOESN'T WORK, WHICH IT SHOULD THIS IS THE URL

http://astridestella.vox.com/library/post/stress.html