Patrick Kennedy Calls for an End to the Stigma of Mental Illness

Patrick Kennedy addresses his own mental illness and talks about NAMI. Let us know if you like it and please share it with others.

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[awesomearchangel]

religion as catholics is often considered a counter culture...because the world teaches popularity, fame, perfection, looking out for number 1, having money...and god reminds us to serve, and be a good samaritan, and help our neighbors with our cross and make their load lighter. First people discriminated against skin color, then age, or gender, or now sexuality, or even whether an infant is a clump of cells or a baby in the womb, or a mind called disorded by a world mostly doesn't love as Jesus

[awesomearchangel]

parking 4 blocks away from the building is good exercise...and having to walk farther to the location is good for your health...I know at the time you were feeling ashamed and wanted to park far away...but in away it forced you to be more fit and healthy as you walked more steps to the doctor...the most important thing is knowing there is a purpose for each of us to use even our illnesses to be an example of healing and courage when others do not even see their suffering in their soul and mind

[awesomearchangel]

no worries, every wound heals, and struggles, even depressions are temporary, we all fall down or face struggles at times..but with prayer, faith and the support of family and close friends we can all find healing...I often review my own struggles in life during lent, and there is a great song by "addison road" with a verse of "hope now", even when the world is breaking me down..." hope and faith and trust will set your heart free...and struggle focuses us and family on how we can grow in love

[Lauren Sitarchuk]

oh yeah because your life is ~sooo hard~ because you know someone with a mental illness. Go into the life of a mentally ill person and you wouldnt last 3 seconds. So you're saying that stigma against certain races has their purpose too? Nope, stigma causes nothing but trouble and only hurts people, but you wouldnt know, you dont know what its like to struggle through a mental illness

[Liz R]

int explosive disorder..is that new one or what. and yes you are a person who belives in stigma.

[Swagga Muffin]

How can a spastic spearhead the de-stigmatization of the illness, when stigmatizing is neccesary in order to be heard?. I am so stigmad right now.

[whyshouldiworrynow]

Then speak out against them comparing monsters to us and accusing our illnesses. How can we remove a stigma when the media labels them and we were them on our backs. There are millions of us that would never do those things. If it's mental illness to be a monster; then, why is it only found in young males of certain backgrounds? So the millions of other cultures, races, status, seniors, females.......don't have the same symptoms as they do? Then, it's not mental illness. The name is evil.

[circusmaximus10]

How about an end to people crying the blues and blaming " mental illness"

[Transmintosity]

..... the 'Us and 'them' dichotomization of humans that accrues to the diagnosis of certain members of society as 'mentally ill', strikes me as hypocritical in the extreme. That's like a slavemaster trying to destigmatize his chattel whilst describing his slaves as 'Niggers' or 'three-fifths' human beings!