Mental Illness doesn’t care how much money or fame you have. You’re as sick as is if you had a physical illness, but there’s no out ward sign, so you end up stigmatized. With no apparent way to get help. But this is less about mental illness, and more about suicide. We lost Chris Cornell to it recently. He lost Kurt Cobain to it. And today we’ve the lead singer to Linkin Park. When the hurt and the pain get so bad that you feel your only option is to end it all. This is not right. The state of mental health care in America is a fucking joke. I can think of at least three recent mash shooting that could’ve been prevented if people had gotten the treatment that they needed. But no. While mental illness is just as real a diseases as pneumonia or measles, we still stigmatize it, and those who suffer from it. And that has to stop.
BTW, if you’re thinking about killing yourself, please call 1-800-273-8255. Help is out there. YOU’RE NOT ALONE!
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