Being Brave And Speaking Up | Depression, Anxiety, and Addiction

Being Brave when It Is Time To Speak Up

By Tom Rees, on November 15th, 2011%

My last post involved speaking up and making some positive noise if you have had a mental illness and conquered it or are dealing with it well. The point was we desperately need to remove the negative stigma of mental illness. You are about to watch a video of a woman confronted by a flasher and not tolerating it one bit. This same level of energy needs to go into our anti-stigma campaign:

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Stress Leads to Alcohol Abuse and in Turn Depression Makes You Feel Worse and Can Get Suicidal, Especially For Vets

By Tom Rees, on September 22nd, 2011%

Author’s note: More Vietnam Vets have died from suicide than died in the whole Vietnam war because help was not available to many of them and Post Traumatic Stress took them down. Now we are losing 5 boys a day returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, not because help isn’t available, but because many of them have prided themselves on being tough. Needing a psychiatrist is seen as a weakness they are too proud to go