I think your site www.metooexperience.com has great potential! I love the 'human head' design! Especially utilizing Joey's site which empowers us all to make a real difference in this Country.
As I see it, the difference we make will be made merely by liberating the massive numbers of people who have a mental dis-ease to join the TEAM. As they come forward the momentum will shift into long awaited reality!
You are a blindingly bright light on NKM2, bursting with positivity . . . and exactly the kind of leader we need in this quest for greater compassion, insight and progress in mental health care. I say this as someone who has been down for the count and then rallied nearly a dozen times over the the course of my life. Lucky me to have met some stellar humans along the way. None of them rich or famous in the conventional sense, but outstanding in their humanity. These are my peeps, my adopted family of tortured souls with hearts of gold. If I could heal, help or hold the hand of just one person teetering on the edge of sanity, I will feel I have lived a decent life.
So, I am thrilled that you have taken the time to reach out to me. And perhaps it is just coincidental, but could even be kismet, that you live in my home state. Boston born with ties to Ashland, Worcester, Nashua, Framingham, Southborough, Marblehead, Natick, Salem (the list goes on . . . ), my Dad hails from New Hampshire, my favorite cousins from Vermont and my sister now lives in Connecticut. And here I am in the wild and wacky state of New Jersey - running, writing, reading and taking thousands of pictures to keep my hope alive, my demons at bay.
I hope to hear from you again and look forward to learning more about your work, your passions, your jamming self . . .
It's great to learn as much as you can about your illness, however, you don't know that you will have it for the rest of your life. No one I know can predict the future!
Dan
Thanks for your comment. I wrote "for the rest of my life" in jest because that is what the medical profession seems to think is the case (from what I've read). I'm definately not going to let this illness take over my life and now that there is a platform to support us, I feel more positive about beating it.
Thank you Dan. I just hear so many people who talk about dropping their meds because they didn't feel right, or it made them feel like they were robots, or they had no feelings. Well, I felt the same way, but I was lucky enough to have gone back to my doctor, and told him. He tried different meds until i found one that worked. To many people just stop them, unfortunately on advice of "friends". Which can lead to suicide by stopping suddenly. They aren't willing to try to stay the course.
Interesting story Scott! I think you are a great example of staying on Meds that work and function fine. A great success story over adversity!
Just wanted to thank you for the friend request. I was reading your blog the other day and you are an inspiring individual. Really, you inspire me to lose more weight! I lost 20lbs in the last two months just from walking. The irony is that with the depression, and in my case Avoidence PD, getting out of the house is the hardest, especially since the economy caught up to me and I lost my security gig (lots of walking there). Thanks again, Frank Eannarino
I also would like to know what I can do to get people more educated on mental illness and depression because I didn't know i was depressed for many years....I didn't understand it and would swear i was not depressed because that is when people cry all the time. Since then I have learned differentlly and I feel that a lot of people are going thru the same thing and don't realize it. I know the pain of depression and I don't want anyone to suffer as much as a lot of us have. Let me know what I can do to help get the word out.
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