This site is great!  I wanted to let you know about my own coming-out movement: I Am 1 in a Million.  Because coming out can be difficult, participants join the movement anonymously, and their identities are only revealed after membership has reached 1,000,000 members--one million people will reveal that they have mental illnesses at the same time. 

The purposes of the campaign are to help people feel comfortable enough to get treatment, to dispel common myths about people with mental illnesses, and create a powerful community that can stand up to discrimination and harassment. 

About 30 million people in the US with mental disorders do not receive treatment, and one of the main reasons is that they are too afraid or embarrassed to ask.  Sometimes, the lack of treatment results in a suicide that could have been prevented.  Showing people that it’s OK to talk about depression and get treatment will save lives. 

Tags: Mental Illness Disorder Depression Coming-out Anonymity

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