“I continued to speak and got across the message of the importance of feeling free to speak to others about mental health. I had 200 13 and 14 year olds, looking shocked that statistically 1 in 10 children and young people has a mental health issue, that equates to three in every class room. I[…]
“We have to move away from viewing mental illness as a battle between crazy and normal, or us and them. Many of us realize that the human experience is far more beautifully, painfully complex than that. Normal is as unattainable as perfection. When we are honest with ourselves, we know that we are all capable[…]
“Half of adults with mental illnesses had symptoms by age 14,” added Sue Abderholden, the executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Minnesota. “If we wait until they’re age 26, we’ve waited too long.” Read the Full Article
