Mental Health Awareness

If you type into Google 'Health Magazine' I can guarantee that 99.99% of the pictures that pop up on your screen will be of half naked bodies with incredibly toned abs (trust me, I just searched it). To me this is a problem. Despite living in an ever changing world where certain topics are apparently becoming less of taboos and health is at the forefront of a lot of people's lives, it appears that mental health still isn't gaining the recognition and acceptance that it deserves.

There still seems to be such a stigma about mental health because people can't identify with it. It's not tangible. You break a wrist and everyone rushes over to sign your cast but you suffer from something in the mind and people rush away from you. We accept emotions like grief because we can identify with them but those emotions that we cannot identify with we turn away from and scowl upon. This needs to change.

This is why I encourage everyone to open up about mental health, reach out to loved ones and challenge the stigma we have in society! #MentalHealthAwareness

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