Monday, July 9, 2012
Mental Illness
Living life with a chemical imbalance is hard at times although there are many Americans walking around dealing with this every day. Wanting to feel a certain way but not being able to control it or your impulses at times, can cause major havoc in your life. Not to mention lashing out at your closest loved ones when you don't even realize that you are doing it. This can make having a relationship quite difficult. You go to the doctor only to be prescribed medicine that makes you feel like a damn zombie or that will have a great deal of side effects. Who wants to live like that? Many choose to go throughout life without any treatment. This is something that has been going on in the black community for while now. I don't know why African Americans are so against mental health treatment. I remember times when everyone had a uncle, cousin, granddaddy or something of another that stayed with them but never came out of their room. We were always told not to mess with them while we played as kids because they are crazy. Why didn't those people ever get any help? An even better question is why does society make those who have mental illness feel too ashamed to get help or share their struggle? It almost seems as though nobody understands unless they have been through it themselves. That tends to leave most people feeling all alone in their struggle. Who do you trust when you are going through something that nobody else understands? Who do you talk to when you don't understand it yourself? What if it was you? How would you feel?
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