Every year on Matt’s birthday, I re-post the resource page, Help for Serious Mental Illness. There’s information on research and ideas for how to help someone with serious mental health issues.
Mental illness is not rare in our society. One in five Americans suffer from it, and in spite of that, go on to lead successful lives.
Below are famous people who are dealing with mental health issues. We see them looking happy, but like all of us, they can feel many things at once. We can be happy while holding back anxiety, we can laugh while feeling grief, we can socialize while feeling depressed. You never really know what someone else is going through.
Michael Phelps said, “Once we can really take care of our mental health as we do our physical health, then I feel like the opportunities will be endless of what we can really do.”
Below are just a few of the many faces of mental illness.
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Dear Jackie. I only recently subscribed to your website, and I am so moved by your posts and good work in the mental health field. My husband and I are involved with another voice that also contributes to reaching out to young people who are struggling. It is called, Active Minds, and we have been a supporter for many years. Are you familiar with this group?
My heart goes out to you and your family on what would have been Matt’s birthday.
thank you so much for your kind words and for sharing about Active Minds. I looked into them and love what they do, it’s sad that they also lost a son/brother to mental illness but the sister, Alison Malmon, has clearly been amazing at trying to prevent this from happening to other families. I will definitely add Active Minds to our resource list and so appreciate you taking the time to write us. Thank you.