There are so many topics to choose from that could be blogged about! I have finally decided to write about what is foremost on my mind right now, which is this event that I am taking place in on October 2nd. It is a charity event known as NAMIWalks. NAMI is the National Alliance on Mental Illness. I am taking part in it because my younger sister has various mental illnesses. Her illnesses became more prominent in the previous year, and it's effects are still occuring in our everyday lives. She has gone places that you read about but you would never imagine the place actually being real. I love my little sister deeply, and I'm trying to help her out as best as I can. I feel horrible that she is going through stuff that any adult would have trouble coping with, yet she is a kid and she has to learn to cope with it to live her day-to-day life. I learned about this group, NAMI, and I am starting to become really involved in their organization. I have learned a lot because of her, like that having a mental illness is common. 1 out of 10 children have a mental illness. Yet people look at my family in disgust when they hear about it. You think that adults more so would be more understanding about this issue, but they are not because they don't comprehend it. Also stigma can be stopped if words like "crazy" or "insane" would not be used in a normal conversation about mentally ill people. So if any people read this and want to help out and fight stigma, then visit this website for more information:
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