Poem/Story
To wake up with days, or weeks even. When everything is crashing and have a rollercoaster of emotions or just a feeling of a standstill. Where all you can do is just breathe in these thick clouds of anguish to keep the alienating thoughts from venturing into your mind, as if it was a spider, creepily crawling up your arm, trying desperately to tell you something. You try batting it away, but it keeps on moving. It would do anything, to even go as far to enter your ear drum and whisper these painful and yet dulling reminders. Many things can come from this spider, one wonder everyone is afraid.

Mental Health Conflicts
My topic has a wide spectrum of conflicts. One mostly of the rising numbers of mental health cases in Vermont. Most people who have this, don’t even get the proper treatment they need and go on with feelings that usually are just brushed aside. This is a combination of people being either afraid to ask for help/embarrassed or believe it’s not a big deal and they can go on and get better, without professional help.
{Site that shows these sadistic’s- http://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/State_BHBarometers_2014_2/BHBarometer-VT.pdf}

While having conversations with peers, I find that work load from school gets them down in the dumps and stressed out of their minds. I too feel this new concept of work that our schools bring down on us, but for the most part it’s to help us ‘grow’ academically, sort of a new learnings type that were not used to. Which can work for some, but usually gets people feeling tired and stressed out. (I know, Twenty-one Pilots, right)
Lastly from what I have just seen randomly on the Internet is people promoting mental health disorders. It’s as if people think it’s either ‘funny’ or amusing at least to see or help people suffer. I know though that their is people who, themselves have a mental disorder, but try help others become like them because they’ve asked. Take an example of anorexia. They have created these Pro Ana websites to help people become ‘skinny’. And from how our society is right now, with the models and different body types that are more desirable than others. I guess you wouldn’t blame them. The people who have this disorder have partial credit of this, but social media and the ideas of other people’s beauty is what affects this the most. And from experience it’s hard to get away from negative influences, so your being sucked into this black hole even though you want nothing to do with it. In reality though, no one is at fault because we don’t need to blame everything on someone. It’s call a ‘mental’ health disorder for a reason. It a long unexplained cause for people.

Other Groups And Organizations
One organization I found that goes well along with my topic is Walk in Our Shoes. In my last blog #4 Finding Out Why I talked about this website out they’ve helped so many people recover and help others with mental health and I like how they portray mental health as a normal thing that anyone and everyone can go through.

What Unites People
People come together when there is something emotional. Meaning it can be from the most sad, depressing, and heart wrenching moment to the most infuriating. Mental health is a sad category, but for all kinds of people are all kinds of emotions.
The saddening part is how this affects so many people, and people who do can get this. It can be frustrating because you could of lost someone to mental health or it could be that your fed up with mental health issues and just want to help bring an end to this ‘madness’. It could be a happy get together, even because someone you may love or yourself has or had gone through or survived and your celebrating and bring awareness to this.

What Divides People
This is from what I gather in research. I know I sound petty and ungrateful in the following sentence in the next paragraph, but I can explain. So read with caution if you have strong political views or just get triggered with different debate topics that I cover and are touchy ones, right now in social media.

Our society doesn’t get the concept of forgiveness, excepting differences, or having people break their ‘norms’ -like with the first paragraph and how my peers are upset that we now have to change our learning style and use a different type of grading and studying format- For instance, how the 49’s got back lash for not standing durning the national anthem~ I know it stands to show we are a united country and that we should pay tribute to the people who have served or are, but does it really matter? We as a nation, The United States, have made horrible and reckless accusations and comments of other country’s and people, yet expect total and utter respect towards us. And this goes for mental health as well. The most part of our society doesn’t know how to handle mental health and were given false information from some media saying it’s cool, or trending. This is what this program, WtS, was made for. To help people in our community and spread the word about a serious issue, which I plan on doing. When people go out and find someone who is clearly having a rough time, they walk away or try to handle the situation, but then back off once their told the ‘I’m fine’ line. Though I know a numerous amounts of people who would do anything to help or cheer up another fellow, but a lot of people still aren’t properly educated or in such a good shape them selves in mental speaking.

Citations-
Http://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/State_BHBarometers_2014_2/BHBarometer-VT.pdf. Rep. Government, n.d. Web. <http://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/State_BHBarometers_2014_2/BHBarometer-VT.pdf>.

“What Is Mental Health? on Walk In Our Shoes.” Walk In Our Shoes. California’s Mental Health Movement, n.d. Web. 01 Oct. 2016. <http://walkinourshoes.org/what-is-mental-health>.

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