Mental Illness: Why Me?
HealthyPlace Mental Health Newsletter
Here's what's happening on the HealthyPlace site this week:
- Mental Illness: Why Me?
- Help Spread Awareness of Mental Illness
- Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
- Mental Health Experiences
- From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
- Overcoming Depression: Why Some Find It Very Difficult on HealthyPlace TV
Mental Illness: Why Me?
If you're living with a mental illness, there's a good chance you've asked yourself the question: "Why me? What did I do to deserve this?" Two of our mental health bloggers address that question in slightly different ways this week. Dan Hoeweler, author of the "Creative Schizophrenia" blog, talks about the emotions attached to living with Schizophrenia. Dan had a burning anger towards the world and himself as he thought about the terrible afflication that befell him. PTSD blogger, Michele Rosenthal, tries to find meaning in trauma and PTSD. Both suggest ways to come to terms with the "why" question.
In the end, however, you may never receive a satisfactory answer about "why?". Why? Because the truth may be that developing a mental illness has nothing to do with being a good or bad person, a deserving or underserving person. Consider this: it was just a random event and you happened to be there.
Your Thoughts
What about you? How have you dealt with that question? We invite you to participate by commenting and sharing your feelings, experiences and knowledge on the HealthyPlace Facebook page.
Help Spread Awareness of Mental Illness
Get Our Mental Health Blog Widget
Nearly 100 sites and blogs are helping spread awareness of mental illness. How about putting our mental health blogs widget on your website, blog or social page? The latest HealthyPlace blog headlines appear as soon as the articles are posted on our site. Just click "Get Widget" at the bottom of the widget, grab the embed code and paste it into your page. You'll also see embed links for Wordpress, Blogger, Linkedin and other social sites there.
As a bonus, put the blogs widget on your site or blog, email us (info AT healthyplace.com) with a page link where it appears, and we'll give a shoutout to your site, blog, or social site on our Facebook and Twitter pages.
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Share our Stories
At the top and bottom of all our stories, you'll find social share buttons for Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Pinterest and other social sites. If you find a particular story, video, psychological test or other HealthyPlace feature helpful, there's a good chance others in need will too. Please share.
We also get many inquiries about our linking policy. If you have a website or blog, you can link to any page on the HealthyPlace website without asking us beforehand.
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Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
Here are the top 3 mental health articles HealthyPlace Facebook fans are recommending you read:
If you're not already, I hope you'll join us/like us on Facebook too. There are a lot of wonderful, supportive people there.
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Mental Health Experiences
Share your thoughts/experiences with any mental health subject, or respond to other people's audio posts, by calling our toll-free number (1-888-883-8045).
You can listen to what other people are saying by clicking on the gray title bars inside the widgets located on the "Sharing Your Mental Health Experiences" homepage, the HealthyPlace homepage, and the HealthyPlace Support Network homepage.
If you have any questions, write us at: info AT healthyplace.com
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From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
Your comments and observations are welcomed.
- Decisions Made (or Not Made), Anxiety-Style (Anxiety-Schmanxiety Blog)
- Severity of Bipolar Disorder and Views on Treatment (Breaking Bipolar Blog)
- The Catch-22 of Community in Mental Health Recovery (The Bipolar Griot Blog)
- Finding Meaning In Trauma and PTSD (Trauma! A PTSD Blog)
- Communicate With Confidence: Must-Have Skills (Building Self-Esteem Blog)
- Mental Illness on the Job (Surviving Mental Health Stigma Blog)
- Living With Chronic Depression (Recovering From Mental Illness Blog)
- Giving Thanks: Living Life vs. Fighting Life (Mental Illness in the Family Blog)
- Mental Illness and Domestic Violence: The Kiss of the Fist (More Than Borderline Blog)
- For Mental Healthy Holidays, Let Expectations Fall Like Snow (Funny in the Head: A Mental Health Humor Blog)
- Developing a Drug-Free Lifestyle by Eliminating Distorted Thinking (Debunking Addiction Blog)
- Signs Your Friend Is Abused (Verbal Abuse and Relationships Blog)
- Schizophrenia is an Illness, Not an Evil (Creative Schizophrenia Blog)
- Self-Injury Scars and Sexual Intimacy (Speaking Out About Self-Injury Blog)
- Goodbye (And I wish you all well!) (Surviving ED Blog)
- Don't Fear Adversity (Coping with Depression Blog)
Feel free to share your thoughts and comments at the bottom of any blog post. And visit the mental health blogs homepage for the latest posts.
Overcoming Depression: Why Some Find It Very Difficult on HealthyPlace TV
Dr. Deborah Serani is an expert on the subject of depression. What makes her perspective unique is that she specializes in the treatment of depression and also lives with depression. She shares part of her journey and discusses why some people have great difficulty overcoming depression. Watch.
That's it for now. If you know of anyone who can benefit from this newsletter or the HealthyPlace.com site, I hope you'll pass this onto them. You can also share the newsletter on any social network (like facebook, stumbleupon, or digg) you belong to by clicking the links below. For updates throughout the week:
APA Reference
Staff, H.
(2012, December 6). Mental Illness: Why Me?, HealthyPlace. Retrieved
on 2024, December 21 from https://www.healthyplace.com/other-info/mental-health-newsletter/mental-illness-why-me
