Written by Hannah Blum, author of Oh Mind, Where Have You Gone Today? The updated version of this blog post is up for 2024, click here Want To Start A Mental Health Instagram in 2024? Here’s How To Do It You want to start a mental health Instagram account but do not know where to … Continue reading Want to Start a Mental Health Instagram Account? Heres How to Do It
Written by Hannah Blum, author of The Truth About Broken: The Unfixed Version of Self-Love Mental health is a topic that many people in society think they know so much about when in reality they know too little. Ignorance is the most devastating illness that plagues our society. The only cure is knowledge, so let me save … Continue reading 6 Truths About People with a Mental Illness
Written by Hannah Blum, author of The Truth About Broken: The Unfixed Version of Self-Love How to become a mental health advocate? You do not need a degree, a diagnosis or work as a licensed therapist to become a mental health advocate. The general idea behind advocacy is supporting mental health by spreading awareness, reducing stigma and … Continue reading 6 Ways to Become a Mental Health Advocate
Remember the infamous Julia Stiles’s speech at the end of the movie, 10 Things I Hate About You? When she reveals to Heath Ledger the pain he’s caused her, “I hate the way you talk to me and the way you cut your hair…” While reading this post, think about stigma as if I am revealing my feelings in the same way as Stiles. Ledger was a good guy, but stigma not so much.
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Written by Hannah Blum, author of Oh Mind, Where Have You Gone Today? A poetry and essay collection about mental illness. As a woman diagnosed with bipolar disorder, I am not naive to the fact that people I date struggle to see beyond the label that society has stamped on me, which is why I wrote … Continue reading 17 Things You Should Know About Dating A Girl With Mental Illness
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