Best Mental Health – How Does Our Facebook Page Help

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It’s something I would definitely do again, and for the opportunity to do it I owe a huge debt of gratitude to the Time To Change team.

I had so many lovely messages of support. I was first pointed in the direction of the Time To Change website by a friend a few months ago. Considering the above said. Battling a regular feelings of guilt and shame, before therefore I’d kept my illness to myself. I felt isolated and very alone. I wasn’t aware of the resources available to I actually felt more confident to be open with people I trusted at my new place of work. Consequently, I found the Ruby Wax interviews helpful when I went back to work after a period of illness. In a recent survey of our followers, 62percentage said that they’d be more willing to talk about mental health with family and friends, for a reason of joining our page.

Whenever talking about mental health problems,can strengthen friendships, aid recovery, break down stereotypes and take the taboo out of something that affects us all, whether on Facebook or individually. Whenever detailing the difficulties that came with my diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder, I am still stunned at the general number of responses to my blog, published on the Time to Change Facebook page. I was due to go out about half an hour after it was published and I returned home to the most overwhelming percentage of support I’ve ever experienced from people I knew well as well as others using the Time to Change Facebook page. It’s been very good things I’ve ever done. I hadn’t gone into detail about my illness with loads of my friends at university and I wondered what their reaction should be.

Seeing my blog appear on Facebook was completely terrifying but also a bit like a sigh of relief.

a lot of individuals seek and share advice and some, inspired by previous blogs, write about their personal story to this type of a taboo subject. I joined the Time to Change Facebook page after reading Frankie Sandford’s interview in Glamour magazine. Sending the blog made feel a little exposed and I almost changed my mind, the actual experience of writing was very cathartic. So feelings that came from that blog made me need to share what I had been through so I wrote what’s really wrong and not live in the fear of rejection because of a label or as we have the dreaded word mental before our illness. Time to Change gives that. Will I have the guts to do that? Furthermore, tonight, there’re people out there who are unfortunate enough to feel animosity wards those who have mental illnesses and especially illnesses which are on the psychotic spectrum. They made me need to stand out or up or in whatever direction to be part of fighting against stigma in what ever way I can. I felt really privileged to listen to the men and women who participated in those clips and felt able to be filmed for a national website. It challenged me to be honest. I found it routine with mental health problems. Needless to say, the Time to Change Facebook page does help. The majority of the stories and experiences shared on the site resonated with me.

I was in a pretty miserable and confused place at the time.

If I need that to change, Know what, I have to do my bit, it was also at that point I realised that I have kept my own depression a secret for so long precisely because of the stigma.

I joined the Facebook community early in 2012 after stumbling across it via the website. Initially, in many ways I didn’t feel I belonged in the community, that I didn’t have a serious enough diagnosis or sufficiently traumatic past. Whenever encouraging and caring response, I was amazed to have my blog accepted, stunned to see it appear on my own Facebook wall, and overwhelmed by the accepting. It had a big impact on how I see myself and following the stories of others, in situations both similar and very different, makes me realise I do belong to part of a bigger, more diverse, more inclusive community than I ever could’ve imagined. I’m sure you heard about this. For the most of us, it’s good to see exactly how many people out there who seek for to make a difference. I really think that people who have not got mental health problems should be shocked to read the Facebook pages and if it just helps one person become more empathetic it’s done its job.

I think it does as long as otherwise they tend to get swallowed up in everyday lifespan.

While writing about his diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder, that is what I suffer from, the blog that really changed things for me was written by a man called Andy.

It hit me like a hammer blow and I cried for hours afterwards. Thence the next day I felt more positive than I had for a long time. However, while describing exactly my own experiences, was incredible, reading the words of someone I’d never met. There were and later didn’t look for days. Seeing my blog on the Time to Change Facebook page felt quite overwhelmingly public! On looking the website I found the Facebook link and ‘liked’ the page. Soon the blogs started appearing on my timeline -courageous and inspirational words from people that had been through what I was going through. I should take something from any one that I read -a phrase, a sentence, a feeling -and bit by bit I felt less alone. It occurred to me I could since it allows me to channel my often disruptive thoughts into something that is both meaningful and beneficial to others. Reading other peoples blogs and stories reminds me that I am in a community of people all fighting for identical thing. Needless to say, this was my first step to publicly showing some engagement with the fight against mental health discrimination, I’m ashamed to say I wasn’t yet ready to make a public ‘pledge’. Now pay attention please. I decided to join the Facebook community. Of course personal experiences of mental health problems are rarely spoken about in my experience. Absolute best thing I experienced after my article was published on the Time to Change website was the reaction it caused on Facebook.

The general number of messages I received from people on Facebook about my article was staggering.

When I saw my entry it felt amazing to see my story of pain right there for the world to see -very liberating and almost like another step to fight it.

Writing it was great, it gave me loads of clarity and I felt proud to read how far I had come. Needless to say, the comments were lovely and I hope my story helped at least one person in some way. I have also shown the blog to a couple friends to explain what I went through as I previously struggled to tell them certain details. Of course my Facebook news feed was completely covered in people speaking about their own experiences over the weekend my article was published.