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I received a message on Facebook with the following quotes about celeb's dealing with mental health issues:
“I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What’s to be ashamed of? I went through a really tough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that,” says J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series. “Bipolar disorder is something I have been dealing with for a long time. I think with the year we had with my stepson, and then of course Michael’s cancer, and all of a sudden all those things that happened to me, and my bipolar just came straight out. Depression, then manic trying to make everyone perfect, and I can never fix anybody, couldn’t make anything perfect. We just had to go through, like so many people, a really rough 2 years.” -Catherine Zeta-Jones “One of the biggest things for me was being honest with everybody about it. And let them know, like, you know, there are gonna be times when we’re gonna have to slow down so I can just make sure everything is intact. The second step was finding somebody that I could talk to, but that I was going to be honest with and that not necessarily that they had all the answers for me, but, like, that I could get it all out to them and then, like, together we could piece things together. I found that talk therapy with this guy has been the best thing that I’ve had.” -Pete Wentz
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Received this in an email. I remember hearing about this last year.
"Dear Steve, Saw someone post this on Facebook and thought of you: Liu Wenxiu, a 19-year-old waitress from Shenzhen, has been praised for stopping a 16-year-old boy from committing suicide with a simple kiss. Liu was passing by a pedestrian bridge in downtown Shenzhen when she spotted hundreds of onlookers watching a young man with a knife in his hand, threatening to jump. She managed to get close to the boy by telling the police that she was his girlfriend and also the reason for his attempt to commit suicide. According to local television, the boy’s mother had passed away, his stepmother didn’t treat him well and she left with all his father’s money. “He told me he didn’t have a home anymore, nobody cared about him and no one trusted him. I showed him the scars on my right wrist as I used to be suicidal too because nobody in my family was happy. That boy, he was like a younger me. He had to be saved – because I’ve been there before and I knew exactly how it was,” said Liu. The negotiation on the bridge ended like a romantic movie when Liu hugged the boy and kissed him unexpectedly. Police took advantage of the situation to take away the boy’s knife and pull him inside the handrail of the bridge. Liu left after the rescue, but local police needed her help again because the boy refused to reveal his story without her presence, reports Asia One." Take a breath. Sometimes we need to take a moment to find that balance and
reflect. I'm asked all the time about how many people actually reach out to me since I posted my cell phone number on Twitter and Facebook. I receive 3 to 4 calls, emails, messages a day. It's just more proof that people are living, excuse me, suffering with thoughts of suicide and are afraid to talk about it because of the stigma. Because of fear. Because of shame. Sometimes the hardest thing in the world is asking for help. Yet we all need help at some point in our lives. That's why it's so important for each of us to reach out to those around us. Don't look for reasons to avoid difficult conversations. Look for ways to understand. I'm not trained. I don't have all the answers. But I'm a pretty good listener. If you're on the fence about calling a professional or a helpline, give me a call. 240-418-1887. I can help you take that next step. Steve |
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