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(021208-SWR08.jpg) New York, NY - Circa 1989 -- A Conductor looks out the window of a Graffiti Covered S Train (Grand Street Shuttle) as it pulls out of the West Fourth Street Subway Station
© Stacy Walsh Rosenstock
Hello and hope this finds you all fine, happy & healthy :)
Today, there's a rather sensitive subject to be touched here and I'll try to do that in the softest and most discrete of ways.
As you may have noticed, there appears a Grey Ribbon of Awareness at the end of the sentence.
This ribbon is to raise awareness about such issues as Mental Illness, Diabetes, Brain Cancer and Asthma.
Mental Illness is the subject to be dealt with today.
Those of you who are familiar with my profile are aware about my studies in Psychology.
I'd like to openly share here with you today the reason I took the time to complete these studies and also put them in praxis by undergoing a 7 year process of personal analysis, when in the first place I was ready to start my studies in Architecture and Interior Design.
Growing up I happened to be directly exposed to mental illness. For understandable reasons of descrition there'll be no commenting on who this person/people were.
The reason for coming out open with the subject is only one: to raise awareness.
So, let me say to you that mental illness is NOT a resposibility of the people who carry and live with it, but it is a whole lot of responsibility of the poeple living with such individuals to support them the right way - and this includes getting professional help.
I'm aware of the fact that mental illness stigmatises people and families and lives....and I'm also aware that pychologists and therapists are not the most favorited people of all....and it is true that there are many out there who should not be doing this job and are rather inappropiate in doing it.
But this is so with everything in life. There are people who are unable or disqualified in doing something but out of nothing else than their personal interest, they go on with it.
As in every profession, job or occupation, there are good examples and bad examples.
In case though someone is in need of a therapist either because of psychopathological reasons or simpler day life matters, he/she should not hesitate in investing some time into finding the one therapist that suits them the most.
A supportive, analytical process, which focuses on the present and practical issues can be Life Altering. It can enhance the way we live our lives and when surrounded by people in our immediate environments who need our help and support, we would have the means to provide it.
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Lots of people say: "..but I'm not crazy (wrong choice of word in the first place)...not the one who needs a therapist...he/she is!"...well, my dear all, when we live with such people their issues become ours...and it is in the hands of the healthier and stronger to do something.
Yes, there is tremendous ammount of pain involved....there can also be tremendous ammount of relief and pleasure involved, too. It is a matter of choice.
And last but not least....no therapy will do a thing, unless it's done with the one and only intangible quality in life, which has the most tangible of effects on our lives: LOVE
If you've managed to read all this, then thank you from the bottom of my heart for having taken the time.
The loveliest of days to you all!
Ivy xx
February 17, 2011 - AUSTIN, TX - Texas Governor Rick Perry pauses for a moment of prayer at the Texas Prayer Breakfast at the Hilton Austin hotel in Austin, TX
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