Mental Health — From Shame to Seeking Help

There is a stigma against admitting you have a mental illness, like it’s something that should only be talked about in whispers.
Read moreThere is a stigma against admitting you have a mental illness, like it’s something that should only be talked about in whispers.
Read more“If we could survive courtship together, we think we can survive anything.”
Read more“I put the ring on my own finger; not exactly like how I had pictured it when I was a little girl.”
Read more“I was in love before, but I finally felt free to feel all those feelings.”
Read more“I was in denial about how deep my feelings went, because I simply wasn’t allowed to be in love before courtship.”
Read more“I felt very ashamed to have such a strong crush — it wasn’t holy and pure to give so much of my heart to someone else before we were even courting.”
Read more“I, like most homeschool girls, thought Pride and Prejudice was quite possibly the greatest love story ever written.”
Read more“I felt guilty for the boyfriends I’d had in grade school; I wondered if I had already ruined my future marriage.”
Read more“Conflating demon possession with ‘madness’ hurts people. That may sound harsh, but this is a real problem. I have been hurt by this in the past, and in the present, and others have too. When people talk about an (apparently) mentally ill person and say ‘He was definitely demon possessed’ that hurts me as a person with a mental illness.”
Read more“Parents who raise their children this way are trying to do what they think is best. The problem is, they are motivated by fear to control their children… Many fundamentalists probably operate under a consequentialist system of ethics.”
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