Let’s talk about mental health
IN observance of Mental Health Awareness Week earlier this month, an online news site endeavored to explain to readers what depression sounds like by having a person suffering from the mental illness describe what a depressive episode feels like.
The man, who is 22 and has been suffering from depression for the past eight years, said it felt like standing in the middle of the Colosseum in Rome while it was packed to the rafters with people berating and insulting him. Except that all those people were actually him. The abusive voices were his inner voices. And he was defenseless against himself.
It can’t be easy to explain that to someone you love who has no personal knowledge of depression. Can you imagine explaining that to a work colleague? How about to your boss?
Despite how far we’ve come on so many fronts, mental health remains a taboo subject, perhaps