This past week has been an exciting one. I met with Gayle Johnson, Chief Development Officer, at Sound Mental Health about my one-woman show. The show is something I've been working on and developing since earlier this year. The first incarnation of it was seen at Stone Soup's XX Fest 2.0 and it was well received. We had a full house and the audience seemed to enjoy what they saw. Gayle has generously offered to take my show to the next level. She's putting together a special fundraising event in October and I'll be performing the next evolution of my show!
While I wasn't expecting to perform it again so soon (what I really mean is I didn't expect to get down to business and write the next draft!), I'm thrilled and honored to be a part of this evening. My performance will be just one part of the evening. The other will be hosted by two local authors, a mother and daughter, who wrote an amazing memoir about mental illness.
Together, we will all work with Sound Mental Health to do what we can to eliminate the stigma of mental illness and hopefully create awareness. The statistics are that 1 in 4 people will at some point in their lives experience a mental health crisis, and currently 1 out of 6 people lives with a mental illness.
We need to do some paradigm shifting here, folks. Awareness is key and it's important to know that mentally ill people don't act the way they do because they want to or on purpose. They act the way they do because they can't help it and because of their brain chemistry.
Non-profits such as Bring Change 2 Mind, which was founded by Glenn Close, are working hard to eradicate stigma and discrimination surrounding mental illness. Who is society, anyway? It's each and every one of us. By changing our perception of mental illness, we can change the world. One person at a time.
While I wasn't expecting to perform it again so soon (what I really mean is I didn't expect to get down to business and write the next draft!), I'm thrilled and honored to be a part of this evening. My performance will be just one part of the evening. The other will be hosted by two local authors, a mother and daughter, who wrote an amazing memoir about mental illness.
Together, we will all work with Sound Mental Health to do what we can to eliminate the stigma of mental illness and hopefully create awareness. The statistics are that 1 in 4 people will at some point in their lives experience a mental health crisis, and currently 1 out of 6 people lives with a mental illness.
We need to do some paradigm shifting here, folks. Awareness is key and it's important to know that mentally ill people don't act the way they do because they want to or on purpose. They act the way they do because they can't help it and because of their brain chemistry.
Non-profits such as Bring Change 2 Mind, which was founded by Glenn Close, are working hard to eradicate stigma and discrimination surrounding mental illness. Who is society, anyway? It's each and every one of us. By changing our perception of mental illness, we can change the world. One person at a time.
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