Have you faced more than one stigma? In addition to facing mental problems and the self-stigma that comes with it, have you had other silences and experiences that have hit your life? YOU ARE THE MOST WELCOME, THE MOST HUGGED, THE MOST LOVED among us! I hope you participate in the contest to help open the eyes of so many!

There are many stigmas

It has been demonstrated that many mental illnesses are more frequent in people who have faced other traumatic experiences that they have also needed to hide.

There are many stigmas or experiences that have devastated us and that make the suffering of the stigma even more serious when we face a period of mental disorder.

We could cite hundreds of situations that human beings sometimes need to hide without being guilty or having any reason to be ashamed: different disabilities, sexual choices, nationalities that make us feel rejected by some, religious beliefs too often not respected or judged by people without knowledge, social origin or professions – in that absurd but frequent reality that people are measured by their external packaging and not by their internal values.

The bulling, so much suffered among young people, that young person who felt rejected, ashamed, stigmatized? who suffered harassment and bulling, who felt guilty, hurt or even believing sometimes the venomous words or actions of beings who in their smallness needed to feel something by stepping on the one they saw as weaker or looking for that “cruel popularity” for their ability to humiliate or persecute, applauded by other weak beings who sought the approval of that “false leader/tyrant” under the fear of those who know they are being watched if they do not applaud.

Let us imagine the adolescent who, after discovering and needing to accept his sexual orientation different from the majority, seeks to hide it. Let’s imagine that adolescent, already young, who suffers bulling for this different sexuality, … shamed, blamed, humiliated, … silenced … too many times even by the closest ones (parents who do not accept for example).

Or imagine that adolescent girl, subjected to sexual harassment or traumatic experiences … she hides them, is ashamed, develops fears.

Talking does not make us weak, on the contrary, it strengthens us, affirms us, helps us overcome those wounds… (…)

That young man, that young woman… carry a very heavy burden of silence, concealment, fear of showing themselves, lack of self-esteem… a burden that crushes them and often lays the groundwork for the crows of depression or other mental illnesses to nestle in their minds…

When, for so many other stigmas and pains in which THE VICTIMS of an unjust, sometimes violent, and intolerant society and environment…need to silence and, even worse, WISH THEY WOULD NOT BE THEM, THEY BLAME THEMSELVES for having been blamed by cruel, abusive and unacceptable judges of the other.

The crows

If those dark ravens carrying seeds of mental illness arrive… their effect is EVEN MORE DEVASTATING….

I imagine that good girl who felt she had the soul of a child, I imagine that child subjected to bulling, humiliated… losing all self-esteem… I imagine that child going into depression because of it… her silence is double, it is triple, it is horrible… her loneliness… YOU ARE WELCOME, I HOPE YOU CAN GO HEALING SO MANY SOUL WOUNDS, look at yourself in the mirror with pride of all that you had to overcome! YOU ARE ESPECIALLY WELCOME TO OUR CONTEST

Talking does not make us weak

I would like, if any of you would like, to point out “other silences” “other stigmas” “other feelings of guilt of beings who are victims”. THERE ARE SO MANY SITUATIONS.

Talking does not make us weak, on the contrary, it strengthens us, it affirms us, it helps us to overcome those wounds… beyond knowing that stupidity and ignorance abound on our planet… but that our self-perception must be far above it.

In FIRST PERSON it is very difficult to speak, especially when there are “sums of silences” … but probably you know cases in your environment, without the need of being you, to be able to help to make us all aware of so much injustice that is lived and suffered in silence.