Breaking Molds

When dealing with Mental Illness, we believe that several things are true.

1) Mental Illness is a broad descriptive that covers a wide range of people from all walks.

2) It is less about broken people and more about people with challenges that the typical person doesn't understand.

3) The Mentally Ill in many cases can't function in the typical world as a typical person.  Their brains are wired differently.  An analogy would be to think of them as aliens from another dimension.  They don't fully understand the typical reality that is shared and tend to completely understand a different way of processing things.  It's not for the MI to fit into typical society.  It's for society to make accommodations for the Mentally Ill.  

4) The combined over lap makes more people fall into this description.

5) The Mentally Ill have their own languages and cultures.

6) They have been abused, neglected and ignored for far too long.

7) The conversation about how we see and treat Mentally Ill people needs to change into someone more productive and less exploitive.