Mental Illness is No Joke

The Stand Up Kid, by Time for Change, Sept. 12, 2012

This video is so important.

Mental illness is defined as "a medical condition that disrupts a person's thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others, and daily functioning" by the National Alliance on Mental Illness website. Mental illness is very serious. Some people experience it in a way that they can cope with it daily. Others experience it in such a way that it defines their entire life, and they feel powerless to stop it. Mental illness is as real as your cold you had the other day, or the flu that you had over Christmas, and it is absolutely not attention seeking.

This video is so important. It details what depression for this kid feels like and why he'd been gone. His teacher and the other students had been giving him a hard time. He felt alone, but it was the last straw.

Most kids with mental illness don't do this the way this kid did. But many kids feel this way. This video is important for awareness for mental illness. Awareness is important. Get educated.