Last week when I wrote about finding gratitude, I wasn’t expecting to be quite so tested by that notion. I’ll begin with this: I am profoundly grateful for and proud of our local law enforcement and EMS crew and dispatch. We had an upsetting Thanksgiving eve that ended with my husband in the hospital in Grand Junction.
So here is a personal shout-out to RBC Deputy Travis Mobley and Meeker Police Officer Justin Yates for…
—-Because even knowing what I already know about mental health and mental illness, shame and guilt and stigma still tried to sneak up on me.
Actually, there is very little “sneaking” about it, it is projected into the media every day and difficult therefore to ignore.
It would be interesting to make a list of those projecting that prejudice into the media, into children’s minds, and a list of those in the media cooperating with projecting it.
Harold A Maio, retired mental health editor
Harold, you are correct. It’s deeply enmeshed throughout our culture. How do we change that?
~Niki