A reader told me about some audio files of men (like firefighter Jimmy Brown, pictured) describing their experience with depression. They’re very short but powerful.
Go here to listen.
liz | 4:27 PM | Uncategorized
Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.
It’s always so encouraging to see men speaking out on any kind of health issues. I’m glad to see more of this happening. I truly believe it will help many returning veterans with PTSD and other issues to reach out and hopefully talk out.
Society has always made it so much harder for men to reach out and seek help or understanding. Maybe we’re finally making progress on this.
I really liked this guy’s story in particular as well. I only wish there were more/that the ones that are there were longer!
Thank you again for your response yesterday.
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