Minding Your Mind

Hey all, just thought I'd share another program that's aiming to do some good in the mental health field.  I stumbled on this one during the Flyers/Senators game on Rogers Sportsnet East today.  The coaching & training staffs of both team are wearing purple buttons with "Minding Your Mind" on them.

So I Googled the Minding Your Mind program.  Here's their website:  http://www.mindingyourmind.org/

I checked them out - It's primarily geared towards youth and young adults (high school & university ages) but it has some good information and quite a few links to outside resources as well.  Definitely worth checking out.

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Again, there's no shame in having a mental illness - like I said in an earlier post, it's not like you choose to get one.   You don't choose to get cancer, you don't choose to pick up any other disease, and yet people will freely talk about them.  So why is there such a stigma related to mental illness?  Beats me.  It doesn't make any sense.  Maybe it's because we can't see it, can't X-ray it, can't biopsy it....who knows?  Stats suggest that between 20-25% of people will suffer mental illness.  You'd think there'd be more discussion about it.....

Think about that.

Or better yet,  talk about it.