Mental Health: The Forgotten Subject

Mental health is a topic that is not often discussed openly in our society. Mental illnesses affect 1 in 5 people in the United States…

Most of us, if not all of us, have mental health problems.

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Mental health is a topic that is not often discussed openly in our society. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, mental illnesses affect 1 in 5 people in the United States (according to the National Institute of Mental Health), which means it’s essential to talk about this with our loved ones and communities. Mental health should be discussed more openly, but unfortunately, society has created an environment where mental illness is seen as a weakness or inability to cope with life.

There are many reasons why people are reluctant to discuss this freely. We need to open spaces for everybody to discuss mental health—mainly men since it’s not very common. Given everything we have gone thru in the past year and a half with the pandemic, the number of people that have their mental health in distress has gone thru the roof. Just look at the numbers of people dying by suicide in every corn…