Laci Green is a role model of mine (and, along with Earl Hamner Jr., is one of the only non-fictional one too) and I have to admit that I was rather shocked to see her in such a vulnerable state. I suppose when we look up to somebody, it's easy to forget that they are just regular person and have their own personal problems too. It was through Laci Green that I got more into feminism, before watching her videos I thought of myself as 'pro-feminist' but I didn't really know about many of the important issues in our society and her videos opened my eyes to them. I guess I just wish that she thought she was as wonderful as I think she is.
Another part of the video that particularly affected me, was when she talked about the stigma attached to people with depression. I would say that probably the majority of my friends suffer / have suffered from depression at some point or another (and some people, funnily enough, have thought I may do too, which seems unlikely to me, but then again, I could relate to some of the things Laci was saying in the video), so it clearly is not a rare thing and I hate to think that any of them have come across any of the issues she mentioned. If somebody tells me that they have depression I just think "How sad, poor them" but I don't treat them any differently, and you shouldn't do, but I guess a lot of people to, which only adds to the problems.
Unfortunately I don't have much of a conclusion to today's post. Originally I had an anecdote planned for today, but I wrote this instead to keep things topical. I guess I'll end be saying this: do you know anybody with a mental health problem? And do you treat them any differently? If so, you should change that. It may not even be a conscious thing and it doesn’t make you a bad person, but it's the kind of thing we should always be wary of.
(Also, today is Friday, so don't miss today's Finger Puppet Show!)