This is awesome and meaningful
Mar. 16th, 2015 08:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
citrusjavaAs you probably know, Jared has been wonderful, and campaigning to support people who suffer from depression, anxiety and so forth, and against the stigma around that.
This cause - even the very existence of the campaign -
is making such a huge difference.
It's that specific moment when a cause is new enough that just talking about it from the right perspective can literally change a person's life.
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stolen_voices organized an amazing campaign within this campaign, where fans can buy shirts for others, who can't, mostly people who experience this sort of struggle every day, to have something wonderful and meaningful to hold on to, something tangible with them, on their body or such. Anyway. If you feel so inclined, and can, do PM her or to here for more information.
Even more than the shirts, discussing this within fandom, showing support of each other within fandom.... is amazing....even just.
OK. On a personal note. This makes me feel like maybe I am not so much of a freak and a burden. It is amazing for me that people find it cool to - you know - keep fighting - value all of that and think it's awesome.
I do :-) :-)
This cause - even the very existence of the campaign -
is making such a huge difference.
It's that specific moment when a cause is new enough that just talking about it from the right perspective can literally change a person's life.
The awesome
stolen_voices organized an amazing campaign within this campaign, where fans can buy shirts for others, who can't, mostly people who experience this sort of struggle every day, to have something wonderful and meaningful to hold on to, something tangible with them, on their body or such. Anyway. If you feel so inclined, and can, do PM her or to here for more information. Even more than the shirts, discussing this within fandom, showing support of each other within fandom.... is amazing....even just.
OK. On a personal note. This makes me feel like maybe I am not so much of a freak and a burden. It is amazing for me that people find it cool to - you know - keep fighting - value all of that and think it's awesome.
I do :-) :-)
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Date: 2015-03-16 11:49 pm (UTC)It baffles and infuriates me how stupid people are about mental illness, depression, anxiety, etc. I guess they're just as stupid about other illnesses (physiological?) like AIDS or Cerebral Palsy or whatever. And, hell - the people who ask a vet what it was like to get shot at or someone what it's like to not have an arm....
Basically, people are stupid, is what i'm saying here. I'm glad this is making people think twice.
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Date: 2015-03-17 06:00 am (UTC)People are idiots about these things v often!
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Date: 2015-03-17 02:33 pm (UTC)(Not sure what you mean by triggers? Discussing depression, etc., like you were in your post....?)
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Date: 2015-03-17 02:50 pm (UTC)http://citrusjava.livejournal.com/73866.html