"mental health awareness month" falls short for me honestly. I'm sick of these half hearted, psychiatry-focused posts where people reel off a list of symptoms and tack on "and we deserve to be treated equally anyways" at the end. Consider: I'm Mad and I want people to stop being oppressed for their Madness.
I want people to stop being forced into hospitals and stripped of their autonomy.
I want people to stop being backed into a corner where they feel their only options are homelessness or suicide.
I want people to stop being murdered via their monetary benefits being cut, even though they desperately need them.
I want mentally ill, Mad and neurodivergent people to be supported in all areas of their life and enabled to live in the community. Not locked away in institutions.
I get that we need people to understand mental health better. But so much of this month is people watering down inclusion and equity to mean "Mad people should just stop being visibly Mad and then they can be accepted".
So. I don't know. "Mental health awareness month" falls so fucking flat for me. I don't want to assimilate, I want to be respected as an autonomous being and enabled to live a good life. Not fed another platitude about how "CBT will definitely help this time, trust, you just need to do it for a fifth time and try harder to get better!".
(Hey. Maybe that's just my experience. But I'm very tired already.)
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