I never actually knew how much I wanted to help people with this illness until I met this friend. She really has opened up a new world to my eyes. I thank her for this. I have realized that a lot of medical facilities will take mentally ill people out of these places and then they end up on the streets. Half the time they don't know what they are doing and then guess where they end up.... in the prison system. All because they aren't completely with it.
Many times I have been with my one friend through panic attacks and most are really different. It's hard to deal with them sometimes because like I said each one is different. I feel really bad though because most of the time I truly don't know how to deal with some of these situations. I have learned over time and I am slowly getting better at it.
Most of the time my friends and I will get her to focus on something else and it usually works. Just recently she was over at my house and it was her, another friend of mine, and me. She had told my one friend she didn't think she could stay. She didn't think she could handle it. We both tried to get her to think of something else and we would do something else to get her mind off of it because it usually works. We were all in my room and she asked me to sing "The Scientist" I pulled out my ipod and played the Glee Version. After it was over she asked me and my one friend if we disappointed her. Without a question my friend and I told her no.
I love this girl and I think there needs to be more ways to help people with mental illnesses. I know more than one person who suffers and life would be so much more simpler if we could find a cure. Unlike most people these kids; even adults, suffer from this illness. I want to be able to help in some way shape or form. Whether it be raising awareness or actually going towards a child physiologist degree in college. I'm not sure it's possible to find a cure, but then again anything could happen. I truly want things to be okay for the people that suffer from any type of mental illness. Many face horrible depression which leads to suicidal thoughts and lots of people actually do harm themselves because of it. I think it's unfair that their brain makes them feel this way. Sure there is anti- depressants and other medications but these just make the person completely different from who they are. Many could see a therapists however, most people don't like therapists.
There needs to be more, there has to be a way, I don't think I'm going to be the one to find it, In fact, I know I won't. However I will do my best to help find the cure, by raising awareness or going towards a degree that I can use to help people with mental illness.
Many people know that there is mental illness but they take the highway and act like it doesn't exist and push other issues like same sex marriage and other really pointless stuff. They act as if it doesn't matter. Well you know what, it does matter, to me it does. It's time people stop taking the highway to avoid this and to start turning around and trying to find a cure.
Yours truly,
Kristina Rene'
Ps: I'm including an e-mail in which you can contact me for advice and such, It will be in the about me section as well as right here, feel free to do so. I may not get back right away because it's not my first email I check for things but I will get back eventually.
jbfan4232@gmail.com
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