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Proper and affordable treatment for the millions of people living (or trying to) live with mental illness has to happen. It will only happen when society forgives and forgets the stigma and accepts that a person with mental illness is no different than a person with Type 1 diabetes or Type 2 diabetes. Some people are born with “hard-wiring” that will not function properly just through nature, like Type 1 diabetes. Others have “hard-wiring” that given the wrong environmental circumstances will stop functioning the correct way, just like Type 2 diabetes. So many people live regular, boring, typical lives with mental illness. So many others accomplish amazing feats because their mental illness allows them to see the world in a way that your regular, average Joe could never see it. And so many others struggle just to make sense of the day, each and every day.

I wish my voice were louder. I wish I could get the “right” people to hear me. To sit down and hear and listen to my journey. To know with treatment, life can be beautiful, even living with mental illness. I don’t think about schizophrenia everyday. I think about my family, my life, the joy in the world, and the sorrow, ways I can contribute to this beautiful world in some small way. I wish that life experience for everyone living with mental illness.

Get rid of the stigma. You do know someone living with mental illness. I promise you do. The best part is when you don’t know it because she has proper treatment.

My prayers go out to the latest victims’ families. Please. Someone with the power, use your common sense and help get treatment to people who need help. Please. Don’t make more families have to feel what the families in Oregon, Connecticut, Virginia, Colorado… are feeling. Stop the stigma and start the treatment.