Nobody Has to Know
It must be awful to keep the secret of your mental state from family because they won’t be helpful and would only act like that’s a burden. The numbers show that one in five American adults experiences one mental health issue or the other.
Just as one in six young people experience a major depressive episode at some point or during their lifetime, all people who fall within that category need to be cared for and loved, not ridiculed and stigmatized.