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I lost an uncle due to suicide because of his bipolar disorder, my family couldn’t accept his mental health issues and now I’m living the same.
Always enjoy, appreciate and give back everything you get from family love.
Here’s a little bit of a story I want to tell to raise mental health awareness. I grew up in Poland. I was always told my uncle died from a heart attack. I never got to meet him. When I was older, I learned that he committed suicide 5 years before I was born. He suffered with schizophrenia. The mental health system in Poland in the 70-80s was more than just incompetent. They did nothing for my uncle other than make him the laughing stock of the small village we lived in. My family stopped talking to him. He was considered the disgrace of the family that only caused problems. He didn’t get the help he needed. And he was driven to suicide. This summer was the first time I visited his grave. Shortly after I dug up this picture. All I could do is cry. The boy on the left is my uncle, the one in the middle is my father, and on the far right my grandmother. My uncle was a good man. And he’s still rarely spoke of in parts of my family. Even though I never met him, I feel like that chance was taken from me. Please, make sure your family members that suffer from mental illness get the help they need. Spread awareness that ignoring a problem can bring. Please, help me honor my uncle. I wish he was still around to smile like he did in this picture.
URGENT - help my mom beat stage 4 colon cancer
GoFundMe Link
hey everyone,
i don’t usually post things like this, but i really need your help. my mother was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic colon cancer 2 years ago. she is on chemotherapy and has been fighting extremely hard to get a liver transplant, which would increase her lifespan and could potentially be a cure. without this transplant, the cancer will likely kill her within the next 3 years. she has secured a donor but insurance has repeatedly denied her requests for surgery under the excuse that it’s “experimental”. with both of my parents unemployed, there’s absolutely no way my family could afford this surgery.
it’s a long shot, but if you have the means to donate, PLEASE consider contributing to her gofundme. even a few dollars would help. if not, getting the word out by liking/reblogging would mean the world.
please please please share if you are willing and able. thank you so much for your time. <3
Inequality: Indifference x Insufficiency
Today 300,000 plus Chicago students didn’t go to school today, spending the day at home, hanging out with friends or joining their fellow classmates and over 25,000 educational workers in Chicago who are striking against working conditions and educational opportunities of the Chicago Public Schools.
Along with adequate nursing staff, emotional and mental health support a main complaint from parents is that there aren’t libraries in schools and how that lack of community space deepens the fractures occurring. Linked to the lack of community space in the schools, there is also a lack of bilingual teachers creating another barrier for students who either rely on other students to help them with their work or give up.
The strike has two sides to it: the teachers and the students. The teachers need more pay in order to lessen their financial and connected emotional stress and anxiety so they can focus more on their students and be the best teachers they can. But they are also fighting for their students. By demanding smaller class sizes, mental health resources so student can be assisted before they hit that breaking point, and pushing for school libraries they are fighting for their students now, in their next grade, their next school and the rest of their lives