Hi Heidi! Thank you for being a follower of my blog and for leaving me a comment. I have tried to respond to your comment by email and replying but I haven't figured out how to do that successfully. I don't see the responses coming through somehow, so I'm just writing a response by way of a new post. I think you may be one of the only people who reads this...so that will probably work out ok, right? hee hee.
I really agree with what you had to say. No argument.
I do think, though that with mental health issues things are different for people in church. I think that those who come out and say that they seek treatment for these issues are sidelined from the rest of the people who keep these things to themselves.
I don't know how we can make anyone see that a person is not defined by an illness if we hide that we have an illness. I'd rather not try to stay in the shadows about anything in my life. I don't think God intended for us to be that way. I think our gifts and our difficulties in life were meant to be shared.
I don't know, that's just my thought. It's fine to disagree.
I would love to take you up on the offer to stay accountable to each other on exercise. I really need to get out more. I feel myself slipping some.
I watched a great movie on the topic of mental health called, "Shadow Voices". I watched it through Amazon Prime. If you want to come by and watch it with me, I have it ordered all week. The website is: http://www.shadowvoices.com/default.asp
I have watched a lot of these kinds of things and this may be one of the best I have seen.
Thank you again for reading my blog!!
K.
For the sake of discussion:
ReplyDeleteI agree with admitting to a mental dx... If it comes up in conversation. It's a medical dx... just like high blood pressure, diabetes, hemorrhoids, or HIV+. I don't expect people to give me their medical history. If it comes up in conversation, sure. But otherwise, it's not something I focus on & talk about. *shrug* It's just a part of me. Just like my brown/reddish hair, my size 9W feet, my musical talent, or my blue eyes. I don't talk about those things either... unless they come up in conversation. I'm not purposefully hiding any of those things (well, ok. Maybe I'm hiding my gray hair!), but they're not things I really talk about either.
I don't know... those are just my thoughts. Not saying they are right or wrong.
Shadow Voices.... I will put it on my list of "to watch" movies. Thanks for inviting me over to watch it this week. If I have some time I might take you up on that.