Tags
artists, bands, Blogging, blogs, essay, fear, internalized stigma, mental health, mental illness, mentally ill, music, musicians, paranoia, Psych Central, relationships, schizophrenia], stigma, writer
Today is one of the days that I blog for Psych Central. I try to blog for that site every Tuesday and Friday (occasionally I can’t make that schedule). Anyway, I woke up and wrote a blog about relationships that I thought was fantastic and then paranoia started to creep in. Thoughts like, “What if someone takes my advice and they die? What if the person reading my blog is in a violent relationship?” So, I ended up too fearful to post my writing.
I sat at the computer with nothing. Nothing for this blog and nothing for my Psych Central blog. I did a few yoga stretches. I tried to clear my mind. I decided research was the way to go and I ended up writing this post for Psych Central. It is a blog about internalized stigma.
If you are interested you can also read my blog post about bands and artists that I think stigmatize mental illness. It is a post I wrote over the weekend. Fans of the rock band, Disturbed disagree with my take on the video but every time you have an opinion people are going to disagree. I don’t mind disagreement, it can lead to further understanding.
I like both of your posts. They got me thinking about some areas of stigma, internalized and in music, that I hadn’t thought about before. It is amazing how many ways in which it occurs in our daily lives.
LikeLiked by 1 person
It is so ingrained in our culture that it is often hard to see.
LikeLike
Wow….talk about fear–and I have just been blogging about fear and being a risk taker….sometimes people think the way they are is the way everyone is….this stops me in my tracks–great post!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you!!! 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
🙂
LikeLike