Mental Illness Awareness Week: You Are The Best Kind of F@#KED UP

By October 7, 2011

So this week was Mental Illness Awareness Week, as you might have guessed by our all-out assault on generating awareness for postpartum depression, and attempt at raising funds, with Strong Start Day.

I just got a chance to read a post by the ever-hilarious Jenny the Bloggess, and I wanted to share it with you because it made me smile. Jenny suffers from mental illness.  I suffer from mental illness.  I had postpartum OCD, and I have anxiety and OCD now.  I’ve had it my whole life, though for the longest time I never knew.  Jenny doesn’t care who knows about her mental illness, and neither do I.

It’s not funny, going through depression or anxiety or OCD or PTSD or psychosis, postpartum or not.  And yet, it’s okay to laugh about it some times.  To take it with a grain of salt and recognize that’s not all there is to our lives.  It’s just a part of who we are.

Jenny created a special card for Mental Illness Awareness Week, and I wanted you to see it.  I’m sending it to you virtually by linking to it here.  Love you all.

- Katherine

October 7, 2011 9:19 am Filed Under: Postpartum Depression
About Katherine Stone

Katherine Stone is the founder of Postpartum Progress, is a nationally-recognized peer advocate for women who suffer mental illnesses related to pregnancy & childbirth, and is also a parenting writer for Strollerderby. She was named one of the ten most influential mom bloggers of 2011 by Babble, and also as one of WebMD's Health Heroes.+ Katherine Stone