Monday, February 11, 2013

MENTAL HEALTH MONDAYS #3



One of the misfortunes of suffering from a mental illness is that people think you are not capable of accomplishing much, or improving yourself, or achieving as much as "normal" people.

Quite a number of celebrities and outstanding members of society have gone public with the fact that they suffer from mental illness(es).  Among them are:

Catherine Zeta-Jones - ACTRESS
Mel Gibson - ACTOR
Brooke Shields - ACTRESS
John Nash - NOBEL PRIZEWINNER FOR ECONOMICS 1994
Carrie Fischer - ACTRESS
Emma Thompson - ACTRESS
Herschel Walker - HEISMANN TROPHY WINNER
Michael Phelps - OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST - SWIMMING
Howard Hughes - MOVIE PRODUCER AND AVIATOR
Paula Deen - CULINARY ENTREPRENEUR
Elton John - MUSICIAN
Craig Ferguson - TALK SHOW HOST
Margot Kidder - ACTRESS
Sinead O'Connor - MUSICIAN
Kurt Cobain - MUSICIAN
Sir Isaac Newton - MATHEMATICIAN
George III - KING OF ENGLAND
Ludwig von Beethoven - COMPOSER
Abraham Lincoln - 16 PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
Leo Tolstoy - AUTHOR
Camille Claudel - SCULPTOR/GRAPHIC ARTIST
Vincent van Gogh - PAINTER/ARTIST
Winston Churchill - PRIME MINISTER

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Quote of the Week:

“When you go to the hospital with a physical illness, people send flowers,” writes Elyn Saks. “When you go to a mental hospital with a mental illness, they don’t," Elyn Saks, legal scholar and professor at USC; author of "The Center Cannot Hold".


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RULES
1.  Please place this button in your post:








2.  If you are a "hater", I'm sure there are places you can go to get what you want, but this link-up is not one of them.  If you will not play nice with others, you will go home before milk and cookies on the Porch.
3.  A social media follow or two and/or a subscription would be VERY MUCH APPRECIATED, but not required.
4.  Posts should have some sort of relation to a mental health topic, but other than that it's wide open.
5.  Spreading the news about this new meme would be greatly appreciated!


Have a great week, leave a comment and join us again next Monday.  Ooooh, and tell your friends!


5 comments:

  1. SSDD, trouble with the linky. Anyone else have trouble with their links showing up?

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  2. Hi LuAnn,
    It really a great joy to be here at this place,
    Nice to notice some good and informative posts here
    I am here via a to z blog challenge,
    Nice to know that you are participating in that
    Happy BLogging
    Keep inform
    Best Regards
    Phil

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  3. Thanks for visiting and commenting, PV. It's great to meet so many folks from the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge ahead of time!

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  4. that's a really good idea to share that with us. the face of mental illness is any face!

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  5. I believe it was Hello Dolly when a character said, "Ninety-nine percent of the world is crazy and the other one percent is in danger of contamination." Who among us has not experience some point of mental breakdown? Thanks for being supportive of those with problems.

    http://joycelansky.blogspot.com

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