{"id":87,"date":"2020-01-29T04:41:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T04:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dh-wordpress.ramapo.edu\/SSI-2020\/?p=87"},"modified":"2020-01-29T04:41:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T04:41:30","slug":"from-a-single-story-to-a-magnitude-of-distress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh-wordpress.ramapo.edu\/SSI-2020\/blog\/2020\/01\/29\/from-a-single-story-to-a-magnitude-of-distress\/","title":{"rendered":"From a “single-story” to a magnitude of distress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Photo by\u00a0Natasha Spencer<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Unsplash<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In July of 2015, I had a panic attack that changed my whole life. It altered everything I thought I knew about myself, and for a while, I felt lost and completely alone. When I was later diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder, I did not think that it made me much different, if any different, from anyone else. Yet my “friends” and even teachers seemed to think so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The phrase “mental illness” or “mental disorder” comes with such a negative connotation to it, yet millions of people in the United States have faced it. According to Mental Health First Aid USA, “\u2026almost half of the adults (46.4 percent) will experience a mental illness during their lifetime.”^1 <\/em>However, because of the stigma around the topic and lack of affordability of care, “only 41 percent of the people who had a mental health disorder in the past year received professional health care or other services.”^2 <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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