Great article to check out if you have the time!
NAMI | Top Oscar Awards Connect to Mental Illness
Monday, February 25, 2013
Jennifer Lawrence wins best actress Oscars 2013
This is adorable, she is so cute plus she mentions mental health stigma!
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Happy 1st Birthday to Kissing Stigma Goodbye!
Kissing Stigma Goodbye was born on February 22, 2013 so Happy Birthday to KSG!
KSG has come so far in a year thanks to everyone's continued support!
KSG now has 1,034 likes on Facebook and that number has been growing daily and 7,531 hits to the blog, which also grows daily.
I never expected this page to be so big when I started it and I am so happy that I've been able to touch so many lives and hope that I can touch many more over the years to come!
I've been there in the past so many times.
When I started my blog it was shortly after going through a
manic/psychotic episode in which I completely kept to myself despite
having family and friends I could talk to, I had done this many times
before. After coming through it via a doubling in my Seroquel dosage, I
realized, I should never have to go through a mental health episode
alone and nor should anyone else and so Kissing Stigma Goodbye was born,
a year ago tomorrow! Thank you all for your continued support!
-KSG-
Mental Health America: 373,000 Children and Adults Will Lose Mental Health Services--Unless Congress Acts
Please take a moment to read this article on Mental Health America's website and scroll to the bottom to urge congress to act! Thank you!
Mental Health America: 373,000 Children and Adults Will Lose Mental Health Services--Unless Congress Acts
Mental Health America: 373,000 Children and Adults Will Lose Mental Health Services--Unless Congress Acts
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Monday, February 18, 2013
Merriam-Webster.com
Here you will find the letter for Merriam-Webster.com.
The website you want to visit to send the letter is:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/contact/definition.htm
Here is the letter that I have drafted. Please don't forget to read through an make any necessary adjustments before sending (i.e. changing it from an individual living with a mental illness to a family member, loved one, etc.). I know it is not that easy to read because I don't have it broken up into paragraphs but that is how it needs to be copied and pasted into their site to send it successfully.
As an individual living with a mental illness, fighting the stigma associated with mental illness and promoting public awareness around mental illness is of the utmost importance to me and my family. For too long, mental illness has been horribly misunderstood as the public image promotes mental illness in a fearful and dangerous light. Yet mental illness is a disease, like any other disease. Mental illness is treatable and there are many success stories of people surviving with mental illness and living healthy and fulfilling lives, like myself.
Having a mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of. Definitions and thesaurus entries such as yours of the term psychotic further the already detrimental stigma that individuals living with a mental illness face in their day to day lives. Terms such as “batty”, “disturbed”, “nutty” and “loony tunes” are offensive in any discussion of mental illness and should not be accepted. The term psychotic is a clinical terminology and the definition should obtain no more than the clinical definition. Your post goes far beyond the definition of psychotic and uses slang terminology to label the many individuals living with a mental illness. Such an approach would never be tolerated in a discussion about cancer, diabetes or any other medical illness and should not be tolerated in any discussion about mental illness.
People with mental illness and their families deserve to live in a society where they are respected and dignified, not in a society where they are feared, judged or misunderstood. I am asking that you revise your entry of the term psychotic to reflect the true definition of the word including removing all slang terminology from your entry, some of which I have previously listed. This kind of language is entirely unacceptable and extremely hurtful to individuals living with a mental illness and their loved ones. I encourage you to take it upon yourself to remove this hateful language from your definition. Thank you for your time. I look forward to seeing the changes on your website.
The website you want to visit to send the letter is:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/contact/definition.htm
Here is the letter that I have drafted. Please don't forget to read through an make any necessary adjustments before sending (i.e. changing it from an individual living with a mental illness to a family member, loved one, etc.). I know it is not that easy to read because I don't have it broken up into paragraphs but that is how it needs to be copied and pasted into their site to send it successfully.
As an individual living with a mental illness, fighting the stigma associated with mental illness and promoting public awareness around mental illness is of the utmost importance to me and my family. For too long, mental illness has been horribly misunderstood as the public image promotes mental illness in a fearful and dangerous light. Yet mental illness is a disease, like any other disease. Mental illness is treatable and there are many success stories of people surviving with mental illness and living healthy and fulfilling lives, like myself.
Having a mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of. Definitions and thesaurus entries such as yours of the term psychotic further the already detrimental stigma that individuals living with a mental illness face in their day to day lives. Terms such as “batty”, “disturbed”, “nutty” and “loony tunes” are offensive in any discussion of mental illness and should not be accepted. The term psychotic is a clinical terminology and the definition should obtain no more than the clinical definition. Your post goes far beyond the definition of psychotic and uses slang terminology to label the many individuals living with a mental illness. Such an approach would never be tolerated in a discussion about cancer, diabetes or any other medical illness and should not be tolerated in any discussion about mental illness.
People with mental illness and their families deserve to live in a society where they are respected and dignified, not in a society where they are feared, judged or misunderstood. I am asking that you revise your entry of the term psychotic to reflect the true definition of the word including removing all slang terminology from your entry, some of which I have previously listed. This kind of language is entirely unacceptable and extremely hurtful to individuals living with a mental illness and their loved ones. I encourage you to take it upon yourself to remove this hateful language from your definition. Thank you for your time. I look forward to seeing the changes on your website.
This is the link to my original post titled "Psychotic is Not a Dirty
Word" which showcases the hateful language used by 3 different websites
in defining the terms Psychotic and Psychosis, in case you would like a
refresher:
Thank you for your support!
-KSG-
Thesaurus.com
Here you will find the letter for Thesaurus.com.
I do not see an actual e-mail address as to where we can e-mail dictionary.com or thesaurus.com. The only way I see to contact them is through the website. It is the same website and method of contact for both dictionary.com and thesaurus.com, I am going to send to separate letters to them though, I hope you will too. The have previously posted the letter for dictionary.com, this is the letter for thesaurus.com.
This is the website you want to visit:
http://content.dictionary.com/about/contact
Then choose the drop down menu underneath the heading "general website". Choose "information removal request" and then continue. Then you can enter the info and go.
Here is the letter that I have drafted. Please don't forget to read
through an make any
necessary adjustments before sending (i.e. changing it from an
individual living with a mental illness to a family member, loved one,
etc.). I know it is not that easy to read because I don't have it broken
up into paragraphs but that is how it needs to be copied and pasted
into their site to send it successfully.
As an individual living with a mental illness, fighting the
stigma associated with mental illness and promoting public awareness around
mental illness is of the utmost importance to me and my family. For too long,
mental illness has been horribly misunderstood as the public image promotes
mental illness in a fearful and dangerous light. Mental illness is a disease,
like any other disease. Mental illness is treatable and there are many success
stories of people surviving with mental illness and living healthy and
fulfilling lives, like myself. Having a mental illness is nothing to be ashamed
of. Definitions such as thesaurus.com’s of the terms psychotic and psychosis further
the already detrimental stigma that individuals living with a mental illness
face in their daily lives. Terms such as “lunatic “demented”, “crazy” and “madness”
are offensive in any discussion of mental illness and should not be accepted.
The term psychotic is a clinical terminology and the definition should reflect
only that. Your definitions goes far beyond the definition with the use of
slang terminology to label individuals living with a mental illness. Such an
approach would never be tolerated in a discussion about cancer, diabetes or any
other medical illness and should not be tolerated in any discussion about
mental illness. People with mental illness and their families deserve to live
in a society where they are respected and dignified, not in a society where
they are feared, judged or misunderstood. I am asking that you revise your
definition of psychotic to reflect the true definition of the word including
removing all slang terminology from your definition, some of which I previously
listed. This kind of language is entirely unacceptable and extremely hurtful to
individuals living with a mental illness and their loved ones. I encourage you
to take it upon yourself to remove this hateful language from your definition.
Thank you for your time. I look forward to seeing the changes on your website.
This is the link to my original post titled "Psychotic is Not a Dirty
Word" which showcases the hateful language used by 3 different websites
in defining the terms Psychotic and Psychosis, in case you would like a
refresher:
Thank you for your support!
-KSG-
Dictionary.com
I was finally able to get the letter across to dictionary.com by removing a little more of what I had written. Below you will find the letter and the instructions as to how to reach them again. I will be working on thesaurus.com and Merriam-Webster.com tonight. I encourage everyone to send these letters to them so that we can hopefully get this hateful language taken off of their website.
I do not see an actual e-mail address as to where we can e-mail dictionary.com or thesaurus.com. The only way I see to contact them is through the website. It is the same website and method of contact for both dictionary.com and thesaurus.com, I am going to send to separate letters to them though, I hope you will too. The first letter I will post is for dictionary.com. I did need to change it slightly from what I posted last night because they have a character limit and I had gone over the character limit in my original letter. The revision still gets the point across just as effectively.
This is the website you want to visit:
http://content.dictionary.com/about/contact
Then choose the drop down menu underneath the heading "general website". Choose "information removal request" and then continue. Then you can enter the info and go.
Here is the letter that I have drafted. Please don't forget to read through an make any necessary adjustments before sending (i.e. changing it from an individual living with a mental illness to a family member, loved one, etc.). I know it is not that easy to read because I don't have it broken up into paragraphs but that is how it needs to be copied and pasted into their site to send it successfully.
As an individual living with a mental illness, fighting the stigma associated with mental illness and promoting public awareness around mental illness is of the utmost importance to me and my family. For too long, mental illness has been horribly misunderstood as the public image promotes mental illness in a fearful and dangerous light. Mental illness is a disease, like any other disease. Mental illness is treatable and there are many success stories of people surviving with mental illness and living healthy and fulfilling lives, like myself. Having a mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of. Definitions such as yours of the term psychotic further the already detrimental stigma that individuals living with a mental illness face in their daily lives. Terms such as “psychopathic”, “deranged”, “crazy” and “loony” are offensive in any discussion of mental illness and should not be accepted. The term psychotic is a clinical terminology and the definition should reflect only that. Your definition goes far beyond the definition of psychotic and uses slang terminology to label individuals living with a mental illness. Such an approach would never be tolerated in a discussion about cancer, diabetes or any other medical illness and should not be tolerated in any discussion about mental illness. People with mental illness and their families deserve to live in a society where they are respected and dignified, not in a society where they are feared, judged or misunderstood. I am asking that you revise your definition of psychotic to reflect the true definition of the word including removing all slang terminology from your definition, some of which I previously listed. This kind of language is entirely unacceptable and extremely hurtful to individuals living with a mental illness and their loved ones. I encourage you to take it upon yourself to remove this hateful language from your definition. Thank you for your time. I look forward to seeing the changes on your website.
This is the link to my original post titled "Psychotic is Not a Dirty Word" which showcases the hateful language used by 3 different websites in defining the terms Psychotic and Psychosis, in case you would like a refresher:
I do not see an actual e-mail address as to where we can e-mail dictionary.com or thesaurus.com. The only way I see to contact them is through the website. It is the same website and method of contact for both dictionary.com and thesaurus.com, I am going to send to separate letters to them though, I hope you will too. The first letter I will post is for dictionary.com. I did need to change it slightly from what I posted last night because they have a character limit and I had gone over the character limit in my original letter. The revision still gets the point across just as effectively.
This is the website you want to visit:
http://content.dictionary.com/about/contact
Then choose the drop down menu underneath the heading "general website". Choose "information removal request" and then continue. Then you can enter the info and go.
Here is the letter that I have drafted. Please don't forget to read through an make any necessary adjustments before sending (i.e. changing it from an individual living with a mental illness to a family member, loved one, etc.). I know it is not that easy to read because I don't have it broken up into paragraphs but that is how it needs to be copied and pasted into their site to send it successfully.
As an individual living with a mental illness, fighting the stigma associated with mental illness and promoting public awareness around mental illness is of the utmost importance to me and my family. For too long, mental illness has been horribly misunderstood as the public image promotes mental illness in a fearful and dangerous light. Mental illness is a disease, like any other disease. Mental illness is treatable and there are many success stories of people surviving with mental illness and living healthy and fulfilling lives, like myself. Having a mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of. Definitions such as yours of the term psychotic further the already detrimental stigma that individuals living with a mental illness face in their daily lives. Terms such as “psychopathic”, “deranged”, “crazy” and “loony” are offensive in any discussion of mental illness and should not be accepted. The term psychotic is a clinical terminology and the definition should reflect only that. Your definition goes far beyond the definition of psychotic and uses slang terminology to label individuals living with a mental illness. Such an approach would never be tolerated in a discussion about cancer, diabetes or any other medical illness and should not be tolerated in any discussion about mental illness. People with mental illness and their families deserve to live in a society where they are respected and dignified, not in a society where they are feared, judged or misunderstood. I am asking that you revise your definition of psychotic to reflect the true definition of the word including removing all slang terminology from your definition, some of which I previously listed. This kind of language is entirely unacceptable and extremely hurtful to individuals living with a mental illness and their loved ones. I encourage you to take it upon yourself to remove this hateful language from your definition. Thank you for your time. I look forward to seeing the changes on your website.
Thank you for your support!
-KSG-
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Time to write that book!
I've been saying forever that I want to write a book and I'm finally going to start that process! Today is the day, the outline is in progress! I'm not sure how long it will take but it's about time I finally start working on it! My parents gave me a thumbs up on the title I came up with!
Friday, February 8, 2013
This is so true for so many aspects of life. Right now I am realizing how accurate this is for Kissing Stigma Goodbye. It is amazing to think about how many people have reached out to me, how many peoples lives I've touched and how much my life has been touched by this page. My Facebook page is up to 995 likes, truly amazing! Thank you to everyone who continues to support me!
Friday, February 1, 2013
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