Schizophrenia: Stamp Out the Stigma

There is a saying: Where there is no vision the people perish. I have a vision. To see the debilitating stigma towards mental health consumers removed from society and to have our rights as Canadian citizens be granted unto us.

Consumers, family members of consumers, and mental health professionals that are interested all over Nova Scotia need to get together, get organized, devise a plan to start a massive anti-stigma campaign. We need to rise up and fight to stamp out the stigma and fight to have our rights as Canadian citizens be fulfilled in our lives.

We need to start making a lot of noise. There is a saying: the squeaky wheel gets the grease. A lot of other organizations that were fighting for a cause rose up and started fighting. They made lots and lots of noise, they never gave up, and fought tooth and nail. As a result eventually their objective they were fighting for was realized.

We cannot see the stigma and the infringement of our rights be taking away if we just sit idly by and do nothing. We need to rise up and start fighting, don't give up, be persistent, and continue the fight until the objective has been realized. We need to have a deep burning fire within our hearts, minds, and souls and spread the fire everywhere.

We should not put it off. We should start now.

I just hope that as a result of my readers reading this blog entry it will start that burning fire raging deep within to see this vision fulfilled and become a reality. I cannot do it alone. It has to be done by team work by the whole mental health community. The more the better. There is power in numbers. The more people fighting the better the chance of succeeding.

I hope that my readers will give serious consideration of what I have written in this blog entry.

We need to find each other and get down to some serious business.