Improving Women's Mental Health

Hi Teri,

My name is juanita

I am not sure what womanhood is like.

I am not going to have a sex change to find out.

I just find it very fascinating.

My mother wanted a girl, never got one just me.

I always wonder what it would be like to be a woman.

I heard you can cry in public,Wear those beautiful clothes.

I don't want to live this life the way it is.

Sincerely

Juanita brown

Thank you for sharing all of this Teri.  I will definitely read this.  I especially like your point about the terminology used.  "Mental health issues" does sound less stigmatizing than "mental illness."

I just want to comment on her objection to the phrase Mental Illness.  I do not object to that phrase because I am ill and I want people and even myself to accept that I have a true illness that incapacitates me.  If someone had cancer you wouldn't talk about cancer health.  Depression needs to be treet with ther seriousness that it needs.