Depression and Improving Women's Mental Health

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Action Steps for Improving Women's Mental Health has been released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office on Women's Health (OWH), providing information and tools that are helpful for women with depression or other mental health issues. This 64-page report brings togethe...

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jpw2008

5/14/09 12:04pm

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

Merely Me

5/14/09 3:07pm

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."

Anonymous

5/15/09 9:37am

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.

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