Wentworth Miller - [Helpful] Organizations [LGBT|Mental Health] #1: "be the change you want to see in the world” - Page 2

crash landing · 06-07-2017, 05:30 AM

I myself

also need to finish this - started to read it couple nights ago but just didn't have the patience at the time from how I was heading off to bed thanks to my anxiety

#survivalmode

Quote:

I was struck by a blog post. Or maybe it was an editorial piece. It read like a letter. And a public apology. Of sorts. Written to someone (everyone?) the author had met when/while they were unwell.

"I wasn't myself back then," was the gist. "Back then I was depressed. But now I'm better. And I'd like a second chance to make a first impression."

That was the general idea. And it struck me.

I respected the writer. I respected their truth.

And (it's a "both/and" not an "either/or") it wasn't my truth.

The mental health community (by which I mean those of us who struggle with mental health issues/illnesses) is a diverse one. Ask a 100 people who suffer from depression what it means to be depressed, and you'll get a 100 different answers. All of them true.
It's important to respect that (IMO).

The writer's truth wasn't my truth but that didn't make it untrue. If that makes sense.

Side Note: This is why I don't claim to be a "voice for the voiceless." I may stand closer to the megaphone than some, but when I speak, I speak for myself. About myself. If what I say resonates with the next person, reflects some part of their story, great. But sooner or later I'm going to say something that's true for me and me alone. And I reserve that right. My survival - rooted in self-expression, in sharing my truth, in my own time and way - depends on it. So when it comes to mental health, I make it clear: I don't speak for other people. And they don't speak for me. Because that would be impossible. Unless they happen to be a 45-year-old gay man of mixed race born in the UK, raised in Brooklyn, and their name is "Wentworth Miller."

(Then yes, they speak for me.)

Back to the blog post. The one that struck me.

CONTINUED ON WM'S FACEBOOK

**eternalfate** · 06-09-2017, 07:59 PM

Thanks for that, Sarah.

crash landing · 06-10-2017, 11:45 PM

Yea welcome

actually still need to read the article myself

crash landing · 06-21-2017, 11:12 PM

Absolutely 100% weird

I thought I bumped this with a gif-set but it seems that it didn't actually post

Anyways my username change was inspired by his coming out speech where he talks of his own mental problems

Quote:

Let me send a message to that kid, maybe in America, maybe someplace far overseas, maybe somewhere deep inside, a kid who’s being targeted at home or at school or in the streets, that someone is watching and listening and caring. That there is an ‘us,’ that there is a ‘we,’ and that kid or teenager or adult is loved, and they are not alone.

**eternalfate** · 06-22-2017, 09:43 AM

Aww that quote.

crash landing · 06-22-2017, 02:35 PM

I know

but still so powerful

**eternalfate** · 07-08-2017, 11:30 PM

I just feel sad for a lot of pain Wentworth went through in the past.

crash landing · 07-09-2017, 08:12 PM

Me too

crash landing · 08-18-2017, 09:21 AM

I really need to get myself together and find more of his interviews|stuff he's done for mental health

**eternalfate** · 08-18-2017, 10:12 AM

^ He is always so well spoken and insightful.

crash landing · 08-21-2017, 08:48 AM

The well spoken is the best thing ever

along with insightful

**eternalfate** · 08-23-2017, 12:17 AM

Hope things is going well for everyone!

crash landing · 08-24-2017, 06:12 AM

Wishful thinking

**eternalfate** · 08-28-2017, 08:16 PM

^ Any better this week?

crash landing · 08-29-2017, 04:45 AM

All the same

waiting on hospital department been asking for evual|tests to be done


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