The Problem With The “Just Seek Help” Message Around Mental Health [Junkee.com]

Samantha Sangenito 8/24/174:00 AM

Facebook’s On This Day feature — typically useful for reminding us of questionable fashion or relationship choices we’ve made in the past — recently showed me a status I made on the day Robin Williams died. I remember feeling torn apart that day — heartbroken by the news. I wrote a status that ended with “please seek help”, a phrase that now stings when I read the words.

[For more of this story, written by Deirdre Fidge, go to http://junkee.com/just-seek-help/119695]

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