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good morning how are you all doing this
morning I remember several years ago I
saw a girl sitting in a classroom and as
she sat there she was just murmuring to
herself and students were all watching
her and they quietly said that she was
said they’re psycho or insane and these
false accusations they they got me
thinking
have you ever assumed that your friend
had OCD because they like to keep their
pens and papers and supplies in order or
assume someone was schizophrenic or they
were insane because they were talking or
murmuring to themselves do you know that
OCD is an anxiety disorder characterized
by unwanted repetitive thoughts or
actions or relieving anxiety by
repeating actions and schizophrenia it’s
really a breakdown in relation between
thought emotion and behavior leading to
faulty perception inappropriate actions
and feelings withdrawal from reality and
personal relationships into fantasy and
delusion and a sense of metal
fragmentation or simply put having a
difficult time telling what is real or
fake simply because your mind is
creating elucidation and I bet you
didn’t know that anxiety is really
nervousness
well apprehension and worry are
basically freaking out in certain
situations quite often in today’s time
we make reference to someone’s actions
as if they were symptoms of a mental
disorder I have had my fair share of
this in grade 8 I had just stepped out
of an IT class and I bumped into someone
and they were just shocked to still see
me in school and as we got into
conversation they tell me this
you know school shooting at school and I
just stood there like I had no response
I’m just there like what talk to anyone
so we just know and I had no response
like think about that my quiet demeanor
got me the title a shooter kid or maybe
some people think I was psycho however
do people understand what a mental
disorder really is do you know that
mental disorder is actually a pattern of
thoughts feelings or behaviors that are
deviant distressful and dysfunctional
for example OCD which stands for
obsessive compulsive disorder and keep
in mind that mental disorders are
deviant distressful and dysfunctional so
OCD is not just someone being tidy where
it is normal to wash your hands whenever
you need to or checking to see if the
door is locked
it is not normal to wash your hands to
the point where they’re raw
or to check the door every 15 minutes
another disorder you can see this too is
ADHD ADHD is a disorder that is
typically seen in seven years who have
one or three or four more of the
following the symptoms extreme
inattention hyperactivity and
impulsivity which is once again
basically a child being unable to pay
attention what some people do not
understand is how serious these
disorders are you cannot begin to
imagine
the struggle of someone with
schizophrenia who cannot tell you what
is real or fake or the struggle they
have when they cannot communicate as you
and I can because the word they just
keep on getting jumbled up and here’s a
fun fact one in four people have a
mental disorder
mental disorders do not discriminate age
race sex gender religion whatever it
cannot stop a mental disorder and what
having a mental disorder it doesn’t mean
that you need to be locked up in an
asylum or you need to be wrapped up in a
straitjacket people with mental
disorders they have the same life as you
and I they can become writers they can
become artists they can become lawyers
they can become scientists in fact
Charles Darwin did most of his work
because of his anxiety his anxiety got
so bad to the point where he stayed
inside more and you only would have gone
out to be around danger or to be with
his wife and let’s look at how
scientists now most of the things we
study is because well not most a large
portion of the things he’s done has
helped us in our psychological thinking
it helped us understand more things now
but then look what he had anxiety he
couldn’t go outside he didn’t like to be
around people but look at him now if
they can do it all they just have a
setback so don’t discriminate someone
because they have a setback they are
just like you and I do can you imagine
how much pain you would be in if someone
treated you like dirt just because you
don’t act like someone does or they
think you might become a criminal
because of who you are I honestly
believe that there is a way to help
people understand mental disorders
schools should implement a program where
mental disorders are more explained to
students and local news shows what they
could do at least once a month explain a
mental disorder so even the entire
populace at least have the opportunity
to understand one now look at the person
to your left and look to the person at
your right you cannot tell from just one
look of that person
if they have a mental disorder and even
if they just don’t happen to have one so
what at this exact second they’re doing
the exact same thing as you so I leave
you to ponder this why make a difference
abnormal and keep the mistreatment of someone as a daily occurrence thank you