Movies and Mental Health
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(“Navigating through careers, Family and Romance, four friends bond over the shortcomings in their love lives— namely, the scarcity of good men. Both as the “other woman,” Savannah (Whitney Houston) and Robin (Lea Rochon) carry on relationships with married men, each believing their lovers will leave their wives for them.On the flip side, Bernadine (Angela Bassett) ends up alone when her husband divorces her for his mistress. Meanwhile, Gloria (Loretta Devine) finds love with a new neighbor.”)
Let’s talk about Mental Health and where does your trauma stem from. This is a topic that does not get touched too often and it is not addressed often enough for those who live these realities on a daily basis believing that it is normal; in all actuality it is not. What you as a person continue to tolerate or normalize within your life is what creates the environment around you. What you accept will continue to be your reality. 
Too often the shows or programs that are being watched influences your life and it directs or stares your direction on where you are headed in your life. It influences you either in a negative or a positive way. You may not feel that it does but these are proven facts. The way you have lived your life or continue to live your life is based on the people you come in contact with and the environmental aspect of your life. You either submit to what is happening or your decide that is not what you want and you change the direction to something that you want.
Do you or have you ever thought about the movies that you watched growing up or the ones that you continue to watch now in the present? What do they tell you? What do they show you and how does it play a role within your life now?
How does these things affect you Mentally, Emotionally, Physically, Spiritually, and in your over all life? These are some questions that you have to ask yourself.
You may not feel that, these things affect you, or that it plays a role within your life. Yet it does and will continue to do so. It shapes your life and the path that you decide to embark down while you are on this planet.
As you have read in the top of this article that is the outlined description of the movie Waiting to Exhale. The movie was enjoyable and it showed various women in different aspects of their lives with the men that they were dating. Many parents have watched this movie and they have also lived the same lives as these women during that time period. Many women continue to watch this movie and they are living the same lives now. What is so different? How does these movies stories and situations not shape your lives?
Many live the same lives that their parents did and accept the same thing that their parents did in relations, whether it is a spouse, family member or friend, and even when people claim they wouldn’t they still do. There is nothing different! How do you break these patterns of life? How do you change them? Through Evolution and becoming different. Your conscious thoughts are what create the reality that you live in.
Mental Health is not what you believe it to be. More people suffer from Mental Health than actually stated. Even more struggle with it and do not know how to deal with it nor what it truly is. When you live in dysfunction you believe that it is normal. There are various levels to dysfunction and it does not just change over night. You have to be the one to decide that you want change and create the change that you want.
Below are some Graphs and statistics from NAMI
1 in 5 U.S. adults experience mental illness each year
1 in 20 U.S. adults experience serious mental illness each year
1 in 6 U.S. youth aged 6-17 experience a mental health disorder each year
50% of all lifetime mental illness begins by age 14, and 75% by age 24
Suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death among people aged 10-34
1 in 20 U.S. adults experience serious mental illness each year
1 in 6 U.S. youth aged 6-17 experience a mental health disorder each year
50% of all lifetime mental illness begins by age 14, and 75% by age 24
Suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death among people aged 10-34
You Are Not Alone
- 21% of U.S. adults experienced mental illness in 2020 (52.9 million people). This represents 1 in 5 adults.
- 5.6% of U.S. adults experienced serious mental illness in 2020 (14.2 million people). This represents 1 in 20 adults.
- 16.5% of U.S. youth aged 6-17 experienced a mental health disorder in 2016 (7.7 million people)
- 6.7% of U.S. adults experienced a co-occurring substance use disorder and mental illness in 2020 (17 million people)
- Annual prevalence of mental illness among U.S. adults, by demographic group:
- Non-Hispanic Asian: 13.9%
- Non-Hispanic white: 22.6%
- Non-Hispanic black or African-American: 17.3%
- Non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native: 18.7%
- Non-Hispanic mixed/multiracial: 35.8%
- Non-Hispanic Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander: 16.6%
- Hispanic or Latino: 18.4%
- Lesbian, Gay or Bisexual: 47.4%
- Annual prevalence among U.S. adults, by condition:
- Major Depressive Episode: 8.4% (21 million people)
- Schizophrenia: <1% (estimated 1.5 million people)
- Bipolar Disorder: 2.8% (estimated 7 million people)
- Anxiety Disorders: 19.1% (estimated 48 million people)
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: 3.6% (estimated 9 million people)
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: 1.2%(estimated 3 million people)
- Borderline Personality Disorder: 1.4% (estimated 3.5 million people)
Mental Health Care Matters
- 46.2% of U.S. adults with mental illness received treatment in 2020
- 64.5% of U.S. adults with serious mental illness received treatment in 2020
- 50.6% of U.S. youth aged 6-17 with a mental health disorder received treatment in 2016
- The average delay between onset of mental illness symptoms and treatment is 11 years
- Annual treatment rates among U.S. adults with any mental illness, by demographic group:
- 11% of U.S. adults with mental illness had no insurance coverage in 2020
- 11.3% of U.S. adults with serious mental illness had no insurance coverage in 2020
- 55% of U.S. counties do not have a single practicing psychiatrist
- 134 million people live in a designated Mental Health Professional Shortage Area
Health and Wellness addresses more than your physical body in life. It gets to the cause of the issue and assist you with what is taking place in your life. There are no medications here to numb the pain or give you a sense of relief from your pain. You have to address the issues and move forward from it. The more you carry with you the harder it becomes to live your life. The more you are able to release and let go the better living your life will become.
On your Journey to Evolution you have to shed your old skin to be able to move forward. Every Days Journey LLC has created Health and Wellness Shops that help you to get through life and the trauma that you have built up on the inside. It helps you to gain a clear sense of mind and brings you to a star where you can live a functional life without the high stress and anxiety that this world has placed on you. Visit the website: www.everydaysjourneyllc.org and get started on your Healing to Evolution.
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