Sacking Mental Illness

Today’s episode includes great friend Donn Cook, whom shares his life story and the importance of mental health as well as self care and self love.

The misconception of Mental Health and the awareness of Mental Health involving African Americans. For generations, the misleading and misconception of Mental Health involving particularly African Americans over time has moved backwards instead of forward. This episode will shed light on how race, education, faith, opportunity, resources and stereotyping has impacted African Americans and how we as a nation, race and culture can change that.

Breaking the mold, stigma and conversation of Mental Illness. This episode will give my perspective and thoughts on how we as a society in general can help change the image, conversation and perception of Mental Illness. Hopefully this episode will spark the conversation to move this into a positive light rather than negative.

Alcohol abuse and addiction is something that should never been taken lightly and should be taken seriously. Public perception can be deceiving and can make it seem like alcohol addiction is a stigma but once again it’s not. It’s important and it’s time for the stigma to be broken. Today’s episode will focus on how alcohol abuse and addiction start, how it affects your mental health. Lastly this episode will cover on how you can change into making your mental health better.

Childhood trauma is something that should never be accepted or tolerated period. Sexual abuse to physical abuse it doesn’t matter it should NEVER be tolerated. The recent news of the death of eight year old Gabriel Fernandez sent massive shock waves and outrage across the country. Outrage that was granted without question and today’s episode will be dedicated in the memory of Gabriel. Today’s episode will be discussing how childhood trauma affects the mental health as well as the long term effects into adulthood.

When it comes to mental health it affects every one of all nationalities. Doesn’t matter what your background, religion, sexual preference, political views your mental health is important. When it comes to the LGBT+ community it’s the same, nothing different about it. Today’s podcast episode will be touching on various important topics and conversations about mental health and its  surroundings in  the LGBT+ community with today’s guest and great friend Chris Ward.

Relationships have ups and downs, no relationships are perfect. What many don’t talk about is how tough times in a relationship can have an effect on your mental health. Also, there are many relationship couples who have mental illness and have to deal with the public perception of the stigma of mental illness.  Today’s episode will discuss how people can deal with their spouses who battle mental illness and how it can improve your relationship.

Music has been around for generations, and for many decades great artist has created music that has been praised for being classic music and classic albums. Classic albums from legendary can be very beneficial at helping easing your mental health. Today’s episode I will be sharing some of my favorite classic albums and artists that I believed has blessed us with some of the most classical albums ever.

Today’s special episode will focus on Bullying and Cyberbullying. Coming from someone who experience bullying while growing can say it wasn’t easy. It does have an impact on your mental health. Today’s episode will touch on how bullying and cyberbullying affects a person and how people can avoid letting bullying impact their lives.

Drug addiction should never be taken lightly. Drug addiction is something that has been around for decades and has affected many people and families in the process. I have seen how drugs affected close relatives in my family. While public perception and opinion like to judge addicts, this part one podcast episode will dive deep into how drug addiction can affect not only physically but most importantly mentally.