Smiling inside Print

While in my life time i have met many people who have been suffering from mental illness and one of the main reasons I wanted to express about mental health is because I do not think is discussed enough and more importantly I do not think it is given the importance it deserves. Mental Health is something you heard now and then, but it’s never actually discussed and it should. When I asked about this topic some people were uncomfortable, others were more open to discussion, but both of these people had something in common: they did not actually had an idea of what is a mental illness or disorder, the people who were clearly uncomfortable answered something similar, their response was “we should not justify these kind of people’s action” referring to mentally ill individuals who commit crimes, despise the fact I did not asked them about criminals, but about people with mental illness, they related mentally ill people with criminals, people who were more open, in the other hand, claimed that “these individuals need help and support” and while is not as dismissive as the other statement, it’s still really problematic since they still place mentally ill people in another group and refuse to acknowledge the fact that any of us can have a mental illness, they see it as something it can never happen to them however I thought to express my feelings through my art work