[Don't] Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health

by Kelly Jensen

Just as with mental illness, we don’t like to talk about grief because it doesn’t make sense. We want our mourning periods to have a set time frame, wherein we get to progress through sadness and anger, and then we’re done. We crave a linear experience. But it doesn’t operate that way. My doctor said it best: what makes us human is that we have emotions, some good and some bad, some comfortable and some not. If we didn’t, we’d be robots and nothing in life would have meaning. It’s when we go in the wrong direction for too long and can’t course correct on our own that we need to find what helps us do just that.