There are many smiling and happy faces when #BellLetsTalk January 28 mental wellness dialogue was a huge success. It resulted over 122 million talk.text.tweet . Translating that in dollars and cents that’s about $6.1 million for mental health funding. We could never been happier! Our spokespersons from left to right: Mary Walsh, Michael Lansdberg, Carla Hughes and Howie Mandel. They spoke, never ashamed of mental illness and turned it into wellness. Oh, what a feeling.
Wonderful. Being bipolar, it amazes me how when people find out, they frankly will say, I didn’t know you were crazy or….how many personalities do you have? Incredible.
When people say the word crazy, my retort is two folds: it takes one to know one or you have no idea. It’s either that they do not know what to say for lack of better words, plain stupid or ignoramus. Actually I feel sad for them more than I feel sad for the condition we are in.
That is true. I’ve learned to quote that song of Billy Joel’s You may be right, I may be crazy! and just slough it off. But they really don’t have a clue.
Haha good one.
6.i mil. Great News!!
Thank you, Amy. I am still in cloud nine for this event. It does feel great the outpouring support.