Interesting movement! I think this signals progress!

Going public offers many opportunities. Increasing interest and public awareness, coming into dialogue, growing mutual understanding and, most important in my point of view, a possibility to make a lot transparent, beginning from the causes and the conditions that underlie mental problems.

What can be done to make society and the political and economical foundations of our times more healthy? Where are the risks of our way of life in regard to mental health? What can be done to help those who are struggling with mental illnesses? What can be done to prevent some well-known causes of distress and disorders, for example all kinds of abuse?

To put these questions and topics on the headlines and first pages makes a lot of sense to me.

I really hope those times when the feeling of a need to hide one's mental problems was overwhelming will come to an end at last.

@splitimage:
I made the experience that covering and hiding, especially lying about my past and my disorder, did more harm than good to me, especially on the job. I felt stressed all the time. Since I decided to open up and speak frankly about my "weaknesses", I do and feel a lot better. To me, this was one of the most important and effective steps to recovery.

Greets,
bluna