Why Bother?

1.     Why does society disvalue the importance of mental illnesses, especially among the future of our society and the people who protect our country? Have you known someone who suffers from a mental illness? My older brothers, both of which served in the military, suffered from mental illnesses. They never told about what they were feeling and when one of them went to get help, he was turned away. Because of that, he ended up committing suicide. The fact that people make mental illnesses seem unimportant makes people think that what they feel in invalid. It’s not. I think that society needs to be more aware of how much it impacts people’s live and the way that it can reach society is through the media. Even though not everyone lets social media impact what they think, enough people see social media and the things going on in the news that the message will at least get out into society. With 78% of Americans on social media (in a survey from 2016), it can make a huge difference in how the public views social media.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/273476/percentage-of-us-population-with-a-social-network-profile/