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Many people throughout her life she would always get bullied by her friends and she would act as she didn't care but when she would get home she would cry away but when she started making new friends she found out who she really was by being able to act her real self,etc

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The way it correlates to the essential question is by throughout the video is that the person most likely relates to their mental illness more than their actual self but slowly through the film she start to find who she really is

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The reason i chose this Poem is it show that the person who wrote it was hiding their mental state by expressing a fake part of them self they acted like they were happy but they never were.

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The way this relates to the essential question is that theirs one side of you that's ill however you're still another part of you that defines you another aspect of you rather then the mental illness being all you.

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The website talks about how mental illness is a part of you and it basically explains that you're more than a mental illness than just mentally ill.

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The way they relate to the essential question is that the Ted talk talks about how mental illness should not define how people see you

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We are the sum of everything that has happened to us in our lives. The good, the bad, and everything in between, all of this makes us who we are. For a long time I thought that having a mental illness was bad. I convinced myself that I was a bad person because I had one. Now I know that having a mental illness does not make me a bad person. I understand that my depression does not define me.

What defines you? You can use your age, gender, or race to define yourself. You can define yourself by your personality traits. You may even define yourself by the titles you hold in life, like parent or student. There are many ways to define yourself. For me, I define myself by the qualities that I know I cannot change and the core qualities that make up who I am.

I always wanted to be a good person. But when I became depressed, I thought that having depression meant that you were inherently bad. Depression is classified as a mental illness. I saw mental illnesses as a brain defect and to me defective things are bad. Since having a mental illness was bad, I now saw myself as a bad person.

As I have said in previous posts, my depression was a crucible that challenged me in many complex ways. Feeling that I needed to redefine myself was one of those challenges. I thought my depression changed the very essence of who I was. But, I was viewing my life through a cracked lens and it made things difficult to see. It took me years to see things clearly enough to understand that I didn't have to redefine myself because of my depression. I was still me. I was not a depressed person. I was a person who just happened to be depressed. My mental illness did not make me defective or bad person. It just added to the layers of what makes me who I am.

It took me a while, but I have learned that we are defined by more than one thing. A mental illness cannot define anyone. It may be a part of you, but you are more than one simple aspect of yourself. You are way more than just a mental illness. You are you, and you matter.

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When I became depressed, I thought that was my new identity. I was a depressed person. Now I see that I am a complex person who also happens to be depressed. My mental illness is a part of me but it does not define me.

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Get dressed, love.
You're going to be late.
You look at yourself in the mirror,
The one you really hate.

Put it down, love.
It's caused you so much pain.
You're going to do damage.
You don't want to be called insane.

Stand up, love.
Your tears make you weak.
Wipe off that black mascara,
Proof of sadness upon your cheek.

Take your pills, love.
You must try your very best.
Forget about your dizzy spells,
The tightening in your chest.

Chin up, love.
No one can know your thoughts.
You must act like you're happy
While your heart just sits and rots.

Smile a little, love.
Let me see those pearly whites.
No one has to know
What you thought about all those nights.

Breathe for me, love.
Your pain won't be forever.
Take my hand, and I'll take yours.
We'll get through this together.

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Source: https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/signed-your-mind

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Alyssa Grace - Breathe (Offical Music Video)

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REACH - Award Winning Short Film - 2019 | Mental Health Awareness | English Narration

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Ted talk Don't let mental illness define your idenity

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Ted talk Don't let mental illness define your idenity

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Don't Let Mental Illness Define Your Identity | Traci Barr | TEDxGreenvilleSalon

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“Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.”

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“You see demons in the eyes of the world, and the world sees a bottomless pit in yours.”

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“I know exactly what he means. I had overheard Poirot talking to my parents. He was using words like "psychosis" and "schizophrenic". Words that people feel they have to whisper, or not repeat at all. The Mental-Illness-That-Must-Not-Be-Named.”

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whilst the unconventional starts, Caden is 15 years old. he's a skilled artist who attends a public high faculty. He suffers from a developing tension that compounds with the addition of auditory and visible hallucinations. His parents are worried about his nicely-being, and Caden suspects that they may be now not his mother and father at all, but impostors who are wearing masks. Caden will become convinced that a person at college desires to kill him. The idea preoccupies him to the factor that his dad and mom intrude and take him to the Seaview Memorial sanatorium for treatment.

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Mental illness

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How does culture affect identity?