May Is Mental Health Awareness Month. But Awareness Was Never Enough.
Every May, the green ribbons come out. The social media posts multiply. The hashtags trend for a few weeks and then the noise settles back into silence. And the people who were struggling before May? They are still struggling in June. Awareness is a starting point. It was never meant to be the destination. Mental Health Awareness Month was established to do something important, to pull back the curtain on an area of human experience that has been stigmatized, minimized, and misunderstood for...