Pocahontas Music Explains Why Mental Health Awareness Is Personal | Pocahontas Music
Pocahontas Music challenges stigma, shares the diagnoses that are part of her life, and explains how her experience helped shape RAW Social.
Mental health awareness is personal to Pocahontas Music. She is sharing her experience because she refuses to be ashamed of the things that make her who she is. She says she lives with Tourette’s disorder; recurrent major depressive disorder with anxious distress and mood-congruent psychotic features; generalized anxiety disorder; autism spectrum disorder, level 1, without intellectual impairment and with mild language impairment; chronic PTSD; complex PTSD; borderline personality disorder; ADHD; bipolar disorder; and OCD. These are diagnoses. They are not definitions of her worth, intelligence, talent, character, or capabilities. Full screenshot supplied by Pocahontas Music. Her name and portal address are masked; dates and other identifying details are obscured. Making room for people to be human Mental health and neurodivergence can affect how someone processes emotions, communicates, handles stress, experiences relationships, responds to trauma, or navigates everyday life. That does not make someone less deserving of respect, opportunities, love, friendship, or a voice. There are millions of people living with conditions others may never know about just by looking at them. Some are entrepreneurs. Some are artists. Some are parents. Some are students. Some are professionals. Some are simply trying to make it through another day. Many are several of these things at once. A diagnosis should never become a weapon people use to discredit, ridicule, stereotype, or silence someone. Why she created RAW Social This experience is also one of the reasons Pocahontas Music created RAW Social. She wanted to build a different kind of social media platform: one where people do not have to measure their worth through likes, follower counts, algorithms, hashtags, or popularity. Her goal is a space where neurodivergent people, people living with mental health conditions, and everyone else can connect more authentically. Challenge the stigma Talk about mental health. Learn about neurodivergence. Challenge the stigma. Give people room to be human. That is part of what RAW Social represents. Visit rawsocial.net to learn more. #RAWSocial #MentalHealthAwareness #MentalHealthMatters #AutismAwareness #ADHD #TouretteSyndrome #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #PTSD #OCD #Neurodivergent #EndTheStigma #BipolarDisorder
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