Six months have passed since the massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School and President Obama is hosting a conference at the White House to bring mental health issues out of the shadows.
‘The main goal of the conference he is organizing is not to start a conversation,’ Obama said. ‘So many of you have spent decades waging long and lonely battles to be heard. Instead, it’s about elevating that conversation to a national level and bringing mental illness out of the shadows. We want to let people living wih mental health challenges know that they are not alone.’
The President called for an end to the social stigma associated with such illnesses. ‘There should be no shame in discussing or seeking help for treatable illnesses that affect so many that we love,’ he said.
When our son was ill, things were so very different. It really was a totally taboo subject.
