Ashley L. Peterson
1 min readSep 20, 2019

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I think what bugs me the most about these campaigns is all the emphasis on “reach out,” as if this would miraculously make everything all better. I have no desire to talk to some volunteer on a crisis line who’s going to try to convince me that I don’t actually want to do after all, and then call the cops when they can’t convince me.

Until there’s treatment that’s effective and available for everyone, not much is going to change.

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Ashley L. Peterson
Ashley L. Peterson

Written by Ashley L. Peterson

Author of 4 books — latest is A Brief History of Stigma | Mental health blogger | Former MH nurse | Living with depression | mentalhealthathome.org

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