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It’s Okay to

Not be Okay
A Social Media Blitz to Increase Awareness
and Reduce the Stigma of Asking for Help
By: Daniel Fields
Talking Points to
Remember

• Globally, more than 70% of people with mental • Recovery goes beyond self-care. Therapy can help
illness receive no treatment from health care staff. you identify the healthy habits needed for self-
care.
• Fewer than half of adolescents with a mental
disorder in the United States receive formal • Therapy fosters help, empowerment, and
treatment. motivation.
• Adolescents are more likely to make help-seeking • Recovery is remembering who you are and using
recommendations for peers than they are to seek your strengths to become all that you were meant
help for a problem of their own. to be. By seeking help through self-care and
therapy, you will begin to find yourself again.
• Mental health stigma is a huge barrier on why
many people don’t seek help. • Counseling is for people who are strong. It takes strength to
take responsibility for how you are feeling and to seek
• We don’t want to be judged for seeking treatment, strategies for feeling better.
being defined as weak or seen as unable to take
care of ourselves. • Your value is not dependent on your autonomy or
National Institute of Me
ntal Health (NIMH) - Tra
nsforming the understa
nding and treatment of
mental illnesses
https://
www.nimh.nih.gov/

Websites to Get
Help
Mental Health Services
| Department of Health
and Human Services
https://
www.maine.gov/dhhs/
obh/support-services/
A father and son
were walking in the
woods one day
when suddenly they
were surprised by a
branch that fell
blocking their path.
Asking for help is not weakness.
You’re Not Alone: Help is
Available
Call: 988
Maine Mental Health Crisis Service
Providers
DHHS Contracted Mobile and Residential Crisis
Providers
• Sweetser: District 1-York County
• The Opportunity Alliance (TOA): District 2- Cumberland County
• Sweetser: District 3 - Androscoggin, Franklin, and Oxford Counties
• Sweetser: District 4 - Waldo, Lincoln, Knox, Sagadahoc Counties
• Crisis & Counseling Centers: District 5 - Somerset and Kennebec Counties
• Community Health & Counseling Services: District 6 - Penobscot and Piscataquis Counties
• Aroostook Mental Health Services (AMHC): District 7 - Washington and Hancock Counties
• Aroostook Mental Health Services (AMHC): District 8 - Aroostook County

Crisis Services
If you or a loved one is in crisis, call the Maine Crisis Line: 1-888-
Videos to Help Understand Stigma
and How to Ask for Help
• Overcoming the Challenge of • The Importance of Asking for
Asking for Help as Men Help: Why It's Not a Burden | T
ikTok
• How to offer and ask for help i
n English – Useful Phrases and • Stop the Stigma | Mental Healt
Vocabulary h Misconceptions
– YouTube • Overcoming the Stigma_ Why
• The Power of Asking for Help B Asking for Help is Strength
reaking the Stigma in the Medi • Asking for help is a strength, n
cal Field ot a weakness | Michele L. Sull
• Changing the Stigma of Menta ivan
l Health & Addiction | Erika Bal • Breaking the stigma: why aski
l| ng for help is crucial

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