(10-26-16) The success we had persuading Walmart and Rubies Costume Company to remove their offensive suicide kit and marginalizing Halloween costumes from their stores this week, gave my friend and fellow mental health advocate, Jennifer Marshall, an idea.
Why not change the face of mental illness at Halloween from those ghoulish and frightening images into real faces.
She is launching a campaign tonight at the non-profit, This Is My Brave, that she co-founded, to do just that.
This Halloween, Show The World the #FaceOfMentalIllness
Every Halloween mental illness seems to be exploited and mocked for entertainment value and profit. Companies using horrible images of mental patients or mental hospitals, and even creating “costumes” depicting the outward wounds of dealing with mental illness.
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