30 min
Polly Patin-Mellor - A Broken Mind is Like a Broken Arm Break the Stigma - The ADAMHS Board of Tuscarawas and Carroll Counties
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- Mental Health
On this episode, Polly Patin-Mellor joins the show. Polly is a member of the ADAMHS Board board of directors, a role she's held for 24 years. She is a mental health consumer, which means she has had some type of behavior or mental health treatment in the ADAMHS Board system of care.
Polly shares her experiences with mental health and how the ADAMHS Board has impacted her life. Listen as she shares her story that began with postpartum depression after the birth of her son. She came to realize that her mind was, as she says, broken. And so she set out to get it fixed.
Polly talks about the stigma surrounding mental health illnesses and the self-pity, shame, and blame that can accompany that stigma. When Polly asked her doctor why mental illness had to strike her, the doctor replied, "Why not you? Why shouldn't you have to deal with problems in this world?" And that made Polly realize that her mental illness wasn't her fault or the fault of anyone else; mental illness was an unfortunate circumstance like a broken arm, and circumstances can be dealt with and overcome.
This story is truly inspiring. You'll feel Polly's passion on her mission to break the stigma of mental illness.
Want to learn more about the ADAMHS Board?
Visit www.adamhtc.org
Email office@adamhtc.org
www.getlevelpod.com/adamhs
Mental health affects us all differently. Let's come together and break the stigma today.
On this episode, Polly Patin-Mellor joins the show. Polly is a member of the ADAMHS Board board of directors, a role she's held for 24 years. She is a mental health consumer, which means she has had some type of behavior or mental health treatment in the ADAMHS Board system of care.
Polly shares her experiences with mental health and how the ADAMHS Board has impacted her life. Listen as she shares her story that began with postpartum depression after the birth of her son. She came to realize that her mind was, as she says, broken. And so she set out to get it fixed.
Polly talks about the stigma surrounding mental health illnesses and the self-pity, shame, and blame that can accompany that stigma. When Polly asked her doctor why mental illness had to strike her, the doctor replied, "Why not you? Why shouldn't you have to deal with problems in this world?" And that made Polly realize that her mental illness wasn't her fault or the fault of anyone else; mental illness was an unfortunate circumstance like a broken arm, and circumstances can be dealt with and overcome.
This story is truly inspiring. You'll feel Polly's passion on her mission to break the stigma of mental illness.
Want to learn more about the ADAMHS Board?
Visit www.adamhtc.org
Email office@adamhtc.org
www.getlevelpod.com/adamhs
Mental health affects us all differently. Let's come together and break the stigma today.
30 min