For too many years the stigma that came with having a mental illness was often worse than the illness itself.

Approximately 60% of people with a mental illness won’t seek out the help they need due to the stigma associated with being labelled mentally ill. We all know someone who has taken their own life and left this world too soon. Suicide, which accounts for the highest number of annual preventable deaths, found that 90% of those deaths are caused from some form of mental illness. It isn’t until that person is gone from this world that we wish they had reached out for the help they so desired.