Assignment 4- Ally Tripure

            My parents are “old-fashioned.” When it comes to mental health, they get quiet and don’t like to discuss it. This is because they believe it is all in your head and something you can easily get over. I am very against this belief. Many of my close friends and my peers deal with mental illnesses such as anxiety, depression, bi-polar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and many other problems and I cannot just stand idly by like my parents and tell myself it’s all in their head or my own head. I have helped many people through mental breakdowns and anxiety attacks and this has made it impossible for me to deny the severity of these illnesses. The fact that my parents deny the severity causes me to not talk to them about these things because I don’t trust that they will take me seriously on the matter. I will challenge them on this belief when the time comes.