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HEALTH - Singer Demi Lovato has openly and publicly declared he was suffering from bipolar mental disorder. Lovato wants to show that people with mental disorders can also live well. An example is himself.
Now, Lovato was running a campaign to support people with mental disorders. He wants to change the way people view mental disorder. According to him, people with mental disorders are often stigmatized and discriminated against.
Demi campaign The Be Vocal Collection. The campaign promotes the photo documentation of the lives of people with mental disorders, such as bipolar, depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, and other mental health conditions.
Demi says, during this time when typing the word "bipolar" or "schizophrenia" in a search engine, then the picture that emerges is negative nuances, such as the pill images, pictures of people with their hands on the head, or people were pulling her hair alone. The pictures shown are usually full of darkness.
The picture seemed to show how bleak life with a mental disorder. In fact, it is not always the case.
With good medical care, family support and people around, those with mental disorders can also be life as usual.
"The campaign is Be Vocal Collection is designed to change that image," said the singer Let it Go.
In the campaign, they capture and disseminate photographs of people with mental disorders with a more positive picture. Photo subject is the JV mental disorders aged 26-67 years.
Starting from people with bipolar, depression, mental disorders, personality disorders, up to post-traumatic stress disorder.
The photos shown, among others, people with mental disorders who are yoga, being bepelukan, until a holiday with the family. All photos are colorful and cheerful.
Lovato says, the pictures may be used by the public and free to anyone on the mass media and social media. According to Lovato, the photographs are evidence that from the dark side, also there is always hope.
