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F. Islam

F. Islam

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From Prozac in My Apple Juice by Wednesday Books

…you’d find on a poster at your GP’s office, you probably have a misunderstanding of mental illness. It’s an illness. And the best thing everyone can do is treat it as such. To be fair, this is harder than it sounds. It’s difficult to assign importance to something that is intangible and heavily stigmatized. For years, I added an unnecessary layer to my suffering: guilt. I felt pathetic that I wasn’t stronger than that “something in side of me.” Every breakdown felt like a defeat. But then, something shifted. I started being nicer to myself. I started treating myself the way I would treat someone else in the same position. I started accepting my anxiety as a part of my body’s natural reaction and waited for it to pass in…

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Time to ‘Press for Progress’ to Promote Women in Politics

Anjum Sultana

Promoting political participation in diverse communities in Toronto and beyond!

Anjum Sultana