Welcome to the first episode of Hidden Heroes, a series about celebrating the strengths of learning disabilities and mental illness. In today's video, we are exploring the experiences of people with dyslexia as well as some of the hidden advantages that we may not see...
-[Vanessa] Hello! This is Vanessa Harris with Fun4TheDisabled.com. Welcome to Destigmatizing Mental Health, our series in which we explore the strengths that people bring to the table who have varying mental health disorders. We believe that there needs to be more...
-Mental health should be prioritized and viewed by our society just like physical health. Did you know that 264 million people live with depression worldwide? Or that 40 million adults over the age of eighteen in the United States have anxiety disorders? Depression...
This video addresses the media’s flawed depiction of people with Bipolar Disorder. Depictions of mental illness in general have had a problematic history, from romanticizing disorders such as depression to wildly inaccurate depictions of schizophrenia.
[Transcript with visual descriptions: Fun 4 the Disabled logo appears on the screen. On-screen text reads: For a full transcript of this video and more like it, check out fun4thedisabled.com. Vanessa Harris appears on screen, joined by Allison Bethel on a separate...
This is Vanessa Harris, with fun4thedisabled.com. Today, my friend Reveca Torres, who is a photographer, artist and filmmaker and power wheelchair user and founder of Backbones, which is an organization that helps people with spinal cord injury or disease, is my...
Being a Deaf individual during the coronavirus pandemic has been scary. Not only has access to critical information, including press conferences at the federal, state and local levels, been limited, my wife and I worry about communication access at the hospital when...
NOW IS THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT Last night I went to see a play. I had the best seats in the house, and I enjoyed some delicious fried shrimp and KoolAde which I served myself 5 minutes before the play started. The play? Teenage Dick, a re-engineering of William...
This Guest Post Is By Nate Stewart and was reprinted from The Mighty, A Disability Blog Many of us are in the process of getting ourselves ready for the onset of coronavirus (COVID-19), the new viral strain in the coronavirus family that causes symptoms like dry...