Almost 1 billion people are living with a mental illness worldwide.
“Mental illness can happen to absolutely everyone. It can happen to you.”
Stigma, discrimination and human rights abuses against people with mental illness are widespread.
Here we want to tell you about our lives with mental illness in Palestine to make you understand that we are people like yourself who want equal treatment, respect, and support to lead the lives we value.
Get to know us!
Scroll down to read, listen and learn from our experiences of living with a mental illness. Discuss with us how everyone can contribute to improving our situation by answering three questions and making a pledge.
Audio recordings of the book
(in Arabic)
Our questions for you
Now that you got to know us, we would like to ask you some questions. We would appreciate if you could leave your answers below so we can learn from your opinions and experiences.
Make a pledge
Everybody can do something to help improve the lives of people with mental illness in our community. What is a small change that you could make in your behaviour or in the way you relate to people with mental illness?
We invite you to make a pledge to try making this change. Your name and email are used for verification only and will be removed prior to publishing. All the pledges will be reviewed by the moderators before publishing.
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Let’s help change this situation!
حسب المجتمع. انا عيشت بمجتمعين وكل حدا فيهم اعطاني شعور مختلف. بس بشكل عام المجتمع هوي بلنسبة لالي الراحة هوي…
بلثقافة!! بحس انو كتير مهم مجتمعنا يثقف يستفسر يقرا ويفهم شو يعني مرض نفسي. خاصة انو كل حدا منا ممكن…
سأروي لكم قصتي مع مرض ثنائي القطبين من النوع الثاني بدأت قصتي مع مرضي النفسي في ايلول من عام ٢٠١٢…
سأروي لكم قصتي مع مرض ثنائي القطبين من النوع الثاني بدأت قصتي مع مرضي النفسي في ايلول من عام ٢٠١٢…
Get to know us! 
كنت متوقعة انو المريضين نفسيا بواجهو صعوبات بلمجتمع الفلسطيني وكنت بتمنى اني ما انصدم من معلومات الكتاب بس الي تعلمتو…