TALK TO COCO Shares her experience on being an advocate for mental health and LGBTQ communities

Talk to Coco

Coco from Talk to Coco, shares her experience on building her community and being an advocate for mental health

and LGBTQ communities.

y mother had to give me mouth to mouth and bring me back to life, I guess from that day, I knew I had to make a change and, that’s how ‘Talk to Coco’ came about. I M guess the stigma around mental health has never been positive, whether its people assuming we are all ‘crazy’ or, just the basic unrealistic generic stereotypes around it, oh and the taboo we all know ‘let’s not speak about it’. Talk to Coco, became a platform for myself and others within my community and around the world, to have a safe haven, a secure space where they didn’t feel judged and could see someone in the real life flesh experiencing just what they do; just to feel part of something where they can be themselves completely; even by just sitting back and watching, and being able to relate. All my life I battled with my mind and how people judged me and this was way before I even got diagnosed; this was due to how I heard people around me and within our community, speak on mental health along with the stigmas attached. I thought to myself no, a change is coming, and I didn’t mind subjecting myself to be the change, even if it saves one person’s life, I’m good, it’s more than I ever had. I gave people a real life transparent look into my life, no filters nothing – just live breakdowns, coping mechanisms, triggers, my stories of suicide and through this, I saw Talk to Coco flourish and do exactly what I set out to; make people like myself feel safe and secure and have hope and have and said “I’ve got so much admiration & consulting people double my age or even, someone they can come and talk to. As respect for you sharing your experiences fathers of three. It gave me a sense of hope many expressed to myself how they don’t & journey honestly! Your touching and and people like myself, hope – to know that feel comfortable going to a doctor, therapist changing many people’s perceptions and there are people out there who see us for or even family/friend, so it was most making less people suffer in silence! Even us you know – a creative ability, a loving important for them to not feel like some through your own struggles and suffering! heart, real no filter amazing humans, with crazy person who should keep what their Inspiration!”. a different mental capacity that doesn’t feeling locked inside and feel so alone. From there, I was approached to speak and fall within society’s norms and that’s ok. One of the first messages I ever received write on subjects around mental health From speaking to the thousands of people from a stranger spoke, “I stumbled across and LGBT on other platforms, which was that reach out to myself, my value to the your page & I’m so thankful I did… it’s incredible to reach a different audience community and the world is to continue been hell these past 7months but your page who might need Talk to Coco; I wrote for to be ‘the stranger you can tell all your & vlogs have left me feeling a little bit less published books, magazine articles and feelings to, without judgement no matter alone, thank you for sharing <3”, which tv vlogs. It was so heart-warming, a truly the subject’, and to continue to be an confirmed to myself opening up, was the amazing feeling, saving lives and stopping advocate for mental health and LGBT right thing to do; people could finally relate self-harm, having strangers message me communities. & feel not alone. Another messaged me confiding or asking for my advice, even Instagram: talktococo

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