Last week, Denise shared how the pressures of being an entrepreneur significantly impact your mental health. Oftentimes, people don’t think about how things like your profession, school, family and even basic lifestyle choices can affect your mind, but they do. That being said, sometimes your surroundings aren’t the cause. Sometimes it comes down to a chemical imbalance that makes you feel things you can’t explain.

Our first highlighted Friday Feature of our #UMatter theme is the Honorable Geoffrey A. Gaither, who currently serves as the Presiding Judge of the Marion County Family Division courtroom.

May is Mental Health Awareness Month but personally, I believe we should be paying attention to this topic 24/7/365. The level of stigma associated with mental health astonishes me. According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, an estimated 26% of Americans ages 18 and older, which calculates to about one in four adults, suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder each year.