Megan Thee Stallion is opening up about her mental health and issuing a PSA, telling fans that “it’s okay to not be okay.” She notes, “Being vulnerable makes us whole.”
A year ago, Megan launched her own mental health initiative called ‘Bad Bitches Have Bad Days Too,’ whose website offers mental health resources and is particularly aimed at Black women. At the time, Megan rapped the name of the initiative on her song “Anxiety,” housed on her August 2022 album ‘Traumazine.’ Since issuing her initial mental health PSA, Meg’s continues to tell her fans “it’s okay to not be okay,” and to be open and vulnerable.
As mentioned the website offers fans tons of mental health resources like links to free therapy, crisis hotlines, and access to groups that work specifically with the Black community, like therapy for Black women and Black men and an LGBTQ Psychotherapist of Color Directory.
At the time of launching the website, Megan sent a message to her fans that read, “Hotties! You know how much mental wellness means to me, so I created a hub with resources that can help when you might need a hand. Love y’all so much.”
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Since then, this Tuesday (September 26), Megan again encouraged her fans to be aware of their mental health as she issued a new public service announcement while partnering with Seize the Awkward, an organization that also prioritizes mental health and offers crisis hotlines, tips, etc.
Seize the Awkward began in 2018 as part of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and The Jed Foundation, in collaboration with the Ad Council. The organization’s campaign aims to make teens and young adults not feel alone.
In the initial ad campaign PSA, Megan says, “I’ve always been told I gotta be strong. Thick-skinned. Stiff upper lip. Tough as nails. But to be everything for everybody, it wears on you. ‘Black don’t crack,’ they say, but it can. I can. We all can.”
Megan continues, “Y’all, it’s okay to not be okay. Reach out to a friend if you see them going through it. No matter who you are, being vulnerable is what makes us whole.” As she ends the video by urging her Hotties to support the people around them, she then offers resources like Seize the Awkward and Bad Bitches Have Bad Days Too.
In additional videos from the PSA campaign, Megan speaks on being vulnerable. She says, “I would tell all the Hotties it’s okay to be vulnerable. It’s okay to open up. It’s okay to be honest about how you’re feeling. But, the people who are meant to listen, they’ll be with you for life. And those are the people you need to care about. Those are the people you need to open up to. Those are the people that you need to allow to open up to you. We love each other, Hotties. So definitely keep reaching out to your friends and check on each other and love on each other, because that’s what we’re about, love.”
In addition to being vulnerable, she speaks on the importance of opening up. Meg says, “I got involved in this campaign because I genuinely know what it feels like where I don’t want to open up and I don’t want to talk about it, and I don’t tell people, ‘No, I don’t like this.’ ‘This has affected me this way.’ ‘I’m sad.’ ‘I don’t want to do that.’ And I know what it feels like to be in your head and feel like, ‘I can’t talk to anybody about this.’ ‘I don’t want nobody to know.’ ‘I’m embarrassed about how I feel.’ So, I just want my Hotties to know — or anybody, but specifically my Hotties — let it out, tell somebody. Because somebody does care. Because if that person cares, they’ll make your day 100% better, and helping you would have made their day better.”
And when friends check in on Meg, she says, “When they reach out to check on me, I just feel super appreciative because I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh. Somebody in the world cares about me.’ And it’s good to know people care about you. But, when they call me and they feel comfortable enough to tell me some of their personal things, or their deepest and darkest thoughts, and their feelings or whatever they’re going through, it makes me feel really good because I must be a good enough friend for you to share this with me, and really value my opinion. And sometimes, I’m like, I know you ain’t even looking for me to give you advice. You just want somebody to vent to. I got two ears, I’m listening.”
When it comes to the opposite, Meg checking in on her friends, she says, “Me and my best friend and my cousin, the way that we all check on each other… I’ll probably send somebody a funny meme or somebody will send me a funny meme, or they’ll just randomly call me. And we’ll start talking about one thing, but the conversation will end up probably where you really wanted it to go in the first place.”
Meg continues her PSA, “Like, I could be pissed off and I call my best friend, and I [end up] talking about some shit, but then the conversation winds up in what I really wanted to talk to her about, and she checks in [with me] and I check in with her, and it feels really good to have somebody that supports me that way. I know a lot of times I am presenting to my friends like I got it together, my life [is] good, I’m happy, nothing’s wrong with me. Somebody could ask me, ‘What’s wrong?’ And I’d be like, ‘Nothing.’ So, talking to your friends, I feel like that makes the friendship grow. It makes it better when you feel like you can 100% be yourself with somebody and vice versa. So, check in on your strong friends.”
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