Tenishia B. Lester

Celebrating May as Mental Health Awareness Month and Lupus Awareness Month!

💚As of 2025, with the majority of women actively seeking resources: 1:5 Adults in the US face mental illness yearly.

1:20 Adults in the US face more serious forms of mental illness yearly.

⚠️While progress has been made, the stigma remains and the work continues!

💜LUPUS is a chronic autoimmune disease that can negatively affect organs and has the potential to be fatal.
1.5 million people (majority Black. Asian, and Hispanic women; less for Caucasian women and men in general) in the US have the disease with 16,000 new cases annually.

Despite the numbers people are still unaware or uninformed.

Both matter and one can have profound effects on the other.