Petra

Speaking truthfully, I've never really had a bad view of my body. I always respected it, pampered it and took care of it as nicely as possible. I was happy with my body and with my mind. A little less than half a year ago things drastically changed; for the fist time in my life i had to confront the fact that i was depressed. As a (future) psychologist one would expect me to "deal with this obstacle" almost without any problems. But what happened is that i got to the conclusion, with myself and society in general, that people know little and speak rarely about mental health. Therefore i decided to work against stereotypes and prejudice about mental health and create the first instagram profile which has the purpose of collecting and sharing of stories being told by mental health - @mentalno.zdravje I wish that people would accept their "flaws" - their body and in their mind. Mental health is something that needs to be spoken about.

I come from a family where sport is the essence of our free time; all of my family members practice sports at least 4 times per week. I was no different; I spent 8 year of my life doing jazz ballet and ballet. One would thing that those highly intensive workouts would leave me with an amazing body. But they left me with a hip injury. That has shaped my body in every way possible for the past 4 years; the most noticeable is my ass. A part of my body that i "hate" the most because it serves as a constant reminder of what an injury can do to a body. But with years ive learned to accept it because it is a part of me and i love it despite all the cellulite, stretch marks and its flabbiness.