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Mental Health Awareness


Mental Health Awareness

Mental health doesn't need an invitation to wreak havoc on your mind, body and soul. It comes without warning. You could be perfectly fine and then you just feel unwell or uneasy. Your body starts tensing up and you feel like you're drowning. I have tried to hide from my anxiety for years because people treat you differently. They don't understand that it is not who you choose to be but it chooses you.


Do you have that friend who always says they will, but they don't? It is not because they don't want to attend or they don't want to excel. It is because they are physically and mentally tired.


Why does society shun the weak and feeble? Do they not know that sometimes mental illness comes from tragedy? Or maybe it is society that created it? Some people haven't been given the ability to cope with their illness. Or maybe you are strong and famous but you suffer depression?


Every time you make someone feel bad for mental illness you are actually adding more fire to the flame. Instead, lend a listening ear and really try to hear what that person is saying. No they are not fine. No they are not being over dramatic. They are suffering something you know nothing about.


We ALL are suffering something others know nothing about.


Until we break that Stigma that you are less because you are not mentally strong, we will always have people suffering in silence or worse maybe they fight back and we will always be the ones to blame for this.


Accept that sometimes people go through things they have NO control over and all they need from you is the freedom in knowing it is ok to not be ok.


Do you personally suffer from Mental Illness? My Anxiety has gotten better but it is because I pray, then pray harder. I take supplements that controls my emotions, and I exercise to exert the physical tension that Anxiety brings - uninvited, without warning.


Whatever makes you happy, DO that. Or if you're in a season of depression and you've lost all hope - reach out! https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/


Love,


Pam

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