Mental Health Awareness: My Voice

I love having great relationships, and working hard for them.

People & relationships have always fascinated me. When I was in college, for a year, I majored in communications, because every drop of knowledge from those professors was touched by gold, or so it felt. But I could never see myself with a traditional career.

So, I turn to writing.

I have a complicated relationship with a person.
We constantly argue, and sometimes I feel like we will never ever see eye-to-eye on certain topics.

And I have been trying to be okay with that, but it’s hard stuff.

I just wish him happiness. So badly. Its so simple to be happy, but us mortals get so caught up in the BS, and habits, and our subconscious filled with limiting beliefs about life from our childhood.

And with Depression and Anxiety in the picture, life REALLY can be hard.

But ya wanna know what I think the truth is?

I think that he is in a lot of pain all the time.

Im not sure why, and Im not the judge of whats right or wrong in this life, but I have an opinion based on personal experience, intuition, and my own mental health issues.

There.

I said it.

MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES.

Taboo words for our society. And Yet, the ones that need to be talked about the most.

Our minds are so complex that we don’t even understand them. Let alone set standards for what is acceptable in modern society.

Mental health has a negative stigma.

But why?

Because someone was born with a condition that helps them see life uniquely?

It definitely poses new challenges and complicated situations at times.

And by no means is easy.

But, shouldn’t the warriors that live with such conditions be revered for their endurance & strength?

Not ridiculed in high schools, or made to be felt different or less than?

It doesn’t mean they are broken, it means they have a way more interesting story than before?

For those of you that do struggle with mental health issues such as:

Mood Disorder

Eating disorder

Depression

Anxiety

OCD

Bipolar disorder

Schizophrenia

Personality Disorder

Social Anxiety

Alcoholism

Addiction

ect.

Hi. I am so proud of you.
I am proud that you wake up every day, and keep going.
I am proud for that moment when you WIN.
I am proud to call you my sister/brother in this.

You were given a huge mountain.
As if, when we were born, we were given a mountain, some bigger than others.

And our goal in life is to climb that mountain.

My mountain looks like Anxiety, divorce, self-deprecation, social anxiety, ect.

And when you finally win, and see that breathtaking, jaw dropping stunning view at the top, you’ll know why you spent all that time climbing & struggling.

I promise.

I am rooting for you.