YOU ARE NOT DESOLATE
- 1 in 4 people will experience some kind of mental health problem in the course of a year.
- Mixed anxiety and depression is the most common mental health disorder in Britain.
My personal belief is that everyone has or will experience
some form of mental health problem in their life. The only difference between
my opinion and their fact - is the willingness of people to admit to it. We all
know someone who grieves in an unhealthy way, turns to drink or drugs as a way
to cope or simply loses their temper too easily. All of these things can be
attributed to a mental health problem but people don't like admitting to things
like that. We think it makes us weak.
I suffer from depression, anxiety, Borderline Personality Disorder (recently diagnosed) and M.E. I am not weak nor am I
lazy.
It may sound cliché but I am not alone in my depression and
neither are you. What ever mental health issue you have, you can be safe in the
knowledge that you are not alone in it. Although sometimes you may want to feel
special, like you have something all to yourself, like no one can ever feel the
pain you're feeling or that no one understands you, I am here to set you
straight. If depression makes you feel special then you have deeper problems
than you think and you should seriously see someone. If you think that no one
else in the world can feel like you or relate to you then you haven't been
around the right people. We are out there, we are all out there.
Depression and anxiety can make you isolate yourself, it can
make you feel like you are the proverbial island but once the mist clears, you
can see that you are surrounded by many other islands...and I'm not sure where
this is going but it's starting to sound a bit ridiculous... The point is,
you're not alone. Get it?
It's not
rocket science, put out what you're willing to take back.