As we close out the month of September, I wanted to put one more thing out into the world about suicide awareness.
Mental health is so vital to living a more peaceful life.
As someone who has experienced terrible bouts of depression, triggers from CPTSD, and other things, the darkest time is when I start believing there is no hope left. While I've become adept at maneuvering through these waters and rarely get so down that I haven't been able to pop out of it after a few hours, I'm still prone to depression, anxiety, etc., because of the way the chemical imbalance behaves.
I also take medication to help maneuver the chemical imbalance.
I used to steer clear of medication because there's such a negative stigma around it. But once I let myself "try" the medication to see what happened, I can function like a regular—albeit awkward—person most of the time.
Therapy helped me learn how to help myself when I'm spiraling out and down a speedy tunnel that continues to tell me how terrible I am at almost everything. Each day I'm in a depressive state, my mind hands me example after example of mistakes I made from yesterday, from ten years ago, from times when I was in elementary school... each one tries to drag me down.
But depression isn't the end of how I view the world; even if I get stuck in it sometimes, I have a shred of hope that helps me continue to believe in myself when I don't believe in myself.
How do you find hope when your mental health skews? Do you have any practices you go through? Can you catch yourself before things seem too dark? There are a lot of ways to find and get help. There are a lot of ways we can help ourselves.
Take time and check your mental health; things can be piling up, and you don't even realize it. Put the energy into you as often as you can.
If you need someone to talk to and feel alone, please email me, and I'll respond quickly.
Have a great day and a nice week!
Always remember that no matter how alone you feel or how dark it gets, people can help you, and the light always comes.
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