Yesterday was a really important day for me. Again, I want to say that having conversations surrounding mental health shouldn’t be just allocated to a single day in a year. I am thankful though, that we are generating more open-ended conversations surrounding this subject matter. That is undoubtedly a good sign. But my hope is that one day, we will no longer need to measure such conversations surrounding mental health issues, but it will reach a point of normalization where it just happens daily, be it at work, in school, or at home.
The only reason why we are “counting/measuring” these conversations and public education campaigns is because of how the pandemic as a whole has been shedding light on the subject matter.
Personally, I’m no stranger to mental health struggles. In fact, ever since I was a child, I have struggled with chronic anxiety and depression. For most of my life, I have sought professional help from psychiatrists and counselors. I only managed to successfully overcome chronic anxiety and depression in 2014. I was 32 at that time. So yeah, most of my life.
Something that I have learned during the whole 2 years of the pandemic (well, we are gradually coming out of it now) is that nobody can be immune to mental health struggles. In fact, just because I managed to overcome my chronic anxiety and depression in 2014, that didn’t stop me from experiencing growing anxiety and depression during the pandemic.
As a matter of fact, during the pandemic, my anxiety and depression grew. So let me be straight with you. Not every day is fine. I mean, I am trying to be okay on most days, but some days are just bad. Some days, I struggle to get out of bed too. And right now, I’m just looking forward to being able to secure a job soon because I know that that would help to relieve my current anxiety levels.
[I’ve lost my train of thoughts at this point, so I may come back to edit this article at a later time to add additional content.]
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