Mental Illness Awareness Week

I’m not writing this for sympathy.
I’m not looking for pity.
Nor do I want people feeling sorry for me.
So why am I writing it?
Well, I’m writing it because I’ve found myself sliding into the downward spiral that sneaks up on us when we are living with Depression. It’s a spiral that anyone who has battled a mental health condition will know all too well.
First you start feeling sad;
then you start feeling bad for feeling sad;
then you start feeling worried about feeling bad for feeling sad;
then you start feeling guilty about feeling worried about feeling bad for feeling sad;
then you start feeling ashamed about feeling guilty about feeling worried about feeling bad for feel sad.
And so the cycle begins and before you know it you feel like you are being dragged into an uncontrollable spiral that feels impossible to escape from.
Unfortunately, when you’re in the midst of this vicious spiral, what is almost impossible to see is that there is a way to escape this torturous cycle - it’s in the caring hand of a parent, it’s in the loving arms of a soulmate, it’s in the courageous moment when you reach out to seek support by saying 3 simple words - “I need help.”

#Depression #ChronicDepression #BipolarDepression #MentalHealth #MensMentalHealth #MentalHealthAwareness #MentalHealthStigma #MentalHealthResources #MentalIllnessAwarenessWeek #Anxiety #SocialAnxiety #ItsOkNotToBeOk #notalone #mentalhealthmatters

October 3rd is the first day of Mental Illness Awareness Week. What do you do to erase the stigma of mental illness.

It was a typical Monday evening. I perched on the window sill with my hands wrapped around my face. I was having a bad day with my OCD — I had managed to stay strong for the entire morning, but I couldn’t take anymore that evening. It is like those Jenga blocks, where one wrong move is enough to tumble down your carefully constructed tower (my tower, in this case, is my resolve to stand up to OCD).

Check out the entire story at:

medium.com/beingwell/how-a-bad-mental-health-day-sparked-my-...

#ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder #MentalHealth #MentalHealthHero #Anxiety #MentalIllnessAwarenessWeek #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth

GEEZES!!! . DAMN IT #### I can't take this!!!! G'damn !!!! #Upset #Screwedlife ### I HATE THIS CRAP - I HATE MENTAL ILLNESS - can't function-#help #helpme

sorry I can't get to comments or posts today. i just can't handle anything today-have to try to make my niece a nice collaged e-card for her birthday. Deadline is first thing tomorrow morning - I don't feel like /can't do it. Have been putting it off for days cuz haven't bern well.

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“The worst part of having a mental illness is people expect you to behave as if you don’t.”