Link - The 5 Most Common Misconceptions About Mental Illness
Are any of these preventing you from seeking help? Especially the idea that mental illness is forever? Many are not. Depression is not a permanent state for most people who have it. I’ve had it. I had to be medicated, and be in therapy, for a number of years because of it. I no longer do either of those things because I’ve learned what I need to do for myself to prevent it from happening. But, if it did come back, I wouldn’t hesitate to get the same help again. Because it’s what I need to do for myself, regardless of what other people may think about depression.
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Sharing – Our mental health crashed in 2020. Recovery could take years
The article below gets into a lot more of the details of how different groups have been affected in a variety of ways, but the thing that I found myself nodding along to was this idea. This is not going to go away this Summer. People you know who have struggled, and have anxiety about things opening back up again, or are dealing with grief and depression, or the aftermath of all of the trauma that we’ve borne witness to over the last couple of years, are not going to just be “back to normal” and ready to hit happy hour like nothing happened.
We’re not there. We’re not going to be there for awhile. Give those people, and yourself if that describes you, some grace and patience.
Most of all, don’t stigmatize anyone for not being OK for a bit. We’ve all been dealing with different levels of trauma and anxiety, and you likely don’t even know half of how much people around you have been dealing with.
So, just be kind, OK?
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