Chaotic thoughts and side rants

Mental health

Phoenix

I feel like this is the most important topic to talk about amongst all of them since this affects a lot of people and there is a lot of mental illness out there like depression, anxiety and quite a few eating disorders. There's different kinds of all of them like with depression there's smiling depression which is the most unheard of I think as well as clinical and other types. With anxiety there's social anxiety, generalized anxiety and separation anxiety.

There's a few eating disorders like bulimia, binge eating disorder and anorexia. There are people to help but I know a lot of people get failed by the mental health industry. The ones who seem "healthy" or not sick enough to even get help. Those people do deserve help though and just have to look hard to find the right kind of help because it's out there somewhere. I've had my struggles with mental health.

I'm getting better though. You have to remember healing isn't linear. You will have good days and bad days. You will have relapses and some days are worse than others. A lot of people think healing is a straight line but it isn't. That's why recovery isn't easy because you have to be able to face the bad days and the worse days. You have to accept that you won't go straight to being better.

It's hard to keep that in mind when others are asking why you aren't getting better. They don't see that you're trying and that's the annoying part about healing. Trying to be better but being told that you're not trying hard enough to get better when in fact everything you're doing is you trying to get better. Mental health is mentioned a lot yes but not the reality of it. Being unable to get out of bed and take care of yourself.

No one really sees the reality or effect of mental health issues. The only ones that see it are the ones who were affected with them. I hope mental health gets seen in a better light. A lot of people are dying and not getting the help they need. The main issue is the long queue to see a therapist but the ones who seem too ok don't get the help and are usually at the back of the queue.

It doesn't seem fair and I think mental health should be the same amount of priority as physical health since it can affect someone's life and eventually their physical health. Maybe one day it does but it's likely some time before we get to that point. To the ones struggling know you're not alone and there's help out there. Maybe it isn't completely prioritised but there are people that do prioritise it.

I'm hoping that this brings awareness even if it is a little, it's something and the more awareness the more likely that mental health is prioritised. Even if the awareness is not much.