It escaped me, that May is Mental Health Awareness month. It’s meant to create an atmosphere where people can come to understand, feel free to acknowledge, share and get help for mental health issues.

We all have some form of mental or emotional dysfunction,(even those that don’t admit it) be it a chemical imbalance, PTSD, clinical depression or something else. The simple but interesting truth that most will acknowledge, is that we’re all imperfect. It’s a consequence of the first man’s sin that he passed on to us. Many however, are much more reluctant to acknowledge that that imperfection includes our mental and emotional function.

Most will seek a doctor for a physiological problem, but ignore and undermine the need for professional help when it comes to the fragile mind.😕 This is largely because of the
stigmas that discourage therapy or the seeking of treatment.

By seeking help in the form of talk therapy for myself, I learned that I have low-level depression and anger. This is largely due to Hidradenitis, but other major life events factor in as well. I’m not helplessly controlled by this, but more aware and better able to combat it’s effects. Finding the strength to admit the need for help, seeking it and then making healthy adjustments in thinking and behavior is well worthwhile.

Happy Mental Health Awareness month! Be your best you by availing yourself of all tools available…. There’s never a good reason not to❣️