Learning to live with mental health issues, can often feel like learning to live inside a room that is very small and bricked in around all corners.
It can be scary to discover that you have mental health issues, because first of all, what does that even mean? For every single person who has mental health issues, the solutions to those issues are going to be vastly different.
What works for Christina isn’t going to be what works for Mary, what works for Mary won’t work for Gerald. See where I’m going with this?
When it comes to mental health issues, a lot of the diagnosis process feels like (although it’s not), guesswork. But the truth is that Doctors don’t actually get as much training on mental health disorders unless that’s their educational focus.
We’re still learning a lot about the brain and how it works every single day, and what we’re learning is that we know a lot less than we thought we did.
Thirty years ago folks with mental health issues were drugged up and locked away. Often tortured, raped, and abused in ways I don’t even have words for.
Today we know better, and so we do better. Every single day that we spend just a little bit of time focusing on ourselves, arms us to prepare to deal with the rest of the world and it’s bullshit.
So my advice to you, to myself, to all of us, is to take five minutes a day, as often as you can, to breathe. To let yourself silently scream if you have to, or pump your fists, jump up and down or even meditate and pray. Whatever you use your five minutes for, use them wisely.
Sending all my love,
Devon J Hall
Loud Mouth Brown Girl 