Mental health awareness
Mental health awareness week may have ended BUT don’t end your awareness of mental health.
Nearly everyone, if not everyone is going through their own struggles. Even though indicators that someone is going through something are visible. Not everyone is going to show them.
There have been so many times people have been going through something and nobody knows. Our own friends and family. Personally, I think that this is partly because they don’t know how to tell someone or open up to someone or even just don’t feel comfortable doing so, thereby creating barriers that don’t need to exist.
As friends, we need to start doing a better job of making ourselves emotionally available to each other. So that we can break the barriers preventing us from being there when friends need us because with these how do we know when someone is slipping mentally.
Let’s start letting people know that we are actually here for them for when they need someone. Let’s make sure that if they don’t feel comfortable talking to you then they talk to someone who they can talk freely to.
It should never be a hassle or a choir to help someone with their struggles. A lot of the time they just want someone to listen to them because when they open up about what they are going through you take that weight off their shoulders. Or just someone to get them out of their room & hang around with so they can take their mind off things.
How many of us have people that check up on us and make themselves emotionally available for support but we don’t do the same back?
Why do we always think about who checked up on you today rather than who have you checked up on?
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