Everyone is talking about making “Mental Health ” priority, but do people even know how one feels like being victim of mental health issues?…….no one is even guiding regarding tackling this issue ! No one is teaching ways to create safe space around.
I had been through mental health issues a year back and even now sometimes i m badly affected by things, i know how it affects as well as i know its consequences.
We assume that a person going through MENTAL health issues might be having some very complicated problem in life but this is not true, that person might be suffering from general stuff which don’t even appear complicated to others. Level of seriousness can’t be compared.
Those people who didn’t helped me in past, were now posting “Just text me if you need help”……. this is how “Double faced our society is !!!! ” , at 1st if someone asks for help people don’t help , thinking might be “mujse aage nikal gaya toh ! ” or there can be any other reason , and when we share our problem, we are labeled as “attention seeker”, “you are just overthinking”, “you just want sympathy”…..and many such reasons, and i have even seen people moking up saying “pagal hai”.
Out of 100 , 70% percent of people in our society don’t understand mental health issues.
People didn’t helped me not because i was not a good person, i was very good by my behavior, they didn’t helped me because they weren’t compassionate enough, major stress in my engineering was regarding studies, many time i approached other for materials/ for something related studies but people around me were not kind enough to even help me with basic stuff. And yes later on i did find very few people who helped me, i m glad to have them.
At time of sad demise of “Sushant Singh rajput” People were quoting that he passed message in his movie that “suicide is not a option”, and now “he committed suicide”, you know if one is trying to impart something valuable then it signifies he/she doesn’t want other to go through same situation, he might had been fighting mental health issues since many years and at last he took extreme step, we are no one to judge him, we don’t know about his personal life, he was one of the finest actor we ever had and i wish we could bring him back. [ I have wrote this at time of sad demise of sushant and now whole case has taken a different turn.]
Everyone is saying talk to loved ones, share your issues but is their anyone really willing to listen about all those issues ? Mental health issues are increasing because of our competitive world, everyone is teaching “be successful” but no one is teaching “even failures are good”, we have not been taught about embracing failures.
Social media !!!!! we love to be on that platform, it is proving to be bad because hate on it is going worst, people can not just speak up, if anyone puts out something, people are there to pull him/her down by criticizing in all possible ways.
Above i just mentioned 2, but in reality reasons are in 1000 or even more then that for MENTAL health issues.
MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES can arise from anything, from failure in life to stressing over not doing anything productive, there are no particular reasons for it.
This is how we can minimize some most common reason:
– creating a safe space online , pls do not comment negatively or anything hate
– by talking with compassion with everyone around
– if someone is going through any issues please try to help them, your little help can make their life better.
– if someone is behaving differently then please go and ask them reason behind their changed behavior, your compassion can save a life.
– Don’t impose your judgment/thinking/thoughts on them, people with mental health issues want someone who can listen their problems and talk with kindness.
MENTAL health issues are very deep, still many points i have not mentioned, i will post them in another blog.
To all the people who were posting “Dm me whenever you need help”, “Talk to loved ones”….:
Ask yourself once did you ever helped someone around you despite them asking help ?
Did you ever moked someone on basis of their appearance or their silence?
