My Mental Health

Hey Guys, Happy Tuesday 🙂

its super gloomy here today in Canadas Capital, hoping for some nice summer weather in the coming weeks.

I just wanted to hop on here to talk a little bit about my mental health, as its just as important as physical health if not more.

In 2012 i was diagnosed with severe high functioning depression and anxiety. I was in grade 12 my last semester of high school when i got the diagnosis and that was after years of counselling, which I started back when i was 6 years old ( which ill get into later)- I refused to take any medications as i didn’t want to pump my body full of things to make me ” happy ” – i wanted to find happiness on my own, and man was that ever a struggle. So i fought the anger inside of me, i fought the saddness, and i fought myself, and to this day i still do – Happiness can be found anywhere but you must find it within yourself first to truly be happy anywhere.

I have good days and bad days, days where all i want to do is sit in my bed and stare at the 4 walls that know me so well, and listen to nothing but the rain or the wind – & then there are days where i feel like nothing can stop me, nothing can dim my light, which is a repeating cycle of good and bad days, but don’t we all have those?

Mental health is becoming more talked about, but people still feel so ashamed to say they have a mental illness, or their suffering, or they need help, but one thing I’ve come to realize through this journey with myself is that, we should never feel ashamed for not being okay, for asking for help, for being tired, for feeling like everything is out of our control, were human and we tend to feel every emotion in waves, always reach out for help, you’ll be stronger for doing so.

You are your biggest enemy but also your closest friend, treat your mind good, feed your mind positive things, practice self love, self care, stop comparing, stop judging, stop being envious of others, start living your life, stop allowing your mental health to float over you like a dark cloud, let your light shine, you’ll thank yourself later 🙂

Its so important to love yourself, and take care of yourself, you can lie down every night beside someone, but know you might not always have that person, but you will always have yourself so never give up on yourself, keep pushing, keep swimming, keep climbing, just keep going