I saw this article yesterday and wanted to share with everyone for 2 reasons. 1. It's empowering to see a professional athlete open up about his struggles that a lot of us know all too well, and 2nd, what he had to say at the very end was extremely powerful.
"The thing is, because we can’t see it, we don’t know who’s going through what and we don’t know when and we don’t always know why. Mental health is an invisible thing, but it touches all of us at some point or another. It’s part of life."
so true.
Very good read. Thanks for sharing!
I love it, I have been thinking of writing a blurb myself. I have been battling the demons in my head for 70 years. Right now I am in a major depression, along with anxiety and panic attacks. I have had people tell me "You look OK" "You sound alright". It makes me mad, so they do not suffer in that manner, but lets try a little empathy, ever broken a bone, or had some awful accident/illness and the people rally around.
Our brains (all of us) have neurotransmitters and they can miss fire at any given time, and we do not know why. I have found somethings to be of HELP. Find a Therapist who specializes in depression, panic, etc., Support groups for depression can be a god send, as we feel SO alone and miss understood. In my life in Calif I found a great psychiatrist, but moved to SC and have fallen apart again, have had one hell of a year and two trips in poorly run psych. hospitals. no psychiatrist local (SC psych. help is poor and inadequate) here. I have found a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner who specializes in Mental Health Disorders. She has been in practice 30 years and is already getting me on the road to recovery, she really knows her med's. I wanted to share this info. as I read so much pain and suffering here. First remember there is help, but You have to search it out. Go on line, read books, and share any creditable info. We all deserve to be well, and it is Not an easy path, this one for me has been a year now, due to uninformed medical people. I am very Leary of the medical system, as far as I am concerned we have a long way to go in our country, both in general population understanding and progress in the medical field. But we can do our part. Believe there is creditable help out there, sorry there are so many drugs and side affects, but there is hope. We are playing pill roulette right now, but so far the side affects are tolerable and I am feeling just a crack in the wall.
Hope this is of use, do not give up hope, it is Hard, but we can do It. I am on the upside now. Sending you good mental health, Love, Peace and Hugs. Sprinkle 1
True. Mental health is as essential as physical health. But unfortunately it is diagnosed very late in few cases or not diagnosed at all in some cases. However,Mental well being is every person's right. 👍
When many things are going wrong, what can we see that is right?
What is one thing you wish people could understand about mental health?
maneuvering a weird experience 
Hey, what do you think about a partner's care about the mental disorders we have?
I'am in desperately need of someone to talk to, who can relate to what am going through 
