I MATTER, YOU MATTER, WE ALL MATTER

Hi guys! Happy new month, the month of minority mental health and disability pride.
Just a little reminder:- July is the 7th month of the year which means we are through with the first half. How are the resolutions, the plans and the projections for the year going? If things aren’t going as planned, whether due to our shortcomings, the interference of other parties or any other reasons, worry note focus on the wins and how the losses can dealt with.
In today’s #MentalMonday edition, we specifically focus on how at one point in our lives we were part of a group (or still are) where we find ourselves being part of a minority group. While more often than not, the focus is on racial and ethnic difference or sexual orientation, there is so much that makes us feel less important and inferior and ultimately compromises our mental health and even so the ability to reach out for mental health services. Sometimes, it is even the fact that we are going through a mental health episode. The way we are constantly fatigued and wish for self alienation. The way we can not on some days get up and do the basic activities of daily living. The way we are absolutely crippled by our emotions being in the doldrums and no one seems to notice or better yet understand. In this month of disability pride, we also raise awareness that mental health disorders are also a disability and more so a crippling one. A disability which the general population does not see by naked eye but is only known to the our intimate hero, the pillow, which has wiped so many tears and muffled so many cries. And as we celebrate disability pride this July, let us remember our feelings are valid, when emotions are low and we are not able to function, it is valid and when one needs time out to focus on mental health that should be prioritised. Disability is not only physical, it can be mental and emotional. Sometimes, disability is that change in mental capacity, that change in personality where we will eventually lose ourselves, and scary as it may seem, that wave of emotion which may drive the other to suicide. However, it doesn’t change or water down the plight of physical disability. In our next episode we shall explore physical disability and mental health; the effect of our actions and stigma. And let us never forget the words of Bessel can see Kolk “The body keeps the score.” No matter how much we try to ignore and not let mental health take precedence, the body will remember and it will catch up with us. With this folks, let us put ourselves first and our well-being first because#Mentalhealthmatters❤️🧠