Kawaii
03-27-2015, 08:47 AM
So I did something difficult and scary earlier and I didn't expect it to go so well and be so easy.
I go on Facebook everyday, it's my main form of contact with loved ones and friends, and social media is very sort of plastic now a days, it all seems to be about making your life look more amazing and exciting than it actually is. So putting anything real, deep or meaningful up doesn't always get noticed as much.
But I had a really bad morning, crying and freaking out and I decided to put a post after I calmed a little about how I suffer with this extreme anxiety and how difficult mental illness can be, but also that I understand people not knowing how to handle it if they have never experienced it before. Now, I put myself out there to people I would usually pretend to be fine around, I showed that fragile side of me and I tried to do it with pride and dignity as I like who I am as a person. And I asked if anyone else knew or experienced anything related to this illness.
The response I got was fantastic, people who are friends of friends, old school friends I hardly speak to any more responded instantly and shared their experiences and told they too suffer with the emotional and physical pain of fear and panic. I have been offered a sort of help/therapy by an old friend as he works in mental health and I have been given such great advice by many people I thought had their lives all together and coped well. Things are never as they first seem. This website has also given me a fantastic new perspective of a world where people are open about mental illness and work together to help each other get through life.
Whenever you walk past anyone in the street or see a super awesome post on social media by someone who appears to be so lucky and happy, just think maybe they cry themselves to sleep at night, maybe they too struggle but in complete silence. I think that everyone has some form of mental illness, some people have it bad, some people maybe not so much but we all have freak outs and upsets and annoyances that another person can't relate to. The way to get around it really is knowledge, understanding and empathy.
So don't ever be embarrassed or feel like you are a wierdo stuck in a cage whilst everyone else is living. We are living too.
So try your best to speak up about your fears and your strangle little habits and everything that makes you human, more people than you think will back you up and relate! :)
I go on Facebook everyday, it's my main form of contact with loved ones and friends, and social media is very sort of plastic now a days, it all seems to be about making your life look more amazing and exciting than it actually is. So putting anything real, deep or meaningful up doesn't always get noticed as much.
But I had a really bad morning, crying and freaking out and I decided to put a post after I calmed a little about how I suffer with this extreme anxiety and how difficult mental illness can be, but also that I understand people not knowing how to handle it if they have never experienced it before. Now, I put myself out there to people I would usually pretend to be fine around, I showed that fragile side of me and I tried to do it with pride and dignity as I like who I am as a person. And I asked if anyone else knew or experienced anything related to this illness.
The response I got was fantastic, people who are friends of friends, old school friends I hardly speak to any more responded instantly and shared their experiences and told they too suffer with the emotional and physical pain of fear and panic. I have been offered a sort of help/therapy by an old friend as he works in mental health and I have been given such great advice by many people I thought had their lives all together and coped well. Things are never as they first seem. This website has also given me a fantastic new perspective of a world where people are open about mental illness and work together to help each other get through life.
Whenever you walk past anyone in the street or see a super awesome post on social media by someone who appears to be so lucky and happy, just think maybe they cry themselves to sleep at night, maybe they too struggle but in complete silence. I think that everyone has some form of mental illness, some people have it bad, some people maybe not so much but we all have freak outs and upsets and annoyances that another person can't relate to. The way to get around it really is knowledge, understanding and empathy.
So don't ever be embarrassed or feel like you are a wierdo stuck in a cage whilst everyone else is living. We are living too.
So try your best to speak up about your fears and your strangle little habits and everything that makes you human, more people than you think will back you up and relate! :)