In the wake of the last couple of days I would like to tell all of you who may be dealing with various mental health issues to, when it seems to much, take a second to breathe deeply. Catalog things in your mind things that help you, give you strength and joy as in these trying times we need them.
As someone who’s dealt with anxiety for five years and depression on and off for three I would like to tell you that asking for help is not weak. It is not failing nor conceiving. It is perhaps the strongest thing you can do to realise that you need help.
Below is a link to suicide prevention calls that one should call if they feel in desperate need of help or are in distress:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_crisis_lines
As someone who’s recently been prescribed anti-anxiety meds and who’s now feeling the best I have felt in years I would like to say that your darkest moment does not define you. You are your smiles, your laughs and everything in between. Your mental illness does not nor ever will define you and I promise you that you are stronger than you know. If all you did today was breathe? You did so amazing and wonderful. If you just went to the store despite dreading it? You are so strong. If you went to work despite not wanting to leave the house you are truly extraordinary and should be proud of yourself.
Look after yourself as you are more than you know.
And please, talk to people around you. Hold your loved ones close and perhaps the people who we don’t talk to so often closer. Breathe deeply and know that without darkness we could not see the stars.
Reblog before bed!
A Message To Those Struggling
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