If the pandemic has shown us one thing it’s that we should be thinking about and dealing with mental health, and we’re not.
Mental Health is usually for someone else
Mental health is usually for someone else. We’re too busy getting on with life to think about our emotions, or how we feel. We’re too busy making things a priority without thinking about the foundations that prop our mental health up.
But none of us are free of mental health. And although you may not be in ‘flight or fight’ mode all the time and may only associate ‘flight or fight’ with mental health, there will be times when the spotlight shines on you.
The Pandemic has raised mental health issues
The pandemic has raised issues around mental health and for the most part, it is being ignored. It’s an inconvenience, it’s something for someone else, ‘I’m too busy’, or ‘I’ll think about it tomorrow,’ or ‘it’s an inconvenience,’ or ‘I don’t have issues, or ‘I’m alright Jack…’ but that’s not true, we all have something.
Although I never initially saw myself as the type to have mental health issues, it was only in my forties that I began to think about what I had been through, and with a diagnosis and for the first time I started to do something about it.
We reign in excuses not to deal with mental health
The list of excuses will continue to go on around mental health, until we choose to deal with ‘mental health,’ really deal with it. No one is free of mental health issues. Mental health is part of the human condition, which needs to be continually addressed, if we are to obtain and have optimal wellness.
Losing a loved one to cancer through mental health issues
I lost a loved one to lung cancer who was a non-smoker, but struggled with emotional health. In the pandemic, Mental health needs to be addressed by each of us, even more so now, because we’re further away from anything resembling ‘normal.’ There is no ‘normal’ anymore.
We're navigating a life around a virus that you can’t see, that can strike at any time and with precautionary measures lifted completely, we are more at risk and can still get caught out. Mental health needs to be our priority. What’s it going to take for us to deal with our mental health?
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While the impact and experience of the pandemic has been different for everyone, it is fair to say that stress, anxiety, worry and feelings of isolation have impacted on our mental health, so much so, it is accepted we will be dealing with the mental health consequences of the pandemic long after its health implications.
Our mental and emotional health, should be all of our priorities as there is no health without it.
Thank you. Yes, scientists and therapists alike accept mental health issues have been there since the beginning and throughout the pandemic.
I have struggled with my mental health and although my writing helps with that, being high risk and vulnerable, and mostly being home with restrictions lifted, mental health continues to shine a light on me.
There needs to be more support for people who continue to struggle with their mental health, over the decisions that are being made. Although the pandemic is over as far as governments are concerned, in our every day, Covid certainly isn't over.
I am hoping that something will change moving forward. It is important we can all get into our lives, not just a select few.
The pandemic has divided opinion, and through lifting restrictions, it has left the vulnerable and high risk even more vulnerable, where they're having to deal with mental health issues, as they continue to have to self-isolate.