Mental health doesn't wait. You can either choose to deal with your mental health or your mental health may deal with you. It's a sad fact.
How are you? It seems, as a society we’ve all made a polite unconscious agreement not to answer the question and if we do, it’s not with any meaningful response, in detail or with honesty. We give others what we think they need to hear, and on their parts, they don’t stop to question what we tell them.
Mental isolation and Health Risks
Whether you're in company or you're not, you can still feel mental isolation and that can create psychological ramifications. It can alter brain function, which means you can be more at risk from developing circulatory, heart disease and stroke. (Source: bhf.org.uk) Feeling lonely can increase stress and anxiety, if you’re prone to both.
Self-care for Mental Health
We should self-care for mental health. It is time to talk about how you feel. Burying our head in the sand when it comes to emotions is avoidable. We have to want to talk, to open up to how we really feel. We should talk, it is good to talk.
I have seen first hand what happens when someone fails to deal with mental health, it is the reason I chose to write, to look at my own mental health, to write about things that I could bring acceptance and closure on.
I have talked consistently in my books Cerebral Palsy: 'A Story' Finding the Calm After the Storm and Spirituality, Healing and Me.' about the things that matter, about mental and emotional health; about my mental and emotional health, about how I could bring an acceptance on my experiences.
The pandemic and Mental Health issues
The pandemic has brought about mental health issues. If we were talking before, we have stopped now. Please don't let that be you, or someone close to you. You can 'self-care for mental health,' we all can.
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Self care used to be a foreign concept to me, thanks to the way I was raised, but I'm glad things have changed. Getting to know you through your book Cerebral Palsy 'A Story' and chatting many times has helped me tremendously, for which I am forever grateful.
I'm not doing well in the current Covid-19 circumstances. I'm trying hard not to get stuck in my head which helps. I am hoping and praying that things can get better from here, for all of our sakes!
I hope so too Randy. My life is better for our interaction. Truthfully, writing is the only time I feel normal. In real life, I have autistic thoughts and struggle with mental health.
Yes, I write about mental health. I've written books on the subject of mental health, but living with autism means I will always continue to struggle with mental health.
In response to your comment about getting stuck in your head, I understand, exacerbated by external influences from governments. I'm with you o that.
It's why I continue to write.
Self care has never been more important than it is today and even small acts of looking after ourselves can have a big impact on our wellbeing.
It is vital to look after our own mental, emotional and physical wellbeing, but something we frequently neglect. Having read your books, I can honestly say the messages about mental and physical health, resilience and change in them is so powerful.
I understand in Covid-19 there is so much apathy out there, but as you say, mental health is vital to longevity. To lose a parent is difficult, but to lose a parent early because of mental health is tough, because mental health can be addressed.
Your 'books' should be on everyone's bookshelf.
Thanks. Yes, I agree my mum passed too soon. She was 67 and she'd only been to the doctor once in her life.
I also agree 'even small acts of looking after ourselves can have a big impact on our wellbeing' - it can. I hope as you say, people will buy my books.