We will do everything to do the physical spaces in which we live in the beautiful. We will clean the cupboards, get rid of the size and wash our windows. We will exchange the old with the new and refreshing. We will do all of this and will not even think about another reflection.
But our minds – the only spaces that we really cannot leave – often receive less love and care, less priority than our physical spaces. Our minds are hidden, the diseases that afflict so many of them are invisible, and as such, our mental health does not often go to our priority lists.
While the snow melts and we all think about use today longer and sunny, I have something to add to our lists of spring projects: in the process of making mental health.
To highlight the urgent need to prioritize our mental health, a statistic:
A key conclusion of mental health 2019 report Says that more than half of adults in the United States with mental illness do not receive treatment. This totals more than twenty-seven million people who are not dealt with for their mental difficulties, and it does not include adolescents, nor does not reflect the scourge of the difficulties caused by the pandemic.
Perhaps a part of the gap between the victims and those treated professionally is the nomenclature. Admitting having anxiety or depression is one thing, but the adoption of “mental illness” terminology seems more normative, as if you recognize that you suffer from a mental illness, you submit to something that you have historically been able to hide. It seems to me that this is part of the reason why about twenty-seven million drug adults are not treated; Because the words we use to talk about mental illness deactivate those who are already reluctant to admit that they have trouble.
But we have to admit it. We must treat our minds as we are dealing with our houses and we make sure that they are clean and robust, ready to keep us safe. And one of the best ways to do so is professional help.
To illustrate the power of professional aid, a story:
My daughter was ten months old. Its small body was as puffed as the hot stones that a masseuse delicately places along your spine. His post-napping lethargy was supercharged by a fever. I put it on my bed to examine it, and it started to convulse. My baby had a crisis and I thought she was going to die. It was the two longer minutes of my life.
As soon as the paramedical paramedics arrived and attached it to the ambulance, I learned that she most likely had a crisis induced by fever, which the emergency doctor told me was much more destructive for the psyche of a witness than in the child's body. Despite this, the trauma of experience persists. It was four years ago.
A few months after the crises (she had another eleven days later), I visited my midwife and I told her about the terror that I experienced during the episodes. She suggested seeing a therapist and she made an urgent reference for me to be seen immediately.
I'm going to get away here to say that everyone should be so lucky to have this kind of medical intervention. If I had not been pushed to a therapist, I may have not looked for until my anxiety is even more paralyzing. But I then met a therapist, and I always meet her today on a bihebdomedary basis. I'm still talking about crises. I just raised them this week. These convulsions, which totaled only five minutes of my life, seized me so ruthlessly that I still suffer from experiences. When my children are sick, when a pandemic sweeps the planet, my anxiety increases.
But I'm fine, and I know it's because I give priority to my mental health. Namely, this is due to therapy.
Therapy Requires some of our most precious finite resources – time and money. It is logical for me why some people oppose it. I would say, however, that our mental health is an equally important resource, which is worthy of all our other resources. Fortunately, the climb of the tele-therapy platforms helped to remove inaccessibility by making therapy more user-friendly, requiring less time and often less money than traditional therapy.
Forbes analyzed different online therapy platforms, taking into account the cost, the ease and other features, in This summaryIf Tetherapy is something that interests you.
Cleaning our mental health is more than adding therapy to our list of spring projects. It also means give us breaks When we need it, exercise regularly and spend time maintaining our relationships. Most of the time, it means bringing our mental health to the top of our priority lists.
We are all better – all the singles of us – when we take care of our mental health.
We are all better – all the singles of us – when we take care of our mental health. I am not a statistician but I imagine that very often when people need therapy, they need a boost of an external part before continuing it. Sometimes you just need a stranger to say, Go take care of your mental health. I hope I can be this party outside for you.
So, to send the message to the house, an prompt:
Please take care of your mind. Add it to your list. Treat him as if it were your home. Because, of course, this is the case.
Kolina Cicero is in love with stories – reading them, writing them, getting lost in them. The other things she likes include yoga, travel and taking cooking, Italian and writing lessons. His first children's book, Rosie and the Passe-Temps farmwas published in July 2020.
