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I think that there is no shame into just coming out and saying that "I am suffering from mental illness". I have always been said by my close peers that, "You are completely fine, you're absolutely normal", I mean really. I have been chewing through the insides of my mouth since very long, and I know that I am suffering from this particular illness. I take no medication, I never find drinking, smoking or killing myself to be the greatest solution of them all, because that's just a sign that you just don't want to fight things around you. Several times, I have been belittled, I have been used, people don't talk to me cause they think I'm a really weird person, so for those people I keep myself away from them. Sometimes, people don't like to talk to me, nor want to understand as to what I have done, for example - I cut my hair short cause' I was seriously done with all the stress and anxiety that I've faced, so I needed a change. In fact, the long hair that I had, I donated it, but is anybody ready to even listen about it or understand the reason that why actually I did that? The answer is no. I have also been torn between the fights in my house, considering parents being like, "You're siding with your mother", "You're siding with your father", do my parents want to hear me? I really don't think so, considering when I asked my father something, he just pushed me away on the pretext of wanting to watch a news debate, which seemed much more important than his own daughter's mental illness. What I really want to convey is that, never mock anyone having this illness. Nobody fakes it, and mental illness is not something that's like a wound which is visible, its' something more large. Lend your ears to somebody who wants to talk with you, who confides in you the most. There's more to add, but for now that's all I'd say.