{"id":412,"date":"2019-10-10T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annabelwrites.com\/?p=412"},"modified":"2025-02-27T14:14:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T14:14:49","slug":"sharing-mental-health-day-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annabelwrites.com\/?p=412","title":{"rendered":"Sharing Mental Health Day 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ok so admittedly I\u2019ve only just realised it was Mental Health Day 2019, I was going to bypass it but reading a fellow bloggers<\/a> post made me realise that actually it\u2019s good to discuss this subject\u2026..let\u2019s be sharing mental health day 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t mean a debate, I mean just talk.\u00a0 The most recent moment that made me realise I needed help was when I stood in the mirror in the toilets at work starring at my reflection judging myself. Looking at my reflection thinking \u2018who are you trying to convince?\u2019 and \u2018what are you trying to prove?\u2019\u00a0 The reason for this was because I was a working mum and I worked part time in an office that I wasn\u2019t really enjoying, I was tired of being bullied, tired of being the escape goat<\/em> and I\u2019d had enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"four<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

That was when I started to look for another job and begin to start to get back to my old self, the good news is that I did get myself another job where I\u2019m a lot happier.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t happen overnight; speaking about this in a previous blog, how life was getting on top of me and I saw a gp and ended up going to workshops that gave support, help and guidance on using the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.<\/a>\u00a0 This is how I get through it most of the time, nowadays I feel that I\u2019m coping with it better and have realised that I\u2019m quite more than often using this when I don\u2019t I am.\u00a0 Then there are the other times when I don\u2019t feel like I have time to think about it; ie\u2026 chasing after a 3 year old and running a house. (why am I STILL not a size 10!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have also realised that some of the older generation don\u2019t understand depression, there is no way on this earth I would discuss my depression with my in-laws.\u00a0 I love them to bits they think stress is just a \u2018made up term\u2019 of a way to get out of doing something (ie. work).\u00a0 I have been in a room where I have heard older people discussing how depression is just another label that the younger generation have come up with.\u00a0 However, I wouldn\u2019t debate it with them, partially because I\u2019m scared of what they would say, but I do think that somehow they don\u2019t understand because they\u2019ve lived through different times when life was much simpler and you didn\u2019t have the world wide web and social media.\u00a0 Yes, they\u2019re right in saying that the younger generation have got everything at their fingers tips, but sometimes that\u2019s not always a good thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am currently reading Fiona Thomas\u2019 Depression in a Digital Age: The highs and lows of Perfectionism<\/a> and it has been an insight into the life of someone who has depression in this day and age as the ones I have known and read previously have either been in a completely different lifestyle or age or the other type of books on mental health which are more informative.  I\u2019m not even half way through this book (mainly because the only time I get to read in day light is far and beyond) but so far I\u2019m really enjoying it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A lot of people who are close to me may already realise that I have always used humour as a defence mechanism, this has been my go to for years.  I would constantly joke and make sarcastic comments to try and defer from how I was really feeling at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"women<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I have suffered with this for years, some days being in denial about the way I\u2019m actually feeling (well it\u2019s so much easier than facing it sometimes) and my school years was when it began, so when I hear people say how much they loved school I secretly want them to shut up because actually that was some of the worst times of my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there was the time that my mum used to say to me, take up cooking or sewing that will help with your state of mind.\u00a0 I was however a teenager at the time, and to be honest at that time in my life I would disagree with anything my mum said\u2026.thank heavens that has changed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh and exercise, back in the late 80s when I was a teenager no one did exercise (well not as many as are doing it today anyway) and even if they did I missed it.  We didn\u2019t have any cycle lanes and we certainly didn\u2019t have as many gyms as we do nowadays and the only exercise I would do is walking to my best friends house (five minutes away) and the occasional walk to the local shops to spend large amounts of time in Woolworths either getting a pick and mix or giving my opinion to the shop assistant about what should be number one that week (rather than the latest Stock Aitken Waterman mass produced chart hit).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My mum did yoga and pilates and I remember giving it a go, but the VCR we had was so old and it would more than often chew up the tape half way through, nowadays we have youtube<\/a> and apps for your phone and you can even go to professional classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, in theory it should be easier to deal with nowadays?  Na, not really, for some people it\u2019s a constant battle and I am eternally grateful that I\u2019m not having a constant battle but I do have spurts now and then when I just want to be in a dark room alone with my music or just no noise (which never happens in my life time at the moment).  The other therapies I enjoy is writing and sewing, which is one of the reasons why I\u2019m writing about it now because there you have it, it\u2019s been discussed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now go do something that makes you happy, because that\u2019s the best therapy right at this moment\u2026..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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