Evening all. Like the last few times I’ve been on here, it’s been a while, hasn’t it? Just a quick one tonight, I promise. You’ll want to save all of your reading energy for the 2021 review in the works!
My first year of blogging, evidently, hasn’t quite gone how I planned it to. All of the ideas I had at the beginning never came to fruition for one reason or another. One of those I want to address.
My mental health has been shot to pieces this year. I’ve spoken about it on here before and it’s been fluctuating massively pretty much all the way through 2021.
Just over a month ago, it hit the lowest low I’ve ever experienced, so after six or seven years of just ‘plugging away’ and ‘getting on by’, with a little push from some people, I decided it was time to actually do something about it.
For the last month, I’ve been ‘seeing’ a therapist. That comes with added inverted commas because I haven’t actually met the person as she works in the US. But through a site called BetterHelp, they can help people all over the world using either chat rooms, video calls or voice calls.
Even though it’s only been a month, I’m already feeling a lot better. A lot of that will be because the wave naturally came to an end. But given how big a wave it was, I know there’s a chance I could experience one like that again, and that’s where this is helpful.
Yes, it’s helped me in the moment, but I’m also going to be way more prepared in the future when this happens again. And I know it’ll happen again. Of course it will. It’s all ups and downs. But going into those downs with a better knowledge of how to cope is going to make them much more manageable – properly manageable, not hoping that a two-hour walk will magically clear the fog in your head.
Everyone suffers from these days. I’m no different to anyone else in that regard. But not a lot of people seek the help they need. I now know how beneficial getting help is. It’s hard to admit – I went years without doing it and even needed a push while I was at my lowest moment.
But if you are struggling, please do it. It might be a slow process, you might feel better in a couple of weeks. It doesn’t matter. It takes as long as it takes.
The world is becoming a fucking weird place once again. And that can be scary for a lot of people for a mass of different reasons. Be nice to each other, be there for each other and look after yourselves too.
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