Navigating mental health: a personal journey

WHEN | first started the blog I had the punchline "It really does" because your mental health does matter.

- KAMINI RAMBRIDGE

Mental health struggles knows no race, gender, ethnicity or religion and can be debilitating if left untreated for long periods of time. Admitting that you have a problem is the first step. You could be masking your symptoms by dabbling in things to distract yourself like drinking alcohol or taking pills.

Masking depressive disorders and anxiety disorders are impossible. Keeping busy so you forget is also not healthy because you are not addressing the actual problem. I find it extremely hard to just have a day where I do nothing. I can’t watch a movie and lie on the couch because I feel miserable and I feel as though my mind needs to work overtime to block out what I’m feeling.

There are many people that suffer with mental health disorders and although trivial to you, it’s magnanimous for them. Emotions can’t be controlled overnight and it takes work to actually control your thoughts and realise that your thoughts are just thoughts. A thought is just a thought until you act on it. If you tell yourself you are going to have a gloomy day, that’s exactly what will happen.

Blame

Overthinking is a wonderful hobby practised by a lot of people. We tend to over analyse people’s behaviour and their movement in our lives. Most of the time we blame ourselves for their selfishness. Has the thought ever occurred to you that maybe that person is just selfish? The future is not our problem and if you believe in God you would know that your path is predetermined and planned out already.