A very common refrain I have heard from survivors over the years. We’ve managed to survive on our own, partly by not trusting anyone, so asking for help becomes a very difficult thing to do.
But we all need help every now and then.
An interesting list. I can’t say that I’ve read all of these, or even heard of a couple of them. Have you read them, or any other books that deal with mental health issues? What did you think? Care to submit a review for us? 7 Must Reads for Anyone Touched by Mental Illness
The point of this article is actually the opposite of the headline, it’s a bit tongue and cheek. However, it is a legitimate problem. People see mental hospitals as being full of dangerous people, “them”, but in reality there are people all around us who are dealing with mental illness and could use the resources…
To be fair, as the article does point out, college programs don’t have the resources. Neither do programs for adults, programs for children, etc. We don’t have answers for people in crisis. We aren’t even coming up with anything new. It’s time for new ideas. https://www.statnews.com/2017/02/06/mental-health-college-students/
One of the struggles that I had as an abuse survivor, and one that I know other survivors have talked about, is defining who we are. Take everyone else away, remove all the ways we define ourselves based on our relationships with others – son, daughter, spouse, brother, sister, parent, coworker, friend, employee, boss, etc.
Who are you? As I often say, when you’re too busy trying to survive the chaos of an abusive childhood, you don’t get the guidance that would help figure this out. So we exist in these relationships with family, friends, and romantic partners, and we don’t know who we are outside of how they see us.
It’s easy to put depression into a box of symptoms, and though we as a society are constantly told mental illness comes in all shapes and sizes, we are stuck with a mental health stock image in our heads that many people don’t match. When we see depression and anxiety in adolescents, we see teens struggling to get…
It’s a question we like to avoid: Who are you? It may be the question, actually. There’s so much weight to those words you can’t help but feel them hit you as your ears and brain correspond to decipher the message. Sure, some could stare straight into your eyes and answer with confidence. But for most of us, the journey to self-discovery…
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