Just wanted to give you guys some insight as to why I am so passionate about this mission of mine. Growing up I had extreme anxiety that I didn’t even know was something that I needed to address. I simply just felt like something was wrong with me, but I had no idea what. I had heard the term anxiety before but little did I know it was something that raged on inside of me. It was not something talked about much and even less so understood. It wasn’t until I was about 19 years old when this untreated problem turned into severe insomnia that forced me to seek help. During this journey of what was supposed to be a healing process I actually got worse and so the depression came. I credit this happening mostly to the fact that the people I was told could help me, most certainly could not. To make things worse they actually told me a lot of things that were flat out wrong, causing more harm than help. This made me feel more alienated than ever. I tried medications, therapy, psychologists, research etc. Pretty much everything out there possible and still no luck.
Although all this effort didn’t help my mental health, I learned so much and started to wonder if maybe these so called professionals had it wrong. Maybe I wasn’t getting better because I wasn’t working the problem correctly. I started to disregard what wasn’t helping and keep the things that were helping through my own research. I put less faith in others to help me and more in me. It would not be until years later that what felt like was my last ditch effort started to pay off. It was on this new journey that I realized I stumbled on to something profoundly impactful, not just for me but others to. I knew these things needed to be talked about more, so that’s exactly what I did. Every chance I got whether with friends or strangers I brought these topics into everyday conversation. I soon learned not only were so many people feeling like I did but I was a fresh perspective of ideas and advice that these people had never even once considered. I was ashamed of how little society was doing for the people that relied on it to get help. It takes so much sometimes to even ask for help so when that help makes you feel more broken you feel more isolated and more like you are an unfixable problem. I know this not to be true, everyone is capable of completely healing. I did not gain my knowledge on this topic by studying for a degree.
I learned invaluable lessons from my own real life personal experience, which I personally believe is the most important quality a person needs to possess if they hope to help others. It is nearly impossible to feel heard and understood when the person that is suppose to help has never experienced anything similar. I think everyone who has these experiences has something to offer healed or not. New ideas and perspectives are what lead to innovation, which is exactly why these issues need to be talked about regularly. That is exactly what I aim to do here. Although not to be taken lightly I believe our mental health needs to be a part of daily conversation to lift it out of the taboo world it currently resides in. Even if you haven’t even started seeking help for your mental health this blog and the insight it will provide will be perfect for you. So please join me as my future blog topics bring about more specific discussions on this matter as we together uncover a new and better way to help those who need it most.