This isn’t going to be a sob story, because no one wants to hear complaining. Instead, this is going to be a story of recovery, and hopefully along the way you can either relate or maybe start a recovery story of your own.
Once I found out that I had anxiety and depression, I felt terrible about myself. Here’s a little pro-tip if you’re going through something like that: don’t feel bad! It is not your fault. Anyways, I shut myself out from the world and stayed in my room most of the time. I had no idea what to do with myself for a few months, but as time passed, my head began filling up so many thoughts, and I knew I had to let them go somehow. That’s where the writing began.
I wrote about everything from what was going on in my life to the cliché love stories that no one really cares about. It was like an escape from reality and it gave me a way to figure out exactly how I was feeling, even if I was using made up characters to figure that out. One of my favorite quotes that I have read is “I write because people don’t listen.” I couldn’t agree more with that quote. People look out for themselves and they want to focus on their problems before anyone else’s, which is okay, but when you need a support system, you expect someone to be there and a lot of the time they aren’t. With writing, I was able to find that sort of support system to express how I felt.
For those that struggle with any sort of mental illness, you can always find some sort of outlet in order to express your emotions and the things you have gone through. It may not be writing, but there are so many different outlets out there to explore. You can try something and realize it doesn’t help you and then try something else. That is okay. I was lucky when I first started writing because I fell in love with it instantly but that won’t happen for everyone.
The point I was trying to make with this story is that there is only so much medical crap that can be done in order to handle mental health. If you’re just hoping that medications and therapy sessions will fix all of your problems, it’s likely that you will still continue to have a hard time with your mental health. Drawing, writing, dancing, singing, playing sports and anything like that are healthy ways to cope with your own thoughts. It worked for me, it’s worked for so many others and it will work for you too. And you don’t even have to be good at what you do, as long as you love doing it and it works for you, then do it and don’t listen to a word anyone else says.
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