Hi there to all you lovely people!
I completed a year on this blog on 1st October, 2021.
Yes, that’s right. And my journey with and through mental health has been taxing and fruitful – both at the same time.
This is a short blog post by me, but very insightful, if I can term it so.
Till yesterday I felt that mental health awareness was the need of the hour.
Yes, it is, no doubt. No exceptions.
But we are stereotyping ourselves as well as whom we call normal people.
Neither are normal people absolutely normal as we feel they are, nor are people who are mentally ill or whom we call their caregivers or whom we refer to as mental health professionals abnormal.
Now, why do I say this? Check the reasoning below!
Normalcy or abnormal behaviour – both need acceptance.
But there a need for acceptance if we feel we want to be heard or felt.
The need is the killer really.
If we really want to feel normal, so much as we feel normalcy is best, we may not.
Because deep down we know that there is a catch to this.
There comes the catch where we discount the fact that the normal people also suffer from tensions and mood swings! And sometimes much more trauma than those bitten by the mental ailment bug!
So neither we as survivors of mental ailments nor whom we term as normal people end up feeling normal.
So who is actually mentally unfit, so to speak?
Or who is the one needing an attitudinal change?
Don’t all humans need to stop this blame game?
That’s that. Point to be noted. Questions to ponder upon!
Happy World Mental Health Day – to all humans!