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Mental health is not a choice
It does not care about your voice
Your age, your gender, your race, your faith,
It can affect you in any state
Mental health is not a flaw
It does not follow any law
It can be hidden or be seen
It can be mild or extreme
Mental health is not a shame
It does not deserve any blame
It can be treated with support
It can be healed with love and care
Your self-worth comes from accepting that you are enough just the way you are and you do not need validation from anyone else to make you feel good about yourself.
Sometimes we look for love or approval from other people and it affects us greatly when we can not stand up for ourselves by setting goals to what other people see as important.
No one is perfect, some may pretend to be, but you may not know the battles that they are facing; so instead of comparing yourself to others, live your life one day at a time and do what is best for you.
I am a great fan of poetry and the words in this one really resonated with me so I have decided to share it and hope it will bring inspiration to you.
A Creed To Live By
Don’t undermine your worth
by comparing yourself with others.
It is because we are different
that each of us is special.
Don’t set your goals by what
other people deem important.
Only you know what is best for you.
Don’t take for granted the things closest to your heart.
Cling to them as you would your life,
for without them life is meaningless.
Don’t let your life slip through your fingers
by living in the past or for the future,
By living your life one day at a time.
Don’t give up when you still have something to give
nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.
Don’t be afraid to admit that you are less than perfect.
It is a fragile thread that binds each of us to each other.
Don’t be afraid to encounter risks.
It is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave.
Don’t shut love out of your life by saying it impossible to find.
The quickest way to receive love is to give love;
The fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly;
And the best way to keep love is to give it wings.
Don’t dismiss your dreams.
To be without dreams is to be without hope;
to be without hope is to be without purpose.
Don’t run through life so fast
that you forget not only where you have been
but also where you are going.
Life is not a race,
but a journey to be savoured each step of the way.
“When you come out of the grips of a depression there is an incredible relief, but not one you feel allowed to celebrate.
Instead, the feeling of victory is replaced with anxiety that it will happen again, and with shame and vulnerability when you see how your illness affected your family, your work, everything left untouched while you struggled to survive.
We come back to life thinner, paler, weaker … but as survivors. Survivors who don’t get pats on the back from coworkers who congratulate them on making it. Survivors who wake to more work than before because their friends and family are exhausted from helping them fight a battle they may not even understand.
I hope to one day see a sea of people all wearing silver ribbons as a sign that they understand the secret battle, and as a celebration of the victories made each day as we individually pull ourselves up out of our foxholes to see our scars heal, and to remember what the sun looks like.”
© Destinee Snuffer
Friends come and go
Life flies by right before your eyes.
You lose ones you love
Yet through it all you still love your life.
People leave you to fight alone
You put on a fake smile to hide all your pain
Yet someone still knows your hurt.
Through it all you still put on a front to satisfy those around you
Thorough it all you wouldn’t change a thing
Through it all you wouldn’t trade your life for fame.
You build a wall to try to keep from getting hurt
You lock up you heart and throw away the key to see who cares enough to look for the key
Through it all there’s not many people that got you to open up yet still you love it all.
Struggles meet you in the face to watch you slip up
Yet through it all you wouldn’t change a thing.
Through it all you wouldn’t change a thing
Through it all you wouldn’t trade your life for fame.
Source: https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/through-it-all