RESOLVING TO BETTER YOUR MENTAL HEALTH THIS NEW YEAR!
As 2018 is about to end and 2019 is about to begin, we often
begin to ponder life and ask ourselves some very important questions regarding
our hopes, our dreams, and our goals for the new year. We also may reflect on all the things we did
not accomplish that we had hoped we would this past year. We may feel a mix of joy and sadness. Of hope and of fear. Of anticipation and of anxiety.
This year what I would like to see everyone focus on is their
own mental health. There are so many out
there who are suffering in silence because of ignorance, fear of rejection and
judgement, stigma, and feeling that no one would understand them.
And all of that is completely valid. I will not downgrade or deny you of feeling
those emotions. But take hold of all of
that and choose to help yourself. Be
your own best friend and seek help for your depression, mania, loneliness,
emptiness, psychosis, despair, grief, anxiety, anger, whatever it may be. Others will judge. Others will stare. Others will talk. And it does hurt. But let them, because those people are not
worth your time. You are worth far more
than the pointed hatred of someone slandering you for having a mental illness.
Find the self-respect and the self-love deep within
you. Use that to propel yourself forward
in a positive direction towards recovery.
A perfect place to start would be by reading or listening to one of my
inspirational mental health recovery books:
·
My Mental Madness Memoir
·
How to Survive Depression
·
How to Survive Bipolar Disorder
·
How to Survive Schizophrenia
·
How to Survive Anxiety
·
How to Survive Borderline Personality Disorder
·
How to Survive PTSD
I wish you all the best of luck in your journey of recovery
from mental illness!
Much love,
Much love,
-Stephanie Anne Allen
Author's Page: www.amazon.com/author/allenstephanie
