today is mental health awareness day

[seanna]

Today is one of those "international" days... Mental health awareness Day. As someone who suffers some version of it although nobody has ever been able.explain to me of what I feel is normal or not... I have dealt with suicidal thoughts/ideation. I've had to numb my mind with alcohol and sleeping pills. For someone who also suffers of what I would call chronic loneliness well life can be hard. I know that of it weren't for my partner nobody would notice if I was dead in my flat... That sobering realisation was not really that easy to swallow. All I'm trying to say is you never now who's on the other side of your screen, treat them with kindness even if you don't think they deserve it... You never know if the have someone to talk to or not or what happens in their lives outside of MN. Just be kind... There's millions of people who need help and you don't know when you'll bump into them.

Glad to hear that Seanna, I really hope they are able to help you.

Thanks flares. A psychiatrist called me within a few minutes. He said that given what I've experienced I probably have a form of OCD. That's it's too mild to get medication for it (it would only make worse in other ways). That therapy will gradually help me. But most importantly he told me that what I experience is for the most part normal. That's it's my obsessive personality that makes it worse, but that I itself I have nothing to worry about and im taking all the right steps :)

Good luck. I’m so glad they called you right back.