09/10/2019
Today is ‘Suicide Prevention Day’ and I wish we didn’t need to have a day for it to be perfectly honest.
I personally find it fu**ed that you can’t take a bottle of water through airport security because terrorism is what we’re worried about but statistically we’re much more likely to kill ourselves than the plane getting jacked.
People worry about sharks in the ocean but we’re thousands of times more likely to terminate our lives premature than get bitten.
We’re living in a world where we barely talk about how we feel and it takes 6 seconds to type “𝐡𝐚𝐡𝐚 🤣🤣” in a group chat when really you’re at rock bottom
Obesity albeit complex can consist of tens of thousands of bad habits that compound interest over time to cause health issues but with mental health it only takes one bad decision to cause a rift and a void in all the lives of those that care about you.
Seeing a physio for an injury is accepted, seeing A PT for weight loss is accepted and we need to start making therapy and professional help more accessible and less of a taboo subject.
A few minutes from your Instagram feed for a few check ins with your friends can make all the difference. If you’re feeling like s**t that is OK, in fact it’s normal from time to time - you can’t be good all the time.
It’s amazing to see an athlete come back from injury and I think we should strive for a similar mentality to mental health. People aren’t weak, it’s just easy to feel weak in our society of social media, digital communication and comparing our behind the scenes to other people’s highlight reels.
We as a race worry about the wrong things and prioritise the wrong things.
We should be less worried about our followers, how many likes our last post got, a plane crashing on a flight we’re on let alone a shark biting you when you’re next out having a surf.
Thousands of people around us each year are hitting eject on their life and perhaps if the way society perceived su***de and the way we speak and check in with friends we wouldn’t need a day for it
Don’t take “I’m fine” for an answer.
