Be the reason MHM

07/14/2024

A few random thoughts came to my mind this morning….

We make time for what we want to make time for.

We don’t mentally prepare ourselves with the fact that our parents will need our help when the age. That one day they will need the same care they gave us as a child. That will need assistance with walking, feeding and bathing. And sometimes help with all ADL’s. And more than anything, we dont prepare ourselves, that one we will live without them. Irregardless, how long we had our parents, I believe that hurts no matter what.

Lastly, has a society, we don’t talk about mental health enough. The “stigma“ is real. The mental health system and care is broken. Please don’t get me wrong, I believe every illness is horrible, but the feeling that I can never get out of my head, is that if someone had cancer, the doctors pretty quickly know the options for
treatment. Don’t take that comment the wrong way. Both of my parents have had cancer and unfortunately cancer deprived my dad of his life pretty quickly. But during the course of his treatment, the doctors knew how to treat him.

With mental health illness, there are a “ million “ different medications and a long trial and error process. But, with that most of the “psy” meds side effects include the risk of increasing depression or suicidal ideations. Great, the meds are to help the depressed or the racing thoughts of su***de, but let’s medicate that person and make it worse.

Mental health illness is real. I believe we all probably a time or 2 may suffer with a hint of depression or anxiety, but we may or may not suffer to the point that it’s debilitating to our everyday lives. That we can’t live a “normal” life. If you can’t relate to this, you are very lucky.
Mental health illness doesn’t only affect the person that suffers with it, it affects the entire family and support system. It is tiring.

I will apologize in advise if my post may have offended anyone. But I will not apologize for the way that I feel due to being directly affected by these things and feeling the need to vent on facebook, but it’s more than that to me. It’s my “cry for help” for people to open their eyes and ears and realize that this is real and have impacted more people than ever since covid.

Please reach out for help especially before it is to late.
Find a “support system”. Whether it be a family member, a friend, a fellow church member or a coworker. Talk about it before it gets to the point that we are attending someones funeral. Pray about it. Reach out to God. Ask for help.

06/27/2024

05/08/2024

Good morning, so it has been a very long time since I have posted. Lately, there has been a lot of things weighing heavy on my mind. I would like to hear everyone’s experiences when it comes to the mental health journey. I feel like, especially in my county, that there is a huge stigma against mental health. That it’s something that you just need to get over. For a lot of people, it is just not that easy. I would like people to share their stories, get their opinions, their experiences, what treatments they’ve tried, what facilities they’ve tried, what things have worked for them. If anyone has tried ketamine treatment, SGB, or ECT. Has anyone been to residential, PHP, IOP treatments. Has anyone done trauma therapy. What type of modalities have you used. Have you tried DBT? My personal opinion is that the mental health system is broken. I’m not downplaying anyone else’s issues, but from my experience, it appears that there are more treatment options if you have a dual diagnosis. So I’m highly interested in hearing everyone else’s experiences, pros cons, etc. I hope everyone has a safe and blessed day.

12/27/2023

Hi. I hope everyone had a wonderful and relaxing Christmas spent with family and friends. Remember that Jesus is the reason for the season and that often gets overlooked. I know it’s been awhile since I have posted an update of what is going on within my family. When I created this page, it was in the intent to spread awareness thru our personal experiences with mental health issues. I know that I am not the one that specifically battles the internal issues associated with the illness, however it truly does affect the entire family. It especailly affects the support person aka the punching bag. My intentions are always to give positive and uplifting advise, eventhough depending on the circumstances may be taken differently. I also know this isn’t my story tell about what exactly is going on within our family as I am not the one that goes thru the struggles with getting treatment and the changes that constantly occur, but I am directly involved in many other ways.

I am asking a favor of each and everyone of you, if you feel led to do so, would you please contact me thru messenger. I am looking for individuals who would be willing to send letters, cards or uplifting words to my daughter while she is going thru her recovery process. I don’t want to post the address of where that is on my page, but would hope that each of you reading this can find it in your heart to reach out to her, especially during this holiday season. I look forward to hearing from you. May God Bless each of you heading into a new year !!!