Why should MENTAL HEALTH be our first priority!
Bad MENTAL HEALTH can make you struck and feel like completely alone many times.
I was once rigorously overthinking about what should I do in my life and I was anxious about the future, endlessly scrolling through social media and unconsciously comparing with how other people’s lives are going good and what they are achieving.
No, not those cool travel photos on the vacation they spent or the photo of an expensive watch they just bought. But the hustle they show on the Instagram working out in the gym and now you start feeling bad because you have been trying to cut off some weight but there seems no result or someone who started their own blog and getting good reach but you feel bad because you are the one who deserves to be there or the post that shows one of their youtube videos crossed over 1 lakh views today and your channel is not taking off very well.
And the worst part is that those people are your friends or maybe the people you know from your high school.
This is an endless vicious cycle. Happening to think something negative, comparing, doubting yourself, making wrong decisions based on the adrenaline rush to achieve everything right now(instant gratification), and becoming a victim to anxiety and stress.
We all happen to have these kinds of moments at least once in our lives and It all happens right up there. Yes, In The Mind. One single negative thought followed by another and another and another one and we create a clear mess up there. It happened to me many times and it still happens. Whenever I see a youtube video of one of my friends and it gets a good amount of views and quickly, “Why aren’t my videos doing good?”, echoes a voice in my mind and that’s it. I start comparing. You see? No good is happening here but a pile of thoughts is stopping me from achieving my goals. That’s why I am talking about its importance.
And one day I felt it hard. That I am always comparing to people who are better than me and I thought why my happiness is determined by what other people are doing, what other people are achieving? etc etc. See? It’s not about me. It’s always about others. What’s the point of living like this? It makes me feel more like a failure even if I got success.
That’s the reason why self-care and mental health should be our first priority because what’s the point of getting loads and loads of success or trying so hard when you are still fighting a war with yourself in your mind.
According to some studies, around 43.6 million people around the world are suffering from mental illness like anxiety and depression.
“If You’re broken, you don’t have to stay broken,” said Selena Gomez at one of the American music awards. She also addressed, “As much as I am grateful for the voice that social media gives each of us, I am equally grateful to be able to step back and live my life present to the moment I have been given. Kindness and encouragement only for a bit! Just remember — negative comments can hurt anybody’s feelings. Obvi,”
Bollywood’s superstar Deepika Padukone talked about mental health too. She said,
“It all started on February 15 last year. I’d won all my awards and all the appreciation for 2013 and everything had been accomplished. It was a great time. But I woke up one morning, just feeling empty. I woke up feeling directionless. I didn’t know where to go. I didn’t know what to do. I realized that something was wrong, I realized I was being different, I couldn’t pinpoint what the issue was”.
“I always leave feeling mentally and emotionally exhausted to the point of depression. The pressure of meeting people’s expectations of what I’m supposed to be is so much for me to handle and a lot on my shoulders,” says Justin Bieber.
“Sometimes I panic to the point where I don’t know what I’m thinking or doing. I have a full anxiety attack….I have them all the time anyway, but with auditioning it’s bad. I’m so terrified of it,” said Dakota johnson
“When I walked out of the studio after five years of working so hard, knowing I had been treated so disrespectfully for no other reason than I was gay, I just went into this deep, deep depression. It’s so corny but it’s true. You have no idea where the darkest times of your life might end, so you have to just keep going,” said Ellen DeGeneres.
You see, it’s all over the world. Sometimes you feel lonely, sometimes you feel nothing, just empty. Be it trying to meet the expectations of someone or something or overthinking and comparing over someone or feeling bad for yourself are all the issues of mental health and we always look down at it. We have to know that we are responsible for our own well-being. But it’s time now we know how tender it is and it is our responsibility to not let it take over our lives and let’s all make it a priority, Now.
