Mental Health Awareness

bismillahhirahmanirrahim

assalamualaikum ,

so today, i just want to share something with you guys. 

there is this one person i secretly admire, since i was 19 years old. i love to read his/her blog, his/her point of view regarding some issues and i follow him/her journey in life up until now. I see him/her as a happy , expressive, knowledgeable, a great doctor and wise person.  Basically, I think  he/she is a great person and leading a great life ! And i concluded all this based on his/her social medias. I did not know him/her in person. Nor do i ever meet him/her in any occasion or work related.

Until last month, one of my bf told me that he/she was admitted . Car accident due to multiple drugs ingestion. Suicide attempts. I was shocked. Never in my mind thought he/she would able to do even think about it. Now don't get me wrong, I still respect him/her, and I am not judging what he/she did. 

I just feel sad about this whole mental health issues thing. I have friends who was diagnose with bipolar, mdd (depression). Currently under treatment. They have been degraded and look down by their own colleague just because he/she make a decision to treat themselves and sees psychiatrist. And guess what, they are doctors. So that make his/her friends are doctors too right . Irony.

I think our societies are still far from it. The best thing we can do now is to change ourself first. 

Be kind

Spread love. 

Be aware of any sign for help

When you see one, make a move and give them support

Always attend to someone who ask for your advice

Save your judgement to yourself ( because we cannot run from judging right,heh)

Then, slowly we can spread the awareness to our children, families and friends. Hopefully, someday somehow, our societies are ready. To embrace this issues, until seeing a psychiatrist or psychologist are not a taboo anymore. InshaAllah 

Anyway, this is a little bit of a random post. Just feel like paste it here to remind the future me. Incase I forgot.

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Oh Allah

I seek refuge in You from grief and sadness

from weakness and from laziness

from miserliness and from cowardice

from being overcomed by debt

and from being overpowered by men (other people)

_sahih bukhari 7:158 _