#beingignored

Mental health isn’t bound by age, colour or creed. It is essential to the human experience and yet it’s something we continue to ignore thinking mental illness won’t get us, it belongs to someone else, or it’s something for someone else to deal with.

But anyone can struggle with mental health. Austerity and the wider population being hit by an era of cuts and uncertainty, has seen mental health plummet. At the start of Covid-19, mental health also took a tumble. Mental health issues are genetic, the environment plays its part, so you see no one is free of mental health issues.

Why is it being ignored?

But mental health is largely being ignored because people either genuinely struggle or can't always be bothered to deal with it. We saw this in Covid-19 as soon as lockdown finished. People were desperate to get back into their lives as quickly as possible. But the irony is, mental health never leaves, issues reside in all of us, sometimes below the surface, sometimes it comes to the surface, but they never go.

Like disability, mental health also carries a stigma. If you’re a celebrity, everyone knows when you have mental health issues. Prince Harry makes the headlines because he deals with mental health issues. But perhaps the problem with mental health is there is no acknowledgement or acceptance that we deal with mental health issues.

Mental Health is the ‘Elephant in the Room’

Now is exactly the right time we should be talking about and dealing with mental health. But like the ‘elephant in the room’ no one talks about mental health. They know it’s there, you may know someone who presents and deals with mental health issues, but for those dealing with mental health issues, they are very much on their own.

Like the ‘elephant in the room’ no one talks about mental health. They know it’s there, we may know someone who presents with mental health issues, but for the most part, for those with mental health issues, they are very much on their own.

I write and I continue to write about mental health. My blogs if you take time to read them, can make a difference and bring understanding and acceptance. That can happen, when you deal with your mental health. A healthy mind, equals a healthy life, equals a healthy lifestyle, equals healthy living and good mental health. My books deal with mental health.

If you’re interested in dealing with your mental health, my books are available to buy through my website.