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Mental Health Awareness Week from October 5-11

Even mermaids can have a mental illness, for a mermaid has no tears and therefore suffers so much more.

I’m that one person out of every five who has an invisible illness. I’m a suicide survivor. These are two reasons why I chose to per-sue Counseling Psychology in college. It’s also why I wanted to become a mermaid; not just to make myself happy, but to make others happy as well. Help raise awareness for mental illness by sharing this post.

1. Be honest with yourself, and accept how you feel. You can’t work with your feelings if you deny that they are real.

2. At the same time, don’t keep going over the negative events, or they’ll start to dominate you, or spiral, and get worse.

3. Don’t react right away – take a breath and count to 10. Make sure you keep control and don’t do something you’ll regret.

4. Try to notice what are triggers and provoke negative feelings – and when you’re calm, try to think through how to cope and deal with these.

5. Think of things that you can do to try and help improve your mood … such as going for a jog, or talking with a caring friend.

6. Remind yourself that you are valuable, and have a lot to offer … and think of all your strengths, and all the good things you have done.

Naturally, my response was to load them up with pre-patched .exes of several touhou games and distributed them to friends so we could all compete for high scores during composition class