No pun intended with the title of the thread.
I don't know about you guys but here in my country, just passed mental health week.
With the pandemic, more people have been experiencing mental illnesses than before, so media has been talking about it all week, even still now. It just makes me so fucking mad; where was all that attention and concern towards mental illnesses before?? They've been here for a very long time.
The government announced more resources for elementary and high schools; meanwhile when I was in high school it took me years for someone to recognize I was struggling and offer me help. I had panic attacks in every class for 4 years!! I couldn't even finish my exams most times and the teachers didn't even question it, just let me sob in the back of the class!! And even then the help was shitty at best, the counselor was never available and always late for my appointments because she had too much students to help (not her fault). And the help is only for elementary and high schools, of course, now that I'm in college the help is scarce.
Now they're talking about the poor teenagers with eating disorders, where was that concern when I was stick thin??
Also they're talking about 'reaching out for help', but where?? The ER, where they'll keep you for 24hours at best and give you a prescription? We all know ER visits are only a bandaid on the real problem and dont solve anything. Get psychotherapy or see a psychiatrist? The wait times are often over a year long. Plenty of time to kill myself before that, and how am I supposed to survive during that year?? Call a suicide hotline? Also won't solve much, will only keep you from ctb in that exact moment.
Basically I just don't see how to get mental health support in 2020. I can't imagine how I'll ever be able to receive treatment or recover from my mental illnesses.
Also; am I the only one who feels some sort of morbid satisfaction at knowing that more people are experiencing mental problems? It's so frustrating seeing yourself struggle when other people around are just living life without a problem, or saying stuff like: "Just get a hold of yourself!". So now I feel like saying "Take that", "You're not special, I've been feeling that way for years and now you're crying because you feel depressed? Struggle with it like the rest of us, pussy."
Sorry if this seems insensitive, just needed to get it off my chest.
I don't know about you guys but here in my country, just passed mental health week.
With the pandemic, more people have been experiencing mental illnesses than before, so media has been talking about it all week, even still now. It just makes me so fucking mad; where was all that attention and concern towards mental illnesses before?? They've been here for a very long time.
The government announced more resources for elementary and high schools; meanwhile when I was in high school it took me years for someone to recognize I was struggling and offer me help. I had panic attacks in every class for 4 years!! I couldn't even finish my exams most times and the teachers didn't even question it, just let me sob in the back of the class!! And even then the help was shitty at best, the counselor was never available and always late for my appointments because she had too much students to help (not her fault). And the help is only for elementary and high schools, of course, now that I'm in college the help is scarce.
Now they're talking about the poor teenagers with eating disorders, where was that concern when I was stick thin??
Also they're talking about 'reaching out for help', but where?? The ER, where they'll keep you for 24hours at best and give you a prescription? We all know ER visits are only a bandaid on the real problem and dont solve anything. Get psychotherapy or see a psychiatrist? The wait times are often over a year long. Plenty of time to kill myself before that, and how am I supposed to survive during that year?? Call a suicide hotline? Also won't solve much, will only keep you from ctb in that exact moment.
Basically I just don't see how to get mental health support in 2020. I can't imagine how I'll ever be able to receive treatment or recover from my mental illnesses.
Also; am I the only one who feels some sort of morbid satisfaction at knowing that more people are experiencing mental problems? It's so frustrating seeing yourself struggle when other people around are just living life without a problem, or saying stuff like: "Just get a hold of yourself!". So now I feel like saying "Take that", "You're not special, I've been feeling that way for years and now you're crying because you feel depressed? Struggle with it like the rest of us, pussy."
Sorry if this seems insensitive, just needed to get it off my chest.
