Morning guys! So in the past couple of weeks people have come to me with the same sentence on their lips, that I am so brave for doing this blog and for being so open about my Mental Health Issues. It has occurred to me how scared people are these days of admitting they are not happy or they are not quite themselves at the minute. As you all know, Irish people hate complaining in restaurants, we get embarrassed! If a meal isn't nice or quite what we ordered we just smile and nod when asked how our dinner was and try to hide the look of disgust on our faces. It is the exact same with how Irish people react to the topic of Mental Health Issues. Although the past couple of years, the subject is not as avoided as it was previously, it is still a topic that is not talked about enough in my opinion. People get embarrassed when asked about it and reply to the everyday questions of 'how are you?' with the roll off the tongue response of 'I'm grand thanks, you?', instead of saying how we really are. I am not saying that everyone should be pouring their hearts out to shop assistants, bus drivers or waiters, but why is it that we feel embarrassed at expressing how we truly feel? We bottle things up as a nation and then when things get too much we explode and the situation is ten times worse then it had of been if we had of just opened up. According to Aware.ie, depression alone affects more than 450,000 people in Ireland, one in ten, at any one time. This figure is astronomical but why are we still so afraid to talk about it? When I decided to start this blog it was for a few reasons, to help me get through my Mental Health Issues, to highlight that even with these issues there is light at the end of the tunnel, to highlight how these issues affect people of any ages but my main reason was to show to people that it is OK to talk about Mental Health issues, that we should not shy away from the subject and to encourage people to talk about the subject. We have NOTHING to be ashamed of, if anything we should all be proud. Proud that Ireland has come so far that we are slowly accepting that these issues do affect a large portion of our society and accept that yes, unfortunately many people go through horrible periods in their life but by talking about it and sharing our own experiences that people can get better and grow from their experiences. So guys, lets continue what we have been doing the past few months, lets keep talking about it. Share our experiences, our ways of dealing with situations, our tips and tricks and things like books, poems music etc., that help us get through tough times. I just want to say thank you and also well done to everyone for not shying away and for supporting the blog and people who have Mental Health Issues, we are all making a difference and hopefully soon people will start to talk more openly about their experiences. Happy Saturday!! Em X
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