05/22/2018
Mental health week.
So as mental health week is coming to an end I like to draw upon my own experience with mental health.
For most people who know me closely would tell you I’m pretty chilled person quite laid back and nothing really bothers me and I would agree I’m pretty strong person physically and mentally. BUT even the strong sometimes fall.
September 2017 sat in a car in the middle of a university car park the world got to me, I sat and balled my eyes out for no reason later that week I found out I had clinical depression.
I never knew what real depression was or how feeling depressed felt, now and then people say when there upset “oh I feel depressed” but real depression is something completely different.
I’ve never been scared to show my emotion or share my feelings about something to anyone until then, I felt physically scared to tell people I had ‘it’ because at the time that how I could describe it was by calling it ‘it’. I felt like I would get judge for having depression, I felt like I’d let everyone of my friends and family Down, I was shocked for the first time in my life rugby couldn’t fix the issue at hand.
6/7 months ago I could never imagine being where I am now and Be at the place in my life I am now with 2 businesses and actually be enjoying life again.
For anyone out there who is suffering from any mental health issue you’re not alone you can speak. Don’t be afraid to speak and believe that it will get better because it does.
